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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
When a Jewish Holocaust survivor ‘pissed’ on Hitler’s henchman
Julius Streicher striking a pose in Berlin, Aug. 15, 1935. (Getty Images)
It sounds like a scene from a Quentin Tarantino film.
A Holocaust survivor, whose mother and sister were killed in the genocide, said he locked a Nazi prisoner in a shed for three days, made him strip and urinated on his face, “This American Life,” the weekly public radio show, reported Sunday.
“I told him, from now on, you sleep naked on this cold floor. You will not move,” Werner Meritz said.
“And with that, I pissed all over him. Terrible thing to tell you. His head and everywhere. … I said, you’re just to lie there to get some sense of what you Nazis did to the Jews.”
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From PressTV
Over 6000 killed in US-led coalition raids in Syria: Report
Wed Aug 24, 2016 1:16PM
Airstrikes by the so-called US-led anti-Daesh coalition have killed more than 6000 people in Syria since the beginning of the aerial military in late 2014, a monitoring group says.
The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Wednesday that 6004 people had been killed in coalition airstrikes in Syria during a period of 23 months, from September 23, 2014 to August 23, 2016.
Of the total figure released, 599 people were civilians, according to the pro-opposition group.
Some 163 children were also among the civilians killed in the coalition airstrikes.
The report further said that hundreds of people, most of them Daesh Takfiri militants, had been also injured in the air attacks.
The so-called multinational task force against Daesh started its controversial mission in Iraq in late 2014 after Daesh seized control over territories west and north of the country. The air campaign was later expanded to cover areas in northern Syria despite criticism from the Syrian government that the attacks violate the sovereignty of the Arab country.
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From Ynet News
Jewish extremist camp under fire
After Yedioth Ahronoth exposed a Lehava youth training camp in the southern Hebron hills, calls have been raised Wednesday to shut the camp down and outlaw the extreme right group. Participants at the camp were learning krav maga, Arabic, sabotage tactics and techniques for handling Shin Bet and police interrogations.
MK Erel Margalit of the Zionist Union has said he will submit an urgent application to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee in light of the investigation and will also officially ask Minister of Education, Naftali Bennett, to close the camp.
From Ynet News
Syrian rebel leader quits after interview with Israeli
This enormous confederation of fighting groups operates primarily in the areas around Damascus and controls territory in Lebanon. Along with fighting against the Assad regime, they also fight against ISIS and the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG). They are allied with groups such as Jabhat Fatah al-Sham (formerly known as Jabhat a-Nusra), Ahrar a-Sham, and both the Turkish and Saudi governments.Recently, Israeli researcher Elizabeth Tsurkov at the Forum for Regional Thinking held a rare interview with Jaysh al-Islam spokesman Islam Aloush.
“I’ve been researching Syria for years and have been in contact with hundreds of Syrians all over the country,as well as refugees. I’ve never hidden my Israeli identity,” Tsurkov said.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Republican giver says Jewish community ire forced him to drop Trump
Donald Trump speaking at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, July 21, 2016. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A prominent Jewish Republican donor is no longer backing Donald Trump, saying his support made him unpopular in Seattle’s Jewish community.
“Do you know what it’s like being a Jewish Republican in Seattle?” Martin Selig, a developer and a member of the Republican Jewish Coalition board, told the Seattle Times this week. “The repercussions of what you hear from people is stunning.”
Selig had appeared as a co-host on an invitation to a fundraiser Tuesday for the Republican presidential nominee, but said he was withdrawing and would not donate money to nor vote for Trump as result of community blowback.
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From Russia Today
Flying cake: German far-left activist ‘slightly’ injures leader of anti-immigrant party (VIDEO)
Published time: 31 Aug, 2016 11:11
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A co-leader of anti-migrant party Alternative for Germany (AfD) has been struck on the head by a frozen cake flung by a far-left activist, a video released on YouTube shows. The politician claims the cake-throwing was “dangerous” and “well-organized.”
The incident took place as the AfD’s Jörg Meuthen was giving a speech in Harburg, Lower Saxony, on Monday.
The video captures the moment a young man approaches the politician with a cake (which was apparently frozen) and threw it right at Meuthen’s head.
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From PressTV
Saudi war on Yemen consolidates terror groups: UN
Wed Aug 31, 2016 5:22PM
The United Nations special envoy for Yemen has warned that the deadly Saudi aggression against Yemen is fueling the spread of the al-Qaeda and Daesh terrorist groups across the conflict-ridden country.
Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed issued the warning in an address to the UN Security Council on Wednesday.
Referring to Monday’s deadly bombing in the city of Aden, he said Daesh and al-Qaeda “continue to wreak havoc in significant parts of Yemen.” The bomb attack on a military compound, which was claimed by Daesh, left at least 70 people dead and dozens more injured.
“The absence of the state in many parts of Yemen, in addition to the chaos created by war, will continue to facilitate the expansion of these terrorist groups which represents a real threat to the region,” the UN envoy said.
Three months of negotiations in Kuwait between delegates form the Houthi Ansarullah movement and Saudi-backed loyalists to the resigned Yemeni president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, ended without a breakthrough earlier this month. The talks were held against the backdrop of a shaky ceasefire that began in Yemen on April 10.
The UN official said the breakdown in the discussions triggered a “dangerous escalation in military activities.”
US Secretary of State John Kerry said last week that Washington, the Persian Gulf Arab states and the UN had agreed on a proposal to restart peace talks with a goal of forming a unity government in Yemen that will include the Houthis.
In his Wednesday remarks, the UN envoy stressed that a return to a ceasefire was “critical” to renewing the negotiations between Yemen’s warring sides.
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From PressTV
Hezbollah strikes Takfiris on Lebanon-Syria border
Sat Aug 27, 2016 5:1AM
Hezbollah fighters have ambushed a group of militants belonging to the Jabhat Fateh al-Sham Takfiri terrorist group in northeastern Lebanon, killing and wounding a number of them.
They outflanked the terrorists on the outskirts of the town of Arsal on Friday, the Lebanese resistance movement’s War Media Center said.
The attack killed at least one militant and injured several others, according to Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television channel.
The center released a brief video showing fighters firing mortar bombs and a rocket at targets in the barren area.
Lebanon has been affected by the spillover from the foreign-backed militancy, which has been afflicting Syria since 2011.
The militants briefly overran Arsal in August 2014, taking several Lebanese army and police forces hostage, some of whom were executed. In December last year, most of the captives were released as part of a prisoner swap deal.
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From PressTV
Russia, US lessen areas of misunderstanding on Syria: Lavrov
Sat Aug 27, 2016 12:17AM
Moscow and Washington will boost their cooperation on resolving the Syrian crisis as they have managed to reduce their mutual mistrust on the conflict in the Arab country, says the Russian foreign minister.
“It is an achievement that we have been able to reduce areas of misunderstanding and to reduce the level of mutual mistrust between the two countries,” Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov said at a joint press conference with his American counterpart John Kerry at the President Wilson Hotel in Geneva, Switzerland, on Friday.
During the presser, which was preceded by a 12-hour-long meeting between the two sides, Lavrov said that both countries had agreed to boost their military cooperation to settle the years-long crisis, and on ways to accelerate the peace process in the Arab country.
The Russian minister also said that separating “sane opposition forces” from terrorist organizations, including the Takfiri al-Nusra Front group, was key to curbing the violence in Syria.
“In fact, today our American partners for the first time gave us a list of rebel organizations who joined the cessation of hostilities after the US mediation,” Lavrov further said.
“I don’t see any possibility of assuring a really durable, full-fledged ceasefire without the separation of healthy opposition forces from terrorists. The understanding of this task between us and our American partners gets increasingly clearer,” he added.
Without naming any countries, Lavrov also slammed some governments for illegally intervening in Syria and emboldening terrorists by undermining the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, calling Iran and Russia as the only countries legally assisting Syrians inside the country.
Kerry, for his part, said that there would not be a military solution to the crisis, which he described as “dramatically deteriorated.”
“The conflict will not end without a political solution. It is really the only viable path towards peace and security and normalcy that the Syrian people deserve,” Kerry added.
The two top diplomats also said that experts from their respective countries would meet in Geneva in the coming days to conclude the few remaining technical issues and to clarify the details of what had been agreed on Friday.
‘A united Syria’
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From PressTV
Turkish military deploys 9 more tanks to north Syria: Reports
Thu Aug 25, 2016 8:25AM
At least nine more Turkish military tanks have entered northern Syria a day after Ankara began its first major US-backed incursion of its southern neighbor in what it called an anti-Daesh operation.
With the new deployment, there are now some 20 Turkish tanks inside Syria, Reuters quoted an unnamed Turkish official as saying on Thursday.
“We need construction machinery to open up roads … and we may need more in the days ahead. We also have armored personnel carriers that could be used on the Syrian side. We may put them into service as needed,” the official said.
The so-called Operation Euphrates Shield, which kicked off on Wednesday morning, involves the Turkish air force and special ground forces.
Ankara says the offensive is aimed at ridding the border area of Daesh militants and Kurdish forces.
The Turkish military is supporting a ground offensive by hundreds of pro-Ankara militants in Syria, who managed to enter the Syrian border town of Jarablus in a lightening advance after meeting little resistance from Daesh terrorists there.
The offensive was launched in coordination with the US-led military coalition purportedly fighting Daesh since 2014.
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From Russia Today
Obama must ‘listen to me’ before discussing human rights – Philippines president
Published time: 31 Aug, 2016 10:13
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte and U.S. President Barack Obama © Lean Daval Jr / Jonathan Ernst / Reuters
Amid the Philippines president’s ‘War on Drugs’, he says he’s prepared to discuss any issues with US leader Barack Obama when they meet next week. However, Rodrigo Duterte has warned that Obama must listen to him first, before bringing up human rights.
When asked if he would be willing to discuss human rights with Obama when they meet in Laos next week, Duterte said it “depends to what degree.”
He added that his US counterpart must first fully understand the issues the Philippines is facing.
“They must understand the problem first before we talk about human rights. I would insist, listen to me: this is what the problem is, then we can talk,” he told reporters, as quoted by Reuters.
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From Russia Today
‘Naked breasts, not burkinis!’ French PM wades into stormy waters with national identity speech
Published time: 30 Aug, 2016 22:10
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French Prime Minister Manuel Valls poured more oil onto the ongoing controversy over Islamic clothing in public places, when he appeared to suggest that head-to-toe coverings worn by Muslim women contravened the French spirit.
Valls, who is considered to be on the right wing of the ruling Socialist party, invoked the image of country’s national symbol, Marianne, which was adopted during the French Revolution to represent freedom and enlightenment – and the rejection of traditional values.
“Marianne has bare breasts because she feeds the people, she does not wear a headscarf because she is free!” Valls told a group of supporters during a public speech. “That’s the Republic!”
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From The Times of Israel
Rabbis deny report of Louisville synagogue resettling Syrian Jews
Local refugee agency also says it has no knowledge of such families existing
August 30, 2016, 4:41 am
A report of a Conservative synagogue in Louisville resettling Jewish refugees from Syria is false, say a local refugee resettlement agency and the rabbis of the Kentucky city’s two Conservative synagogues.
On Friday, JTA received an anonymous report that an unnamed Conservative synagogue in the city had welcomed three Syrian Jewish families. The report provided the names and some personal details of the families, but did not name the synagogue. Other publications have since published the report.
But the rabbis at the two Conservative synagogues and a representative of a local refugee resettlement agency refuted the report. While the city’s Jewish community of about 8,500 helped a Syrian Muslim family settle in the city, the rabbis said, their synagogues have not brought in any Jewish families.
“It’s a rumor. It’s not true,” Rabbi Robert Slosberg of Congregation Adath Jeshurun. told JTA. “There’s no Syrian refugee family that came to the Jewish community that anyone in the Jewish community that I’ve spoken to of authority knows about.”
Rabbi Michael Wolk of Keneseth Israel Congregation also told JTA the report “is not true at all.”
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From PressTV
Syria receives medical supplies shipped from Cuba
Tue Aug 30, 2016 4:41PM
A two-tonne shipment of medicine, including vaccines, sent from Cuba has arrived in Syria, which has been gripped by foreign-sponsored militancy over the past five years.
The Cuban package arrived at Damascus International Airport on Monday. It was the first batch under a banking agreement between Havana and Damascus to settle Cuba’s debts due to Syria.
Syria’s Transport Minister Ali Hamoud said on Monday that his office finished preparatory works such as customs clearance, packaging, and transportation to ensure the arrival of the shipment without delay and under the supervision of the country’s Health Ministry.
He further thanked Cuba for supporting the Syrian people, who are suffering from violence perpetrated by Takfiri terrorists.
Meanwhile, Syria’s Deputy Health Minister Huda al-Sayyed said the shipment includes 200,000 doses of vaccines, adding that more batches will be sent to the Arab country soon.
Cuban Ambassador to Damascus Rogerio Manuel Santana Rodriguez also hailed close relations between the two states and noted that they are facing a common enemy.
Since March 2011, Syria has been hit by militancy it blames on some Western states and their regional allies.
The Takfiri militants operating in the Middle Eastern state have suffered major setbacks over the past few months as the Syrian army has managed to liberate several areas.
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From PressTV
Israel ignoring international calls to halt settlement activities: UN
Mon Aug 29, 2016 10:17PM
Israel continues to ignore international calls to halt its illegal settlement activities and demolishing Palestinian homes in the West Bank, says a UN envoy.
A recent report by the Quartet on the Middle East — comprised of the UN, the US, Russia, and the European Union — called on the Israeli regime to halt its illegal settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories, saying the settlement expansion, the demolition of Palestinian homes, and the expropriation of land were “steadily eroding the viability” of a solution to their conflict.
“Its recommendations continue to be ignored, including by a surge in Israeli settlement-related announcements and continuing demolitions,” said Nickolay Mladenov, the UN coordinator for the so-called Middle East peace process, while addressing the UN Security Council on Monday.
He stressed that since two months ago when the report was released, Tel Aviv has actually increased its settlement activities, including the advancement of over 1,000 more units in occupied East Jerusalem al-Quds and 735 units in the West Bank.
The UN envoy also noted that Israel has carried out a land survey on the outskirts of Bethlehem aimed at establishing new settlements.
“All of these plans would essentially create new illegal settlements and I call on Israel to cease and reverse these decisions,” he stressed.
Over half a million Israelis live in more than 230 illegal settlements built since the 1967 Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank including East al-Quds.
All Israeli settlements are illegal under the international law. Tel Aviv has defied calls to stop the settlement expansion in the occupied Palestinian territories.
