The schismatic bishop who deeply angered Jews and embarrassed the Vatican by publicly denying the Holocaust was ordered to pay a $13,500 fine for violating a German law that makes it a crime to deny the Holocaust.\n
Noam Shalit, the father of abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, confirmed to Haaretz yesterday that contacts to secure his son\’s release are continuing and that the German negotiator and Israeli negotiator Hagai Hadas are still \”working.\”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared Monday that Israel would not accept Palestinian demands that it stop building settlements in East Jerusalem.\n\nAppearing in an interview broadcast Monday on ABC\’s Good Morning America, Netanyahu called the Palestinian demand that Israel stop building in settlements \”unacceptable\” and said this long-standing Israeli government position is not his alone, but rather dates to governments led by Golda Meir, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin.
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