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From Ynet News
Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and author, dead at 87
His death was announced Saturday by Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial. No other details were immediately available.
The short, sad-eyed Wiesel, his face an ongoing reminder of one man’s endurance of a shattering past, summed up his mission in 1986 when accepting the Nobel Peace Prize: “Whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation, take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” For more than a half-century, he voiced his passionate beliefs to world leaders, celebrities and general audiences in the name of victims of violence and oppression. He wrote more than 40 books, but his most influential by far was “Night,” a classic ranked with Anne Frank’s diary as standard reading about the Holocaust.
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From Russia Today
20+ girls ‘molested’ at Swedish rock fest
Published time: 3 Jul, 2016 15:00
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Over 20 girls between 12 and 18 years old told police they were sexually assaulted by a group of men during a music festival in Karlstad, Sweden.
Police are investigating “a score of cases in which young girls have been molested,” Swedish Aftonbladet daily reported.
It said that the alleged attacks occurred during the “Putte i Parken” rock festival in Karlstad in Varmland County, despite enhanced police presence.
From Russia Today
‘I would shoot’ Russian jets buzzing past US ships – Poland’s ex-president Walesa
Published time: 3 Jul, 2016 02:57
A Sukhoi Su-24 jet makes a low altitude pass by the USS Donald Cook (DDG 75) April 12, 2016 © US Navy / Reuters
Poland’s former president and democracy icon Lech Walesa said he would not hesitate to “knock off the wing” of Russian jets if he were in charge of the US destroyer Donald Cook.
“If I were the commander of this ship, if these [Russian] planes were flying I would shoot them. But not to kill. I would knock off the wing,” the Nobel Peace Prize recipient of 1983 told Radio Free Europe.
From The Times of Israel
Berlin rabbi calls on Jewish leaders to help save EU
Amid Brexit uncertainty, Yehudah Teichtal urges community heads to discourage additional countries from leaving bloc
July 2, 2016, 6:51 pm
A prominent rabbi in Berlin called on other Jewish community leaders to do everything in their power to prevent additional countries from leaving the European Union after Britain’s vote to exit the bloc.
Yehudah Teichtal, a rabbi of the Jewish community of Berlin, made the call Tuesday in a statement about his meeting with Thomas Oppermann, the head of the German Social Democratic Party’s faction in the German parliament.
Teichtal told Oppermann that in his conversations with European rabbis and Jewish leaders he “encourages them to take action and prevent any further breaking in the EU,” the statement said. “I call upon the leaders of all Jewish communities around Europe to do whatever they can and execute all of their influence” to prevent additional exits, the rabbi was quoted as saying in the statement by his office.
“The establishment of the EU and the multi-cultural approach it symbolizes, contributes to the welfare of Europe’s Jewish communities”, said Teichtal, who is a Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi. “Therefore, the possibility of dismantling the EU and reverting back to nation states should worry all Jewish people around Europe.”
Teichtal’s statement follows the June 23 vote in Britain, in which 51 percent of voters supported a British exit, or Brexit, as British media has dubbed the initiative. While this issue has divided British Jewry, several European rabbis issued calls similar to Teichtal’s.
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From The Times of Israel
Russian Chabad leader slams state-funded TV for ‘blood libel’
Alexander Boroda raps RT over claims that a rabbi issued ‘advisory opinion’ allowing settlers to poison Palestinian water
July 2, 2016, 2:38 pm
A Chabad-Lubavitch leader condemned a state-funded channel’s airing of Palestinian allegations that an Israeli rabbi approved the poisoning of Palestinian wells.
Rabbi Alexander Boroda, president of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, said the RT network’s June 27 report on the issue repeated unfounded allegations reminiscent of the medieval “blood libel” against Jews.
The RT report referred to recent reports in Arab and Muslim media which claimed that a West Bank rabbi issued an “advisory opinion” allowing Jewish settlers to poison Palestinian water. A version of the story previously appeared in the state-run Turkish press agency Anadolu, credited to a Palestinian reporter in Ramallah. Neither the rabbi in the story nor the organization he is described as representing appears to exist.
The report came a week after Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas repeated the unfounded allegations at the European Parliament. Abbas later acknowledged that the charges were “baseless.”
In medieval Europe, Jews were often accused of poisoning wells to spread disease among Christians. This recurrent theme led to several major pogroms against Jews.
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From The Times of Israel
Sanders’ appointee to Dem platform committee: ‘I’m not anti-Israel’
James Zogby says Netanyahu ‘does more to delegitimize the State of Israel than the BDS movement ever has’
July 2, 2016, 1:47 am
James Zogby, one of Bernie Sanders’ appointees to the Democratic Party’s platform committee, said he had been unfairly typecast as an anti-Israel activist.
“I’ve just been cast as the anti-Israel guy,” Zogby, the founder and president of the Arab American Institute, said in an interview published Friday in The Jerusalem Post. “People will type you.”
This view, which Zogby said does not reflect his views toward the Jewish state, “bothers me more than anything else [because] it fuels a simplistic, combative narrative,” he said.
As a member of the Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee, Zogby has played a key role in attempts to include in the party’s platform language that recognizes Palestinian “dignity,” and opposes Israel’s “occupation” and “settlement activity” in what the proposed inclusions refer to as Palestinian lands, according to The Jerusalem Post.
The latest draft of the platform, which is set to be finalized in July, declares that achieving Palestinian statehood would provide “the Palestinians with independence, sovereignty, and dignity,” whereas previous formulations referred to a two-state solution as benefitting only Israel. A proposed phrase calling on Israel to end “Israeli military occupation and illegal settlements” in the West Bank was defeated last week in an executive committee meeting in St. Louis.
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From PressTV
Russian navy sending flagship aircraft carrier to Syria
Sat Jul 2, 2016 8:58PM
Russia is sending the flagship of its navy, the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier, to join the battle against the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in Syria.
According to the TASS news agency, the ship will leave for the Mediterranean Sea in October and serve as a platform for carrying out airstrikes against the terrorists until at least February 2017.
Classified by Moscow as a heavy aircraft-carrying missile cruiser (TAVKR), she will carry 15 Sukhoi Su-33 fighter jets (seen in the video below) and Mikoyan MiG-29K/KUB fighters, and around 10 Kamov Ka-52K, Ka-27, and Ka-31 choppers.
“The Joint Staff has developed a program for carrier pilots to take part in delivering airstrikes on terrorist groups in Syria. It implies performing operational flights from the carrier against land targets,” said a source.
The source noted that the Admiral Kuznetsov will take the helm of Russia’s naval operations in Syria, where it will ensure sufficient operation range of its jet fighters.
After finishing its tour, it will return to the Sevmash shipyards in Severodvinsk in the north of Russia where it will receive extensive upgrading.
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From PressTV
Hezbollah fighters kill Daesh commander near Syria: Report
Sat Jul 2, 2016 2:8PM
A notorious commander of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group operating in areas straddling the Syrian-Lebanese border has been killed in an operation by Lebanon’s resistance movement, Hezbollah.
The Lebanese al-Manar TV said Saturday that the commander, identified as Abu Khattab, was killed in an operation in the village of Qaa, northeastern Lebanon.
It said Hezbollah fighters launched an offensive into the hideouts of terrorists in the Zuwaitinah area of Ras Baalbek. A number of other terrorists were also killed in the operation, Manar said, adding that Abu Khattab and his companions were traveling by a vehicle when they were targeted by a guided missile.
Abu Khattab was reportedly the operations chief of Daesh in the area.
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s secretary general, vowed Friday that the resistance fighters would work to ensure security in the Bekaa valley, where villages such as Qaa are located.
The Saturday operation was conducted near the site of recent terrorist attacks claimed by Daesh in Qaa.
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From PressTV
Israeli warplanes launch several airstrikes on Gaza Strip
Sat Jul 2, 2016 12:58AM
Israeli warplanes have launched several airstrikes on the Gaza Strip in yet another act of aggression against the besieged Palestinian coastal territory.
No casualties have yet been reported in the Saturday morning attacks that followed reports of an alleged rocket launch from Gaza on a vacant kindergarten in the town of Sderot in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The Israeli warplanes reportedly hit the Zeitoun district of Gaza City and a site belonging to the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas.
The Israeli bombardment of Gaza came hours after Tel Aviv imposed a closure on the occupied West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron) and its surrounding areas following the killing of an Israeli man in a drive-by shooting there. Earlier on Friday, Israeli forces shot dead a 27-year-old Palestinian woman, identified as Sarah Tarayra, after she allegedly attempted to carry out a stabbing attack near the revered Muslim religious monument of the Ibrahimi Mosque in the city.
The Israeli military frequently bombs the Gaza Strip. The disproportionate force is always used in violation of international law, and civilians are often killed or injured.
In early July 2014, Israel waged a war on the Gaza Strip. The 50-day military aggression, which ended on August 26, 2014, killed nearly 2,200 Palestinians, including 577 children. Over 11,100 others – including 3,374 children, 2,088 women and 410 elderly people – were also wounded in the war. Israel continues to carry out attacks on the Palestinian strip from time to time.
Gaza has been blockaded since 2007, a situation that has caused a decline in the standard of living, unprecedented levels of unemployment, and unrelenting poverty.
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From PressTV
Nasrallah: Israel dreads defeat of Daesh in Syria
Fri Jul 1, 2016 2:34PM
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary general of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah, says the Israeli regime dreads the defeat of the Daesh Takfiri terrorists in Syria.
The Tel Aviv regime has been “exposed to an existential threat,” Nasrallah said, adding that Israel also fears demonstrations in some Arab capitals.
Daesh and the al-Nusra Front terrorist group follow the same ideology of Wahabism, he said.
Syria says Israel and its Western and regional allies are aiding Takfiri militant groups operating inside the Arab country.
The Syrian army has repeatedly seized huge quantities of Israeli-made weapons and advanced military equipment from the foreign-backed militants.
Late last year, British media released footage showing Israeli forces treating a wounded Takfiri terrorist in the occupied Golan Heights.
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From The Daily Mail
‘We tried to warn you’: US ambassador says Britain IS at the back of the queue for a trans-Atlantic trade deal
- US ambassador will warn Brexit could have economic consequences
- Matthew Barzun said President Barack Obama was right to warn Britain
- Made it clear Britain cannot simply ‘jump the queue’ for trade deal with US
The American ambassador to Britain will today warn that Britain’s decision to leave the European Union could have serious economic consequences for the country.
Matthew Barzun will say on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs that President Obama was right to warn Britain in April that it would end up at ‘the back of queue’ as a result of Brexit.
In an interview recorded after the referendum, Mr Barzun says it is naive to think that the UK could now somehow ‘jump further ahead’ of its trade rivals.
He adds: ‘The tone in which it was said, there was nothing punitive about it.
‘The point was, you are at the front of the queue right now – he was saying back in April – because we are doing this big trade deal with the European Union, of which you are a member.
‘But if you step out of the front of the queue, by definition you are no longer at the front and some notion that you can jump further ahead; you just want to say that is not the trend for the types of big deals we are doing these days.’
Mr Barzun, 45, says President Obama felt the need to offer up the warning precisely because of the close relationship between Britain and the US.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Turkish ship with Gaza-bound aid docks at Ashdod, first since reconciliation
Gazans mark the fifth anniversary of the Mavi Marmara Gaza flotilla at the Gaza City seaport, May 31, 2015. (Aaed Tayeh/Flash90)
(JTA) — A Turkish ship packed with aid for the Gaza Strip arrived in Israel, the first since Turkey and Israel reached a reconciliation deal that allows such transfers.
The cargo ship docking at Ashdod, just north of Gaza, on Sunday afternoon was bearing 10,000 tons of humanitarian equipment and food, Haaretz reported.
Israel and Turkey last month agreed to fully reestablish ties ruptured by Israel’s raid on a Turkish-flagged aid flotilla in 2010. Israeli commandos killed 10 Turkish nationals in violent encounters during the raid on the Mavi Marmara, one of the ships attempting to breach a blockade on the strip imposed by Israel after the 2009 Gaza war with Hamas.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Israeli pol: Mark Zuckerberg has terror victim’s ‘blood’ on his hands
Rina, the mother of Israeli Hallel Ariel, a 13-year-old girl who was fatally stabbed by a Palestinian attacker in her home, mourns during her funeral in the Kiryat Arba settlement outside the West Bank city of Hebron, June 30, 2016. (Gil Cohen-Magen/AFP/Getty Images)
(JTA) — Israel’s Minister of Public Security said Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has some of the “blood” of recent Israeli terrorism victims on his hands for allowing Palestinian incitement and hate speech to appear on the social media site.
Gilad Erdan charged Saturday that Facebook impedes Israeli police in their efforts to catch terrorists, and sets too high a bar for removing inciteful material.
He noted that the Palestinian teenager who murdered 13-year-old Israeli Hallel Yaffa Ariel in her bed last week declared his desire to die a martyr to the Palestinian cause in a number of Facebook posts in recent months.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
From the JTA archives: 50 years of covering Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel’s name has appeared in nearly 900 JTA articles over the years. The Holocaust survivor, human rights activist, bestselling author and Nobel laureate died Saturday at age 87. (His JTA obituary can be found here.) What follows are links to stories about Wiesel that have appeared in JTA over the past five decades.
From PressTV
Icelanders vote to join boycott on Israeli goods
Iceland’s capital has announced that it will boycott all Israeli products until Palestine is freed from occupation.
On Sunday, Reykjavik’s municipality voted for the boycott, and promised to continue the embargo “as long as the occupation of Palestinian territories continues.”
The vote is part of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Tel Aviv, which was initiated in 2005 by over 170 Palestinian organizations that were pushing for “various forms of boycott against Israel until it meets its obligations under international law.”
Since then, thousands of volunteers worldwide have joined the BDS to help promote the Palestinian cause.
Iceland’s move was severely condemned by Israel’s Foreign Ministry, which released a statement claiming that it was unjustified.
The move comes as academics and activists from across the globe are gearing up for a gathering in Tunisia to discuss further developing the BDS movement.
The gathering titled Boycott as a Strategy to Counter Israel’s Occupation and Apartheid: Present-day Realities and Aspirations” is organized by the Center for Research and Policy Studies (ACRPS) in the capital city of Tunis and is scheduled to be held from August 4 to 6.
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From PressTV
Takfiris near Lebanon borders pose real threat: Hezbollah
A senior Hezbollah official has expressed concern about the threat posed by Daesh and al-Nusra Front terrorists to Lebanon’s northeastern border areas.
Sheikh Nabil Qaouk, the deputy chief of Hezbollah’s executive council, also said on Saturday the Lebanese resistance movement has played an active role in protecting Lebanese frontiers.
Sheikh Qaouk said the Takfiri danger of Daesh and the Nusra Front on the outskirts of the town of Arsal and the village of Ras Baalbek is “serious, real, comprehensive and continuous.”
“This danger must not be dealt with through complacency or disregard, as some are doing in Lebanon, who insist on ignoring these Takfiri gangs,” he said.
Qaouk further praised the cooperation between the Lebanese army and Hezbollah, saying joint action was of great strategic importance to protect Lebanon from extremist and Israeli threats.
“Through the cooperation…, Lebanon has been able to achieve what many large international coalitions [allegedly fighting] against terrorism in Iraq and Syria haven’t,” the Hezbollah official added.
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From PressTV
Death toll from dawn blasts in Iraq capital hits about 130
The death toll from two bombings in a Shia neighborhood in Baghdad at dawn Sunday jumps to 126, Iraqi security and health officials say.
They said 125 people, including 25 children, were killed and at least 147 others wounded when a car bomb went off at a busy commercial street in Baghdad’s Shia neighborhood of Karrada. A police official was quoted as saying that the dead included 10 women and six policemen.
Footage posted on social media showed a large blaze in the main street of Karrada.
The second explosion occurred at an outdoor market in the Shaab neighborhood of southeastern Baghdad, leaving one person dead and wounding five others.
In a twitter post, the Daesh terror group claimed responsibility for the attacks which, it said, were aimed at Shia neighborhoods.
Having suffered heavy losses on the battlefield against Iraqi soldiers, Daesh has recently stepped up its terror attacks across Baghdad, particularly the neighborhoods populated by Shia Muslims.
Baghdad was the scene of back-to-back bombings claimed by Daesh in May, when nearly 200 people lost their lives in and near the city in just a week.
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From Ynet News
Parents of kidnapped soldier to block Gaza aid
The Shauls and the Goldins have criticized the Israeli government for not making the return of the bodies a part of the reconciliation agreement with Turkey as Turkey has close political relations with Hamas. Hamas has a headquarters in Istanbul.
They are planning to protest and block humanitarian aid shipments into Gaza as long as their son’s remains and the remains of Hadar Goldin are held in Hamas captivity.
Meanwhile, a Turkish aid ship is expected to dock in the port of Ashdod with a humanitarian shipment destined for the Hamas controlled enclave on Sunday as part of the framework of the Israel-Turkish reconciliation agreement.
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From Ynet News
Trump Twitter blunder could compromise Jewish support
The picture posted on his feed showed Clinton against a backdrop of hundred dollar bills. Appearing next to her face were the words: “Most corrupt candidate ever” inside a red Star of David.
The picture conjured up images of the typical stereotype equating Jews with money and corruption. Apparently spotting the controversial nature of the choice of symbol, Trump updated the photo by removing the Star of David and replacing it with a red circle. However, in yet another faux pas, he forgot to remove the original version from his account. Only two hours later did he delete the original version featuring the Star of David. Morevoer, the updated version was also the subject of criticism since Trump added the hashtag “AmericaFirst,” a slogan previously defined by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as anti-Semitic.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Rocket fire hits Sderot kindergarten
(JTA) Rocket fire from the Gaza Strip hit a building in Sderot.
The Associated Press reported that the building, hit Friday, was a kindergarten.
In response, Israeli combat aircraft hit components of Hamas’ infrastructure in Gaza, the army said in a statement Saturday.
No one was injured in the exchange. The kindergarten was empty at the time it was hit.
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