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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Russia informed Israel ahead of airstrikes in Syria on ISIS
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Russia reportedly informed Israel ahead of its airstrikes on western Syria against ISIS.
On Wednesday, Russia bombed rebel targets in Syria near Homs following unanimous approval by its parliament to President Vladimir Putin’s request to initiate the attacks. The strikes were trying to prop up the regime of President Bashar Assad, a Russian ally.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said the airstrikes were carried out “against positions held by the Islamic State in Syrian territory.”
Russian officials reportedly contacted their Israeli defense establishment counterparts about an hour before the attack, Israel’s Channel 2reported. Russian government officials also contacted Yossi Cohen, the national security adviser in the Prime Minister’s Office, Haaretzreported, citing unnamed senior Israeli officials.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
French comedian Dieudonne ordered evicted from theater
A Paris court issued Dieudonne’s eviction from the Main-D’or Theater on Tuesday, Le Monde reported. Dieudonne said he would appeal; he may remain at the theater while his appeal is processed.
In filing for the eviction, the theater owners cited violation of the terms of the lease, which they signed with a Dieudonne-0wned firm, Bonnie Productions. But the owners showed that the theater was being used by Productions de la Plume, which is operated by Noemie Montagne — another firm owned by Dieudonne. The violation, they argued, owes to a clause in the lease contract that forbids subletting.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Abbas at UN: Palestinians no longer bound by accords with Israel
(JTA) — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said the Palestinians are no longer bound by agreements with Israel, although he did not outline any plans to abrogate them.
“We declare that as long as Israel refuses to commit to the agreements signed with us, which renders us an authority without real powers, and as long as Israel refuses to cease settlement activities and to release the fourth group of Palestinian prisoners in accordance with our agreements, they leave us no choice but to insist that we will not remain the only ones committed to the implementation of those agreements,” Abbas said Wednesday in an address to the opening of the annual U.N. General Assembly.
“We therefore declare that we cannot continue to be bound by these agreements and that Israel must assume all of its responsibilities as an occupying power.”
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From The Times of Israel
Russian lawmakers okay airstrikes, troops in Syria
Kremlin chief of staff insists move won’t entail deploying ground forces, but will dispatch planes to support Assad against IS
September 30, 2015, 12:13 pm
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian lawmakers voted unanimously Wednesday to let President Vladimir Putin send Russian troops to Syria. The Kremlin sought to play down the decision, saying it will only use its air force there, not ground troops.
Putin had to request parliamentary approval for any use of Russian troops abroad, according to the constitution. The last time he did so was before Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in March 2014.
The Federation Council, the upper chamber of the Russian parliament, discussed Putin’s request for the authorization behind closed doors Wednesday, cutting off its live web broadcast to hold a debate notable for its quickness.
Sergei Ivanov, chief of Putin’s administration, said in televised remarks after the discussion that the parliament voted unanimously to give the green light to Putin’s plea. The proposal does not need to go to another legislative body.
Ivanov insisted that Moscow is not going to send ground troops to Syria but will only use its air force “in order to support the government Syrian forces in their fight against the Islamic State” group.
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From The Times of Israel
Suicide rate seen on rise as Gazans grow desperate
Homelessness and Hamas harassment are causing an increase in suicide attempts in the Palestinian enclave
September 30, 2015, 12:00 pm
GAZA CITY (AFP) — Muammar Quider was set to marry, but he reached his breaking point as he dealt with the unique pressures of life in the Gaza Strip. The 21-year-old Palestinian recently tried to kill himself by swallowing rat poison.
“All doors were closed for me,” he said after having survived and been treated, explaining that police had repeatedly arrested him and shut down his fruit stand, depriving him of an income.
Signs have emerged of an increase in suicides and suicide attempts in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian enclave run with an iron fist by Islamist movement Hamas and devastated by three wars with Israel since 2008.
It is impossible to obtain official figures on the subject, which remains taboo in a territory where traditional and religious values dominate. Police insist that it has not become widespread.
But a source within the security services told AFP on condition of anonymity that the numbers were “frightening,” saying there were cases on a “near-daily” basis.
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From The Times of Israel
Saudis push military option to oust Assad
Saudi foreign minister questions political settlement, says West has not done enough to support rebels
September 30, 2015, 8:22 am
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister said Tuesday there is a military option in Syria that will end with the removal of President Bashar Assad if the preferred political option does not lead to his departure.
Adel Al-Jubeir told a small group of journalists the military option could be lengthier and more destructive, but the choice is entirely up to Assad and whether he accepts the political roadmap agreed to by key nations in 2012. That deal would have him hand power to a transitional government.
The Saudi minister would not say what Western and Arab opponents of Assad’s regime may or may not do to counter the new military buildup in Syria by Russia, Assad’s closest ally along with Iran. “We’re not talking about” it, he said.
But Al-Jubeir said the Free Syrian Army and moderate opposition forces are fighting against Assad and receiving support from a number of countries and that “will be intensified.”
His comments appeared to mark a striking divergence from the position of the United States and its Western allies that there is no military solution to the conflict — that it must be solved politically.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
UK Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn heckled at pro-Israel event
(JTA) — Jeremy Corbyn, the newly elected leader of Britain’s Labor Party who has been accused of being anti-Israel, was heckled at a pro-Israel event.
Corbyn spoke Tuesday night at a reception of the Labor Friends of Israel organization held at the party conference in Brighton.
During his 10-minute speech he did not mention Israel, the London-based Jewish Chronicle reported, though he did refer to Palestine and the Middle East.
Following his speech, a heckler shouted “say the word Israel, say the word Israel.” Security forcibly removed the heckler from the room.
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From The Times of Israel
Don’t get cozy with ‘problem’ Iran, Netanyahu to warn UN
Since nuke deal, world now wrongly believes that Tehran can be a part of solution in Syria, PM says; confirms visual aid in plans for address
September 30, 2015, 7:29 am
NEW YORK — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intends to use his upcoming speech at the United Nations to tell the world that Iran remains the root cause for the unrest in the Middle East, he told reporters Tuesday.
After the nuclear accord with Iran, the international community appears to have accepted the notion that Tehran, ostensibly barred from reaching nuclear weapons capability for a decade, no longer poses a grave danger to Israel and the Middle East at large — but in fact the opposite is the case, he said.
The international community now views the Iranian nuclear threat as eliminated since the deal stipulates Tehran’s uranium enrichment remain under the “red line,” he said, referencing a cartoon bomb prop during his speech at the UN General Assembly in 2012.
In his address to the same body this Thursday, he intends to present the various problematic aspects — “in word and deed” — of Iran’s current behavior, he vowed.
Iran’s “enormous onslaught” in the Middle East, which will be the main focus of his speech, is not just an Israeli concern but worries other countries in the region, which serves “as a basis for cooperation,” the prime minister said.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Spain begins review of Sephardic Jews’ citizenship applications
(JTA) — Officials in Spain will begin reviewing citizenship applications by some 4,500 individuals who identified themselves as descendants of Sephardic Jews, the country’s Jewish communities said.
The review is set to begin Friday following the parliament’s adoption earlier this year of a law granting citizenship to the descendants, as well as a related amendment, the Federation of Jewish Communities of Spain, or FCJE, said in a statement it sent out Wednesday.
A decree on the law scheduled to be published next week does not require applicants to renounce other nationalities, FCJE said.
Under the law approved in June, applicants need not travel to Spain, as proposed in previous amendments that did not pass, but must hire a Spanish notary and pass tests on the Spanish language and history, the Spanish daily El Pais reported.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Abe Foxman takes position at Israeli think tank
Foxman will be a distinguished nonresident fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, the organization announced in a news release sent Wednesday.
He will work on “issues of combating anti-Semitism and assaults on the state of Israel,” according to the release. Foxman will perform research on Israeli-American relations, as well as the ties between Israeli and Diaspora Jews.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
4 Jews win MacArthur ‘genius’ grants
(JTA) — Four American Jews have been named John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellows.
Princeton University historian Marina Rustow, novelist Ben Lerner, health care entrepreneur Gary Cohen and New York-based visual artist Nicole Eisenman each received the so-called “genius grants” of $625,000 on Tuesday.
Rustow, 46, researches Jewish life in the Medieval Middle East. Her 2008 book “Heresy and the Politics of Community: The Jews of the Fatimid Caliphate” upturned notions of how Jews lived under the Islamic Fatimid Caliphate, suggesting a higher level of tolerance and cooperation than had been assumed.
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From The Times of Israel
Russian envoy sorry he blamed Poles for starting World War II
Sergey Andreev says he had no intention of offending Polish nation; ‘I regret that I wasn’t sufficiently precise’
September 28, 2015, 4:23 pm
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Russia’s ambassador to Poland has partly backtracked from an accusation that Poland bears some blame for starting World War II because of its policies in the 1930s, words that outraged Poles.
Sergey Andreev said Monday he had no intention of offending the Polish nation and added: “I regret that I wasn’t sufficiently precise.”
He spoke to reporters after being summoned to the Foreign Ministry following comments in a TV interview Friday that sparked the uproar.
World War II began after Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sealed a secret pact in 1939 to divide up Poland and other parts of Eastern Europe. Millions of Polish citizens died in the conflict.
Andreev on Friday described Soviet actions under dictator Josef Stalin as an act of self-defense, not aggression.
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