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From PressTV
Israeli special forces killed Syrian general in 2008: NSA documents
Documents released recently by the US National Security Agency (NSA) reveal that senior Syrian military official Brigadier General Mahmoud Suleiman was assassinated by Israeli special forces in 2008.
The revelation, based on documents provided by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, was initially reported Wednesday by The Intercept.
Suleiman was gunned down in August 2008 on a beach near Syria’s western port city of Tartus. The incident has been ignored by Israel ever since.
According to an entry at the NSA’s internal version of Wikipedia, called Intellipedia, the assassination, carried out by “Israeli naval commandos,” marks the “first known instance of Israel targeting a legitimate government official.”
There exist more details of the assassination in a “manhunting timeline” of NSA’s intelligence repository.
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From PressTV
Palestinian wounded in Israeli air raids on Gaza
At least one Palestinian has been injured in fresh Israeli air raids on the besieged Gaza Strip.
On Thursday, Israeli warplanes launched several strikes on central and northern Gaza. Initial reports say that an elderly Palestinian woman was injured after an Israeli rocket targeted an area near the al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.
The Israeli military confirmed the attacks, claiming that the airstrikes were in response to a rocket attack from Gaza.
The Israeli military often targets Palestinians in the Gaza Strip which remains literally cut off from the outside world by a crippling Israeli blockade.
Gaza has been under the devastating blockade since 2007. The Tel Aviv regime has ever since launched three wars on the impoverished Palestinian enclave.
From PressTV
Arab League chief says Israel must declare nuclear weapons
Arab League Secretary General Nabil Elaraby has called on the international community to pressure the Israeli regime into declaring its nuclear weapons.
“It’s time for the international community… to stop its policy of double standards and to undertake its responsibilities by pressuring Israel to join the non-proliferation agreement (NPT),” Elaraby said in a statement released on Wednesday.
All of Israel’s nuclear facilities must be placed under the supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), he added.
Israel is widely believed to be the sole possessor of a nuclear arsenal in the Middle East and has so far blatantly violated the international rules regarding nuclear non-proliferation.
In December 2014, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution urging the Tel Aviv regime to join the NPT and put its nuclear facilities under the safeguards of the IAEA.
The Tel Aviv regime reportedly maintains between 200 and 400 atomic warheads.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
U.S., Israeli counterterrorism teams meet
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The counterterrorism teams of the United States and Israel met in Washington, D.C.
The teams met Monday at the State Department “in the context of the two countries’ close and ongoing security cooperation,” a State Department statement said.
As such meetings are planned months in advance, this one likely was not related to the announcement on Tuesday of a final Iran nuclear agreement.
Leading the team for the United States was the coordinator for counterterrorism, Tina Kaidanow, and for Israel its director-general of the Foreign Affairs ministry, Alon Roth-Snir, and deputy national security adviser and head of the Counterterrorism Bureau, Eytan Ben-David.
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From PressTV
Israel to destroy Palestinian village in West Bank
A large number of Palestinians are facing imminent displacement as Israeli authorities plan to demolish another Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank.
Human rights groups in the occupied territories said in a joint statement on Wednesday that Israeli authorities had announced the demolition order of Khirbet Susiya village on Sunday, Palestinian Ma’an news agency reported.
Rabbis for Human Rights and B’Tselem added that the orders, issued following requests from Israeli settlers, would be implemented after the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
Local residents say the Israeli regime could move in and demolish the residential and agricultural structures at any time.
This is while a hearing is scheduled to be held at a high court regarding the case on August 3.
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From The Times of Israel
AIPAC tells Congress to reject Iran deal; J Street to support it
Pro-Israel lobby group says lawmakers should oppose ‘bad deal’; liberal rival says it serves security interests of US and Israel alike
WASHINGTON (JTA) — AIPAC called on Congress to reject the Iran nuclear deal, saying it does not meet critical markers that the influential pro-Israel lobby outlined in recent weeks. But the liberal Jewish Middle East lobby J Street announced a multimillion-dollar campaign to support the agreement.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee made its case against in a statement Wednesday delivered after President Barack Obama conducted a news conference of more than an hour defending the deal achieved a day earlier.
“We strongly believe that the alternative to this bad deal is a better deal,” AIPAC said in its statement. “Congress should reject this agreement, and urge the administration to work with our allies to maintain economic pressure on Iran while offering to negotiate a better deal that will truly close off all Iranian paths to a nuclear weapon.”
Under the law, Congress may disapprove the deal. AIPAC’s call to reject the agreement achieved between six world powers and Iran will make it likelier that Congress will send Obama a “no,” although it is unlikely that opponents will have the numbers to override the veto that Obama has pledged to deliver. Disapproval requires a simple majority in the House of Representatives and the Senate; overriding a veto requires two-thirds majorities in both chambers.
On Tuesday, AIPAC had expressed skepticism about the deal, but held back from calling for its rejection until its details became clearer. A number of other major Jewish groups have expressed reservations about the pact, but only a handful have come out absolutely on either side.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Germany charges another Auschwitz guard, 92, with murder
BERLIN (JTA) — Germany charged a 92-year-old man who served as a guard at Auschwitz with complicity in murder.
The unnamed man from Hanau, a city near Frankfurt, was charged Wednesday for his alleged role as a Nazi SS guard. The charges were filed on the same day that a German court sentenced Oskar Groening, 94, to four years in jail for his role as a guard at the concentration camp.
Since he was 19 or 20 at the time of his alleged crimes, the unnamed man was charged in juvenile court, according to reports. He allegedly watched over transports of deportees from Berlin, and from the transit camps Drancy in France and Westerbork in Holland.
According to German news reports, at least 1,075 people from these transports were murdered immediately upon arrival in the camp’s gas chambers.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Hillary Clinton backs nuclear deal, calls for coalition to block Iranian ‘bad behavior’
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Hillary Rodham Clinton said as president she would hew to the Iran nuclear deal just completed, but would also build a coalition to stop Iranian bad behavior in other areas.
“We have in the agreement the access for inspections and the transparency that was absolutely necessary,” Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, said Wednesday as she met Democrats in Congress. “But we have to treat this as an ongoing effort and as president, I would be absolutely devoted to ensuring the agreement is followed.”
Clinton, who was President Barack Obama’s secretary of state in his first term, has broadly embraced his foreign policies. But since mounting her presidential run earlier this year, she has endeavored to depict herself as more hawkish than her former boss.
“We still have a lot of concern about the bad behavior and the actions by Iran, which remains the largest state sponsor of terrorism, which does go after and undermine governments in the region, that poses an existential threat to Israel, that unfairly, unlawfully confines and tries Americans on trumped up charges,” Clinton said.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Univ. of California regents to take up anti-Semitism issue in September
(JWeekly) — The University of California Board of Regents will wait until September to address adopting the U.S. State Department’s definition of anti-Semitism.
The expectation was that the board was going to discuss the issue during its July 22-23 meeting in San Francisco and take a vote. No reason for the delay was given. The regents do not meet in August.
The State Department’s definition, which has generated controversy, notes that denying Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state and holding it to a double standard are ways in which anti-Semitism can be manifested.
In May, 57 California rabbis signed an open letter to the board urging the regents to adopt the definition. The letter read, in part: “We believe that it is essential for campus administrators and staff to be trained in using the State Department definition to identify anti-Semitic behavior and to address it with the same promptness and vigor as they do other forms of racial, ethnic, and gender bigotry and discrimination.”
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