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From The Daily Mail
Revealed: How a third of the 3million EU migrants living in Britain have arrived since David Cameron became Prime Minister
- EXCLUSIVE: 981,000 of the EU nationals in the UK have arrived since 2010
- Figure is 33% of the 2.9million people from across Europe settled in Britain
- Cameron under pressure limit the number of people coming from the EU
- Calls for renegotiation with Brussels to include controlling UK’s borders
- 58% of voters want tighter controls on free movement across the EU
By Matt Chorley, Political Editor for MailOnline
Published: 08:27 EST, 11 October 2015
One in three European migrants in the UK has arrived since David Cameron became Prime Minister, it can be revealed.
Of the 3million EU nationals living here in 2014, almost a million entered the country after 2010, including 240,000 last year alone.
The revelation will heap pressure on the Prime Minister to take control of our borders as part of his renegotiation of Britain’s membership of the EU.
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Of the 3million EU nationals living here, 33 per cent entered the country between 2010 and 2014, higher than any point in history
Official figures show that 240,000 people from the EU settled here in 2014, well above the 198,000 who first arrived in 2013
Immigration tops the list of voters’ concerns in recent polls, fuelled by the tens of thousands of people reaching Europe from across north Africa and the Middle East.
One recent poll shows six in 10 people want limits put on freedom of movement of people across the continent.
Mr Cameron wants to curb migrants’ access to benefits as part of his efforts to claw back powers from Brussels, before holding an in-out referendum by the end of 2017.
But his pledge to cut net migration to the tens of thousands has been left in tatters after the number soared to more than 330,000 – much of it from within the EU.
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From PressTV
Syrian army posts hit in Golan Heights: Israeli military
The Israeli military says it has launched a number of artillery attacks against Syrian army posts in the Golan Heights, claiming that they were in response to rocket fire from Syria on the Israeli-occupied sector of the heights.
The Israeli army said in a statement on Tuesday that its “artillery targeted two military posts of the Syrian Armed Forces in the central Syrian Golan Heights in response to the rocket fire.”
There were no immediate comments from the Syrian government on the issue.
On September 26, Israel launched at least three airstrikes against positions of the Syrian army on the Golan Heights.
According to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the strikes hit a town in Syria’s southwestern province of Quneitra on the Syrian side of the plateau, near the border with the Israeli-occupied part of the strategic region.
From Russia Today
Al-Qaeda’s Syria branch urges more attacks on President Assad’s Alawite positions – report
Published time: 13 Oct, 2015 02:44
© Ammar Abdullah / Reuters
As Syrian forces aided by Russian air power continue to advance on terrorist fighters across Syria, the Al-Nusra Front has called on insurgents to “escalate the battle” and hit strongholds of the Alawite sect to which President Bashar Assad belongs.
In an audio message, the head of the Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Nusra Front, Abu Mohamad al-Golani, urged “all fractions” to attack the Alawites, the Shi’ite group of Syrian President Bashar Assad in retaliation for the Syrian army’s successes in battling the Muslim Sunni insurgents.
“There is no choice but to escalate the battleand to target Alawite towns and villages in Latakia and I call on all factions to … daily hit their villages with hundreds of missiles as they do to Sunni cities and villages,” Golani said in a message posted on Youtube, according to Reuters.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Gulf states looking to buy Israel’s Iron Dome system for protection against Iran
October 13, 2015 5:17pm
(JTA) — Bahrain and several other Gulf states are in negotiations to buy the Israeli-developed Iron Dome defense system for protection from “a growing arsenal of Iranian missiles.”
Bahrain’s foreign minister, Khalid bin Mohammed, told Sky News that the members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Qatar and Kuwait, are interested in purchasing the Israeli weapon for the entire council.
“The Israelis have their small Iron Dome. We’ll have a much bigger one in the GCC,” Mohammed said.
The Iron Dome system has intercepted approximately 85 percent of missiles fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip since it became operational in 2011, according to the Times of Israel. It was produced through American contractors and the Israeli arms firm Rafael.
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From PressTV
PLO to send new petitions to ICC on Israel crimes
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Secretary General Saeb Erekat says new petitions will be sent to the International Criminal Court (ICC) against the Israeli regime for the crimes against Palestinians.
The senior Palestinian official on Tuesday slammed Israel for extrajudicial killing of Palestinians, as well as committing field executions and collective punishment against them.
He also called on the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary and Arbitrary Executions Christof Heyns to visit the occupied Palestinian territories and launch an immediate probe into field executions carried out by Israeli forces and settlers.
“The Israeli trend of dealing with Palestinians is field executions, then unjust trials that are interpreted in one sentence: good work! Whoever kills a Palestinian in cold blood then it is a good work,” Erekat said.
Palestinians carry a wounded student from al-Khalil (Hebron) University during clashes with Israeli forces on October 13, 2015. (AFP photo)
The remarks come amid recent deadly tensions between the Tel Aviv regime and Palestinians that have been triggered by Israel’s imposition of sweeping restrictions on entries into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East al-Quds (Jerusalem) on August 26 and Israeli settlers’ repeated attacks on the mosque.
From PressTV
Israel forces kill even more Palestinians on ‘Day of Rage’
Israeli forces have shot and killed more Palestinians in the occupied territories as tensions between the two sides reach a climax on the “Day of Rage” declared by Palestinian groups.
The Israeli troops gunned downed a Palestinian during clashes at the entrance of the city of Bethlehem in central occupied West Bank on Tuesday.
The forces also killed two Palestinians following a shooting attack on a bus in Armon Hanetziv area in the occupied East al-Quds (Jerusalem).
Earlier in the day, a Palestinian man was shot dead after he allegedly killed an Israeli in a run-over attack in al-Quds.
Reports said several retaliatory attacks were carried out by the Palestinians in Tel Aviv and al-Quds. Protesters in Qalandiya checkpoint near the city of Ramallah set tires on fire and clashed with Israeli forces.
From Russia Today
Iran Parliament passes bill approving nuclear deal
Published time: 13 Oct, 2015 05:50
© Behrouz Mehri / AFP
The Iranian parliament has voted in favor of the nuclear deal with world powers, yet preconditioned that international inspectors will only have limited access to Tehran’s military facilities, reports IRNA news agency.
“The bill to implement the JCPOA … was passed in a public session on Tuesday with 161 votes in favor,” Reuters cited IRNA as saying, which referred to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action reached in July.
The parliament has also agreed on counter-measures in case the deal is not approved by other parties.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
In Putin’s policing of Middle East, some see a boon for Israel
By Cnaan LiphshizOctober 12, 2015 5:26pm(JTA) — As a defiant Russia again flexes military muscles in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, Cold War analogies are, perhaps, unavoidable.
The deployment last month of Russian warplanes in Syria laid bare Moscow’s readiness to use force to punish leaders who would challenge its authority — as in Ukraine, from which it annexed Crimea in March 2014 — and to defend its strategic allies, like Syria’s embattled president, Bashar Assad.
During the Cold War, Kremlin intervention generally meant bad news for Jews, who were second-class citizens, of sorts, in the Soviet Union — and for Israel, which the USSR regarded as an extension of its American rival. But observers of Russia’s current bid for greater influence in the Middle East say it may be a boon for Israel, which has strived in recent years to stay on the good side of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“The main risk for Israel is not Assad but chaos” amid Syria’s bloody civil war of the past four-plus years, Ksenia Svetlova, a Moscow-born Israeli Labor party lawmaker, told JTA. “If the Russian deployment prevents it, then it can be a positive development.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Amid GOP disarray, Jews in DC search memories and Rolodexes
By Ron KampeasOctober 13, 2015 6:01pm
WASHINGTON (JTA) – “Do I know this person?” has been a common refrain in the Washington offices of national Jewish organizations since Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, resigned as House speaker last month and his chosen successor, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., the majority leader, flamed out last week.
Every day sees a new Republican contender named in the media. Some, like Rep. Pete Roskam of Illinois, are well known to Jewish officials. Others, like Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, have community professionals flipping through their virtual Rolodoxes trying to pinpoint the last time they had a meaningful chat.
“The community has a history of building relationships, and we’ll reach out and build relationships where they do not exist, not just in D.C. but in field offices,” said Richard Foltin, the American Jewish Committee’s national and legislative affairs director. “To the extent that I have concerns, it’s having voices who oppose compromise and who are not comfortable with the notion that governing is about reaching accommodation both within the party and the other side.”
READ: At Jewish Republican confab, Sheldon Adelson looms large
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From The Times of Israel
Arab League, Turkey slam Israel for latest violence
Criticism comes hours after 3 Israelis killed in a series of terror attacks in Jerusalem and Ra’anana
By Raoul Wootliff October 13, 2015, 6:11 pm 
Arab League Secretary-General Nabil Elaraby speaking in the Sudanese capital Khartoum on October 10, 2015. (Photo AFP Photo / Ashraf Shazly)
Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby on Tuesday called on the international community to provide “protection” to the Palestinians in their struggle against Israeli “terrorism” directed at them.
Elaraby was speaking at an emergency meeting of the Arab League in Cairo, convened to discuss “Israeli attacks in Jerusalem and the desecration of the al-Aqsa Mosque,” the Ynet news site reported. Three Israelis were killed in a series of terror attacks by Palestinian assailants Tuesday.
“Israel continues implementing plans to change the status of the Noble Sanctuary [the Muslim term for the Temple Mount] through an unprecedented and fierce attack resulting in dozens of martyrs; it is flagrant challenge to international laws and norms and the will of the international community,” Elaraby said.
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From The Times of Israel
Dennis Ross book exposes bitter divides in Obama administration on Israel
Insider’s account, published on day of Democratic presidential debate, details internal rifts over UN vetoes, settlements, shows Clinton sidelined, Rice a naysayer
By Rebecca Shimoni Stoil October 13, 2015, 4:26 pm 
Veteran US diplomat and former Obama adviser Dennis Ross (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)
WASHINGTON — With all the diplomatic foresight in the world, former US negotiator, adviser and ambassador Dennis Ross could hardly have found more relevant timing to release his latest book examining the long history of the US-Israel relationship, including an often personal account of the tumultuous relationship between Jerusalem and the Obama administration.
Ross’s book, “Doomed to Succeed: the US-Israel relationship from Truman to Obama,” portrays an administration largely divided between two camps – one that saw, even after the Arab Spring, a Middle East where stability depended on a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian rift, and one that believed that Israel’s interests and needs could be satisfied through negotiations but saw no regional domino effect triggered by the success or failure of those efforts succeeded. These same camps could also be divided among those who believed that “cooperation and collaboration – and drawing the Israelis close to us – would serve our interests and theirs, and make the Israelis more responsive” and those who saw a “largely competitive relationship that was basically a one-way street. Sharing with the Israelis offered little and cost much.”
Susan Rice, first as ambassador to the United Nations and much more critically, as national security adviser, is portrayed over and over as a naysayer if not entirely a spoiler of efforts by Ross – usually backed up by some combination of then-secretary of state Hillary Clinton, first-term national security adviser Tom Donilon, and Vice President Joe Biden – to find accommodations on any number of crisis points that would satisfy Israeli concerns.
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From The Times of Israel
Dennis Ross: Netanyahu agreed to West Bank pullout in 2010
In new book, former US peace envoy says US-Israel ties at lowest since 1982; cites Iran nuke dispute and anti-Arab comments by PM
By Times of Israel staff October 10, 2015, 12:36 am
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in 2010 that Israel could pull out of most of the West Bank if the Jewish state’s security requirements were answered, according to a new book by former US peace envoy to the Middle East, Dennis Ross.
Quoting Ross’ upcoming book, titled “Doomed to Succeed: the US-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama,” Reuters reported that Netanyahu made the comments when asked by then-secretary of state Hillary Clinton what he could do to move the peace process with the Palestinians along.
“He did not want to give percentages, but he understood what the Palestinians wanted, and if the Israeli security needs were accepted by us and met, he could be generally responsive,” Reuters quoted Ross as saying in the book.
