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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
In West Bank, Huckabee defends ‘oven’ comment and supports settlements
(JTA) — Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee said he does not regret his recent statement that in forging a nuclear deal with Iran, President Barack Obama is “marching Israelis to the door of the oven.”
In a speech Tuesday in the West Bank settlement of Shiloh, the site of what is believed to be the first capital of the ancient Kingdom of Israel, Huckabee also voiced his support for Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank, where the Palestinian population outnumbers the Jewish one.
“The connection between the Bible and Israel is important,” Huckabee said, according to The Jerusalem Post. “I see the West Bank as an integral part of Israel,” and if elected president, “I will support the strengthening of Jewish settlements.”
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From The Independent
Is Jeremy Corbyn the enemy of Israel and British Jews? That is what the The Jewish Chronicle, some MPs and various sections of the media would have us believe. It is an accusation that is both absurd and menacing. The right, Blairites and hard Zionists have formed the most unholy of alliances to slay the reputation of the next likely leader of the Labour Party. They thought he was a bit-part player, but he has unexpectedly became the front-runner; now every political trick in the book is being used in an attempt bring him down. I hope honest democrats see through the contemptible tactics. If Corbyn is an anti-Semite, I am a white supremacist.
From The Independent
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Here’s why Hamas and Israel may be secretly negotiating
TEL AVIV (JTA) — After more than a decade of failed diplomacy, Israel could be close to signing a major agreement with the Palestinians.
They’re just not the Palestinians you thought.
After years of vowing not to negotiate with Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, Israel may be finalizing a deal with the terrorist group that reportedly would lift Israel’s blockade of Gaza in exchange for a cessation of Hamas rocket attacks and tunneling into Israel for at least eight years.
Israeli officials have flatly denied the reports. On Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office released a statement saying that its policy of non-negotiation with Hamas had not changed.
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From PressTV
250 Palestinian detainees begin mass hunger strike
Some 250 Palestinians being held in Israel’s Negev prison have begun an open-ended hunger strike in protest to their administrative detention.
The hunger strike will go on “until Israel’s policy of administrative detention comes to an end,” a prisoner representative was quoted as saying by the Ma’an News Agency on Tuesday.
There are reportedly around 1,500 Palestinian prisoners being held in the prison, 250 of whom are being held in administrative detention. The Tel Aviv regime incarcerates Palestinians without trial or charge for up to six months but the detention order can be renewed for indefinite periods of time.
The representative added that Israel uses administrative detention “to coerce the Palestinians and deprive them of their life.”
“We are not asking to be released or to have our sentences reduced, but rather we are asking to completely stop administrative detentions.”
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From PressTV
Israel resumes work on separation wall in West Bank
Israeli military forces have uprooted dozens of Palestinian olive trees in the occupied West Bank as part of plans to resume constructing a separation wall that snakes across occupied Palestinian territories and isolates large swathes of them from areas where Israeli occupants are concentrated.
On Monday, Israeli bulldozers pulled up the trees in the Bir Onah area of Beit Jala town, located 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) south of al-Quds (Jerusalem), and then leveled the ground, which lies near the illegal settlement of Har Gilo.
The trees reportedly belonged to six Palestinian families. One of the owners was assaulted and injured while attempting to prevent the Israeli soldiers from razing the trees.
The resumption of the construction work came despite the fact that the Israeli Supreme Court had ruled in April that such work had to be halted in Beit Jala, and ordered a reconsideration of the structure.
Earlier in the day, Israeli bulldozers demolished a number of residential buildings in an area populated by Palestinian Bedouins in East al-Quds.
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From Russia Today
UN warns Syrian airstrike in Douma may amount to war crime, Damascus slams criticism
“Any intentional direct attack against civilians or civilian objects as well as the use of indiscriminate weapons in densely populated areas are serious violations of international humanitarian law and international human rights law and may amount to a war crime,” Rupert Colville, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, said in a press conference in Geneva on Tuesday.
He said that at least 111 civilians were reportedly been killed and at least 200 others were injured in the “outrageous” bombing of a busy market place in the center of Douma, in the Eastern Ghouta region of rural Damascus.
From Russia Today
Israel restarts construction of controversial ‘separation’ wall near Bethlehem
In spite of an April court ruling against any activity of the kind, the works on constructing the wall in the Cremisan valley, located near Bethlehem, started on Monday. The construction is a section of a wall Israel started building in 2002 citing security concerns.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Rahm Emanuel supports Iran deal
(JTA) — Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said he supports the Iran nuclear deal.
Asked about it at a press conference Tuesday, Emanuel, a Democrat who is President Obama’s former chief of staff, said, according to the Chicago Tribune: “The simplest way to say it is, if I was in Congress, I would support the president’s initiative. But I’m not in Congress, thank God.”
Emanuel served in the House of Representatives from 2002 through 2008.
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From The Times of Israel
GOP candidate Carson accuses Obama of using ‘anti-Semitic themes’
Presidential hopeful says ignoring Israel’s security concerns, acting like ‘these people are paranoid,’ is a form of anti-Jewish sentiment
Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson accused US President Barack Obama of using “coded” anti-Semitic “themes” in his attempts to convince Congress to back the nuclear deal between Iran and world powers.
The neurosurgeon charged in a Jerusalem Post op-ed last week that the president, in his speech at American University, launched a “diatribe” which was “replete with coded innuendos employing standard anti-Semitic themes involving implied disloyalty and nefarious influences related to money and power.”
“One can only imagine the sting of his words on members of his own Democratic party, especially those Jewish members of Congress who have publicly stated their opposition to this deal based on its merits or lack thereof,” Carson wrote.
Carson was likely referring to Obama’s remark during his address that “between now and the congressional vote in September, you are going to hear a lot of arguments against this deal, backed by tens of millions of dollars in advertising.”
Others had also complained that Obama’s remarks against Iran deal critics strayed into anti-Semitic territory.
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