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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Hillary Clinton to AIPAC: Donald Trump’s foreign policy ‘dangerously wrong’
Hillary Clinton addressing the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference in Washington, D.C., March 21, 2016. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Hillary Clinton derided Donald Trump as a feckless negotiator and told AIPAC that “walking away” from the Middle East was not an option for the United States, a broadside against the Republican front-runner that signaled her general election strategy.
“We need steady hands, not a president who says he is neutral on Monday, pro-Israel on Tuesday and who knows what on Wednesday,” the former secretary of state and front-runner for the Democratic presidential nod said Monday in an address to the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference in Washington, D.C.
“American can’t ever be neutral when it comes to Israel’s security and survival,” Clinton said to repeated cheers and applause. “Some things aren’t negotiable and anyone who doesn’t understand that has no business in being our president.”
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From The Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Read Hillary Clinton’s speech to AIPAC
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spoke to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee Monday morning.
Here is a full transcript of her remarks.
CLINTON: Thank you so much.
(APPLAUSE)
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From PressTV
Israel to confiscate more Palestinian land in West Bank
The Israeli regime is planning to confiscate 1.2 square kilometers (296.5 acres) of land from Palestinians in the northern occupied West Bank district of Nablus, a local monitor says.
Ghassan Dhaglas, who monitors Israel’s illegal settlement activity in the northern West Bank for the Palestinian Authority, confirmed that Israeli civil administration authorities were seeking to steal hundreds of acres of land that currently belongs to Palestinians, Palestinian Ma’an news agency reported on Monday.
The Palestinian official also noted that Israeli authorities have already given local residents of al-Lubban al-Sharqiya, al-Sawiya, and Qaryut villages an official notice to confiscate privately-owned Palestinian land.
According to the Applied Research Institute Jerusalem (ARIJ), a Palestinian non-governmental organization based in al-Quds (Jerusalem), the Israeli regime in recent decades has seized vast swathes of land near Qaryut to build at least ten illegal settlements and two military bases.
From Russia Today
Moscow may unilaterally use force on Syrian ceasefire violators from March 22 – General Staff
Published time: 21 Mar, 2016 22:44
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From March 22, Russia may begin to unilaterally employ military force against groups “systematically” violating the truce deal on the cessation of hostilities in Syria if the US does not do its part to control the situation, the General Staff announced.
“If there is no reaction from the US to our proposals [on the control of ceasefire], starting from March 22 Russia will unilaterally apply rules provisioned in the [cessation of hostilities] deal,” the chief of the Russian General Staff’s main operations department, Sergey Rudskoy, said on Monday.
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From Russia Today
Striking footage shows Australian TV crew attacked in Stockholm’s ‘Little Mogadishu’ suburb (VIDEO)
Published time: 21 Mar, 2016 11:32
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An Australian television channel has released footage showing its film crew coming under attack in a Stockholm suburb known as “Little Mogadishu.” The team was in the largely Somali area to report on the migrant and refugee crisis.
The Channel Nine crew, working alongside high-profile Australian journalist Liz Hayes, were confronted in the town of Rinkeby, where they were filming for the television program ’60 Minutes.’
“They were confronted by a group who objected to them filming. There was a series of scuffles and the police were called. The 60 Minutes cameraman and producer were slightly injured, but filming continued with police at the scene. The crew have now returned to their hotel and are all fine,” a spokesman for the channel said, as quoted by the Local.
The network released footage of the attack – which happened in late February – on Thursday.
Jan Sjunnesson, who works for the website Avpixlat and was accompanying the team, wrote that the crew was approached by a man asking why they wanted to film. He then deliberately drove over the cameraman’s foot.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
From left to right, Israelis sour on ‘opportunist’ Donald Trump
Donald Trump serving as grand marshal in the Salute to Israel Parade in New York, May 23, 2004. (Ron Antonelli/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)
TEL AVIV (JTA) — He’s crude. He’s blunt. He’s inauthentic. He is not a man of peace.
Left and right, religious and secular, Arab and Jew, Israelis don’t have many kind words for Donald Trump, the Republican presidential front-runner.
In interviews this week, several prominent Israelis described Trump as an opportunist and a demagogue whose political convictions are hard to make out.
“As Israelis, we look at him and laugh a little,” said Ronen Shoval, founder of the hard-line, right-wing Zionist organization Im Tirtzu. “He looks inauthentic. Men in Israel don’t color their hair like that. He looks like he’s had plastic surgery.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Israel should be grateful to US, patient on Iran, Isaac Herzog tells AIPAC
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Israeli opposition leader called for his government to be grateful for the U.S.-Israel relationship, earning applause from AIPAC activists at their annual conference.
Isaac Herzog, who heads the Zionist Union party, derided what he said were attempts to “shame” U.S. officials, alluding to tense relations between the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Obama administration.
“Forget that,” Herzog said Monday at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference in Washington, D.C. “We should be grateful for this relationship.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
NY State Senate says it will cut CUNY funding over inaction on anti-Semitism charges
NEW YORK (JTA) — The New York State Senate approved a resolution to cut $485 million in funds for the City University of New York system, saying it was to “send a message” that the colleges were not taking enough action in response to campus anti-Semitism.
Last week’s vote, following a two-hour debate, came despite objections from numerous state senators who questioned whether the allegations of anti-Semitism are accurate and whether cutting funds was an appropriate response.
The alleged anti-Semitism came to the Senate’s attention in late February, when the Zionist Organization of America sent CUNY Chancellor James Milliken a lengthy letter detailing Jewish students’ complaints of anti-Semitism and warning that they violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which requires that federally funded universities ensure that Jewish students and others suffer no discrimination on campus.
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From PressTV
Riyadh, Ankara disrupting progress in Syria talks: Nasrallah
Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary general of Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah, says Saudi Arabia and Turkey are “disrupting any progress” in the ongoing negotiations between the Syrian government and the opposition aimed at ending five years of war in the Arab country.
“What is disrupting any progress toward a political solution is firstly Saudi Arabia, and secondly Turkey,” Nasrallah said during an interview with the Lebanese al-Mayadeen television channel broadcast on Monday.
The new round of UN-backed peace talks between the Syrian government and the opposition, known as the High Negotiations Committee (HNC), started in the Swiss city of Geneva on March 14.
UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura announced a halt to the previous round of the discussions on February 3 after the Saudi-backed opposition refused to continue the talks.
Saudi Arabia and Turkey are among the staunch supporters of Takfiri terrorist groups fighting against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad since March 2011. The two countries have always insisted that Assad must leave power for the war to end.
From PressTV
Talks on Assad future unworthy of answer: Syria UN envoy
Syria’s ambassador to the United Nations says talks about the future of President Bashar al-Assad do not deserve to be responded to.
Bashar Ja’afari, who also heads the government’s delegation to negotiations that are aimed at finding a solution to the ongoing Syria crisis, was talking to reporters in the Swiss city of Geneva at the start of a second week of talks with UN mediator, Staffan de Mistura, on Monday.
“President Assad has nothing to do with the Syria-Syria talks,” he said, adding that the “talks do not give any indication whatsoever with regard to the issue” of President Assad.
“This is something already excluded,” said Ja’afari, noting that little progress has been in the latest round of the talks.
Criticizing the slow pace of the negotiations, the top Syrian negotiator stressed that the armed groups operating in Syria, “remain terrorists,” regardless of their names.
Ja’afari emphasized that so far, the other party to the Syria talks has not shown any serious resolve to help with the progress of the negotiations.
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From Russia Today
Well protected military bases to remain in Syria – Kremlin spokesman
Published time: 21 Mar, 2016 14:04
A pilot of the Russian Airspace Forces gets aboard a Su-24 strike bomber at the Hmeimim airbase in the Latakia Governorate of Syria. © Ramil Sitdikov / Sputnik
President Vladimir Putin ordered the withdrawal of Russian forces from Syria, but the Khmeimim and Tartus bases are to stay, properly protected, the president’s spokesman said commenting on Startfor’s analysis of the Russian task force remaining in Syria.
“I just want to remind that the president has taken the decision to pull our contingent out, but to keep the temporary bases in Khmeimim and Tartus and maintain their security,” Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, said, stressing that questions about it should be addressed to the Ministry of Defense.
Speaking to veterans of the Syrian campaign, who came to the Kremlin to be decorated with orders and medals for their service, President Putin said personnel still stationed at Khmeimim and Tartus bases will continue serving “effectively secured from the sea, land and air.”
“All components of the air defense, including short range Pantzir-F systems and long range S-400 Triumph systems will be on permanent alert,” the president said.
“All of our partners have been warned and informed: our air defenses will engage any targets we consider endangering Russian servicemen. I want to stress that – any targets,” Putin said.
Last Friday, global intelligence think tank Stratfor published analysis based on commercial satellite imagery provided by the Digital Globe (DG) taken on March 17, which exposed the presence of a considerable number of warplanes and attack helicopters remaining at Khmeimim airbase in Latakia province.
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From Russia Today
Iraqi Shiite militias say US troops ‘forces of occupation,’ demand withdrawal
Published time: 21 Mar, 2016 12:57
U.S. Marines, Iraq © Gunnery Sgt. Mark Oliva / Reuters
Iran-backed Shiite militia forces in Iraq have strongly opposed new US troops deployed in the country. The militias warned that if Washington does not withdraw its forces “immediately,” they will deal with them “as forces of occupation.”
The US military are “making a new suspicious attempt to restore their presence in the country under the pretext of fighting their own creation, Daesh [acronym for Islamic State, IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL],” the Asaib Ahl al-Haq militia said on its TV channel, al-Ahd on Monday, as quoted by Reuters.
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From Ynet News
Obama meets Castro in the heart of revolutionay Havana
15 months after agreeing to end five decades of Cold War-era animosity and work to normalize relations, the American president visits Palace of the Revolution in Havana, which would’ve been unthinkable before Obama and Castro’s rapprochement in December 2014. HAVANA – US President Barack Obama was received by Cuban President Raul Castro in Havana on Monday at the start of historic talks where the US leader will press his counterpart for economic and democratic reforms while hearing complaints about US sanctions.
Obama arrived in Cuba on Sunday on a trip that comes 15 months after he and Castro agreed to end five decades of Cold War-era animosity and work to normalize relations. On the first full day of his visit, he went to the heart of Cuba’s Communist system, laying a wreath in Revolution Square at the memorial to independence hero Jose Marti. He moved on to the the nearby Palace of the Revolution, where Castro and his predecessor, older brother Fidel Castro, have led Cuba’s resistance to US pressure going back decades.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
A year after Nisman’s death, signs of progress in Argentina probe
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (JTA) — An extraordinary series of developments are bringing new hope — and new heartbreak — to the family and colleagues of Alberto Nisman, the Argentine federal prosecutor who was found dead last year just days after accusing then-President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner of covering up Iran’s role in the 1994 bombing of this city’s AMIA Jewish center.
Fourteen months after Nisman was found dead in his apartment with a single bullet in the head, no autopsy results have been released and no official cause of death has been determined.
But on Feb. 29, Antonio “Jaime” Stiuso, Argentina’s former head of intelligence operations, who has been living in exile in the United States for the past year, delivered bombshell testimony here, accusing Kirchner of ordering a hit on Nisman and seeking to portray his death as a suicide.
“They killed Nisman because of the work he was doing,” Stiuso said in testimony lasting 17 uninterrupted hours, according to numerous media reports.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Israeli government partnering with ‘Birthright for Jewish Moms’ project
(JTA) — The Israeli government is partnering with a group that brings Jewish women on trips to Israel, dubbed “Birthright for Jewish Moms,” to bring more women from Jewish communities facing increased threats of anti-Semitism and economic hardship.
The Jewish Women’s Renaissance Project, or JWRP, and Israel’s Ministry of Diaspora Affairs announced the $12.5 million expansion of the program on Sunday at the AIPAC policy conference in Washington. The Israeli government will provide $5.1 million and the JWRP will fundraise the rest.
The initiative is expected to bring an additional 5,600 women from 26 countries on the highly subsidized nine-day trips to Israel. Among the countries singled out for increased anti-Semitic threats and economic hardship are Argentina, Cuba, the former Soviet Union, France, the United States and Canada.
“This historic agreement allows us to continue to build a global movement united in the mission of empowering women to change the world through Jewish values,” Lori Palatnik, founding director of the JWRP, said in a statement.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Bernie Sanders trounces Hillary Clinton in overseas primary
(JTA) — American Democrats living abroad — including in Israel — overwhelmingly preferred Sen. Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton in a primary for expatriates.
Democrats Abroad, the official Democratic Party arm for American expats, announced Monday that Sanders, I-Vt., received 69 percent of the vote in its primary to 31 percent for Clinton, the former secretary of state and U.S. senator. As a result, Sanders picked up nine pledged delegates, while Clinton earned four delegates.
The 34,570 voters participating in the primary — conducted by fax, email and postal mail — live in more than 170 countries around the world.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The 9 most interesting things Hillary Clinton told AIPAC
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton greeting attendees prior to her address to the annual policy conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee in Washington, D.C., March 21, 2016. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton addressed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s annual policy conference on Monday morning. Here are the most interesting nuggets from her speech.
On being America’s first female president: “Some of us remember a woman, Golda Meir, leading Israel’s government decades ago and wonder: What’s taking us so long here in America?”
On Yitzhak Rabin’s smoking habit: “Since my first visit to Israel 35 years ago, I have returned many times and made many friends. I have worked with and learned from some of Israel’s great leaders — although I don’t think Yitzhak Rabin ever forgave me for banishing him to the White House balcony when he wanted to smoke.”
Clinton will invite Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House: “We will never allow Israel’s adversaries to think a wedge can be driven between us. As we have differences, as any friends do, we will work to resolve them quickly and respectfully … One of the first things I’ll do in office is invite the Israeli prime minister to visit the White House.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
235 Columbia faculty members sign letter backing Israel ties
Anti-Israel students at Columbia University erected a mock “apartheid wall” in front of the iconic Low Library steps during Israel Apartheid Week, March 3, 2016. (Uriel Heilman)
235 Columbia faculty members sign letter in support of ties with Israel
(JTA) — More than 200 Columbia University faculty members have signed a petition supporting the university’s ties with Israel and opposing divestment from companies that do business with the Jewish state.
The letter, which was posted online Sunday, is signed by some 235 professors and other faculty members. It comes in the wake of the establishment of Columbia University Apartheid Divest, which is calling on the university to “divest from corporations that supply, perpetuate, and profit from a system that has subjugated the Palestinian people,” according to the student newspaper, the Spectator.
From PressTV
Arab League blocks bid for Kurdish federal region in Syria
The Arab League has rejected the “separatist” Kurdish push for a federal government system in Syria, citing the risks it poses to the territorial integrity of the conflict-ridden country.
Ahmed Ben Helli, the deputy secretary of the pan-Arab bloc, said Monday that the Cairo-based organization does not recognize last week’s proclamation of a Kurdish region inside Syria.
On Thursday, Syrian Kurdish groups, along with their Arab and Assyrian Christian allies, declared a federal region in the country’s Kurdish-dominated north.
“The Arab League rejects such separatist calls that harm the unity of Syria,” Ben Helli told reporters, highlighting Syria’s unity as a “fundamental principle” of the Arab League.
The move was also denounced by the Damascus government, as well as the Saudi-backed Syrian opposition groups, aka the High Negotiations Committee, which took part in the latest round of UN-brokered peace negotiations in Geneva.
The US has also made it clear that it will not recognize any autonomous region set up by the Kurds and their allies under the federation, asserting that Syria’s future government will be negotiated in the UN talks.
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From Russia Today
Suicide bomber detonates hand grenade inside Belgrade bakery
Published time: 21 Mar, 2016 12:18
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A suicide bomber has detonated a hand grenade inside a bakery in Belgrade, Serbia, the country’s Ministry of Internal Affairs has confirmed. Ambulance crews and police are at the scene.
“An unknown man was killed today at around 12:38 p.m. (11:38 GMT) on Ilije Garasanina Street after he activated an explosive device in a cake shop,” a police statement said.
“Interior ministry officials are probing all the facts and circumstances of the event,” the statement continued.
The man reportedly entered the pastry shop, chased everyone out, and then detonated the device, RTS reports.
The suicide bomber was killed and one other person was injured, according to Serbia’s Ministry of Internal Affairs.
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From Russia Today
‘On wave of migration’: Kosovo PM admits his brother, other relatives sought asylum in EU
Published time: 21 Mar, 2016 10:17
Kosovo’s Prime Minister Isa Mustafa © Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters
Kosovo’s prime minister concedes his brother joined the wave of asylum seekers in the EU in 2015. Contrary to the expectations of 1.8 million Kosovars, the Serbian province remains one of the poorest entities in Europe.
PM Isa Mustafa said on Facebook that his brother Ragip and his children had tried to escape a doubtful future in Kosovo, which declared unilateral independence in 2008, and joined other Kosovars that infiltrated Europe through the so-called Balkan corridor. It was earlier reported by the Pristina-based Insajderi media outlet.
“I read that my brother was an asylum seeker to get medical help. This is true,” Mustafa’s Facebook page entry read.
According to Insajderi, Mustafa’s brother with the family managed to get into the EU via Serbia and Hungary before Budapest ordered the border with Serbia be sealed. Initially attempting to apply for asylum in France, Ragip Mustafa made another application in Germany in June 2015, Insajderi reported.
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