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From The Times of Israel
Trump calls for ‘extreme vetting’ of immigration applicants
Unveiling anti-terror plan, GOP nominee vows to destroy Islamic State, claims Clinton lacks ‘mental and physical stamina’ to do so
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (AP) — Donald Trump called Monday for “extreme vetting” of immigrants seeking admission to the United States, vowing to block those who sympathize with extremist groups or don’t embrace American values. He said the policy would first require a temporary halt in immigration from dangerous regions of the world.
Speaking in swing state Ohio, Trump also said his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton lacks the “mental and physical stamina” to take on the Islamic State. He said destroying the terror group would be the centerpiece of his foreign policy and he would partner with any countries that share that goal — specifically singling out Russia as a nation the US could have a better relationship with.
“Any country that shares this goal will be our allies,” Trump said. “We can never choose our friends, but we can never fail to recognize our enemies.”
Ahead of Trump’s address, Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden vigorously challenged the Republican nominee’s preparedness to be commander-in-chief. Biden called Trump’s views “dangerous” and “un-American,” and warned that Trump’s false assertions last week about President Obama founding the Islamic State could be used by extremists to target American service members in Iraq.
“The threat to their life has gone up a couple clicks,” he said.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
3 roles that could define Hillary Clinton’s relations with the Jews
Hillary Clinton speaking at the AIPAC policy conference in Washington, D.C., March 21, 2016. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON (JTA) – Hillary Clinton is a chameleon, her critics say, ready to adopt the colors of her environment: dove, hawk, social conservative, social justice warrior, friend, backstabber.
Hillary Clinton is a Rorschach test, her supporters say, a projection of her haters’ deepest fears and insecurities: the strong woman distorted into a witch, the progressive distorted into a radical, the pragmatist distorted into an empty vessel.
Hillary Clinton, in her first autobiography, “Living History,” embraces another label: “policy maker,” one she embraced after a particularly painful evolution in her political life. She describes her estrangement from her mentors Peter and Marian Wright Edelman, children’s rights advocates, in 1996, when she backed her husband President Bill Clinton’s enactment of welfare reforms.
“They genuinely believed the legislation was shameful, impractical and harmful to children,” Clinton wrote. “In the painful aftermath, I realized I had crossed the line from advocate to policy maker,” one who was “bound to compromise.” (Clinton has since reconciled with the Edelmans, who have also been deeply involved in liberal pro-Israel causes, including the New Israel Fund.)
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From PressTV
Russia to use Iraqi airspace for anti Daesh strikes
Baghdad says Russia has been permitted to conditionally use Iraqi airspace for anti-Daesh airstrikes in Syria.
“We opened our skies to the Russians under some conditions. We have not received an official request from Russia about the passage of any types of rockets across our skies,” said Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi (seen below) during a press conference in Baghdad on Tuesday.
He noted that Russian planes will be using border corridors for their strikes and will not be flying over Iraqi cities.
“I allowed the bombers to fly over because we received clear information about them. They make precise strikes, avoid casualties among civilians. So, we will consider all the requests concerning security of civilians in Syria,” Abadi added.
Russia has been bombing Daesh and other Takfiri terrorist groups in Syria at the official request of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad since September 30, 2015.
Abadi made the remarks following an announcement by the Russian Defense Ministry that Russian warplanes have taken off from an airbase in the western Iranian city of Hamedan to target Takfiri terrorists and other militants in Syria.
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From PressTV
Israeli forces gun down Palestinian teen in West Bank
Israeli forces have shot dead a Palestinian teenager in fresh clashes at a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.
In a statement released on Tuesday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health identified the victim as 17-year-old Muhammad Abu Hashhash, saying he died after being “shot in the chest during clashes with [Israeli forces] in the Fawwar camp,” located near the city of al-Khalil (Hebron).
Meanwhile, Palestinian Red Crescent spokeswoman, Errab Foqoha, told the Ma’an news agency that Abu Hashhash succumbed to injuries sustained when he was “shot with live ammunition in the heart.”
Tuesday’s scuffles in the Fawwar refugee camp also left at least 32 Palestinians injured.
The violence broke out after Israeli forces stormed the camp at Tuesday dawn, ransacked homes and interrogated residents.
The Israeli regime’s troops further fired live gunshots, tear gas, and rubber-coated steel bullets at Palestinian youths.
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From PressTV
Israel arrested 560 Palestinian minors in al-Quds in 2016: Committee
The Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs says Israeli regime forces have detained 560 Palestinian children in East Jerusalem al-Quds so far this year.
Issa Qaraqe, the committee head, released the figure while speaking with the families of Palestinian child prisoners in the Shu’fat refugee camp on Tuesday.
Qaraqe said that Palestinian children younger than 12 were taken into Israeli custody in violation of human rights and international law.
He further noted that 110 minors are still being held in Israeli prisons, with 60 children under house arrest despite being released from jail.
Meanwhile, Amjad Abu Asab, the head of the Jerusalem Committee for Families of Prisoners, stressed that most Palestinian child prisoners were beaten and assaulted by Israeli regime forces.
Some of the minors were wounded and denied the right to have a family member present during their interrogation, he said, adding that the child prisoners are put under pressure that has “long term effects on their psyche.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Poland proposes to jail users of term ‘Polish death camps’
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — The Polish government proposed a bill that would make the use of terms like “Polish death camps” a crime punishable by jail time.
The bill, which the government put forward Tuesday, would prohibit assigning blame to Poland for the actions of Nazi Germany. Historians and artists would be exempt in their work.
Drafted by the Justice Ministry, the measure also would criminalize accusing Poland of international war crimes or crimes against peace or humanity. The punishment would be a fine or up to three years in jail.
“Diplomatic actions to counteract the falsification of our history and protect the good name of Poland and the Polish people have proved ineffective,” the government said in a statement Tuesday. “There are still comments, especially in the foreign media, suggesting the participation of Poland and Poles in the crimes of World War II.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Jeremy Corbyn backers are like Nazi storm troopers, major Jewish donor to Britain’s Labour Party says
(JTA) — A major Jewish donor to Britain’s Labour Party has compared supporters of party head Jeremy Corbyn to Nazi storm troopers.
Michael Foster, whose family in the last election contributed more than $500,000 to the party, in an op-ed Sunday in the Daily Mail newspaper referred to Corbyn backers as Sturmabteilung, or SA.
Foster had sued to stop Corbyn from running again for the party leadership without first getting the backing of at least 51 members of Parliament as proscribed by the party’s rules. Corbyn recently lost a vote of no confidence by Labour parliamentarians and faced mass resignations from his top team, the BBC reported.
Britain’s Supreme Court ruled last week against the Foster suit. In the op-ed, Foster alleged anti-Semitism from Corbyn supporters.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Why did Donald Trump launch a Twitter feed in Hebrew?
(Screenshot from Twitter)
The Trump campaign has launched a Hebrew-language Twitter feed, aiming to boost support for the GOP presidential nominee in Israel and raising an interesting question: Just how many potential U.S. voters in Israel don’t speak English?
The feed, launched Monday night, is named “Campaign Trump b’Yisrael,” and uses the generic handle @USAISRAEL2016, though a quick search shows that the campaign could have chosen, say, @TrumpIsrael2016. Or @TrumpAviv.
In its first 19 hours of existence, the feed tweeted five times, and had 65 followers. One tweet was a pro-Israel quote from Trump’s Monday speech on foreign policy, where he said, “We will work side by side with our friends in the Middle East, including our greatest ally, Israel.”
“ישראל היא בת בריתנו הגדולה ביותר” הכריז הערב @realDonaldTrump מול העולם. המשפט הזה יכול היה להיחשב נדוש, אילולא 8 השנים האחרונות.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Wasserman Schultz and her challenger tussle over who is more pro-Israel
Debbie Wasserman Schultz being interviewed in Las Vegas prior to the first Democratic presidential debate, Oct. 13, 2015. (Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and her Democratic primary challenger in Florida exchanged sharp accusations about which candidate is more pro-Israel.
Tim Canova, a lawyer, in a televised debate Sunday on the CBS affiliate in Miami attempted to use Wasserman Schultz’s vote last year for the nuclear deal with Iran against her.
“Her vote has been condemned by an awful lot of folks,” Canova said in remarks reported by Jewish Insider. “I think she wasn’t looking out for Israel’s security.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Donald Trump says anti-Semitic immigrants will be barred under his plan
Donald Trump addressing the crowd at a campaign rally in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 6, 2016. (John Sommers II/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Donald Trump said he would test would-be immigrants for anti-Semitic beliefs and that Israel would be a key ally in defeating radical Islam.
Speaking Monday in Youngstown, Ohio, the Republican presidential nominee outlined national security policies that included “extreme vetting” for would-be immigrants, including for those who would reject what he described as American values of tolerance.
“We should only admit into this country those who share our values and respect our people,” Trump said.
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From The Times of Israel
Soros email hack reveals plans to fight ‘racist’ Israeli policies
Documents show Jewish-American billionaire contributed millions to combating Jewish state’s ‘restrictive measures’ against minorities
August 15, 2016, 8:01 pm
George Soros speaks at the Festival of Economics in Trento, Italy in 2012. (Wikimedia Commons, Niccolò Caranti, CC BY-SA 3.0)
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Hacked emails show that the Open Society Foundations led by Jewish billionaire George Soros have as an objective “challenging Israel’s racist and anti-democratic policies” in international forums, in part by questioning Israel’s reputation as a democracy.
The documents are available on a website, reportedly backed by Russia, that uses anti-Semitic stereotypes to attack Soros.
They reveal that Open Society, which was founded and is chaired by the hedge fund billionaire and philanthropist, gave nearly $10 million since 2001 to groups advancing the rights of Arab Israelis, with an emphasis in recent years on countering what one document says are Israel’s “restrictive measures” against minorities.
“In recent years the radicalization of public opinion and consecutive Israeli right-wing governments have resulted in more restrictive measures against Palestinians within Israel,” a Sept. 1, 2015 review of Open Society’s Arab Regional Office’s work said.
It cites as an example the Jewish Nation State bill, advanced by its sponsors to entrench Israel’s Jewish status, but decried by some Arab Israelis as further marginalizing non-Jewish minorities. The bill has yet to pass.
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From The Times of Israel
Trump: Clinton lacks ‘physical, mental stamina’ to beat Islamic State
Biden: Trump ‘has no clue’ about foreign policy, weakens US alliances; Rabin’s son warns Republican nominee: Same kind of ‘incitement’ led to murder of my father
August 15, 2016, 2:14 pmThe Times of Israel liveblogged Monday’s events as they happened.
Blog is now closedTurkey: Police station attack leaves many wounded
Turkey’s state-run media reports say several ambulances have been dispatched following an explosion near the mainly-Kurdish city of Diyarbakir in southeast Turkey.
Initial reports say there are “many” hurt in the attack.
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