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Daybreak: Anti-Semitism at Post-Holocaust High

Plus bin Laden cites Israel, Bibi claims ‘eternal’ settlements, and more in the news
By Marc Tracy | 9:00 AM Jan 25, 2010

• The last time global anti-Semitism attained its current level, World War II was still going on, a new report found. Jewish Agency head Natan Sharansky and an Israeli minister presented the document. [JPost]
• In an audiotape endorsing the attempted Christmas Day bombing, Osama bin Laden linked it and future attacks on the United States ...

Gadhafi Proposes Establishment of ‘Isratine’

His Mideast peace plan, plus other ideas in a 90-minute address
By Allison Hoffman | 2:00 PM Sep 23, 2009

Moammar Gadhafi did his best to steal the show at the U.N. General Assembly today, wearing a bronze robe with a gigantic Africa-shaped pin and rambling on for more than 90 minutes—six times the 15-minute-per-speaker limit—about everything from Israel’s war in Gaza to the Kennedy assassination. (He did not, however, break Fidel Castro’s record; the ...

Gadhafi Banished From Garden State

Planned to pitch a suburban tent for U.N. confab
By Michael Weiss | 11:58 AM Aug 31, 2009

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi will be coming to the United States to attend the U.N. General Assembly in a few weeks, but he’ll be confined New York City. He had planned to stay in a Bedouin tent at a Libyan government-owned estate in Englewood, New Jersey, right next to an Orthodox yeshiva. The visit, and ...

Daybreak: Gadhafi Unwelcome in N.J. Suburb

A test-prep magnate dies, Palestinian developments, and more from the news
By Hadara Graubart | 9:00 AM Aug 25, 2009

• Residents of Englewood, New Jersey, are bristling at word that Libyan President Moammar Gadhafi may set up camp in their town while he’s here for the U.N. General Assembly next month; his proposed lodgings are next door to the home of rabbi Shmuley Boteach, who weighs in: “I don’t want him as a neighbor.” ...

Gadhafi Makes Nice; Charles Taylor Finds (Our) God

Today in African despots
By Sara Ivry | 1:36 PM Jun 8, 2009

Yediot Ahronot is reporting today that Libyan president Moammar Gadhafi wants to meet with Libyan Jews living in Rome when he travels to Italy later this week. Gadhafi, who has suggested the two sides convene on Saturday, confiscated all Jewish property in his country in 1969. There’s speculation this is a first step toward settling ...