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From The Independent
Germany election results: Disaster for Merkel as exit polls suggest defeat in two out of three regional elections
- Tony Paterson Berlin
From The Independent
Angela Merkel stands by her guns on refugee crisis – but admits her solution is hurting Germany
From The Independent
Syrian civil war: West failed to factor in Bashar al-Assad’s Iranian backers as the conflict developed
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Putin announces Russian military withdrawal from Syria
(JTA) — In a surprise move, Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered a military withdrawal from Syria.
Saying its intervention, launched in 2015, has mostly achieved its goals, Putin said Monday the pullout of most of Russia’s forces will begin Tuesday, according to Reuters.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Iran calls $10 billion ruling over 9/11 ‘ridiculous’
(JTA) — Iran said a U.S. court ruling last week ordering it to pay more than $10 billion for its alleged role in the 9/11 attacks is “ridiculous.”
“This judgement is so ridiculous … more than ever before it damages the credibility of the U.S. judicial system,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossein Jaber Ansari said, according to Agence France Press.
U.S. District Judge George Daniels in New York issued a default judgment Wednesday against Iran for $7.5 billion to the estates and families of people who died at the World Trade Center and Pentagon. It includes $2 million to each estate for the victims’ pain and suffering, plus $6.88 million in punitive damages.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Joe Biden joins Clinton and Trump among AIPAC speakers
WASHINGTON (JTA) — U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will speak at the AIPAC annual conference, which already promises appearances by top lawmakers and presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee announced over the weekend Biden’s address to the March 20-22 conference here.
Biden is perhaps the Obama administration figure closest to Israel and the pro-Israel lobby, and has been the go-to official to calm the waters during the many periods of tension between President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Reform movement blasts Trump for ‘hate speech,’ but backs his AIPAC invitation
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Reform movement harshly criticized Donald Trump for “hate speech,” but backed AIPAC’s invitation of the Republican front-runner to speak at its annual conference.
Reacting to Trump’s acceptance of the invitation on Friday, the Union for Reform Judaism and the Central Conference of American Rabbis on Monday called his campaign bigoted.
“His campaign has been replete with naked appeals to bigotry, especially against Hispanics and Muslims. Previous comments he has made – and not disavowed – have been offensive to women, people of color, and other groups. In recent days, increasingly, he appears to have gone out of his way to encourage violence at his campaign events. At every turn, Mr. Trump has chosen to take the low road, sowing seeds of hatred and division in our body politic,” the movement said in a statement.
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From PressTV
18-year-old Palestinian shot dead by Israelis near al-Khalil
A Palestinian teenager has been shot dead by the Israeli regime forces near the occupied southern West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron) after his alleged involvement in an attempted vehicular attack.
Following the Monday killing of the 18-year-old, identified as Yousif Walid Tarayra, a “military funeral” procession was held later in the day in the town of Bani Na’im east of al-Khalil by the Palestinian Authority (PA), the Ma’an news agency reported.
According to the report, PA military vehicles paraded from the al-Ahli hospital to the Ras al-Jurah neighborhood, from where Tarayra’s body was then transported to his hometown of Bani Na’im.
Mourners carrying Tarayra’s body marched to the local cemetery for his burial after performing prayers at the town’s main mosque.
Funeral participants also shouted slogans in support of the continued popular resistance against Israel’s crimes against Palestinians.
The teenager was gunned down shortly after two other Palestinian youths were shot and killed following an incident in which they allegedly opened fire on Israeli soldiers waiting at a bus stop near the settlement of Kiryat Arba on the outskirts of al-Khalil.
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From PressTV
Syria denies Russia troops withdrawal linked to disagreement
Damascus has denied that Russia’s announcement to withdraw its military forces from the Arab country “reflects a Syrian-Russian difference.”
Syria confirms that Russia’s “decision to reduce forces” was made “in complete coordination between the Russian and Syrian sides, and is a step that was carefully and accurately studied for some time,” read a statement released by the Syrian presidential office on Monday.
The Syrian army also released a statement stressing that it will continue fighting the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group, the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front, “and other terrorist groups linked to them.”
From Russia Today
9,000 sorties, 400 localities freed: What Russia has achieved during its 5-month Syria operation
Published time: 14 Mar, 2016 22:16
A Su-30 SM aircraft prepares to take off from the Hmeimim airbase in the Latakia Governorate of Syria. © Ramil Sitdikov / Sputnik
As Russia’s Vladimir Putin announced the start of the withdrawal of Russian forces from Syria, Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has reported the anti-terror operation’s achievements to the Commander-in-Chief.
“As a result of airstrikes, terrorists’ resources’ provision has been largely cut,” Shoigu told Putin, saying that petroleum trade routes with Turkey, as well as main routes of weapons provisions to terrorists have been blocked.
The Russian campaign also reduced the threat posed to Russia by Islamic militants, as over 2,000 fighters from Russia have been “eliminated” in Syria, including 17 field commanders.
To strengthen the progress achieved, Russian continues the aerial monitoring of the ceasefire’s observance.
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From Russia Today
Hundreds of refugees cross into Macedonia from Greece
Published time: 14 Mar, 2016 15:13
Migrants wade across a river near the Greek-Macedonian border, west of the the village of Idomeni, Greece, March 14, 2016 © Stoyan Nenov / Reuters
Hundreds of refugees and migrants from a camp in northern Greece have managed to get around a border fence and cross into Macedonia, according to a Macedonian police spokeswoman. However, a Reuters photographer estimated the number to be closer to 2,000.
After walking for several hours, the refugees crossed a river while forming a “human chain” and found a way around the fence, which was put up by Macedonian authorities, photographer Stoyan Nenov said.
Many of the refugees, who came from a camp near Idomeni, carried children on their shoulders as they crossed the river.
Greek and international volunteers used a rope to help the refugees across the fast-flowing waters, AP reported.
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From The Daily Mail
Tony Blair says Britain’s unemployed are WRONG to complain migrants are taking their jobs and says they should get better education and skills instead
- Former Labour PM said unemployed people were being driven to ‘far right’
- There is ‘real anxiety’ for people whose income is stagnating, he added
- Mr Blair said those squeezed out of jobs shouldn’t blame migrant influx
The former Labour prime minister conceded there is a ‘real anxiety’ for people who feel their income is stagnating and said it was driving some towards the far right
Tony Blair has admitted high immigration is fuelling ‘populism’ but criticised the unemployed who complain migrants are taking their jobs.
The former Labour prime minister conceded there is a ‘real anxiety’ for people who feel their income is stagnating and said it was driving some towards the far right.
But he said those who feel they have been squeezed out of the labour market by cheap workers from overseas should stop blaming immigration and instead get better ‘education and the skills’.
His comments will anger those who say New Labour oversaw an ‘open door’ policy during the Blair years, leading to an expansion in arrivals to the UK.
From Ynet News
Israeli ambassador: UN Human Rights Committee needs psychiatric help
While Israeli diplomats criticize the UNHRC in Geneva for singling out Israel, accusing it of ‘Obsessive Compulsive Disorder regarding Israel’, others support anti-BDS students in South Africa. Ambassador to the Permanent Mission of Israel to the UN in Geneva Eviatar Manor this week accused the UN Commission for Human Rights for blindly and consistently singling out of Israel, calling this a “mental disorder” and saying that the commission needs “immediate psychological treatment.”
Manor spoke at a commission discussin over the weekend on the subject of the its annual report. He accused the commission of having twisted priorities, as it is set to discuss six reports and five resolutions condemning Israel, while ignoring other countries in the Middle East.
“The commission suffers from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder with regards to Israel,” said Manor. “The commission can’t control its disorder, and writes more and more reports and resolutions against my country. I want to remind you all that a symptom of this disorder is an increased risk of suicide. The commission will bring about its own death. What this commission needs is psychiatric help. I suggest that the commission expose itself to other conflict areas of the world and deal them with the same level of hysteria that they deal with Israel.”
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From Ynet News
Chief Rabbi: Keep children away from secular family
Yitzchak Yosef instructed religious Jews to prevent all contact between observant Jewish children and any secular relations in his weekly lecture. Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel Yitzhak Yosef has called for religious Jews to distance their children from secular or merely traditionally Jewish family members, and even to prevent their children from meeting them.
The chief rabbi’s pronouncement is based on the fear that the nonreligious relatives will adversely affect the children spiritually. According to Yosef, observant Jewish children must not be exposed at all to a lifestyle that includes “profanity and television”, lest they become “corrupted” and grow up to be “shebabnikim” (a slang word for youth on the fringes of ultra-Orthodox society). In one of the chief rabbi’s weekly Saturday night lessons held in Jerusalem, he said, “There are ba’alei tshuva (once-secular Jews who have become observant) with nonreligious families who take their small, 7-year-old, 8-year-old children to visit, and this influences the children.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Colombian actress: ‘Son of Saul’ won Oscar because so many Jews are in Hollywood
(JTA) — A Colombian actress suggested that “Son of Saul” won the Academy Award for best foreign language film because “a large part of the industry and especially those who vote for the Oscar awards” are Jewish.
Paola Turbay, a former Miss Colombia and runner-up in the 1992 Miss Universe pageant, was miffed that “Embrace of the Serpent,” the Colombian entry for the award, lost to the Holocaust drama. According to the The Jerusalem Post, she tweeted a play on the similar-sounding Spanish words for “Jewish” and an expletive.
“That was f—ed up … Excuse me. Jewish,” she wrote.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Angela Merkel defends German-Jewish leader fearful of Muslim refugees
BERLIN (JTA) — Anti-Semitism in Germany, whether from natives or refugees, must be confronted by the government and civil society together, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said.
Speaking Monday to more than 100 legislators from some 40 countries gathered in Berlin for the third Inter-Parliamentary Coalition for Combating Anti-Semitism, Merkel also said that Jews must feel free to speak up when they fear anti-Semitism — and they must be received with sympathy and concern.
Whether it is hate-filled criticism of Israel, vandalism of cemeteries or synagogues, “Anti-Semitism and other prejudices have no place in our society,” Merkel said.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Pope Francis to visit Auschwitz
ROME (JTA) — Pope Francis will visit Auschwitz during a trip to Poland in late July.
According to a schedule released over the weekend, the pontiff will visit the former Nazi death camp on July 29 during a five-day visit to Poland to mark the Catholic Church’s World Youth Day.
Main Youth Day events are to take place in Krakow, about 40 miles from Auschwitz.
Francis will be the third pontiff to visit Auschwitz, where the Nazis murdered about 1.5 million people, the vast majority of them Jews. Polish-born Pope John Paul II was the first pontiff to visit Auschwitz, in 1979. His successor, the German-born Benedict XVI, visited in 2006.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Jewish trans woman named senior White House LGBT liaison
(JTA) — Less than a year after becoming the first openly transgender person to serve in the White House, a Jewish woman been promoted to serve as its senior liaison to the LGBT community.
Raffi Freedman-Gurspan, a Honduras native who was raised in Brookline, Massachusetts, by Jewish parents, will serve as the White House’s “lead point of contact” for LGBT groups, BuzzFeed News reported Monday.
READ: Q&A With Raffi Freedman-Gurspan, the White House’s primary LGBT liaison
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Obama, Elvis and 5 other famous Shabbos goys
These guys in Queens may be the world’s proudest Shabbos goys, but they’re hardly the most well-known ones.
Here are a few of the more famous non-Jews who have helped religious Jews skirt Sabbath restrictions by performing such forbidden acts as turning off lights or flipping on the A/C.
Harold Fruchter, a singer and guitarist in a Jewish wedding band, and the son of a rabbi, was born in 1952. When he was a baby, and up to the age of 2, his family lived in the upstairs apartment of a two-story flat in Memphis. Their downstairs neighbors were the Presleys. The two families formed a friendship, and the future King of Rock, just a teenager then, learned to pick up the cues when the Fruchters needed someone to turn on a light or unlock a door on Shabbos.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Watch Hillary Clinton become ‘outsider Jew’ Bernie Sanders in ‘SNL’ spoof
(JTA) — “Saturday Night Live” satirized Hillary Clinton’s campaign by having her turn into her Democratic rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and depicting the candidate as claiming she is “the biggest outsider Jew in the race.”
The parody ad broadcast Saturday on NBC took aim at two of Clinton’s perceived weaknesses: A record of what her critics say is one of shifting positions, and her losing younger voters to Sanders, I-Vt., who is mounting a surprisingly strong challenge to become the Democratic presidential nominee.
In the satirical ad, Kate McKinnon, the troupe member who impersonates Clinton, begins to pronounce words like “billionaire” in Sanders’ New York baritone, changes into a baggy suit, talks about her boyhood in Brooklyn and finally says: “Thank you millennials for lending your support to the biggest outsider Jew in the race.”
Also featured on the show was an interview with Larry David, the comic who has played Sanders in “SNL” guest appearances this season.
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From Russia Today
More than 200 families face eviction in Dublin after Goldman Sachs vulture fund deal
Published time: 14 Mar, 2016 18:18
© Cathal McNaughton / Reuters
Scores of families in the Tyrellstown area of Dublin, Ireland are at risk of losing their homes after a Goldman Sachs venture fund purchased an €89 million loan on their housing development.
Some 60 families have already been served eviction notices, according to The Sunday Business Post.
The move comes after Sachs purchased the loan that Irish company Twinlite had secured on the Cruise Park development. Sachs and Twinlite subsequently reached a deal to sell 208 of the development’s houses.
Under Irish tenancy and eviction laws, landlords have to provide notice of between four and five months to their long-term tenants before evicting them from a property.
Many of the tenants at risk of eviction in Tyrellstown are social housing recipients, who will likely need to source alternative accommodation through their local authority. However, it is unclear where these people will go if forced from their current home, given the current demand for social housing.
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From Russia Today
Tokyo furious after US sailor arrested on suspicion of raping Japanese tourist in Okinawa
Published time: 14 Mar, 2016 10:56
FILE PHOTO © Kyodo / Reuters
Tokyo has launched an official protest with Washington after a US sailor was arrested on suspicion of raping a Japanese tourist in Okinawa. The incident is likely to complicate plans to build a controversial new US airbase on the island.
Justin Castellanos, who was based at the US Navy’s Camp Schwab, is alleged to have raped a woman in her 40s at a hotel in Naha in the south of Okinawa.
“It was extremely regrettable that this case happened,” Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a news conference, as cited by Kyodo news agency. The Japanese government has demanded that Washington “tighten discipline and prevent a recurrence of such incidents,” Suga added.
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