Dr. Patrick Slattery’s News Roundup
A service of DavidDuke.com
From PressTV
Israeli forces clash with Palestinians in West Bank
Israeli forces have engaged in heavy clashes with Palestinians in the city of Jenin in the north of the occupied West Bank.
The clashes erupted after Israeli soldiers stormed Palestinian houses in Ya’bad town in Jenin on Monday morning.
According to reports, the Israeli troops fired tear gas and tossed sonic bombs among Palestinians in the town, prompting the Palestinians to hurl stones at the soldiers.
The sonic bombs set fire to olive trees in the area, witnesses say.
Meanwhile, Israeli soldiers have also abducted eight Palestinians in different parts across the West Bank.
Click here for the full story
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Obama to speak to Jewish leaders in first post-Iran deal meeting
WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Barack Obama will meet with Jewish leaders for the first time since world powers reached a deal with Iran on its nuclear program.
Leaders from an array of Jewish groups will visit the White House on Tuesday afternoon, according to representatives for some of the groups. The meeting will include groups that support and reject the deal, as well as some that have yet to decide.
“On Tuesday the President will meet with organization and community leaders from the American Jewish community to discuss the Iran nuclear deal,” the White House said in a statement. “This meeting follows similar meetings the President held with Jewish community leaders in April as well as numerous engagements that senior administration officials have held with Jewish community organizations and other community stakeholders.”
Jewish Insider first reported the meeting.
Click here for the full story
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Trump campaign fires Jewish adviser over racist Facebook posts
(JTA) — A Jewish adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign was fired over racist and incendiary Facebook posts.
On Sunday, the campaign acknowledged the dismissal of Sam Nunberg two days after reports, first reported by Business Insider, that he has been making such posts on his personal Facebook page since 2007.
Nunberg told Business Insider that he does not recall making the offensive posts, and that he was not employed by the Trump campaign when they were posted.
Click here for the full story
From Ynet News
Hamas leader Mashal, Russian FM Lavrov meet in Qatar
Lavrov invites Mashal to visit Moscow, says Russia would like to help reach permanent solution for Palestinian problem.
Elior Levy
08.03.15
Khaled Mashal, the head of Hamas’ political bureau, met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday in Doha, Qatar.
According to an official statement from Hamas, the two discussed the inter-Palestinian reconciliation issue, and the general situation in the Middle East.
Lavrov invited Mashal to visit Moscow, but a date has not been set yet.
Lavrov and Mashal meet in Doha (Photo: MCT)
According to Hamas, the meeting included a full delegation from the organization, which presented Lavrov with a review of life in the Gaza Strip since the end of Operation Protective Edge, and of what Hamas defines as “Israel’s violation of holy sites sacred to Christianity and Islam.”
Click here for the full story
From The Times of Israel
US rolls dice by cooperating with Turkey in Syria
By working with Ankara to combat Islamic State, Washington may lose key support of Kurdish fighters
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are both taking a big gamble as they agree to work together against the Islamic State group militants in Syria.
Their goals, while overlapping in some ways, are far different in others, mainly on the question of how to handle Kurdish militants battling Islamic State fighters in Syria. And that’s the problem.
Erdogan wants to combat Islamic State militants in his country who had flown freely across the border with Syria. But his biggest priority is one that’s driven by domestic politics: curtailing growing Kurdish power along Turkey’s southern border. Ankara is worried that Kurdish gains in Iraq and in Syria will encourage a revival of the Kurdish insurgency in Turkey in pursuit of an independent state.
To that end, Erdogan used the start of Turkish air strikes against Islamic State forces in Syria to also attack Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) rebels in northern Iraq. And on July 27, the main Syrian Kurdish militia, the People’s Protection Unit, known as the YPG, claimed that it had been shelled by Turkish troops. A Turkish official said the military was only returning fire, and that the military campaign does not include the YPG.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Bulgarian soccer fans attack Israeli players during match
Click here for the full story
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
International Jewish gay conference to honor Jerusalem parade victim
(JTA) — Gay Jewish community builders from across the world are set to convene in Austria for the inauguration of an international think tank on their communities’ needs.
The 70 participants coming to Salzburg next week for the think tank, which is called Eighteen:22, also will commemorate Shira Benki, the Jerusalem 16-year-old who died from injuries suffered in last week’s stabbing at her city’s gay pride parade.
Eighteen:22 is a reference to Leviticus 18:22, a biblical verse that forbids men from having “sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman.”
“Despite major advances in gay rights issues, we really have a lot of work to do inside the LGBTQ community and out,” said Robert Saferstein, who initiated the think tank, which is part of the Connection Points program of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation.
Click here for the full story
