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Germany pulls out of Durban III anti-racism conference

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL,   The Jerusalem Post    Fri, Sep 2, 2011   Berlinfears event will be misused for anti-Semitism; German FM tells ‘Post’ move expression ofGermany’s “special responsibility” toIsrael.   BERLIN-Germany’s Foreign Ministry announced on Friday that it will not take part in the UN-sponsored Durban III anti-racism conference on September 22, because of the [...]

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Merkel defends reported mega Saudi tank deal

German Chancellor insists she is committed to supporting democratic development in MENA region.   Middle East Online     First Published: 2011-07-08 BERLIN – German Chancellor Angela Merkel Friday defended her government’s silence on a reported secret deal to sell hundreds of tanks to Saudi Arabia, and said she was committed to democracy in the region. “Deliberation [...]

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How Could I Not Go? An American Jew Sails to Gaza

How Could I Not Go? An American Jew Sails to Gaza By JANE HIRSCHMANN Jane Hirschmann is a member of Jews Say No! in New York City and one of the national organizers of the U.S. Boat to Gaza. Hirschmann has been active in anti-war efforts for the past four decades. She is a psychotherapist [...]

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German interior minister reopens bitter row over Muslim integration

 German interior minister reopens bitter row over Muslim integration Hans-Peter Friedrich criticised after claiming Islam ‘does not belong’ in Germany   Helen Pidd in Berlin guardian.co.uk, Friday 4 March 2011 13.26 GMT Germany’s new interior minister has said Islam does not “belong” in the country, reopening a bitter debate over the integration of Germany’s 4 [...]

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Rights group urges trial if Mubarak seeks German hospital refuge

Rights group urges trial if Mubarak seeks German hospital refuge  Monsters and Critics.com,     Feb 8, 2011, 16:16 GMT Berlin – Germany should put Egypt’s President Hosny Mubarak on trial for human rights breaches if he seeks refuge in a German hospital, Amnesty International said in Berlin on Tuesday. The rights group spoke up amid speculation, [...]

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German President: ‘Islam now part of Germany’

Wulff: we stand before huge task of finding new solidarity in Germany in changing world. By Johannes Eisele Middle East Online  -   4 October 2010 BREMEN, Germany – Germany’s president called on his countrymen to work to integrate the country’s four million Muslims, acknowledging that Islam is “now part of Germany”. Speaking from the northern city [...]

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Right-Wing Sentiment, Ready to Burst Its Dam

By MICHAEL SLACKMAN The New York Times      Published: September 21, 2010 BERLIN — As anti-immigrant sentiment continues to sweep across Europe, generating a right-wing populist wave from the shores of the Mediterranean to the chilly reaches of Scandinavia, there is growing concern that such politics could take root here, too, in the fertile ground of [...]

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U.K., Germany, United Arab Emirates refuse to fuel Iranian planes

Iranian Airlines Union official told news agencies that passenger planes were refused fuel in wake of tough new U.S. sanctions. By Reuters and Haaretz Service Haaretz  - July 05, 2010 Iran said on Monday that Germany, Britain and the United Arab Emirates were refusing to provide fuel to Iranian passenger planes following unilateral U.S. sanctions on [...]

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Thousands of Israelis flock back to Germany

Germany becoming attractive place to live for Israelis as scars of Holocaust begin to heal. By Yannick Pasquet – BERLIN Middle East Online – 20 June 2010 “My grandmother was three when she had to escape Nazi Germany with her family,” says Shiri Rosen, one of thousands of Israelis to have moved back to Germany in [...]

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Report: Germany rejects Israeli call to halt probe into Mossad role in Dubai killing

German gov’t ignores Israeli requests to block extradition from Poland of Uri Brodsky, alleged Israeli spy suspected of procuring a passport for the assassins of a top Hamas official, according to German press reports. Haaretz  - June 19, 2010 The German government has said it will not intervene to stop an investigation into a suspected Mossad [...]

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Germany’s Fear of Finkelstein

By Ali Fathollah-Nejad* Palestine Chronicle – 2 March 2010 Norman Finkelstein, an internationally renowned scholar of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, was due to talk about the state of the decades-old conflict and the situation in Gaza one year after the Israeli assault last week in Munich and Berlin. As part of a European speaking tour which would [...]

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Widower testifies at German ‘veil martyr’ trial

Middle East Online  -   27 October 2009 Egypt‘s Okaz gives wrenching testimony in same courthouse where Islamophobe killed his wife. DRESDEN, Germany – An Egyptian man told a German court Monday how his pregnant wife was murdered before his eyes in a frenzied anti-Islamic attack, in a case that has inflamed tempers in the [...]

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