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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Joe Lieberman says he will vote for Hillary Clinton
Sen. Joe Lieberman, right, talking to Gen. David Petraeus at the International Security Assistance Force Headquarters in Afghanistan during a congressional delegation tour, Nov. 10, 2010. (Joshua Treadwell)
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Joseph Lieberman said he would vote for Hillary Clinton days after leaving open the possibility he would vote for Donald Trump.
“I’m an independent Democrat, I never changed parties, and I’m going to vote for Hillary Clinton,” the former senator from Connecticut said Wednesday on the Fox Business channel, as quoted by the Washington Examiner.
Lieberman noted that he has known Clinton, the Democratic nominee, since he studied with her and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, at Yale Law School in the early 1970s.
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From Russia Today
Ukrainian president orders forces on border with Crimea and eastern Ukraine on highest alert
Published time: 11 Aug, 2016 11:51
© Mikhail Palinchak / Ukrainian Presidential Press Service / Reuters
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has instructed all military units near Crimea and the eastern Ukrainian Donbass region to be at the highest level of combat readiness.
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From Ynet News
Machete-wielder yells ‘Allah Akbar’ and attacks Belgian police
Two policewomen were wounded outside the Charleroi police station in Belgium; the attacker was shot and killed; the police are investigating, announced that both officers are ‘out of danger’; PM: ‘an attack with a terrorist connotation.’
From Russia Today
Turkey to resume airstrikes on ISIS in Syria, asks Russia to fight ‘common enemy’
Published time: 11 Aug, 2016 13:50
A Turkish Air Force F-16 fighter jet lands at Incirlik air base in Adana, Turkey © Murad Sezer / Reuters
Turkey will resume airstrikes on Islamic State targets in Syria, and has asked Russia to carry out joint operations against its “common enemy.” Ankara halted strikes after the downing of a Russian plane by Turkish forces last year.
In an interview with Turkey’s NTV television on Wednesday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusolgu said that Ankara “will again, in an active manner, with its planes take part in operations” against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) targets.
Cavusolgu also said that Ankara has called on Moscow to carry out joint operations against the “common enemy” of IS.
“Let’s fight against the terrorist group together, so that we can clear it out as soon as possible,” Cavusolgu said, adding that otherwise IS will continue to expand and spread into other countries.
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From Russia Today
Turkish diplomats slam NATO for ‘trying to dictate terms’ of Ankara’s foreign policy
Published time: 11 Aug, 2016 13:17
Turkish and NATO flags © Fatih Saribas / Reuters
Turkey’s ambassador to Russia has lashed out at NATO, saying the alliance has no right to dictate foreign policy to Ankara. Meanwhile, Turkey’s foreign minister reiterated that his country has options outside of NATO when it comes to defense cooperation.
Turkish Ambassador Umit Yardim made his comments after a meeting between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg on Tuesday.
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From Russia Today
Turkish FM: West failed test following coup attempt, in danger of losing Turkey
Published time: 10 Aug, 2016 14:12
© Francois Lenoir / Reuters
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has lashed out at the EU for its mixed reaction to the failed coup attempt against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, while adding that if the West “loses” Turkey, it will be due to its own mistakes.
Speaking to the Anadolu news agency, Cavusoglu was uncompromising in his stance towards the EU. He accused the bloc of making serious mistakes and having “failed the test” following the failed coup attempt against President Erdogan, which took place on July 15.
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From PressTV
Syrian army forces recapture several areas in southern Aleppo
Syrian army soldiers and allied popular defense groups have gained more grounds in Aleppo as they are trying to flush Daesh terrorists and other foreign-sponsored militants out of the strategic city.
A military source told the official SANA news agency on Thursday that Syrian forces had established full control over five blocks in the 1070 Apartment Project area of the city.
Syrian soldiers and pro-government fighters, the source said, also thwarted a major militant onslaught on southern Aleppo last night, killing or injuring scores of extremists.
A number of cars rigged with explosives and pickup trucks equipped with heavy machine guns were also destroyed in the process.
Russian and Syrian fighter jets on Wednesday bombed four command centers of the terrorists in southern Aleppo, killing dozens of them and destroying their vehicles.
The United Nations has warned that two million people could be trapped in Aleppo as government forces and foreign-sponsored Takfiri militants are gearing up for a decisive battle in the city.
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From PressTV
PLO slams Israel’s plan to seize private Palestinian land
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) says Israel is after stealing the entire Palestinian territories through confiscating more private land in the occupied West Bank.
In a statement released on Saturday, the PLO’s National Bureau to Defend Land warned of the “dangerous” consequences of a plan by the Tel Aviv regime to resettle evacuees from the illegal Amona settlement outpost in the central West Bank to a nearby privately-owned piece of Palestinian land.
The PLO said the “unprecedented” measure is aimed at “swallowing” more Palestinian land.
Recently, Israeli media reported that a committee tasked with relocating Amona settlers has proposed leasing the privately-held Palestinian properties near the outpost to the Israelis for three years, with possible extension.
Some 140 new illegal housing units are expected to be built on the Palestinian land, with 40 of them reserved for families evacuated from Amona. The Palestinian owners reportedly live abroad.
Israel’s Supreme Court has ruled that the Amona settlement outpost is illegal and ordered the demolition of all its 41 settler units by the end of 2016.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Head of Green Party in Canada may resign over vote to support BDS
TORONTO (JTA) — The leader of Canada’s Green Party is pondering resigning after members voted to support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against Israel.
In an interview Tuesday with the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., Elizabeth May said she is “struggling with the question of whether I should continue as leader or not, quite honestly,” in the wake of the vote last weekend by rank-and-file Greens to support BDS.
May, who has called BDS “polarizing, ineffective and unhelpful,” told the CBC she’s “quite certain most of our members don’t support this policy, but weren’t fully engaged in the consensus-building process we normally would have had.”
“So if I can’t find a way to bring that back and have the members review it with a consensus decision-making process, then I have to profoundly question whether I can continue as leader, and that’s obviously heartbreaking,” she said.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Trump’s 2nd Amendment remarks earn comparisons to atmosphere prior to Rabin killing
Donald Trump addressing the crowd at a campaign rally in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 6, 2016. (John Sommers II/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy said Donald Trump’s suggestion that gun rights advocates could “do” something about Hillary Clinton recalled the incitement to violence reported in the months prior to the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel.
“I instantly thought about Rabin and Israel,” Malloy, a Democrat, said Tuesday on MSNBC. “There were rallies going on in Israel where ‘Death to Rabin’ was shouted and politicians didn’t respond, so I’m going to respond.”
Malloy’s remarks followed an address by Trump, the Republican nominee, at a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina.
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From The Times of Israel
Clinton: Trump gun comments ‘incite violence, crossed a line’
Trump team tries to douse latest firestorm as Secret Service reportedly says GOP campaign approached about remarks suggesting gun advocates could do something about rival
Hillary Clinton on Wednesday sternly warned her Republican presidential rival Donald Trump about his “casual inciting” of violence, saying his startling remarks suggesting gun rights supporters could act against her “crossed the line.”
It was the Democratic nominee’s most forceful denunciation after Trump caused a firestorm by suggesting to supporters in North Carolina on Tuesday that “Second Amendment people” — those who support gun rights — could take action to stop Clinton from appointing US Supreme Court justices as president.
“Yesterday we witnessed the latest in a long line of casual comments by Donald Trump that crossed the line,” Clinton told a rally in Des Moines, Iowa.
“Words matter, my friends. And if you are running to be president, or you are president of the United States, words can have tremendous consequences.”
Trump and his campaign had quickly sought to douse the flames, insisting the Republican flagbearer was merely urging gun rights supporters to reject her candidacy at the ballot box.
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From PressTV
Turkey parliament to approve Israel deal this month: Cavusoglu
The Turkish foreign minister says the parliament will in the near future ratify a recent agreement struck with Tel Aviv to normalize ties following a six-year stalemate brought about by a fatal Israeli attack on a Gaza-bound aid vessel.
“I think we will finalize this work before the parliament goes into the summer recess,” which starts at the end of next week and ends in mid-September, the state-run Anadolou news agency quoted Mevlut Cavusoglu as saying.
Ankara and Tel Aviv’s once close relations soured after Israeli commandos raided the Freedom Flotilla in international waters of the Mediterranean on May 31, 2010, killing nine Turkish citizens and injuring about 50 other people. A tenth Turkish national later succumbed to his injuries.
The two sides, however, announced the reconciliation agreement on June 27, after several rounds of negotiations.
An official apology from the Israeli regime, the lifting of Tel Aviv’s blockade on the Gaza Strip and compensation for the families of the Turkish activists killed in the Gaza aid ship incident were among Turkey’s conditions for the restoration of relations.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Cavusoglu said, “Israel has lived up to our conditions. We said ‘if the conditions are fulfilled we’ll normalize ties.’ So we must implement it as soon as possible.”
He further admitted that the Turkish legislature has so far failed to take up the reconciliation deal due to the July 15 failed military coup that has plunged the country into chaos.
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