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From PressTV
Woman hurt as Israeli settlers attack Palestinian cars
A Palestinian woman has sustained injuries in an incident during which a group of Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian vehicles in occupied East al-Quds (Jerusalem).
Israeli police spokeswoman Luba al-Samri said the extremist settlers pelted the Palestinian cars with stones near an ancient tomb in East al-Quds on Saturday evening.
She confirmed that a Palestinian woman was injured.
Scuffles broke out between young Palestinian men and the Israeli stone throwers afterwards. Israeli military forces intervened, arresting a young Palestinian man and two Israelis.
On May 18, Israeli human rights group Yesh Din condemned the Israeli police’s “indifference” to settlers’ attacks on Palestinians, saying nearly all assaults end without any indictments.
From Russia Today
More than 61% of Greeks say ‘No’ in crucial bailout referendum – final tally
Published time: July 05, 2015 18:00
Edited time: July 06, 2015 14:01
More than 61 percent of Greeks have voted “No” in Sunday’s referendum on the bailout deal and austerity measures, reported the Interior Ministry after 100 percent of the vote had been counted.
READ MORE: Greece votes in bailout referendum LIVE UPDATES
BREAKING: 100% of #Greferendum ballots counted, NO (#OXI) at 61,31 and YES (#NAI) at 38,69 %pic.twitter.com/ALfTt4KkWo
— Ruptly (@Ruptly) July 5, 2015
From The Times of Israel
Clinton ‘suggests to donors she’s better for Israel than Obama’
Democratic presidential candidate said to assure potential Jewish backers she’ll be able to mend ties with Jerusalem
July 3, 2015, 10:09 pm
Leading Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has suggested to potential Jewish donors in closed-door meetings that she would be a better president for Israel than incumbent Barack Obama, Politico reported Friday.
The report claimed that at a New York fundraiser last week, Clinton told a group of mostly Jewish donors that she would be able to mend the fractured relationship between Washington and Jerusalem.
While she defended President Obama against accusations that he was responsible for a deterioration in ties between Israel and the US, she noted that “Diplomacy is all about personal relationships, and I’ve got my own relationships.”
She hinted at her 20-year ties to Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose rapport with Obama has been famously unsmooth.
Obama’s rocky relationship with Israel and its leadership has been in the headlines again in the past few weeks due to accusations by former Israeli Ambassador to Washington Michael Oren that the president is to blame for the poor state of bilateral ties.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Kerry: Iran talks ‘could go either way’
(JTA) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Iran and the world powers have made “genuine progress” in negotiations on a nuclear deal but that it “could go either way.”
“We are not yet where we need to be on several of the most difficult issues,” Kerry told reporters Sunday in Vienna, Austria, following one-on-one talks with Iran’s foreign minister, Javad Zarif. “And the truth is that while I completely agree with Foreign Minister Zarif that we have never been closer, at this point this negotiation could go either way.
“If hard choices get made in the next couple of days and made quickly, we could get an agreement this week. But if they are not made, we will not.”
Kerry said if there is no movement on a deal that the United States is “prepared to walk away.”
From The Times of Israel
Islamic State militant was booted from Hamas
Issa a-Lakta, 23, previously filmed leery of a camel, threatened to destroy Palestinian group with his new pals
July 5, 2015, 1:20 pm
A camel-shy former Hamas militant, who was kicked out of the Gaza Strip-based group, has turned up as a member of the Islamic State group in Syria, where he has been threatening to come back and destroy his former organization.
His fighting cred is somewhat undermined by a separate video that shows him bested by a kneeling humped ungulate.
Issa a-Lakta, 23, from the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City, apparently left the Strip a year and a half ago to join the jihadists, Israel Radio’s Gal Berger reported Sunday.
Last week, a-Lakta featured in an IS video, armed and in uniform, with two fighters at his side, in which he threatened that if Hamas continues in its “heresy,” IS will kill all its members in Gaza, young and old.
In the video, published last Tuesday, IS accused the Islamist Hamas of being soft in enforcing religious law in the Palestinian enclave it controls.
From The Times of Israel
Former US senator Jim Webb to run for president
Vietnam veteran and ex-top Navy official expected to focus campaign on helping working-class Americans compete in economy
July 3, 2015, 12:55 am
WASHINGTON — Former US senator Jim Webb announced his presidential campaign on Thursday, opening a long-shot bid against Hillary Rodham Clinton and a field of Democratic rivals for the party’s 2016 nomination.
Webb, 69, a decorated Vietnam veteran and a former top Navy official, is expected to focus his campaign on helping working-class Americans compete in the economy, tackling campaign finance reform and preventing the US from getting involved in foreign entanglements like Iraq and Afghanistan.
Webb acknowledged he would face major hurdles but vowed to bring an outsider’s voice to the 2016 race.
“I understand the odds, particularly in today’s political climate, where fair debate is so often drowned out by huge sums of money. I know that more than one candidate in this process intends to raise at least a billion dollars,” Webb said in a statement. But “We need to shake the hold of these shadow elites on our political process.”
Webb’s opposition to the Iraq War — his son Jimmy served in the conflict — played a central role in his surprise Senate election in 2006 against a Republican challenger. While he chose not to seek re-election after one term, his military and foreign policy credentials could allow him to become a debate stage foil to Clinton, who served as President Barack Obama’s secretary of state.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Pope emphasizes Jewish-Christian commonalities in audience
(JTA) — Pope Francis emphasized commonalities between Judaism and Christianity in a meeting with members of the International Council of Christians and Jews.
“Christians, all Christians, have Jewish roots,” the pope said Tuesday at the Vatican.
“Both faith traditions find their foundation in the one God, the God of the covenant, who reveals himself through his word. In seeking a right attitude towards God, Christians turn to Christ as the fount of new life, and Jews to the teaching of the Torah. This pattern of theological reflection on the relationship between Judaism and Christianity arises precisely from Nostra Aetate, and upon this solid basis can be developed yet further,” the pope said.
Officially titled the Declaration on the Relations of the Church to Non-Christian Religions, Nostra Aetate rejected the charge of collective Jewish responsibility for killing Jesus and inaugurated a half-century of dialogue between the two faiths.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Dome of the Rock tops CNN list of structures on verge of extinction
(JTA) — The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem’s Old City tops CNN’s list of “25 magnificent structures on the verge of extinction.”
“A holy city for three different religions, it attracts millions of tourist with over 200 monuments, including the majestic Dome of the Rock. But political tension has hardened relations between Israel and UNESCO, preventing any preservation plans from moving forward,” CNN wrote in its feature.
The Old City and its walls have appeared on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organizations List of World Heritage Sites in Danger since 1982.
The media watchdog Honest Reporting condemned placing the Dome of the Rock on the list, saying it is not under threat of extinction.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
ISIS affiliate says it fired 3 rockets at Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An ISIS affiliate claimed responsibility for firing three rockets on southern Israel.
Sinai Province claimed responsibility for Friday’s attack from the Sinai Peninsula, saying it fired the long-range Grad missiles at “occupied Palestine.”
Israel Police found the remains of the rockets on Friday and Saturday in open areas. There were no injuries.
The attack caused Code Red sirens to sound throughout southern Israel, sending residents to shelters.
From Ynet News
State to Supreme Court: Give Olmert more prison time
State Attorney says that due to lenient punishment in the Talansky affair, former prime minister should be sentenced to firm prison time in the Investment Center Affair. The State Attorney’s Office said Sunday that the punishment given to former prime minister Ehud Olmert in the Talansky Affair by the Jerusalem District Court was too lenient, but said it will not appeal the sentencing.
This time, the state is requesting the Supreme Court to sentence Olmert in the Investment Center affair to an active prison term, rather than a suspended sentence, which will be added to the sentence he received in the Talansky affair.
Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (Photo: Noam Moshkovitz)
From The Times of Israel
Susa, of Purim story fame, becomes World Heritage Site
Ancient city known in the Bible as Shushan is said to be where dramatic events in Scroll of Esther played out
July 5, 2015, 8:57 am
Some 2,500 years after the ostensible events of the Purim story permanently stamped the Persian city of Shushan in Jewish history books, the ancient site was given the UN’s imprimatur as a World Heritage Site Saturday.
Known by its modern-day name Susa, the site, in modern-day Iran, was one of seven sites chosen by the world cultural body to join the exclusive list of the world’s most treasured places.
The Paris-based United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization also granted the status to another site in Iran — the troglodyte settlements of Maymand — as well as Singapore’s Botanical Gardens and the Great Burkhan Khaldun Mountain sacred landscape in Mongolia.
In the Scroll of Esther, Shushan is where Haman the Agagite hatches a diabolical plan to orchestrate the annihilation of the Jews in Persia, but he is outwitted by Queen Esther, who persuades her husband, the Persian ruler Ahasuerus, to undermine the scheme. The annual Purim festival recalls the Jews’ victory over their foes and is marked with costume parties and rambunctious celebrations.
