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From The Times of Israel
Iran deal ‘done,’ Israeli report says, after major US concessions
Channel 2 analyst Ehud Yaari says agreement will be signed early next week after US drops demand for snap inspections; Obama faces challenge of securing Congress’ approval
July 10, 2015, 9:59 pm
A deal has been reached between the world powers and Iran over the latter’s nuclear program after a series of major American concessions, Ehud Yaari, the Middle East affairs commentator for Israel’s Channel 2 television, said Friday night. “It is done. It is done,” he said, and will be signed “early next week.”
The aim of the agreement is to put a negotiated end to a 13-year standoff with Iran over its suspect nuclear program and to block its pathway to developing a nuclear bomb in exchange for lifting biting global sanctions. Israel’s leadership has relentlessly opposed the emerging agreement, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warning that it will pave Iran’s path to a nuclear arsenal.
According to Yaari, Israel’s most respected Middle East analyst, the deal was reached because the Americans “have made a series of capitulations over the past two to three weeks in almost every key aspect that was being debated.”
Yaari said that even those in the US who had supported the agreement with Iran “admit that it is worse than they thought.” Now, he said, the ball is in the court of Democratic lawmakers who have to decide whether to support their president as he seeks to secure Congressional approval, or to join the vocal Republican opposition to an agreement.
From The Times of Israel
Nasrallah: Iran is the last hope for region, Palestinians
In al-Quds Day speech, Hezbollah chief says road to Jerusalem passes through Syria, vows Iran will never recognize Israel as a state
July 10, 2015, 9:36 pm
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said Friday that Iran is the only remaining hope for the Palestinians and that the road to Jerusalem passes through Syria
At his annual speech for al-Quds Day, Nasrallah linked Hezbollah’s role in the Syrian civil war on behalf of the Assad regime and of Iran to the Palestinians, claiming that those who oppose Iran also oppose the Palestinian cause.
Across Iran, Lebanon and Iraq, millions took part in anti-Israel and anti-US rallies on Friday, chanting “Down with America” and “Death to Israel” for the event, internationally observed annually on the last Friday of the month of Ramadan. The controversial holiday was proclaimed in 1979 by Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as a religious duty for all Muslims to rally in solidarity against Israel and for the “liberation” of Jerusalem.
“Our fighters who fall in Syria are dying for the sake of the resistance in Syria, Lebanon and Palestine. The road to Jerusalem does not go through Jounieh, but it goes through Qalamoun, Zabadani, Daraa and Hasakeh [Syrian battlefields], because if Syria is lost, Palestine would be lost,” Nasrallah said in the televised address.
“You can’t be a supporter of Palestine unless you are a supporter of Iran and Iran’s enemies are the enemies of Jerusalem. The only hope left for this region, after God, is the Iranian republic and its support for the resistance movements in the region,” the Hezbollah chief went on.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Israel shuts down Palestinian TV station
(JTA) — Israel’s public security minister has decreed that a new Palestinian TV station geared towards Israeli Arabs cannot broadcast from Israel for six months.
Gilad Erdan signed an order on Thursday barring the Palestinian Authority-funded station F48, or Palestine 48, from operating from its headquarters in the Northern Israeli city of Nazareth. The decision was made because of the Palestinian Authority’s role in the station, not because of questionable content being shown on the channel.
Erdan said that he does not want “Israel’s sovereignty to be harmed” or for the Palestinian Authority to gain a “foothold” in the country.
Last month, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed the head of the Communications Ministry to work on shuttering the station. Netanyahu urged ministry staffers to investigate the channel’s legality, particularly with regard to Palestinian Authority funding.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Brog to lead anti-BDS campus group
WASHINGTON (JTA) — An initiative that would combat the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement on campuses named its leader the director of a Christian Zionist group.
David Brog, who currently directs Christians United for Israel, will assume the leadership of Campus Maccabees, the Forward reported this week.
Campus Maccabees is an initiative of Sheldon Adelson, a casino magnate who backs Republicans, and Haim Saban, an entertainment mogul who backs Democrats. Both are prominent pro-Isarel donors and have cooperated in the past.
Brog is Jewish. He is expected to resign as CUFI’s director, but to remain involved with the organization, the Forward reported.
From PressTV
Israel jails Palestinian over Facebook ‘incitement’
An Israeli court has handed down an 18-month jail term to a Palestinian man over his posts on the social media website Facebook.
Misbah Sbeih Abu Sbeih, 38, was sentenced to one year in jail and received a six-month suspended sentence for what the court in al-Quds (Jerusalem) described as using Facebook as a mode of “incitement,” Palestinian Ma’an news agency reported on Thursday.
Abu Sbeih’s phone was also confiscated as the tool used for the crime, the report said.
Palestinian people are regularly arrested by Israeli forces for posting on Facebook.
Another Palestinian man, identified as Tareq Qurd, was detained on June 30 shortly after he was freed from jail following a six-month detention for similar charges.
From Ynet News
Kerry: Some outstanding issues ‘resolved’ in Iran nuclear talks
Sides extend deadline for third time until Monday, as Iran FM Zarif blames West for impasse in talks: ‘Now they have excessive demands’.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said progress had been made Friday in tough talks with Iran on its nuclear program, praising what he called the “constructive” atmosphere.
“I think we have resolved some of the things that were outstanding and we’ve made some progress,” he said, speaking to a few reporters as he met with his team of experts in Vienna.
From Ynet News
Lebanese report: Israeli drone crashed near Tripoli port
Lebanon Army posts photos of alleged UAV, which it says belongs to ‘the Israeli enemy’; IDF declines comment on reports.
The Lebanese army said an unmanned Israeli reconnaissance drone crashed into the sea off the port of the northern coastal city of Tripoli on Saturday. The IDF declined comment on the reports.
“Around 8:30 am, a drone that belongs to the Israeli enemy crashed at Tripoli port,” the Lebanese army said in a statement.
Photo posted on Lebanese army Twitter of alleged Israeli drone.
From The Times of Israel
US Jewish groups talk security with senior officials
Leaders of national organizations meet with Homeland Security secretary on protection for Jewish institutions
July 9, 2015, 7:16 pm
WASHINGTON — Jewish community leaders met Wednesday with the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and other top security agencies staff to discuss protection for Jewish institutions.
Jeh Johnson and his deputy, Alejandro Mayorkas, “underscored the department’s continued efforts to expand partnerships with faith-based and community organizations and state and local officials on civil rights and civil liberties to safeguard local communities,” said a DHS statement released after the event in Washington, DC.
Following the meeting with Johnson, Mayorkas helped lead a tabletop simulation of an attack on Jewish institutions that included leaders of an array of national Jewish groups and representatives from DHS, the FBI and state police agencies.
The simulation underscored “the importance of community engagement to effectively protect communities from violent extremist threats,” the DHS statement said.
The exercise was planned before last month’s deadly attack on a black church in Charleston, South Carolina.
From The Times of Israel
Reform Jews ‘stab Torah in the back’ — ultra-Orthodox lawmaker
MK Moshe Gafni weighs in day after religious services minister says non-Orthodox Jews aren’t Jews; Bennett strongly rebuts statement
July 8, 2015, 2:14 pm
An ultra-Orthodox Knesset member waded into a new “who is a Jew” furor Wednesday, saying that while he does consider Reform Jews to be Jewish, they are “stabbing the holy Torah in the back.”
The remarks by Moshe Gafni of the United Torah Judaism party came a day after Israel’s Religious Services Minister David Azoulay said he does not consider Reform and Conservative Jews to be Jewish, and urged them to turn to Orthodox Judaism.
Gafni told Army Radio that while Conservative and Reform Jews were “Jewish, no question about it,” the two religious denominations nonetheless “take the Torah and tear it to pieces, heaven forbid.”
Gafni further claimed that Reform and Conservative Jews were to blame for the high rates of intermarriage in the US and Canada.
“They sinned, and I pray that they will repent,” he concluded.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Ex-rugby star turned NFL player: ‘Jews killed Jesus’
Jarryd Hayne is an Australian rugby star trying to make an unusual transition to the NFL as a potential member of the San Francisco 49ers.
He also seems to be trying to stir up a millennia-old anti-Semitic debate.
“Jesus wanted to help people but was killed by his own people,” Hayne tweeted on July 1. A day later he added: “The Jews were the people who took him [Jesus] to the Romans n [sic] forced them to give the order because they couldn’t.”
Hayne deleted the tweets on Friday.
