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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
European rabbis distribute aid to Syrian, Iraqi refugees in Greece
(JTA) — European rabbis who gathered in Greece for a conference brought with them blankets and other goods to hand out to refugees from Syria and Iraq.
“As winter is coming to Europe, we collected thermal blankets and other clothing items for the refugees, who keep streaming into Greece at a rate of thousands of people each day,” Pinchas Goldschmidt, the chief rabbi of Moscow and president of the Conference of European Rabbis, told JTA in a phone call from Greece.
Goldschmidt and 60 other rabbis from across Europe gathered in Athens this week for the organization’s Standing Committee meeting. The rabbis are scheduled to distribute the blankets on Wednesday at a camp that Greek authorities set up for the migrants outside the Greek capital, Goldschmidt said.
European Jewish organizations in the Netherlands, Belgium and beyond called for generous treatment of the refugees, but also urged local and European Union authorities to remain vigilant about potential risks to Jews connected with the arrival of approximately one million Muslims from the Middle East this year.
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From Russia Today
Slovenia starts erecting razor fence along Croatian border amid migrant crisis
Published time: 11 Nov, 2015 15:48
A view from Croatian village Vukovo Selo shows army trucks and soldiers at Slovenian village Veliki Obrez November 11, 2015. © Antonio Bronic / Reuters
Slovenian authorities have started building a razor wire fence on the border with Croatia to control the huge flow of asylum seekers from Africa and the Middle East. TrendsEU refugee & migrant influx
Army trucks transporting the wire have been seen in the village of Veliki Obrez in southeastern Slovenia. According to a Reuters photographer at the scene, about two kilometers of wire had been erected by 1130 GMT. AP reported that soldiers were stretching the wire along the Sutla River, which flows through Slovenia and Croatia and mainly forms their border.
Slovenian soldiers have also built a fence on an open field not far from the frontier village of Gibina in eastern Slovenia, a Reuters cameraman said.
The plan to build the fence was announced on Tuesday by Prime Minister Miro Cerar who said that Slovenia wants to “ensure a controlled and secure flow of migrants and prevent a humanitarian catastrophe.”
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From The Times of Israel
Israel reportedly strikes airport in Damascus
Air force jets said to have hit targets in Syrian capital, possibly weapons convoy
Ya’alon says labeling products is ‘prize for terrorism’
Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon says the EU decision to label products made outside the Green Line and in the Golan Heights is “a shameful step, giving a prize to terrorism and the people behind it.”
“Even if this or that European has a dispute with the State of Israel regarding the status of the territory and its future, the decision to label products is pure hypocrisy,” he adds.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Mexican president: Jews give their best for Mexico
(JTA) — Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto declared that the Jewish community gives its best for the development of Mexico.
Peña Neto was the keynote speaker at a dinner on Monday in Mexico City to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Belfer Institute for Latino and Latin American Affairs of the American Jewish Committee.
“I am pleased to be here with members of the Jewish community in our country. They have been integrated into our society and a part of it. Its members give their best for the development of our nation,”Peña Neto said.
Some 600 Jewish officials from across Latin America and other guests attended the event held at the Centro Desportivo Israelita in Mexico City.
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From PressTV
Dozens injured as Israelis attack Palestinians in West Bank
Israeli forces have once again attacked Palestinians across the occupied West Bank, injuring dozens either in raids or direct confrontations.
Palestine’s Ma’an news agency said on Wednesday that over a dozen Palestinians were injured during a raid by Israeli forces on Palestinian protesters in Qalandiya refugee camp near the northern city of Ramallah.
The report said a Palestinian teenager, identified as Faris Abu al-Esh, was shot during the raid before he was nabbed by the Israelis. Palestinian protesters then began to throw stones at the Israeli forces, who opened fire on the demonstrators.
Palestinian health officials said all the injured people were transferred to a medical facility in Ramallah.
The Israeli military said the protests began after soldiers stormed Qalandiya during the early hours of Wednesday to arrest some Palestinians involved in the recent uprising against Israel.
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From PressTV
Israel is outraged over an EU move to label settlement goods
Israel is outraged by the European Union move forcing Tel Aviv to label products made in the illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.
It came on Wednesday after the EU executive, European Commission, passed new guidelines for labeling the products, describing it a technical issue.
Under the guidelines, Israeli producers must label farm goods and cosmetics that come from illegal settlements constructed in occupied lands in case they are due to be sold in the European Union.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry released a statement slamming the move, which it regards as an effort to exert pressure on Israel over its settlements activities. It also summoned the EU ambassador to Israel.
“We regret that the EU has chosen, for political reasons, to take such an exceptional and discriminatory step, inspired by the boycott movement,” the statement said, referring to the international movement of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS).
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From PressTV
Israeli officers harshly interrogate Palestinian minor: Video
Fresh video footage has appeared showing Israeli military officers cruelly interrogating a Palestinian teenager in custody.
In the video, broadcast by the Arabic-language Palestine al-Yawm satellite television network, the Israeli officers can be seen yelling, cursing at and verbally abusing 13-year-old Ahmad Manasra, whom they accuse of carrying out a stabbing attack on an illegal settler near Pisgat Ze’ev settlement in East al-Quds (Jerusalem).
The Palestinian minor eventually breaks down in tears, insisting that he does not remember anything.
At the beginning of the video, an Israeli officer is captured on camera shouting and raising his hand threateningly at Manasra.
“You are a liar!” the officer yells, adding, “I’ll show a video how you stabbed and ran after an Israeli.”
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From PressTV
Palestinian refugees in vulnerable situation: UNRWA
The United Nations warns that the “vulnerability and isolation” of Palestinian refugees have reached an unprecedented level in generations.
Pierre Krahenbuhl, the commissioner-general for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), said in an address to the UN Fourth Committee on Tuesday that Palestinian refugees “feel more left behind” today than ever.
Their vulnerability has “intensified reaching levels not seen in generations as conflicts expand in the Middle East region and thrust one community after another into extreme insecurity,” Krahenbuhl said, adding, “For Palestine refugees, many already subjected to severe inequalities and discrimination, the present situation has created a new existential crisis; where possible, flight is a choice of escape, as they join the refugee exodus within the region and flowing into Europe.”
The UN official also stated that about 1.3 million Palestinians live in “dire conditions” in Gaza, noting, “The illegal blockade of Gaza remains in place subjecting Palestinians to collective punishment and denying all but a few the opportunities to lead normal lives, including by interacting with the outside world.”.
Krahenbuhl also noted that unemployment has reached 42 percent in Gaza and the besieged territory’s economy “de-developed” in 2014 with a negative growth of 15%.
“If all these indicators of severe stress were not enough to provoke feelings of despair, imagine how Palestine refugees felt when there was a risk of 250,000 schoolchildren in Gaza not going to UNRWA schools in autumn,” he said.
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From PressTV
Israel drafting bill to jail Palestinian kids under 14
Israel is drafting a bill that would allow Palestinian children under the age of 14 to be sentenced to jail, amid intensifying tensions in the occupied Palestinians territories.
Under the new bill being drafted, Palestinian children as young as 12 can receive jail sentences, but they would be kept in a closed treatment facility until the age of 14, when they would start serving the sentence, Haaretz reported.
The bill makes no distinction between those convicted of a terror-motivated crime and those convicted of other crimes.
Hundreds of Palestinian minors are reportedly detained in Israeli jails for throwing stones.
In a report released in September, the International rights group, Defense for Children International Palestine (DCIP), said that nearly 2,000 Palestinian children have lost their lives at the hands of Israeli military forces and illegal settlers over the past 15 years.
The NGO noted that Israel’s ongoing settlement expansion activities in the occupied East al-Quds (Jerusalem) and West Bank are increasingly creating a “hyper-militarized environment” for Palestinian children, where they are highly exposed to disproportionate violence from both Israeli forces and settlers.
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EXCLUSIVE: Ben Carson’s MOTHER contradicted claim he attacked her with a hammer – and said it was actually the other way round
- Republican candidate is focus of increasing attention over veracity of his account of violent temper in childhood and early teenage years
- One of his best-known anecdotes has been a claim that he attacked his mother with a hammer
- But 1988 interview with Sonya Carson shows that she remembered it very differently – and said she was the one with the hammer
- Carson last week called his account of attacking his mother ‘100 per cent true’ and has claimed the media are unfairly targeting him
- For more news on Ben Carson visit http://www.dailymail.co.uk/gopprimary
Ben Carson’s own mother contradicted his claim that he came after her with a hammer during a teenage dispute over a pair of pants.
Carson, 64, has repeated the anecdote on numerous occasions over the years as an example of what he has presented as once uncontrollable rage that resulted in a string of violent episodes.
They included attacking his own mother, beating a classmate with a padlock and culminated in him attempting to stab a friend over what music channel they were listening to on the radio.
His rage, as he tells it, led to a sort of Damascene moment at the age of 14 when he asked for God’s intervention and was forever changed.
Across two interviews conducted in 1996 and 2002 by the Academy of Achievement Carson stated: ‘I tried to hit my mother in the head with a hammer. I would just become irrational because I would get so angry…’
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
London mayor’s West Bank events cancelled after criticism of BDS
JERUSALEM (JTA) — London Mayor Boris Johnson had two of his planned meetings in the West Bank cancelled after he criticized boycotts of Israel.
Johnson was due to meet Wednesday in the West Bank with the Palestine Business Women’s Forum and a Palestinian youth group. Both meetings were cancelled after Johnson, who is on a three-day trade mission to Israel, criticized efforts to boycott Israel as “foolish” and assailed its proponents in England as “ridiculous snaggle-toothed, corduroy-wearing, lefty academics.”
There were conflicting reports over why exactly the meetings didn’t go ahead as planned. The youth group said it disinvited Johnson over his “inaccurate, misinformed and disrespectful remarks.”
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From Russia Today
Russia won’t be drawn into arms race, but needs to catch up – Putin
Published time: 11 Nov, 2015 17:27
November 10, 2015. Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, chairs a meeting on the development of the defense complex in the Bocharov Ruchei residence in Sochi. © Alexei Druzhinin / RIA Novosti
Russia won’t take part in any kind of arms race, but the country’s defense industry needs to bridge some gaps, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said.
“We’re not going to get involved in some sort of arms race. Especially, chase or bypass somebody,” Putin said during a meeting on the development of Russian armed forces in Sochi.
“We just need to catch up on what was lost at the turn of the 1990s – 2000s when the armed forces and the military-industrial complex were chronically underfunded,” he added.
During the meeting, the president stressed the importance of implementing measures aimed at increasing the efficiency of interaction between the Defense Ministry and the military-industrial complex.
“Creating a modern army equipped with state-of-the-art weaponry and military hardware, of course, remains one of the priorities of military construction. In fact, it was always like that,” he said.
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From Russia Today
Historic Hollande-Rouhani dinner scrapped due to insistence on wine & non-halal meat
Published time: 11 Nov, 2015 15:19
French President Francois Hollande (L) welcomes his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani for a meeting during the 70th United Nations General Assembly in New York City, United States September 27, 2015. © Alain Jocard / Reuters Iran’s President Rouhani will visit France next week, but the historic visit will not feature a dinner with President Hollande. Why? Because the French wouldn’t agree to serve halal meat and wouldn’t budge on serving alcohol.
The formal lunch with the French leader was meant to take place at the Elysee Palace, but reports indicate it is not to be, according to France’s RTL.
According to the news source, Rouhani refused on religious grounds. “A meal was contemplated, but fell apart,” a source familiar with the issue said.
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From The Times of Israel
After Baratz, 4 famous Israeli ‘burns’ of US officials
The current spat over Netanyahu’ s would-be media czar is not the first time an Israeli official trash-talked an American counterpart
JTA — Ran Baratz was topic-non grata at the meeting Tuesday between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Barack Obama, White House officials said. But that doesn’t mean Netanyahu’s pick for his public diplomacy chief is far from Obama’s mind.
The Obama administration has taken note of Baratz’s pre-appointment remarks calling Obama an anti-Semite and US Secretary of State John Kerry mentally deficient, and it expects action.
“His comments about US officials, including the president and Secretary Kerry, we believe were troubling and offensive,” John Kirby, the US State Department spokesman, said last week.
“We obviously expect government officials from any country, especially our closest allies, to speak respectfully and truthfully about senior US government officials. The secretary spoke with Prime Minister Netanyahu this morning, and we understand that the prime minister will be reviewing this appointment when he returns from his visit to the United States.”
Netanyahu subsequently denied he had promised to review the appointment.
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From The Times of Israel
Jewish, Israeli bank hackers bragged of plans, exploits
Three men, 2 of them Israeli, charged in massive theft of millions, talked of playing with stock prices, building a ‘large empire’
As they carried out what federal prosecutors call a “sprawling criminal enterprise” stretching around the globe, with schemes nestled within schemes, the accused masterminds plotted and bragged to each other in emails.
Some of the communications by Gery Shalon, Ziv Orenstein, Joshua Samuel Aaron and an unnamed co-conspirator, as translated into English and unveiled by US prosecutors in Manhattan on Tuesday:
— Shalon bragged about the size and scope of his schemes to manipulate stock prices, describing how he used stolen data. His profit-reaping sale of shares in one company was “a small step towards a large empire. … We buy them very cheap, perform machinations, then play with them.”
— What about getting caught by law enforcement authorities? Asked, “In Israel, you guys probably don’t have to be afraid of the USA … meaning that even if there is some case, they won’t be able to do anything?” Shalon’s response: “There is nothing to be afraid of in Israel.”
— Shalon acknowledged that he was getting a passport in another name.
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