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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
9 suspected Jewish extremists arrested after second arson death
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Nine suspected Jewish extremists in two West Bank outposts were arrested a day after the death of a Palestinian man whose home was firebombed more than a week ago.
Saad Dawabsheh, 31, died Saturday morning from injuries sustained in the July 31 firebombing in the Palestinian West Bank village of Duma. His 18-month-old infant son, Ali, was killed in the attack. His wife, Reham, 27, remains on a respirator in critical condition. Their son Ahmed, 4, was disconnected recently from a respirator and recognized the people around him, according to reports.
Hundreds attended Dawabsheh’s funeral on Saturday morning. Following the funeral, Palestinian demonstrators and Israeli soldiers clashed near the village. Palestinian demonstrators burned tires on the road near the village and threw rocks at the soldiers, who did not respond, according to reports.
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From PressTV
Israeli settlers set ablaze Palestinian land in West Bank
Israeli settlers have conducted yet another arson attack against Palestinian property by setting ablaze hundreds of acres of open land in the occupied West Bank, officials say.
Local sources and senior Palestinian officials confirmed on Sunday that the arson attack was carried out near the village of Burin, located south of Nablus.
There has been no word on possible casualties.
The latest arson attack comes amid boiling anger among Palestinians over the death of two members of a family in a similar attack by settlers on July 31. The 18-month-old toddler of the Dawabsheh family, identified as Ali, burned to death after extremist settlers firebombed the house in the village of Duma near Nablus.
His father, Sa’ad, succumbed to his burns on Saturday.
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From PressTV
Israeli military says killed Palestinian in West Bank
The Israeli military says it has killed a Palestinian after an Israeli was slightly injured in an alleged stabbing attack near the West Bank city of Ramallah.
An Israeli army spokeswoman said on Sunday evening that the Tel Aviv regime forces opened fire on “a group of Palestinian assailants” who allegedly attacked and injured a 26-year-old Israeli in the shoulder at a petrol station on Route 443, west of Ramallah, Maan News Agency reported.
The spokeswomen said she had no immediate information on whether warning shots were fired, but added that Israeli forces opened fire “to prevent the suspect from escaping.”
The Palestinian victim, from the nearby village of Khirbet al-Misbah, died of his leg wounds shortly after the attack. The Israeli soldier was then transferred to a hospital for treatment.
The incident happened as tensions in the occupied West Bank mounted after the deadly firebombing of a Palestinian home by some Israeli illegal settlers in late July.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Dutch chief rabbi: Netherlands should apologize officially for Holocaust-era complicity
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — The Dutch chief rabbi called on the prime minister of the Netherlands to apologize officially for the kingdom’s collaboration with Nazi Germany in the murder of Jews during the Holocaust.
Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs said in an interview with JTA last week that following expressions of regret by some army and police units and other institutions, “it is time that the Dutch head of state offer a comprehensive apology.” Holland’s neighbors have all offered such apologies.
The debate over an official apology has polarized the Netherlands.
Some 75 percent of the 140,000 Jews who lived in the Netherlands before the Holocaust were murdered by German Nazis and their local collaborators — the highest death rate in all of Nazi-occupied Western Europe.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Obama: Netanyahu interference in debate on Iran unprecedented
(JTA) — President Barack Obama said he does not remember a time when a foreign leader interfered in a U.S. foreign policy debate the way Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has over the Iran nuclear deal.
“On the substance, the prime minister is wrong on this,” Obama told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria in an interview conducted Thursday but aired Sunday. “I think that I can show that the basic assumptions that he’s made are incorrect.
“If in fact my argument is right, that this is the best way for Iran not to get a nuclear weapon, then that’s not just good for the United States. That is very good for Israel,” he said.
Obama said that if Israel were attacked by Iran, “We would do everything we needed to do to ensure Israel is protected. I’ve acted on the basic notion that our commitment to Israel’s security is sacrosanct.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Reform rabbis join NAACP march from Selma to Washington
(JTA) — More than 150 Reform Jewish rabbis are marching with the NAACP from the Deep South to the U.S. capital to promote social justice.
The Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism and the Central Conference of American Rabbis are participating in the NAACP’s Journey for Justice, an 860-mile march from Selma, Alabama, to Washington, D.C.
The march, which started Aug. 1 and ends Sept. 15, commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act. Organizers from the NAACP, the nation’s oldest civil rights organization, said they aim to bring attention to issues like economic inequality, education reform, criminal justice reform and voting rights in each of the five states they visit on the march.
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From PressTV
Israel on high alert after burnt Palestinian baby’s father dies
Israeli army forces are put on high alert after a recent arson attack by Israeli settlers left two Palestinians dead in the occupied West Bank.
On July 31, Israeli settlers set fire to the home of the Dawabsheh family in the village of Duma, near Nablus. The family’s 18-month-old toddler, Ali, died in the arson attack and his 32-year-old father, Sa’ad, succumbed to his wounds on Saturday.
The mother and a four-year-old son of the family, who were also severely burned in the attack, are in critical condition.
Tel Aviv authorities have since beefed up the presence of Israeli forces in the occupied territories to crack down on possible protests over the Israeli settlers’ atrocities.
Tensions are running high in the occupied territories after thousands of Palestinians took to the streets in Duma on Saturday to attend the funeral ceremony of Sa’ad Dawabsheh.
From PressTV
UN officials censure Israel for force-feeding law
UN officials have censured Israel for the approval of a law that authorizes force-feeding Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike, saying the measure amounts to violation of human rights.
In a letter sent to media outlets on Saturday, the UN officials in the occupied West Bank denounced the new Israeli law as “a cause for concern to those who work to protect the right to health of Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territory.”
The law was passed on July 30 by the Israeli parliament, Knesset.
Israeli officials have announced a decision to force-feed a Palestinian detainee who has been on hunger strike for nearly two months. Jamil al-Khatib, the lawyer of Mohammed Allaan, said on Saturday that Israeli officials are seeking a court order to force-feed the prisoner, who has been held without charge since November 2014.
The UN Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Robert Piper, James Turpin of the Office of the High Commission for Human Rights, and Gerald Rockenschaub of the World Health Organization were among those who signed the letter.
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From The Times of Israel
Bennett backs death penalty for Jewish terrorists
Education minister also stands by use of detention without trial, albeit ‘with great caution,’ for terror suspects
Education Minister Naftali Bennett said Sunday that he supports equal punishment for Jewish and Arab terrorists, including house demolitions and the death penalty.
Bennett, who leads the right-wing Jewish Home party, answered in the affirmative when asked by the radio station Galey Israel whether Jewish terrorists should receive the death penalty.
“If there will be a trend… and again, there still needs to be an asterisk because I haven’t yet seen the evidence, but on the assumption that we will see a trend, then we need to employ equivalent tools [for punishing Jewish and Arab terrorists],” he added.
His comments came in the wake of two hate attacks in late July that saw 16-year-old Shira Banki stabbed to death at the Jerusalem Gay Price Parade by an ultra-Orthodox man, and Palestinian toddler Ali Saad Dawabsha burned to death in Duma village in the West Bank when arsonists, thought to be Jewish terrorists, firebombed his family home. The toddler’s father, Saad Dawabsha, died of his wounds Saturday, and his mother and brother are still hospitalized in critical condition.
Bennett also said that he stands behind the policy of incarceration without trial — known as administrative detention — for Jewish terror suspects, which Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon approved last week.
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From The Times of Israel
Jon Stewart says goodbye to ‘Daily Show’ after 16-year run
Jewish comic hosts emotional, star-studded final show; Trevor Noah to take over next month
NEW YORK (AP) — Jon Stewart said goodbye to “The Daily Show” on Thursday, America’s foremost satirist of politicians and the media ushered out by Bruce Springsteen and a reunion of the many colleagues that he worked with during 16 years as host.
“Guess what? Stewart said. “I’ve got big news. This is it.”
Armed with a razor-sharp wit and research team adept at finding video evidence of hypocrisy or unintentional comedy among the nation’s establishment, Stewart turned a sleepy basic-cable entertainment show into a powerful cultural platform. But the 52-year-old comic announced last winter that he was getting restless and it was time to move on.
For his finale, he pretended to report on Thursday’s Republican presidential debate — which actually happened after the taping — but said he didn’t have enough remaining correspondents to talk about all the candidates. That proved to be the vehicle to bring in a long succession of personalities whose careers were jump-started by Stewart when they were on the show, like Aasif Mandvi, Lewis Black, Stephen Colbert, Steve Carell, Rob Corddry, Samantha Bee and Wyatt Cenac.
He’d been away from the show for more than a decade, but Carell said that “becoming an international superstar is just something I did while awaiting my next assignment.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Brazil omits Israel from passports of Jerusalem-born citizens
(JTA) — Brazilian passports of citizens who were born in Jerusalem will no longer name Israel as the country of birth.
The foreign ministry in Brasilia’s decision to omit Israel from such documents was taken last year, the Brazilian Embassy in Tel Aviv told the Folha de Sao Paulo daily, which published an article on the subject on Thursday — the first Brazilian media attention on the change in policy. Brazilian-Israelis had alerted the newspaper to the change.
An estimated 60 passport holders are affected out of approximately 15,000 Brazilian-Israelis, according to the daily.
The United States, Canada and France also omit Israel from passports for holders born in Jerusalem, stating only the city’s name.
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From The Times of Israel
Obama sees chance for improved US-Iran relations
Nuclear deal ‘better than any alternative,’ US president tells CNN, offers hope for ‘broader discussions about Syria, for example’
OAK BLUFFS, Massachusetts (AP) — President Barack Obama says a constructive relationship with Iran could be a byproduct of the deal to limit its nuclear program, but it won’t happen immediately. If at all.
Obama told CNN in an interview airing Sunday that Iran’s “nuclear problem” must be dealt with first. He said the agreement reached last month by the US and five other world powers to remove crippling economic sanctions on Iran in exchange for restrictions on its nuclear program achieves that goal “better than any alternative.”
Republican lawmakers largely disagree with the president’s assessment that the deal blocks Iran’s path to a nuclear weapon, as do some of Obama’s own Democrats.
Obama says resolving the Iranian nuclear issue makes it possible to open broader talks with Iran on other issues. He named Syria as an example.
“Is there the possibility that having begun conversations around this narrow issue that you start getting some broader discussions about Syria, for example, and the ability of all the parties involved to try to arrive at a political transition that keeps the country intact and does not further fuel the growth of ISIL and other terrorist organizations. I think that’s possible,” Obama said, referring to the Islamic State group by one of its acronyms. “But I don’t think it happens immediately.”
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From The Times of Israel
GOP candidates find common ground critiquing Iran deal
In first 2016 debate, Rand Paul says he doesn’t have any ‘animus’ toward Israel, Ted Cruz vows to relocate embassy to Jerusalem
WASHINGTON — After weeks of waiting, Americans finally had a chance Thursday evening to watch 10 of 17 Republican contenders for the 2016 presidency face off in the first of a series of debates hosted by Fox News. But if viewers expected any action on the foreign policy front, they found that there was little daylight between the candidates when it came to the Iran deal, ISIS or Israel.
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who had an understated presence during most of the debate, was the only speaker who laid out what he planned to do with the Iran nuclear agreement should he be elected in 2016.
“You terminate the deal on day one, you reinstate the sanctions put on with Congress, and you convince our allies to do the same,” Walker answered, when asked if he stood by his commitment to “tear up the deal” on his first day in office.
Libertarian-leaning candidate Senator Rand Paul faced a tougher time answering foreign policy questions, as he attempted to reconcile his positions with stances more popular with the GOP base.
“I opposed [the deal] and will vote against it,” Paul asserted. He argued that as “a Reagan conservative,” he does not oppose negotiations on principle, but said that he only “believes in negotiating from a position of strength.
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