From the Jewish Telegrapic Agency
Netanyahu: Protesting Arab-Israelis can go to P.A., Gaza
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Arab-Israelis demonstrating against Israel and calling for a Palestinian state are welcome to leave, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.
His comments Monday followed the stabbing that day of an Israeli soldier in Tel Aviv as well as days of rioting in the Arab-Israeli sector in the wake of the shooting death by police of an Arab-Israeli man who allegedly threatened them with a knife.
“To all those who are shouting against Israel and demonstrating against it, you are welcome to move to the Palestinian Authority or to Gaza, Israel won’t stand in the way,” Netanyahu said Monday at a Likud party faction meeting.
“The terrorism against us knows no borders. It is aimed at all parts of the country for a simple reason: The terrorists and those who incite to it want to get rid of us wherever we are. As far as they’re concerned, we don’t need to be in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem or anywhere else,” Netanyahu said, promising “they will not succeed.”
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From the Jewish Telegrapic Agency
Jewish man admits to beating British lawmaker George Galloway
(JTA) — A Jewish man admitted to beating British lawmaker George Galloway at a public event in London.
Neil Masterson, 39, acknowledged in Isleworth Crown Court on Friday the Aug. 29 assault that left Galloway with a broken rib and a broken jaw, requiring him to spend a night in the hospital.
Earlier that month, Galloway had called for his constituency to be “declared an Israel-free zone” in reaction to the Israel-Gaza conflict.
A charge against Masterson of religiously aggravated assault was dropped due to a lack of evidence. Masterson is a convert to Judaism, the London-based Jewish Chronicle reported.
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From PressTV
Israeli forces target fishermen off Gaza coast, injure three
The injured fishermen were, on Sunday night, rescued by another Palestinian boat and shifted to Abu Yousif al-Najjar Hospital in the city of Rafah, situated 30 kilometers (around 19 miles) south of Gaza City.
On October 22, Israeli naval forces took away several Palestinian fishermen after opening fire on them off the northern coast of the Gaza Strip.
Head of the Gaza Fishermen’s Syndicate, Nizar Ayash, said Israeli gunboats stopped a Palestinian fishing boat near the al-Sudaniya beach, arresting seven people.
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From Haaretz
GOP victory puts Iran nuclear deal on nerve-racking race to finish
Some Republicans are pushing for further sanctions, but there are signs in the Iranian business press that the November 24 deadline will be met.
New legislation sponsored by about 30 Iranian parliament members won’t get Iran into international animal welfare organizations. The MPs seek a fine of up to $3,700 — or 74 lashes — for anyone walking a dog on the street.
From the Jewish Telegrapic Agency
Jewish donors leaving Britain’s Labor Party over Miliband’s anti-Israel stance
(JTA) — Jewish donors and supporters are deserting Britain’s Labor party over party leader Ed Miliband’s anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian stance.
Miliband has been warned of the loss of Jewish support, the U.K. Independent reported Sunday.
Miliband, the son of Holocaust refugees, last month ordered all party lawmakers to vote in favor of a nonbinding motion to recognize the state of Palestine.
The party reportedly also is having problem raising funds for next year’s elections.
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From PressTV
Ansarullah fighters gain ground in southwest Yemen
Houthi movement’s Ansarullah fighters in Yemen have succeeded in taking control of a district in the southwestern province of Ibb from al-Qaeda-linked militants.
The Houthi fighters captured full control of the Hazm al-Udayn district on Monday after two weeks of intense fighting with the terrorists.
They also seized a training camp belonging to the militants in the area.
Meanwhile, reports said that a commander of an al-Qaeda-affiliated group in the region surrendered to Ansarullah fighters.
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From PressTV
Netanyahu warns West over nuclear deal with Iran
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned the West against striking a deal with Iran on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear energy program.
Netanyahu claimed on Monday that a hasty nuclear agreement between Iran and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council – Russia, China, France, Britain and the US — plus Germany would allow Tehran “to rush to the bomb”.
“There are reports that the P5+1 countries are close to a deal with Iran on Iran’s nuclear program,” Netanyahu said, adding, “I call on the P5+1 countries – don’t rush into a deal that would let Iran rush to the bomb.”
“Iran must not be allowed to become a nuclear threshold power,” Bibi said.
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From PressTV
UN appoints panel to probe Israel attacks on Gaza Strip
The United Nations has tasked a five-member panel with investigating Israeli attacks on UN shelters during Tel Aviv’s deadly summer war on the Gaza Strip.
The panel was appointed on Monday by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who has termed the three cases of Israel’s shelling of UN-run schools as a “moral outrage.”
The inquiry will “review and investigate a number of specific incidents in which death or injuries occurred at, and/or damage was done to United Nations premises,” said UN spokesman, Farhan Haq.
Israel has alleged that fighters with the Palestinian resistance movement of Hamas were using the schools to store weapons. Tel Aviv has denied that it had deliberately targeted the schools, which were being used as shelters by Palestinians during the 50-day-long war.
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From Haaretz
Netanyahu’s escalating rhetoric is a sign he’s losing it
The prime minister is helpless in the face of the terror wave, the riots in Jerusalem and the impending deal between Iran and the West. All that’s left for him to do is issue press statements.
From the Jewish Daily Forward
Abe Foxman Slams Sheldon Adelson for ‘Disturbing’ Remark on Israel Democracy
ADL Chief Says Jewish State Founders Got It Right
Foxman said the casino billionaire ignored Israel’s founders when he told a conference that God didn’t mandate democracy in Israel.
“Sheldon Adelson’s comment suggesting that it’s not so important that Israel remain a democracy is disturbing on many levels,” Foxman wrote in a statement to the Forward. “In fact, the founders of Israel got it exactly right when they emphasized the country being both a Jewish and democratic state. Any initiatives that move Israel away from either value would ill-serve the state and people of Israel.”
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From the Jewish Daily Forward
Bibi’s Cabinet Rattled as Key Livni Ally Quits
By J.J. Goldberg
The Netanyahu government’s most left-wing member, environmental defense minister Amir Peretz, quit the cabinet on Sunday and declared war on the prime minister, vowing to work for a new government committed to peace and economic justice. Peretz, a onetime Labor Party chairman and defense minister, is a member of Tzipi Livni’s Hatnuah party.
The move comes amid growing signs of internal weakness in Netanyahu’s coalition. Just a week earlier Netanyahu accepted the resignation of interior minister Gideon Saar, a popular Likud rising star who’s long been considered a possible successor to Netanyahu. He’s now expected to emerge as a rival.
And on Thursday Netanyahu came under an attack of unprecedented fury from a senior coalition ally, Jewish Home leader Naftali Bennett. In a speech at Bar-Ilan University Bennett declared that a “government that hides behind concrete barricades has no right to exist.”
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From the Jewish Daily Forward
Judge Posner’s Delightfully Jewy Legal Ruling
By Gabe Friedman
An Orthodox Jew wears a reggae costume as he buys a bottle of wine on Purim / Getty Images
Last Thursday, prominent judge and University of Chicago professor Richard Posner offered his decision on Lubavitch-Chabad v. Northwestern University. The case was brought against the university after it disaffiliated itself with its former Chabad organization. The Chabad house had repeatedly served alcohol to underage students after being warned not to do so by the university. Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein, the Chabad chapter’s head rabbi, sued Northwestern, claiming that it was discriminating against Chabad Jews.
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From the Jewish Telegrapic Agency
Biden: U.S. will ‘not sign a bad deal’ with Iran
OXON HILL, Md. (JTA) – With the Nov. 24 deadline for negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program looming, Vice President Joe Biden vowed that the United States “will not sign a bad deal.”
“Let me say to you clearly in Bidenesque way: We will not let Iran acquire a nuclear weapon – period,” he said in an address Monday to the annual conference of the Jewish Federations of North America. “I would not put my 42-year reputation on the line were I not certain when I say we mean it.”
The only sort of deal the United States would accept is one that puts “significant and verifiable constraints on Iran’s nuclear program,” Biden said at the General Assembly, which this year is being held near Washington.
The vice president also called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “really great friend.” Finding Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer, in the audience of some 2,500 in the conference ballroom, Biden said, “Ron, you’d better damn well report to Bibi that we’re still buddies. You got it, right?”
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From the Jewish Telegrapic Agency
Nicki Minaj’s Nazi-esque video
(The music video discussed in the article below was made by Zio-music industry certified Kosher rappers. The lyrics of the song are exceedingly base and obscene, yet the critic has no problem with this undermining of black morality. Rather, she is only disturbed by “Nazi imagery.” -Patrick Slattery)
The Holocaust is a sensitive subject. Some people, however — like rapper and songwriter Nicki Minaj — still don’t seem to get it.
Minaj’s new music video for her song “Only” is coming under fire for seemingly glorifying Nazism and appropriating Nazi imagery. In it, the New York-raised star is re-imagined as a powerful Hitler-like dictator, marching through scores of deferential soldiers outfitted in black uniforms and red armbands. It’s shot mostly in black and white, evoking the style of Nazi propaganda films, and the only color comes from red banners with a black “YM” insignia (representing Minaj’s label, Young Money) imposed over a white circle. Similarities to banners bearing swastikas are not in the least bit subtle.
The video has already sparked enormous backlash, ranging from fans on Twitter to the Anti-Defamation League, which is “deeply disturbed.”
“Nicki Minaj’s new video disturbingly evokes Third Reich propaganda and constitutes a new low for pop culture’s exploitation of Nazi symbolism,” the ADL wrote in a news release.
