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From Russia Today
Most Germans oppose EU migrant deal with ‘untrustworthy’ Turkey – poll
Published time: 8 Apr, 2016 14:37
© Kai Pfaffenbach / Reuters
The majority of Germans believe that EU-Turkey deal is a bad idea and will not work properly, according to a recent poll. Most also don’t tend to see Ankara as a trusted partner, let alone a potential member in the union.
From The Independent
Edward Snowden urges British public to rise up and force David Cameron to resign over offshore fund
From Ynet News
Sanders says no opinion on 1967 borders
Democratic candidate tries to dodge question on whether Israeli withdrawal to borders before Six-Day War is the only way to reach peace in the Middle East, and backtracks on comments that 10,000 Gazans were killed during 2014 war. Two days after claiming 10,000 innocent Palestinians were killed in Gaza during Operation Protective Edge, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders got into hot water again on Friday when he said he has no opinion on whether Israel should withdraw to the 1967 borders as part of a peace agreement with the Palestinians.
From Ynet News
Israeli arrested in Romania for spying on government agency
Employees of Israeli business intelligence firm Black Cube is suspected of spying on the director of Romania’s Anticorruption Directorate; company denies allegations.
Several employees of Israeli business intelligence company Black Cube have been arrested in Romania on suspicion of spying on the chief prosecutor of the country’s National Anticorruption Directorate.
Among four suspects arrested there is one Israeli citizen – Ron Weiner. Another suspect, David Geclowicz, was identified by Romanian media as an Israeli national as well, but holds Belgian citizenship.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Geraldo raps Ted Cruz’s ‘New York values’ comments as ‘anti-Semitic’
Geraldo Rivera speaking on “The O’Reilly Factor” on Fox News Thursday night. (Screenshot from YouTube)
NEW YORK (JTA) — Several commentators, including former talk-show host Geraldo Rivera, are blasting Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz’s remarks earlier this year about “New York values” as anti-Semitic.
Rivera, who is Jewish, said Thursday night on “The O’Reilly Factor” that Cruz’s use of the term “New York values” has “stinking anti-Semitic implications.”
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From PressTV
Turkish weapons factory director caught selling state secrets to US
The head of Turkey’s state-owned Mechanical and Chemical Industry Corporation (MKEK) weapons factory has been arrested on charges of trying to sell weapon designs to a US company.
According to Turkish media, Mustafa Tanrıverdi was detained in the Turkish capital Ankara on Thursday while trying to sell the design and production plans of the MP-5 gun and the newly produced domestic infantry rifle MPT-76 to a US company official for USD 200,000 and USD 300,000, respectively.
Tanrıverdi (pictured below) was caught red-handed at a restaurant in Ankara by Turkish security officers posing as the US company’s agents, said a report by Turkish Haber Port daily. The company had noticed Turkish authorities of his plan to sell the designs.
“I’ve made a mistake in this incident. I know what I’ve done and I regret it,” said Tanrıverdi in his testimony in court, while claiming that the information does not qualify as state secret.
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From Russia Today
5 times Putin used foreign languages for diplomacy (VIDEO)
Published time: 9 Apr, 2016 05:51
Russian President Vladimir Putin © Alexander Zemlianichenko / Reuters
While Putin has amazed the internet with an impromptu interpretation for a German politician in St. Petersburg, that is only one of many episodes when Russia’s president proved he could break any language barrier to convey a message or discharge tension.
Thursday’s incident at a St. Petersburg forum, which saw Putin casually translating for former State Secretary of the German Defense Ministry, Willy Wimmer, went viral, with the latter only half-jokingly suggesting that the Russian leader’s skills were worth including in the Guinness Book of World Records. RT recalls five memorable episodes when Putin didn’t shun the opportunity to speak a foreign language in public.
1. Helping out Merkel
Journalists were in for a treat at a 2013 briefing in Hannover following talks between Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel when Putin unexpectedly came to Merkel’s rescue after she couldn’t comprehend a question posed by a Russian reporter. The holdup was due to a technical issue with the simultaneous translation.
As the journalist paused, the Russian President successfully took up the role of fluent interpreter. It’s widely known that Putin honed his German skills while serving as an intelligence officer from 1984 to 1990 in the city of Dresden when it was part of the former German Democratic Republic.
2. Famous Bundestag speech
However, Putin’s most famous try at German to date remains an epic 20-minute speech he delivered to the deputies of the Bundestag, Germany’s Parliament, in September of 2001. After stating that Russia always saw Germany as one of the most important centers of European culture, Putin switched from his native Russian to the “language of Goethe, of Schiller, and of Kant.” No need to say that his address was met with a standing ovation on behalf of the startled parliamentarians.
3. Promoting Russian sports & trade
Although far less known, Russia’s President doesn’t shy away from publicly expressing himself in English either, despite the fact that he has only been learning the language for a few years amid his tight schedule as head of state.
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From Ynet News
Cruz stops by Brooklyn Chabad center to make matzo for Passover
While campaigning in New York, the Republican presidential candidate visits Chabad Neshama Center, where he learned how to make matzah from scratch and sang Passover songs. Vying for the Jewish vote in New York, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz visited a Jewish community center in Brooklyn on Thursday where he learned how to make matzah from scratch at the center’s Model Matzah Bakery.
The Texas senator joined Chabad Neshama Center director Rabbi Moishe Winner, his wife Leah, and a dozen children who were making matzo while singing “roll, roll, roll the matzo dough.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
British Jewish leader accuses Labour chair Corbyn of belittling anti-Semitism problem
(JTA) — A leader of British Jews accused Labour Chairman Jeremy Corbyn of belittling the party’s alleged anti-Semitism problem.
Jonathan Arkush, the president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, leveled the accusation in a statement Thursday, the Jewish News of London reported.
“We cannot imagine that any other minority’s concerns would be dismissed off-hand in this way,” he said, adding he was “deeply concerned” over Labour’s handling of Jew hatred in its ranks. “In the last few weeks we have witnessed a stream of clear-cut cases of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party, which can’t just be fobbed off as differences over Israel,” he said.
Arkush’s accusation came after Corbyn defended a remark that his brother made, in which his brother, Piers, dismissed allegations that Labour was not properly handing anti-Semitism as “absurd,” adding by that “Zionists can’t cope with anyone supporting rights for Palestine.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Israeli Orthodox rabbis draft gay ‘containment’ document
Activists and members of the gay community protest in Jerusalem on July 30, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
(JTA) — An Orthodox rabbinic organization in Israel drafted what it said is the country’s first Jewish legal document by such a group on how to regulate the behavior of homosexual members of Orthodox communities.
The document by the nonprofit Beit Hillel, a rabbinical group of 200 members that promotes inclusiveness in Orthodox Judaism, “sets forth guidelines, which are founded in halachah, on how to contain people with a homosexual orientation within faith communities,” director Rabbi Shlomo Hecht told JTA Friday, using the Hebrew-language word for Jewish religious law.
Successful “containment,” he said, would help “people with a homosexual orientation to feel more comfortable within their Orthodox faith community.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
On 2nd Israel visit, Kevin Costner dismisses BDS champion Roger Waters
Gal Gadot, who co-stars with Kevin Costner in the new film “Criminal,” attending the European Premiere of “Batman v Superman: Dawn Of Justice” in London, March 22, 2016. (Anthony Harvey/Getty Images)
(JTA) — At the Israel premiere of a film starring Kevin Costner, the Hollywood actor said he does not care whether anti-Israel activists, including Roger Waters, disapprove of his visit to the Jewish state.
“I don’t ask anyone’s permission to travel,” Costner said in an interview Tuesday a press conference earlier this week at the Cinema City multiplex near the Tel Aviv suburb of Herzliya. Asked by a reporter whether Roger Waters, a British musician known for his role as former Pink Floyd frontman and for promoting boycotts on Israel, Costner said: “Who? I haven’t heard of it,” adding: “ I’ve received lots of love here. I wouldn’t have missed that.”
Costner, who in 1991 won two Academy Awards for directing and acting in the box-office hit “Dances with Wolves,” was in Israel for a screening of the upcoming action film “Criminal,” in which he stars alongside Ryan Reynolds, Gary Oldman and Israeli actress Gal Gadot.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Bernie Sanders again inflates Gaza death toll, but getting closer
Bernie Sanders holding a rally outside his childhood home in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, April 8, 2016. (Eric Thayer/Getty Images)
(JTA) — For the second time this week, Bernie Sanders named an inflated number for Palestinian civilian deaths in Israel’s 2014 war in Gaza.
Speaking on MSNBC on Friday morning, the Jewish Democratic presidential candidate acknowledged that he had not known “the exact number” when he told the New York Daily News he thought that 10,000 Gazans died in 2014. “It turns out that, according to the United Nations, over 2,000 civilians were killed” in the war, he said, and repeated his allegation that Israel’s military actions were “disproportionate.”
But the United Nation’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs puts the Gaza civilian death toll in the 2014 war at 1,423, while Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that governs the Gaza Strip, gives a similar number, 1,462. Israel has argued the number of civilian deaths is likely lower.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Watch Ted Cruz make matzah with kids in Brooklyn ahead of NY primary
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, making matzah with children at the Model Matzah Bakery in Brooklyn, New York, April 7, 2016. (Twitter)
NEW YORK (JTA) — Ahead of the presidential primaries in New York, Ted Cruz helped Jewish children make matzah in Brooklyn.
At the Chabad-run Model Matzah Bakery in Brighton Beach Thursday evening, the Texas senator and Republican presidential hopeful led some 15 children in making the unleavened Passover bread, singing “roll, roll, roll the matzah dough.”
Cruz was joined by Rabbi Moishe Winner and his wife, Leah Winner. He even sang and clapped with the children through a rendition of the Passover song “Dayenu,” according to ABC News. Dozens of supporters chanted “Jews for Cruz” as the senator entered the bakery, and on his way out.
From PressTV
Israel made 124 Palestinians homeless in single day: UN
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) says 124 Palestinians, including 60 children, have been made homeless in a single day in Israel’s demolition campaign across the occupied West Bank.
The UNOCHA announced in a statement on Friday that a total of 54 structures, among them 18 donor-funded ones, had been razed in nine different Palestinian communities the previous day.
The statement added that the demolitions affected 293 people, including 98 children, in those areas.
Thirty four of the structures razed were demolished in the village of Khirbet Tana near the West Bank city of Nablus, displacing 69 Palestinians. A total of 29 of those displaced were children.
“Many of the demolished structures [in Khirbet Tana] had been provided by donors as relief after earlier demolitions,” the UNOCHA pointed out.
Recent figures released by the UN show the Israeli military has more than tripled the demolitions of Palestinian structures in the occupied West Bank over the past three months.
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