Dr. Patrick Slattery’s News Roundup
A service of DavidDuke.com
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Fearing Trump, Republican Jews give Cruz another look
Ted Cruz at the Jewish Center of Brighton Beach in Brooklyn, N.Y., April 7, 2016. (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
LAS VEGAS (JTA) – Ted Cruz came here to woo Republican Jews over the weekend, and in the absence of his opponents for the GOP presidential nomination came away with qualified support based not on who he is but who he is not — Donald Trump.
Trump and Ohio Gov. John Kasich skipped the spring meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition, leaving Cruz as the sole hopeful to address the 560 Jews packed into a conference room at The Venetian casino resort.
Trump’s high negative approval ratings among women and minorities coupled with his seeming fecklessness on Israel — pledging neutrality one week and support the next — seemed to drive many in attendance to give Cruz a second look after months of shunning the Texas senator for his social conservatism and reputation for not making nice with other Republicans.
“This is a room of dear, dear friends and people who are becoming dear friends,” Cruz said during his Saturday night address.
Click here for the full story
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Israel ‘abusing’ detained Palestinian children, Human Rights Watch alleges
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli security forces are “abusing” Palestinian children detained in the West Bank, Human Rights Watch alleged.
Israeli police and soldiers are using unnecessary force in arresting and detaining the Palestinian children, beat them, and hold them in unsafe and abusive conditions, the human rights group claimed in a report released Monday citing interviews with children who have been detained, video footage and reports from lawyers.
In addition, many of the children are interrogated without a parent present, which violates international and Israeli law.
“The failure to abide by international norms and protections under Israeli law concerning child detainees is particularly worrying given the spike in the number of children arrested during the recent violence involving children,” according to the report.
Click here for the full story
From PressTV
Turkey aiding al-Nusra ahead of major Aleppo strike: Russia
As Turkey continues to aid al-Nusra Front, some 10,000 militants of the Takfiri terrorist group have converged around Syria’s northwestern province of Aleppo, says Russia’s General Staff.
“Despite progress achieved in securing a ceasefire, Turkey continues to funnel men and arms to al-Nusra Front,” said Lieutenant General Sergey Rudskoy, the head of the Main Operative Department of the Russian General Staff, on Monday.
On February 27, a US- and Russia-sponsored ceasefire was brokered between the Syrian government and dozens of militant groups operating in the country. Daesh and al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Nusra are excluded from the truce.
“Al-Nusra’s men and materiel are being allowed to pass through areas that the US has designated as being controlled by the opposition,” he added while noting that Russia has on multiple occasions called on the US to aid in limiting al-Nusra’s operations.
From PressTV
Israel PM admits strikes in Syria for first time
Israel has launched dozens of strikes in Syria, the regime’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admits for the first time.
Visiting Israeli troops in the occupied Golan Heights on Monday, Netanyahu said Israel carried out the attacks to prevent alleged arms transfers to Lebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah.
“We act when we need to act, including here across the border, with dozens of strikes meant to prevent Hezbollah from obtaining game-changing weaponry,” he added.
The Israeli premier did not give any time frame for the strikes in Syria. He also did not elaborate on what kind of strikes the Israeli army had carried out.
It was the first time an Israeli official has admitted to launching strikes in Syria, after several media reports that Tel Aviv conducted such attacks.
“We are also working on other fronts, near and far, but we do it intelligently,” Netanyahu said, adding that Israel may itself “enter the battlefield.”
From PressTV
Syria says Turkey, Saudi Arabia ordering truce violations
The Syrian foreign minister has lashed out at Turkey and Saudi Arabia for undermining a truce agreement currently in force in the war-ravaged country.
Walid al-Muallem said on Monday that terrorist groups were breaking the ceasefire in Syria on the orders of Turkey and Saudi Arabia.
The top Syrian diplomat said in his meeting with United Nations Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura in Damascus that militants are continuing to stage attacks on government positions in a bid to foil forthcoming peace talks.
Muallem said Syria is still committed to dialogue without preconditions, adding that the government will continue its efforts for reaching a political solution in the UN-sponsored talks beginning on April 15.
“Muallem reaffirmed in his meeting with De Mistura the Syrian position on the political solution to the crisis and the commitment to Syrian dialogue under Syrian leadership, without pre-conditions,” the official Syrian news agency, SANA, said.
Click here for the full story
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
British political donor: Jews quit giving to Labour because of anti-Semitism ‘problem’
Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn addressing the TUC Conference at The Brighton Centre on September 15, 2015, in Brighton, England. (Mary Turner/Getty Images)
(JTA) — A major Jewish donor to Britain’s Labour Party said no big Jewish donor has given money to the party this year because they are “concerned about the direction the party is taking.”
Michael Foster, whose family gave the party more than $570,000 during the 2015 general elections, wrote in an Op-Ed in the Daily Mail that party leader Jeremy Corbyn’s view that there is “no crisis” over anti-Semitism in the party “shows only his callousness and contempt for the history of the Jews in Europe.”
“Jeremy Corbyn continues to ignore the problem – and that shocks me,” Foster wrote. “He makes no attempt at all to put at ease a Jewish community in Britain that for more than 100 years has supported Labour spiritually, politically and financially. The community looks on in horror that a supposedly civilized man cannot understand the pain and fear that many on the Left of the Labour Party inflict without any worry of disciplinary action from the leadership. All Jeremy Corbyn dispenses are palliative statements, lumping anti-Semitism with racism.”
Click here for the full story
From PressTV
Militants carry out attacks in central, southern Syria despite truce
A number of Syrian civilians have been injured in attacks by militants in central and southern Syria, while the Damascus government is observing a ceasefire and holding talks with opposition groups to end the conflict in the Arab country.
At least six people were injured in the southern city of Dara’a on Monday after militants fired mortar shells into residential neighborhoods, Syria’s official news agency, SANA, reported.
Some 14 mortar rounds were fired at al-Matar and al-Sahari neighborhoods and an area near the National Hospital, a local police official told SANA.
The official added that two of those injured are in critical condition, noting the attack caused material damage to houses and private and public properties.
Militants also detonated an explosive device in Qamishli city in Hasakah Province and injured two civilians. The attack also resulted in material damage.
In Homs, militants fired a rocket shell on the main street in Karm al-Louz neighborhood, while another rocket landed in an area near a school in al-Nizha region. Two other rockets hit a residential neighborhood in al-Arman.
Click here for the full story
From PressTV
Daesh seizes Syrian town from Turkish-backed militants
Militants from the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group have seized a key town in northern Syria from Turkish-backed militants.
The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Daesh took control of al-Rai along the Turkish border on Monday morning after intense fighting with other militants in the town.
The news comes four days after Deash lost control of al-Rai to other militants groups, including al-Nusra Front, which is al-Qaeda’s Syrian branch.
Al-Rai, located in Aleppo Province, is a main supply route for Daesh. The Syrian army, backed by Russian aerial cover, seeks to purge the northern province of all Takfiri militants.
On Sunday, Prime Minister Nader al-Halqi said the Syrian army is gearing up to liberate Aleppo.
“We, together with our Russian partners, are preparing for an operation to liberate Aleppo and to block all illegal armed groups which have not joined or have broken the ceasefire deal,” he said.
Click here for the full story
From Russia Today
‘Macedonian border police detained & beat protesting refugees’ – MSF
Published time: 11 Apr, 2016 12:25
Migrants and refugees head back to the Greek side during clashes with Macedonian soldiers near their makeshift camp in the northern Greek border village of Idomeni, on April 10, 2016. © Bulent Kilic / AFP
Hundreds of refugees turned to clinics operated by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) for treatment after a border crackdown by Macedonian police. MSF said around 30 children were teargassed while some reported that they were seized and beaten for an hour.
Children as young as five needed medical attention in the Idomeni camp in Greece after the Sunday clashes, during which the police used tear gas and rubber pullets to suppress a protest, MSF reported.
Two young patients said they were taken into Macedonian territory along with 10 other people and beaten for an hour by police.
“The MSF clinic has been full all day. Three children were brought in with head injuries due to rubber bullets. People outside were shouting and many of them were carrying rubber bullets in their hands,” said Conor Kenny, an MSF doctor in Idomeni.
Click here for the full story
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
At Jews for Bernie event, anger boils over at Sanders campaign
Phil Aroneanu, New York state director of the Sanders campaign, speaking at a Jews for Bernie event in Manhattan, April 10, 2016. (Uriel Heilman)
NEW YORK (JTA) – It might have been the last place you’d expect anger to erupt against the Bernie Sanders campaign.
But at a Jews for Bernie brunch in Manhattan’s Tribeca neighborhood on Sunday, the frustration seemed to boil over when some silver-haired Jewish supporters of Sanders began deriding what they described as the campaign’s lackluster response to perceived missteps by the Democratic presidential candidate on Jewish issues – most recently, last week’s interview with the New York Daily News in which Sanders grossly overestimated the number of Palestinian civilians killed in the 2014 Gaza conflict.
That interview and other Sanders campaign blunders on issues of Jewish concern, several of them complained, are making it more difficult to make the case to fellow Jews to support the Vermont senator in his bid for the White House. When campaign staffers at Sunday’s event tried to steer the public conversation away from those concerns to focus on the logistics of canvassing, a few attendees became visibly irritated.
“I’m very frustrated with the campaign,” Lisa Harbatkin, 72, of Manhattan, told JTA. “Given where today’s left is on Israel, I felt Bernie was too fuzzy on the Palestinians, but good enough. But as the campaign progressed, I became more upset. I wish he wouldn’t hang out so much with Cornel West” – the contentious African-American studies professor who has expressed support for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement against Israel.
Click here for the full story
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Stanford student senator who defended debate of Jewish ‘power’ will not run for reelection
(JTA) — A member of Stanford University’s student senate who argued it is “not anti-Semitism” to claim Jews control “the media, economy, government and other social institutions” said he will not run for reelection.
In a statement published April 8 in the student newspaper the Stanford Daily, junior Gabriel Knight said that “my continued presence in the Senate race has become a distraction from the larger ASSU elections and has made it difficult for students to meaningfully discuss campus issues.”
Knight said in the statement of his remarks at the April 5 meeting, which was debating a proposed resolution on anti-Semitism: “I never intended to be hurtful and am saddened by and apologize for the fact that I was. Nevertheless, I hope that this week’s events and my decision to end my campaign do not encourage or substantiate threats to free discussion.”
His remarks came during a debate over language in the proposed resolution, which offers guidelines for defining anti-Semitism and calls on the student governmental body to oppose anti-Semitic activities and fund anti-discrimination education.
Click here for the full story
From PressTV
Israel clears colonel who killed Palestinian teen
An Israeli colonel has been cleared of any criminal wrongdoing after he shot to death a Palestinian teenager last summer.
Colonel Israel Shomer fatally shot Mohammad Kasba on July 3 in Ramallah. The Israeli military claims that Shomen targeted Kasba “in response to the imminent danger” he was facing from the teen.
The Israeli military says the teen had thrown a rock through the windshield of the colonel’s vehicle.
According to the military’s account, the officer exited his vehicle and fired into the air, but “due to the reality of the operational situation, the shots resulted in the death of the assailant.”
The military said it had “concluded that the shooting of the perpetrator was not criminal and the event does not justify taking legal action against the officer.”
A video released by the B’Tselem human rights group, however, shows several shots being fired at the Palestinian teen as he seems to be running away.
Click here for the full story
