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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Paul Ryan meets Netanyahu in Jerusalem to ‘reaffirm’ US-Israel ties
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, meeting with a U.S. congressional delegation led by House Speaker Paul Ryan, fourth from left, April 4, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/Israeli Government Press Office)
JERUSALEM (JTA) — House Speaker Paul Ryan led a bipartisan delegation of U.S. congressmen who met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem.
“The delegation expressed strong support for Israel,” said a short statement issued Monday by the Prime Minister’s Office following the meeting.
Israel is the first foreign country that Ryan, R-Wis., has visited since becoming speaker of the House of Representatives in October.
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From PressTV
Israeli forces destroy homes of slain Palestinians
Israeli forces have razed the homes of four Palestinians, three of whom had been killed in February over an alleged attack against Israeli troops.
According to the Palestinian Information Center, the Israeli forces destroyed the homes of Ahmed Najeh Abu Al-Rab, Mohammed Ahmed Kmail and Ahmed Rajeh Zakarneh, who were all in their twenties and were earlier killed, in the city of Qabatiya in the Jenin Governorate in the occupied West Bank at dawn on Monday.
The home of a fourth Palestinian, Bilal Abu Zeid, who has been arrested for alleged involvement in the attack by the other three, was also demolished on Monday.
The three young men had been shot dead by Israeli forces in Bab Al-Amud Gate in the occupied East al-Quds (Jerusalem)’s Old City over an alleged stabbing and shooting attack on Israeli forces on February 3.
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From The Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE – Murder, rape and knife attacks: Inside Denmark’s ‘three-star prison for radicalised asylum seekers’ where an ISIS fanatic stabbed a POLICEMAN
- Five hundred migrants from 49 difference countries live in Sandholm centre in North Zealand, north of Copenhagen
- In past year, a veteran police officer was stabbed by a Palestinian ISIS fanatic and a 24-year-old woman was raped
- Fights break out, an ‘inmate’ went on the rampage with a fire extinguisher, and swastikas painted on walls outside
- ‘I do not feel safe at Sandholm, I can be attacked again any time,’ a Syrian refugee living there told MailOnline
- Many stay at the centre for years, while their applications are processed in Denmark, a country with low immigration compared to the rest of western Europe
- Last year 21,225 migrants settled and so far this year, just 1,620, with 85 per cent successfully claiming asylum
Welcome to Denmark’s largest asylum centre: a crime-riddled ‘jail’ where innocent migrant families are trapped living alongside violent young men for years – forced to survive on £94 a month state handouts while waiting to see if they will be the next person stabbed, raped or assaulted.
Dubbed ‘a prison for radicalised asylum seekers’, this is the Sandholm Centre, where a Palestinian ISIS fan allegedly stabbed a policeman, an Aghan man was murdered – and a young woman was raped.
In the last few months a man at the centre went berserk with a fire extinguisher and two men were detained for violence as tensions between the 500 ‘inmates’ from 49 different countries reach boiling point.
And there is no escape for those desperate to protect their families, and themselves, from the brutality of living here, at least until they have been granted asylum, a process which can take years in Denmark.
Until then, all they can do is wait in their cramped rooms waiting for the next violent crime – and hope they aren’t the victim.
Lawless: Migrants living in the Sandholm Asylum Center (pictured) in Denmark live in constant fear of knife attacks and gang violence
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Israeli soldier’s bullet killed downed Palestinian assailant, autopsy reportedly shows
Israeli soldiers removing the body of a Palestinian man who stabbed a soldier in the West Bank city of Hebron, March 24, 2016. (Wissam Hashlamon/Flash90)
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli soldier’s bullet to the head killed a supine Palestinian assailant, the autopsy determined, according to a Palestinian news agency.
Israeli doctors conducted the autopsy, which was completed Sunday, at the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute in Tel Aviv, with a Palestinian pathologist present. They all agreed on the findings, according to a statement from the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society quoting the pathologist, Dr. Riad al-Ali, the Maan news service reported.
The soldier was seen in a video shooting Abed al-Fattah Yusri al-Sharif, who with another Palestinian had stabbed Israeli soldiers in the West Bank city of Hebron on March 24. Soldiers killed al-Sharif’s accomplice but only wounded al-Sharif, who was believed to be alive when the soldier shot him while he was supine on the road.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Caught between White House and its critics, Sen. Ben Cardin pledges to renew Iran sanctions
Sen. Ben Cardin speaking at a news conference with other leading Democratic senators at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., Nov. 19, 2015. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg)
WASHINGTON (JTA) – The top Democrat handling foreign relations in the Senate says he will endeavor to get Congress to reauthorize Iran sanctions before year’s end, a key goal of pro-Israel activists.
“There’s general agreement we have to extend the sanctions against Iran, and we need to do it before they expire at the end of this year, “ Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, told JTA on Thursday.
Last month Cardin toured Israel, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, where he met with leaders to discuss best methods of dealing with Iran in the post-nuclear deal environment.
Reauthorizing sanctions was the major request last week when a record 18,000 American Israel Public Affairs Committee activists ended a three-day conference in Washington with a day of Capitol Hill lobbying.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Bernie Sanders: ‘I did not compare Trump to Hitler’
Bernie Sanders speaking to supporters at a rally in Seattle, Wash., March 20, 2016. (Matt Mills McKnight/Getty Images)
(JTA) — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders asserted in an interview that he did not compare Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler during a campaign rally over the weekend in Wisconsin.
“Some of you know I’m Jewish. My dad came — my father came to this country at the age of 17 from Poland,” Sanders, an Independent senator from Vermont, said Saturday at a town hall meeting in Milwaukee, when asked about Trump’s comments involving Muslims and banning them from the United States.
“He came over; other people in his family did not come over. Most people died. Children died. Relatives of my father. So that is in my heart to see what a lunatic can do by stirring up racial hatred. And we’re not going to allow that to take place in this country,”
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From PressTV
Bombs, bullets, shells claim 23 lives across Iraq
Medical and security officials in Iraq say at least 23 people were killed and more than two dozen others injured in a series of bomb explosions, a shooting attack and shelling across Iraq.
A security source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said five people lost their lives and nine others sustained injuries when bomber detonated his explosive-laden vest near a psychiatric hospital in Sadr City, the mainly Shia district of eastern Baghdad, on Monday, Arabic-language al-Baghdadia satellite television network reported.
Security forces immediately cordoned off the site of the attack, and ambulance workers ferried the wounded to a nearby hospital.
Unidentified armed men also sprayed a Muslim cleric with bullets in the capital’s southwestern neighborhood of Hayy al-A’amel, killing him on the spot.
Elsewhere in al-Nasr Wal Salam city, which is also known as al-Hasuah and lies in the Abu Ghraib district of western Baghdad, mortar shells fired by Takfiri militants claimed two civilian lives and left eight others wounded.
A soldier was also killed and two others injured on Monday, when a roadside bomb went off in Baghdad’s southeastern neighborhood of Arab Jabour.
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From PressTV
Daesh executes 15 of own members in Syria over alleged spying: Report
The Takfiri Daesh terrorist group has killed 15 of its own members in the largest execution the militant group has carried out against its elements in Syria, a report says.
The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday that the militants were executed near Syria’s northern city of Raqqah over spying charges in connection with the killing of senior Daesh commander Abu Hija al-Tunisi in a Wednesday airstrike.
Following the air raid, Daesh arrested 35 of its members in Raqqah, according to the observatory.
In a separate development, a senior leader of the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front was killed in an airstrike in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib, the UK-based monitoring group said.
A founding member and spokesman for the al-Nusra Front, Abu Firas al-Suri was killed during a Syrian or Russian raid on a village located in the province’s northwestern region, said the observatory.
It added that Suri’s son and 20 other foreign militants were also killed in the assault. Al-Nusra is considered the second-largest terror group operating in Syria.
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From PressTV
Former Yemeni president sacks premier over ‘failures’
Yemen’s fugitive former President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi has dismissed his Prime Minister Khaled Bahah due to the “failures” of his self-proclaimed government.
In a Sunday statement, Hadi said the decision to fire Bahah was made “due to the failures that have accompanied the performance of the government during the past period in the fields of economy, services, and security.”
Bahah’s government has “failed to ease the suffering of our people, resolve their problems and provide their needs,” Hadi added.
This is while some Yemeni sources say a behind-the-scenes power struggle has been the real reason behind Bahah’s dismissal.
The head of Yemen’s deposed government, which still proclaims itself the rightful authority and is based in the southern city of Aden, has appointed Ahmed Obeid bin Daghr as the new prime minister, and General Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar as the new vice-president.
Bahah, who held both posts before his removal from office, has now been named an adviser to Hadi.
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From PressTV
Al-Nusra spokesman killed in airstrike: Observatory
A high-ranking al-Nusra Front terrorist group leader has been killed in an air strike in Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib, says a UK-based monitoring group.
A founding member and spokesman for the al-Qaeda-affiliated Takfiri group, Abu Firas al-Suri, was killed during a Syrian or Russian strike on a village located in the province’s northwestern regions, said the so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on Sunday.
The pro-opposition monitoring group noted that Firas’s son and 20 other foreign militants were also killed in the assault.
Firas was a well known figure in terrorist circles who gave commentaries released by the Takfiri group on sensitive subjects such as governance and religious matters.
According to Takfiri media, Firas was one of terrorist group’s founding members who was also active in Afghanistan in the 1980s and reportedly collaborated directly with Osama bin Laden.
Al-Nusra is considered the second largest terror group operating in war-ravaged Syria where over 470,000 people have been killed and 1.9 million more injured since 2011.
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From Russia Today
‘Goebbels had less-biased articles’: Public slams MSM for Putin focus after Panama papers leak
Published time: 4 Apr, 2016 11:50
The world’s media has been pointing at one person following a massive documents leak from a Panama law firm. But that person, President Vladimir Putin, wasn’t even mentioned in the data leak. Sections of the public are not happy at the media coverage.
Pictures of President Putin could be found on the front pages of highly-respected news publications around the globe. The Guardian and the Mail Online were both at it, despite the fact that in the 11.5 million documents that were published; Putin’s name was not mentioned once.
Newspapers around the globe had plenty of world leaders to choose from: President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko managed to find his way on to the list, as did King Salman of Saudi Arabia. The father of British Prime Minister David Cameron was also among those mentioned. Despite these high-profile figures, the majority of the international media decided to accuse Putin of corruption. And even if the article itself was not about Putin, the cover picture suggested otherwise.
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From Russia Today
Putinophobia hits boiling point: Kremlin says ‘insinuations’ in Panama leak don’t need response
Published time: 4 Apr, 2016 11:39
Russian Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov © Vladimir Astapkovich / Sputnik
Anti-Putin sentiment has reached boiling point in the West, and that to a large degree makes it next to impossible to talk about Russia in a positive manner, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said, commenting on the so-called Panama leak.
“Such ‘leaks’, in our view, are meant to target audiences overseas. It is also clear that the degree of Putinophobia has reached a point where to speak well about Russia, or about some of its actions and successes is impossible. One needs to speak [about Russia] in negative terms, the more the better, and when there’s nothing to say, you need to make things up. This is obvious to us,” Peskov told journalists on Monday.
The spokesperson said the bulk of a vast exposé, unveiled by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung, has nothing to do with the Russian president.
“There is no [profound] information concerning the president – just some insinuations, speculations, reflections that do not require a response. As for the main body, it does not concern us, it has no relation to the president whatsoever,” agencies quoted Peskov as saying.
“While Putin does not appear anywhere backed by any facts, it is obvious to us that the main target behind such ‘leaks’ has been and still is our president, especially in the context of the upcoming parliamentary and, taking the long-term perspective, the presidential election in two years’ time,” the Kremlin spokesman added.
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From Russia Today
Armenia, Azerbaijan report hostilities ongoing in Nagorny-Karabakh after Baku’s unilateral ceasefire
Published time: 3 Apr, 2016 15:37
Volunteers at the collecting station in the town of Askeran in Nagorno-Karabakh. © Hrayr Badalyan / Sputnik
Armenia and Azerbaijan report hostilities are continuing in the Nagorny-Karabakh despite Baku’s announcement of a unilateral ceasefire. People are reportedly being evacuated from the conflict zone.
The fighting is ongoing on the frontline in Nagorny-Karabakh, Armenia’s Defence Ministry said, as cited by TASS.
Martakert region head, Vladik Khachataryan, said shelling is continuously ongoing from the eastern side. Several shells apparently fired by Azeri forces hit Martakert town center. In the last 24 hours, the town has reportedly been hit by 25 shells.
According to social media reports, residents are leaving the city, which is some three kilometers from the frontline.
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From Russia Today
Syrian forces retake strategic Christian town of al-Qaryatain
Published time: 3 Apr, 2016 14:16
A view shows the damage at the Monumental Arch in the historical city of Palmyra, in Homs Governorate, Syria © Omar Sanadiki / Reuters
Syrian government forces, with the aid of Russian airstrikes, have taken the Islamic State-held town of al-Qaryatain, on the outskirts of the historic Palmyra complex. Victory was achieved after several days of fighting.
The Christian town is located some 100km (60 miles) west of the battered ancient Syrian landmark, which had been experiencing heavy fighting until its recapture by government forces last Sunday from Islamic State terrorists (ISIS/IS, formerly ISIL). There are still traces of fighting on the western outskirts of al-Qaryatain, according to RIA Novosti.
The anti-ISIS (Daesh in Arabic) forces “fully restored security and stability to the town after killing the last remaining groups of Daesh terrorists,” according to Syrian television.
From Ynet News
Israelis living abroad: Our hearts are in Israel
Ayelet Mamo-Shay, organizer of ‘Israeli-Abroad Relocation Day,’ believes Israelis living abroad are goodwill ambassadors, but says that children must know that ‘our real home is Israel’
“Bunch of wimps,” “Traitors,” “They’ll be back when their child reaches first grade” — all these affronts were hurled throughout the years at the hundreds of thousands of Israelis who chose, whether for a fixed amount of time or for much longer, to emigrate. The word “yerida” (“descent”) was switched with “relocation,” and the criticism ceded to an ideology of Zionism on the ground.
“Israelis living abroad are no longer ‘traitors,’ but are rather a kind of ‘ambassadors of goodwill’ who contribute daily to Israel’s image, character and existence,” said Ayelet Mamo-Shay, businesswoman and author of “Relocation, Darling, Relocation!” and initiator of “Israeli-Abroad Relocation Day.” “I believe the discourse about the Israeli diaspora has changed over the years and will change even more in the future.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Are thousands of French millionaires really moving to Israel? There are reasons to be skeptical.
People gather to show solidarity with the victims of the Paris attacks in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square, Nov. 14, 2015. (Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images)
(JTA) — France’s Jewish millionaires are flocking to Israel by the thousands, according to new data on offer by a consultancy that tracks the world’s wealthy.
The report on international millionaire migration published Thursday by New World Wealth says 10,000 millionaires left France in 2015. Andrew Amolis, the firm’s head of research, told Newsweek that 20-25 percent of these French emigrants were Israel-bound Jews. That would mean up to 2,500 new French millionaires immigrated to Israel last year.
“The large outflow of millionaires from France is notable — France is being heavily impacted by rising religious tensions between Christians and Muslims, especially in urban areas,” the report says.
Such an exodus of Jews with money would be good news for Israel — at France’s expense, of course. France has seen rising emigration thanks to financial stagnation and high taxes, with anti-Semitic violence helping Jews find the door. But New World Wealth’s estimates are hard to reconcile with what is known about French Jews and aliyah, or Jewish immigration to Israel.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Panama Papers leak shows hundreds of Israeli firms, individuals hold offshore accounts
Israeli banks Discount, Bank Hapoalim and Bank Leumi in the center of Tel Aviv, Israel, Aug. 4, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
(JTA) — Hundreds of Israeli companies and some 850 Israeli shareholders are listed as having offshore accounts in a dump of leaked documents known as the Panama Papers.
The 11.5 million documents were published Sunday following a yearlong investigation of their contents led by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and the German daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung.
The documents, obtained by an anonymous source from a law firm in Panama that specializes in offshore accounts, were then shared with a large network of international media partners, including in Israel with the daily Haaretz.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The AT&T Girl’s surprising call to action
Actress Milana Vayntrub, the “AT&T Girl,” volunteering with Syrian refugees in Lesbos, Greece. (Courtesy of Vayntrub/Can’t Do Nothing)
(JTA) — You know Lily. You do. She’s that chipper, slyly witty girl who works at the AT&T store — not a real one, but the one you see in those ubiquitous TV ads.
What you may not know is that the actress who plays her, Milana Vayntrub, is a nice Jewish girl. She’s also a former Soviet refusenik who, between acting gigs, stand-up spots and the comedy webisodes she writes and produces, is trying to change the world.
Can’t Do Nothing is a new social-media-driven movement to raise awareness and funds to ease the dire plight of Syrian (and other) refugees. Vayntrub launched the web platform this year after a getaway to Greece with her dad, which turned into a one-woman mission to make some kind of difference once she realized the nature of the drama unfolding just miles away.
“I couldn’t leave knowing that I was so close,” she told JTA about her decision to extend her trip in hopes of making a difference. “I really believe that an opportunity that goes unfulfilled turns into a curse. And I knew that if I went, I would never regret it.”
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From Russia Today
Death of Russian media tycoon Lesin in DC believed natural despite criminal investigation – US media
Published time: 4 Apr, 2016 15:10
Gazprom-Media General Director Mikhail Lesin. © Iliya Pitalev / Sputnik
The investigation into former Russian Press Minister Mikhail Lesin’s death was referred to the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. Despite that, US media say authorities don’t see the death as suspicious, citing sources in law enforcement.
The New York Times has reported that the referral of Lesin’s case to the Justice Department’s Criminal Division in March was merely a formality, suggesting that no criminal investigation followed.
Citing the same unnamed sources, the New York Times says neither the FBI, nor the US Justice Department have been taking an active part in the ongoing investigation.
Initial reports following Lesin’s death in DC’s Dupont Hotel on November 5, 2015 said he suffered a heart attack.
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