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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Israeli daily poll: 47% back Iran strike following nuke deal
(JTA) — Seventy-one percent of Israelis say they believe accord brings Iran closer to bomb, and 51 percent support bypassing Obama in effort to nix it.
Forty-seven percent of respondents in a survey conducted by Maariv, an Israeli daily, supported a military strike to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear arms.
The poll was published Friday after Tuesday’s nuclear deal between Tehran and major world powers, which agreed on the details of an unsigned accord that would offer Tehran sanctions relief in exchange for a scaling back of the Iranian nuclear program.
The paper did not give a sample size or margin of error for the poll carried out by Panels Politics Polling Institute. It did not provide information on respondents’ age, gender or religion.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
House Republicans introduce bill of disapproval of Iran deal
WASHINGTON (JTA) — U.S. House of Representatives Republicans introduced a resolution voicing disapproval of the Iran nuclear deal, paving the way to a debate on it.
Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.) and another 171 Republicans on Thursday introduced a bill expressing “its firm disapproval” of the deal reached two days earlier by the major powers and Iran, which would trade sanctions relief for a rollback of Iran’s nuclear activities.
It’s not yet clear how the debate will proceed: whether the House or the Senate would consider the deal first, and whether the bill would be one of approval or disapproval.
Should the congressional leadership advance Roskam’s bill, the parameters of the debate over the next two months, and the time allotted to Congress to review the deal, sets up a clear confrontation between Congress and the White House.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Christian Zionist group launches lobbying fund to oppose Iran pact
WASHINGTON (JTA) — When the last plaintive shofar blast echoed through the Washington Convention Center at the conclusion of the annual Christians United for Israel Policy Conference, it was not the record attendance of 5,000 fired-up pro-Israel Christians that marked a turning point for the 10-year-old group.
Instead, it was the July 13 briefing by CUFI Executive Director David Brog, and Gary Bauer, a national CUFI leader, for a half-dozen journalists — this reporter among them — that revealed a muscular new role for the organization.
CUFI has spun off a ready-to-rumble political lobbying arm called the Christians United for Israel Action Fund. Its inaugural effort will be to oppose the Iran nuclear deal, which was announced earlier this week and is now being reviewed by Congress. “Not only has Iran not stopped its support for terror, it has not been asked to stop its support for terror,” Brog said during the briefing.
Working independently of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the CUFI fund promises to deliver its national reservoir of 2.2 million Christian Zionist followers.
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From PressTV
Israeli troops shoot, wound Palestinian teen in Gaza
Israeli forces have shot and wounded a Palestinian teenager in the southern Gaza Strip in yet another act of violence against Palestinians in the besieged enclave.
According to witnesses, Mansour Abu Taima was hit with a live bullet in his left foot in the city of Abasan al-Kabira, located in the east of Khan Younis Governorate in Gaza on Friday evening, Palestinian Ma’an news agency reported.
The 14-year-old teen was taken to the European Gaza Hospital, where his injury was said to be moderate.
At least 11 incidents of Israeli use of live fire against Palestinians were reported last week in the Israeli-imposed so-called access-restricted areas or the buffer zone in the Gaza Strip, prohibiting Palestinians from accessing large swathes of their land and sea.
A total of 38 incidents of shooting and incursions by Israelis into the blockaded coastal sliver as well as arrests were also reported in March alone, according to the latest figures released by the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), a Gaza City-based organization dedicated to protecting human rights.
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From PressTV
Tel Aviv to seek US compensation over Iran nuclear talks: Minister
Israel’s Minister of Military Affairs Moshe Ya’alon says the regime will seek “compensation” from the United States over the recent conclusion of nuclear talks between Iran and world powers.
In a Friday interview with Israel’s channel 2, Ya’alon claimed that Tel Aviv will “discuss the compensation that Israel deserves in order to maintain its qualitative [military] edge” due to factors including “Iran’s status as a nuclear threshold state, and the fact that Iran is about to receive billions” following the removal of anti-Tehran sanctions.
On July 14, Iran and the P5+1 group — the United States, Britain, France, China, Russia and Germany — reached a conclusion on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in the Austrian capital city of Vienna following 18 days of talks over Tehran’s nuclear program.
Israel claims that any sanctions relief would make it easier for Iran to continue to support the anti-Israel front, including the Lebanese resistance movement of Hezbollah and the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas.
Israel can’t accept putting off Iran conflict
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From Ynet News
Tennessee shooter was upset over Gaza war
Friend of Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez says gunman sent him a text hours before shooting in Chattanooga with a link to an Islamic verse that says: ‘Whosoever shows enmity to a friend of Mine, then I have declared war against him’.
Reuters, 07.18.15
Friends of a gunman who killed killed five US servicemen in Tennessee said he was upset about Operation Protective Edge in Gaza last summer and the civil war in Syria.
The suspect, Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, a 24-year-old Kuwaiti-born naturalized US citizen, was killed in a gunfight with police.
“He felt Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia were not doing enough to help, and that they were heavily influenced by the United States,” said one friend.
Another friend said, “He had always talked about it, but I’d say his level of understanding and awareness really rose after he came back.”
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Hamas, Saudi leaders reportedly meet for first time in years
(JTA) — Top Hamas officials reportedly met with senior Saudi leaders Friday, the first such meeting in years.
The meeting on Friday included Khaled Meshaal, the political head of the Palestinian Islamist group that controls the Gaza Strip, and Saudi Arabia’s King Salman, Reuters reported, citing an unnamed Hamas source. The article did not say where the meeting took place.
Reuters described the meeting as indicating a potential rapprochement between the U.S.-allied kingdom and the Palestinian group, which seeks to eliminate the State of Israel and has been responsible for hundreds of terrorist attacks against Israeli citizens.
“The delegation discussed Palestinian unity and the political situation in the region. This meeting will hopefully develop relations between Hamas and Saudi Arabia,” the Hamas source told Reuters.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Netanyahu and Abbas speak for first time in 13 months
(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on the phone, marking the first time the two have spoken in over a year.
Netanyahu phoned Abbas on Friday to wish him a happy Eid al-Fitr, Haaretz reported. Eid al-Fitr is the Muslim holiday that marks the end of the month of Ramadan.
During the call, Netanyahu said Israel’s citizens want peace and Israel will continue to act to ensure stability in the region, according to a press release issued by the Prime Minister’s Office.
Abbas said it was important to reach a peace deal in the coming year, Haaretz reported, citing a Palestinian news agency. The two leaders have not spoken directly since June 2014, when Abbas called Netanyahu to say he condemned the kidnapping of three Jewish teenagers in the West Bank.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Top Senate foreign policy Democrat and Republican urge Obama to delay U.N. vote
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee urged President Obama to postpone a U.N. Security Council vote on the Iran deal, saying it usurps the role of Congress.
Under the Iran nuclear deal reached this week in Vienna between the major powers and Iran, the U.N. Security Council must endorse its terms.
Foreign Policy reported Wednesday that Samantha Power, the U.S. envoy to the United Nations, is circulating a draft resolution on the council that would endorse the deal. Such an endorsement would be legally binding and could inhibit any bid by Congress to reject the deal.
“The Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act, a bill which 98 Senators and 400 Representatives supported and you signed, established a 60-day period for Congress to consider the nuclear agreement,” said the letter to Obama Thursday by Sens. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Ben Cardin (D-Md.), respectively the chairman and ranking member of the Foreign Relations Committee, which will be among the first bodies to review the Iran deal.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Christian Zionist group launches lobbying fund to oppose Iran pact
WASHINGTON (JTA) — When the last plaintive shofar blast echoed through the Washington Convention Center at the conclusion of the annual Christians United for Israel Policy Conference, it was not the record attendance of 5,000 fired-up pro-Israel Christians that marked a turning point for the 10-year-old group.
Instead, it was the July 13 briefing by CUFI Executive Director David Brog, and Gary Bauer, a national CUFI leader, for a half-dozen journalists — this reporter among them — that revealed a muscular new role for the organization.
CUFI has spun off a ready-to-rumble political lobbying arm called the Christians United for Israel Action Fund. Its inaugural effort will be to oppose the Iran nuclear deal, which was announced earlier this week and is now being reviewed by Congress. “Not only has Iran not stopped its support for terror, it has not been asked to stop its support for terror,” Brog said during the briefing.
Working independently of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the CUFI fund promises to deliver its national reservoir of 2.2 million Christian Zionist followers.
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From PressTV
Israel fumes at ICC move to probe into Gaza flotilla raid
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is infuriated by the International Criminal Court (ICC) request to reopen a probe into the Zionist regime’s 2010 attack on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.
Netanyahu on Thursday said that the move is motivated by “cynical political reasons.”
He claimed that the Israeli forces acted in self-defense in stopping the flotilla, saying the raid was aimed at maintaining the regime’s naval blockade on the Gaza Strip.
Netanyahu’s remarks came after the ICC ordered its chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to reopen a probe into the attack which left nine Turkish activists dead.
In a statement on Thursday, a panel of three ICC judges said the prosecutor “committed material errors in her determination of the gravity of the potential case,” requesting her to reconsider decision not to investigate the event.
From Ynet News
Exit of Anti-Defamation League head marks shift for US Jews
The world has changed during Abe Foxman’s 28 years as ADL chief: Anti-Semitism is declining in the US but on the rise in Europe, and the Internet has become a major battleground.
Associated Press, 07.18.15
Over 28 years as head of the Anti-Defamation League, Abe Foxman emerged as a forceful torchbearer for American Jews. He counseled presidents and diplomats, CEOs and celebrities.
He took on prominent figures over anti-Semitic remarks or representations – actor Mel Gibson among them – and accepted any ensuing apologies on behalf of an entire community. No other US Jewish leader has wielded as much influence with policymakers, faith leaders and US Jews.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Netanyahu plans inquiry of Beitar soccer fans who rioted in Belgium
(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he plans to conduct an inquiry into “possible action” against Israeli soccer fans who rioted in Belgium.
In a statement released Friday, Netanyahu condemned “a small group of Beitar Jerusalem fans” who the previous day “besmirched an entire fan base and harmed the country’s image,” the Jerusalem Post reported.
A number of the team’s fans, who are known for being right wing and anti-Arab, threw smoke bombs, flares and firecrackers at a Europa League qualifying round match in the Belgian city.
READ: Racism in Israeli soccer? Join the (reprehensible club)
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From The Times of Israel
Emmy nominees include ‘Who’s Who’ of A-List Jews
From Mayim Bialik to ‘Mad Men,’ Jewish actors, writers and series vie for top TV awards
JTA — Nominees for the 2015 Emmy Awards were announced Thursday, and the list reads like a “Who’s Who” of A-list Jews in the entertainment business.
Among the Jewish machers who scored nominations is Jon Stewart (who’s now preparing for his final bow on “The Daily Show”), for Outstanding Variety Talk Series.
Another is Liev Schreiber, for Outstanding Actor in a Drama for Showtime’s “Ray Donovan.”
Below are some of our top picks for Jewish actors, writers and series who could take home the trophy this year:
1. David Benioff and D.B. Weiss
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