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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Following Iran deal, Israel to lobby Congress — and reconsider a strike
German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier (L-R), EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini, Foreign Minister of Iran, Mohammad Javad Zarif, British Foreign Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Philip Hammond, and US Secretary of State John Kerry pose for a photo after last Working Session of E 3+3 negotiations on July 14, 2015 in Vienna, Austria. Six world powers; US, UK, France, China, Russia and Germany have reached a deal with Iran on limiting Iranian nuclear activity. (Thomas Imo/Photothek/Getty Images)
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decried an agreement over Iran’s nuclear program hundreds of times — most notably in a March speech to a joint session of Congress. Now that the agreement is signed, experts say Netanyahu has one way left to block it: go to Congress again, and persuade it to reject the deal.
The agreement, finalized Tuesday morning in Vienna, will relieve Iran of crippling international sanctions in return for Iran limiting its uranium enrichment, ridding most of its stockpile of enriched uranium and submitting to agreed-upon inspections of its nuclear facilities. The deal stipulates that Iran to freeze and store —but not dismantle — much of its nuclear infrastructure, and requires inspectors to request access to some Iranian facilities before entering.
Sanctions are set to be lifted once Iran fulfills its commitments to deactivate centrifuges, restructure its nuclear facilities and transfer or dilute its uranium stockpile. Sanctions could be restored within 65 days if a committee of representatives from world powers and Iran determines that Iran has violated the agreement.
Portions of the accord will expire between 10 and 25 years from the date the accord is adopted. The United Nations Security Council is expected to endorse the accord in a resolution.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Israeli leaders, Jewish groups condemn final Iran nuclear deal
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli leaders and Jewish groups condemned the final Iran nuclear deal.
“When you are willing to make an agreement at any cost, this is the result,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday morning before the details were officially announced. “From the initial reports we can already conclude that this agreement is a historic mistake for the world.
“We knew very well that the desire to sign an agreement was stronger than anything, and therefore we did not commit to preventing an agreement. We did commit to preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, and this commitment still stands,” he said, calling on Israeli leaders to “put petty politics aside and unite behind this most fateful issue to the future and security of the State of Israel.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker announces run for president
(JTA) — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who recently visited Israel on a self-described “listening tour,” said he is running for president.
Walker’s official announcement for the Republican nomination came on Monday morning, three days after he accidentally posted a message on his official campaign Twitter account that said he was running.
“I’m in. I’m running for president because Americans deserve a leader who will fight and win for them,” Walker tweeted Monday morning on the official account.
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From PressTV
Israel PM urged to quit as Iran nuclear talks end
A former Israeli finance minister has called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to step down due to the failure of his policies on Iran.
Yair Lapid, currently serving as the head of the Yesh Atid party, made the remarks on Tuesday after talks between Iran and the P5+1 group of world powers on Iran’s nuclear energy program finally reached a conclusion.
He denounced Netanyahu’s diplomatic campaign against Iran as a “colossal failure”, saying, “He should resign because if you promise for years that only you can prevent this deal and then it’s signed – you’re responsible.”
The Israeli prime minister was also criticized by other Israeli figures and journalists, including the Zionist Union’s Isaac Herzog , Zionist Union MK- member of the Knesset -Shelly Yacimovich, and columnist Ben Caspit.
“No matter how we look at it, this is a personal failure for Netanyahu, who has been promoting himself for two decades now on one central agenda alone: preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear capability. That is the task that he promised he would perform, and he has failed,” Caspit said.
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From The Independent
On Sunday night eurozone leaders meeting in Brussels for another extraordinary summit were finalising their last-chance offer to the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras as a condition for starting talks on a new rescue deal. A eurozone offer would insist that strict measures should be rushed through the Greek parliament by Wednesday.
The proposals on the table call for measures including new laws on the VAT and pension systems, the reform of bankruptcy rules, the privatisation of electricity transmission, and strengthening the independence of Greece’s statistics office before bailout talks can even begin. A particularly controversial suggestion is for €50bn in Greek assets
to handed in escrow to eurozone authorities, and sold off if Athens fails to meet its reform promises.
From the Independent
Fiscal hawks among Greece’s eurozone creditors are taking an openly firmer line with Athens, including a proposal that Greece transfer €50bn of state assets into a fund to be managed by an external agency.
The plan appears in a paper from the German finance ministry and calls for either the transfer of state assets or a temporary “time-out” from the eurozone.
Eurozone members have found themselves increasingly split on Greece following Greece’s rejection of bailout terms in a referendum and the submission of an alternative plan by Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras that was largely in line with the creditors’ inital proposals.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Samsung subsidiaries’ CEOs slam anti-Semitism in wake of merger debate
(JTA) — Two CEOs in the Samsung conglomerate condemned anti-Semitism after their companies’ proposed merger spurred anti-Semitism in the South Korean media.
In a July 12 letter to the Anti-Defamation League, Joo Hwa Yoon of Cheil Industries and Chi Hun Choi of Samsung C&T unequivocally condemned anti-Semitism.
“We are a company that is committed to respect for individuals and enforces strict non-discrimination policies,” they wrote. “We condemn anti-Semitism in all its forms.”
On July 17, the shareholders of Samsung C&T, a construction company, will vote on a merger with Cheil Industries. Both are subsidiaries of the Samsung Group, South Korea’s largest family-controlled conglomerate. The merger is part of a consolidation effort.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Iran’s president to address nation as nuclear deal appears imminent
(JTA) — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will address his nation on state television as Iran and world powers appear to be nearing a deal over his country’s nuclear program.
The address is scheduled to take place in Tehran at 10 p.m. Monday — 1:30 p.m. Eastern time in the United States — the French news agency AFP reported.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif attempted to lower expectations about a deal on Monday, saying the address would not be the announcement of an agreement on a nuclear deal with six world powers, including the United States.
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From PressTV
Israel briefly re-arrests Palestinian hunger striker
Palestinian hunger striker Khader Adnan has been re-arrested by Israeli forces for several hours a day after he was freed from an Israeli jail following about two months of avoiding food.
The veteran hunger striker was reportedly heading into the Israeli-occupied Old City of al-Quds to participate in a religious ceremony on Monday in the al-Aqsa Mosque compound when he was arrested.
“Khader Adnan was arrested because he had no right to be in the Old City of Jerusalem (al-Quds) where free access is allowed to West Bank Palestinians only aged 50 and above, and he is just 37,” said Israel Police spokesperson Luba Samri.
The 37-year-old detainee was taken to a police station in the city. However, media reports said that Adnan was released after several hours.
Adnan was set free early on Sunday from an Israeli prison after weeks of staging a hunger strike in protest at the Israeli practice of the so-called administrative detention.
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From PressTV
Female Palestinian lawyer recounts prison ordeal
Female Palestinian lawyer Shireen al-Eesawy, currently incarcerated at HaSharon prison in central Israel, says she has suffered harsh conditions in solitary confinement, describing Israeli guards’ behavior as inhumane.
Eesawy told defense lawyer Hanan al-Khatib of the Palestinian Detainees’ Committee, who recently managed to visit her, that she was moved into solitary confinement two months ago, after an argument erupted between a number of Palestinian detainees and prison guards at HaSharon detention facility.
The imprisoned lawyer added that she went on hunger strike between June 15 and June 22, and that she was also placed in solitary confinement, when she was being held in Ramla prison.
“The cell was too small. Its door sealed shut. They even sealed the door with plastic,” Eesawy said, adding, “I couldn’t breathe and fell unconscious before they removed the plastic to allow some air through.”
“I had no sheets or covers. I had to sleep on the ground; they even confiscated all of my belongings,” the detained Palestinian lawyer said.
“The cell has no sink and is completely unfit for human use. Whenever they took me to see my lawyer, or whenever I was shortly allowed into the prison yard, the soldiers always cuffed me, and chained my legs,” Eesawy noted.
She added that Israeli prison guards start the transfer of detainees to the court at around 3 a.m. local time (0000 GMT), and return them back to prison at around one after midnight the following day.
“They make sure the entire process is very exhausting to us,” the detained Palestinian lawyer stated. “They deliberately deny us the right to sleep, or even to rest.”
Eesawy was kidnapped from her house in East Jerusalem al-Quds on June 3, 2014, and since then the Israeli High Court has refused to release her on bail.
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