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From The Times of Israel
Jeb Bush visits Auschwitz on European tour
Trip meant to boost Bush’s foreign policy credentials ahead of expected launch of 2016 presidential campaign
Jeb Bush made an unannounced visit to Auschwitz during a European tour.
The former Florida governor, who is visiting Germany, Poland and Estonia ahead of his expected formal announcement next week of his run for the Republican presidential nomination, visited the former Nazi concentration camp on Wednesday, Bloomberg News reported.
Bush, who toured the site with his wife, Columba, did not announce the visit so reporters would not accompany them, “out of respect for the site and those affected,” Bloomberg reported.
Bush’s European trip comes at a key time. He will return Sunday to the US, a day before kicking off his campaign with an event in Miami, fresh from a journey he hopes will show he’s ready to step onto the world stage.
“A Republican doing a listening tour of American allies, that makes sense,” said William Inboden, who served as senior director for strategic planning with the National Security Council under President George W. Bush. “But you’re also wanting to demonstrate the ability to be proficient in personal diplomacy.”
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From The Times of Israel
In eastern Europe, Bush seeks to channel father’s legacy
Expected presidential candidate recalls patriarch’s role in shaping Germany, Soviet Union, but avoids mention of brother
ALLINN, Estonia — Jeb Bush strolled the halls of the Polish parliament, praised Germany’s economic boom since the fall of the Berlin Wall and visited Estonia, a once-bleak Soviet state that now has a growing, free-market high-tech economy.
If the goal was to stoke memories of his presidential father and avoid those of his presidential brother, it seems to have largely succeeded.
“If you think about, in terms of history, my dad’s managing — in cooperation with great leaders of his time … the fall of the Soviet Union. It’s been talked about at every stop we’ve made,” Jeb Bush said Friday.
The former Florida governor, who’s set to enter the 2016 presidential race Monday, never mentioned his brother.
In the US, Jeb Bush routinely expresses his love and respect for his brother, former President George W. Bush, who left office largely unpopular with many Europeans, mostly due to his decision in 2003 to invade Iraq.
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From PressTV
Israeli soldiers beat, injure Palestinian in West Bank: Video
Israeli military forces have severely beaten and injured a Palestinian man before taking him into custody in the occupied West Bank.
Israeli military vehicles rolled into the Palestinian Jalazoun refugee camp, located 7 kilometers (4.3 miles) north of Ramallah, and attacked a protest in the area on Friday.
The soldiers stopped several Palestinian cars and used them as shields while firing at the Palestinian protesters. Israeli troopers also fired rubber-coated metal bullets at several cars.
Israeli forces then fired tear gas canisters to disperse the crowd.
Shadi al-Ghabbashy, one of the protesters, tried to stop the soldiers after members of his family suffered from excessive tear gas inhalation.
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From PressTV
Israeli forces kill Palestinian near Ramallah
A Palestinian man has been shot dead by Israeli forces in a village northeast of the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Abdullah Ghanayem, 21, was killed in Kufor Malek Village in the early hours of Sunday.
According to local Palestinian sources, an Israeli military vehicle also turned over in the course of the clashes with the Palestinians in the village and landed on the dead body of Ghanayem.
The Israeli military had reportedly stormed the village to detain a number of Palestinians.
The Israeli military regularly raids Palestinian homes in the West Bank and makes arrests. The detainees are then transferred to Israeli prisons, where they are interrogated for weeks without being charged.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Israeli report says Gaza operation ‘justified under international law’
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel was “justified under international law” for launching its operation in Gaza last summer, according to a report issued by Israel.
The 277-page report released Sunday said the escalation of attacks on Israel by Hamas and other terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip justified its broader military operation. Several government bodies have been working to prepare the report since the end of the 50-day operation known as Protective Edge.
Israel has refused to cooperate with United Nations Commission of Inquiry on the conflict, which is expected to release its findings this week, arguing that its charge made it automatically biased against Israel and that its head, William Schabas, came in biased against Israel. Schabas quit in February; the investigation was concluded by a former New York judge, Mary McGowan Davis.
The Israeli report presents the background to the operation, including the escalation of cross-border attacks by Gaza terror groups. It also examines Israel’s efforts at self-defense, steps taken to minimize civilian Palestinian casualties and Israel’s ongoing investigation since the end of the conflict into violations of the laws of war by its soldiers.
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From PressTV
Israel approves bill to force-feed Palestinian hunger strikers
The Israeli cabinet has approved a proposed law authorizing the force-feeding of Palestinians who are on hunger strike in Israel’s jails.
The bill, promulgated under the title “Prevention of Damage by Hunger Strikers,” was adopted by the Israeli cabinet on Sunday. It has yet to be endorsed by the Israel parliament (Knesset) before being signed into law.
Proposed by Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan, the legislation says Palestinian prisoners will be fed forcibly if their life is in danger. The bill also states that a doctor can apply the force-feeding measure upon the approval of a district court judge.
The Israeli cabinet first sought in vain in June 2014 to adopt a similar bill.
The World Medical Association as well as the Israel Medical Association (IMA) have condemned the proposed law.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
U. of Illinois censured for canceling prof’s job over anti-Semitic tweets
(JTA) — A national professors’ organization voted to censure the University of Illinois for rescinding a job offer to a professor over his anti-Semitic tweets.
The vote by the American Association of University Professors took place on Saturday at its annual meeting in Washington, D.C. In April, the association released a report that found the university violated the principles of academic freedom and tenure in the case of Steven Salaita.
Also in Saturday’s voting, Yeshiva University in New York was removed from the association’s censure list.
The condemnation, a relatively rare move by the professors’ group, can damage a university’s reputation in the academic world, according to The Associated Press. There are 56 institutions of higher learning on the association’s censure list.
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From Russia Today
Poland, Lithuania discussing plans with Washington to harbor US army equipment
Warsaw and Vilnius are in talks with Washington about the permanent stationing of US army equipment warehouses, officials from the two countries said. Heavy weapons may be stored in the Baltic States, Romania, Bulgaria and possibly Hungary.
The Polish Defense Ministry tweeted that during his recent visit to Washington Defense Minister Tomasz Siemoniak was given assurances that a final decision on stationing the warehouses would be taken shortly.
Citing US and allied officials, the New York Times reported on Saturday that heavy equipment would be stored in each of the three Baltic nations: Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, plus some Eastern European countries – Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and possibly Hungary.
The Pentagon’s far-reaching proposal requires approval from Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter and the White House. Should the move be given the go-ahead, it would be the first deployment of military hardware in Europe since the end of the Cold War 25 years ago. The plan falls short of a permanent boots-on-the-ground presence.
READ MORE: US considers storing heavy weapons in Baltic and Eastern Europe – report
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From The Times of Israel
Strauss-Kahn set to avoid conviction in French pimping trial
Prosecutor urges acquittal of Jewish ex-IMF chief; lurid details of orgies and prostitution outlined in court
Ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn looked set to avoid conviction Friday in the latest legal snare over his sexual escapades when a French judge rules on pimping charges against him.
Even the prosecutor felt the case against the 66-year-old economist had unraveled, calling for him to be acquitted after a colorful three-week trial which exposed lurid details of champagne-fueled orgies and prostitution.
An acquittal would draw the line under a series of sexual scandals that have dogged Strauss-Kahn and dragged the most intimate details of his bedroom proclivities into the public eye.
The silver-haired economist saw his high-flying career at the head of the International Monetary Fund — and his French presidential prospects — implode when a New York hotel maid accused him of sexual assault in 2011.
Not long after those criminal charges were dropped and the case settled in a civil suit, his name cropped up in a probe into a prostitution ring in northern France, which provided sex workers for orgies he attended.
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