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Egypt’s Morsi: Comments about Jews taken out of context

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President of Egypt Mohammed Morsi, addresses the media during a joint news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, unseen, after a meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013.

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Egypt's President Mohammed Morsi is defending comments that he made in 2010 referring to Jews as "the descendants of apes and pigs," saying that they were taken out of context.