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From Russia Today
Israelis should kill Palestinian assailants without second thought, ignore courts – Chief Rabbi
Published time: 15 Mar, 2016 14:34
© Ronen Zvulun / Reuters
The contentious topic of how to react to armed Palestinians on Israeli territory has taken a new twist, as the country’s chief Sephardic rabbi called to ignore warnings by the Army not to overreact, and instead kill anyone they believe poses a threat.
“If someone comes to kill you, you kill him first. Don’t start being afraid with all kinds of accusations that they’ll make about him later in the High Court of Justice, or that some chief of staff will come and say something different.. . It deters them too,” Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef was cited as saying by Israeli media.
“The moment a terrorist knows that if he comes with a knife he won’t return alive, that will deter them. That’s why it’s a mitzvah to kill him.”
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Trump and Clinton move toward general election face-off, Rubio quits race
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump each won the Florida primaries for their parties, along with other states, bringing them one major step closer to a general election face-off.
Marco Rubio suspended his campaign Tuesday. Winning Florida, his home state, was critical to keeping alive Rubio’s hopes for the presidency.
“While it is clear that we are on the right side, this year we will not be on the winning side,” Rubio said.
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From PressTV
Syria to US: Tell Turkey, Saudi Arabia to stop funding terrorists
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s political and media adviser says it is now time for the US to pressure Turkey and Saudi Arabia to stop supporting Takfiri militants wreaking havoc in the country.
Bouthaina Shaaban made the remarks during an interview with the Lebanon-based al-Mayadeen television channel on Tuesday, a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that “the main part” of the Russian forces would start to withdraw from Syria.
“The ball is now in the United States’ court and the next step will be American pressure on Turkey and Saudi Arabia to stop funding terrorists and stop the flow of weapons,” Shaaban said.
“It is very possible to close the borders and keep out mercenaries,” she added.
Saudi Arabia and Turkey, along with other allies including Qatar, have time and again been implicated in providing financial and logistical support for the Takfiris in an effort to bring down the Syrian government.
Referring to Russia as any “ally and friend” that has based its relations with Syria on respect and “consultation”, she noted that the partial Russian troops withdrawal does not mean they “cannot return.”
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From Russia Today
Branding migrants ‘scum’ could earn PEGIDA leader five years in slammer
Published time: 15 Mar, 2016 13:31
Lutz Bachmann of anti-immigration group PEGIDA, a German abbreviation for “Patriotic Europeans against the Islamization of the West”. © Hannibal Hanschke / Reuters
Germany’s strict laws against hate speech could land the leader of anti-Islam group PEGIDA a five-year prison stretch, after he allegedly branded migrants “scum” and “cattle” on social media.
More than a year after photos emerged online of him sporting a Hitler mustache and side-part, incendiary PEGIDA founder Lutz Bachmann is due to be hauled in front of a German judge in Dresden.
Ironically, it’s the Fascist dictator upon whom Bachmann once styled his hair that most influenced Germany’s public disturbance and anti-hate laws.
Bachmann’s charges relate to comments made last October on the PEGIDA Facebook page, the online platform from where the controversial xenophobic movement first rose to prominence in late 2014.
On Monday, Bachmann was accused of having “disrupted public order” for publishing derogatory and undignified comments last October, report The Local.
#PEGIDA #AufDieStraße #MontagIstPEGIDATag #DresdenZeigtWiesGeht #SchliesstEuchAn Danke für dieses Video vom Montag…
Posted by PEGIDA on Wednesday, January 20, 2016
The group’s social media page has more than 200,000 supporters. Protest marches against the Islamification of the West are organized and celebrated on the site.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Rivlin to tell Putin: Syria pullout must not strengthen Iran, Hezbollah
(JTA) — Any future peace agreement in Syria must not end up strengthening Iran and Hezbollah, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin will tell Russian President Vladimir Putin when they meet in Moscow.
With Wednesday’s meeting, Rivlin will be the first international leader to meet with Putin since his surprise announcement on Monday that Russia will withdraw most of its troops from the civil war in Syria.
“We want Iran and Hezbollah not to emerge strengthened from this entire process,” Rivlin told reporters on a flight Tuesday to Moscow. “Everybody agrees that the Islamic State organization is a danger to the entire world, but Shiite Iranian fundamentalist Islam is for us just as dangerous.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Israel reportedly to raise Egypt border fence to block African migrants
(JTA) — Israel reportedly plans to increase the height of its fence on the Egyptian border in an effort to keep out African migrants.
Defense officials said Tuesday the fence will be raised by 20 feet in response to an uptick in the numbers of Africans making it over, some using ladders, Haaretz reported.
The fence along the Egyptian border was built between 2010 and 2015. Just 14 people illegally crossed the border in 2014, compared with 12,000 in 2010, but the number has risen to 200 in the past year, according to Haaretz.
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From PressTV
Reduced violence in Syria raises hope of end to war: UN body
The UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria on Tuesday welcomed the recent reduction in violence in the country, saying the current situation raises hope of an end to the five-year turmoil there.
“Now, for the first time, there is hope of an end in sight,” Paulo Sergio Pinheiro told reporters in Geneva, Switzerland.
Speaking to the UN Human Rights Council earlier in the day, Pinheiro hailed the partial ceasefire that has largely held since February 27. The truce does not apply to the Takfiri Daesh and al-Nusra Front terrorists.
The official said the cessation of hostilities had finally allowed many Syrian citizens to experience “a return to normalcy in their daily lives.”
“There are, at last, glimpses of a Syria at peace,” Pinheiro stated, emphasizing that the ceasefire had paved the way for the new round of Syria peace talks.
The UN-brokered indirect negotiations between the Damascus government and the foreign-backed opposition resumed in Geneva on March 14.
UN Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura announced a halt to the first round of the discussions on February 3 after the opposition refused to continue the talks.
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From PressTV
Israel systematically executing Palestinians: Judicial office
A high-status Palestinian judicial office says Israeli military forces fire an excessive number of bullets on Palestinians even after shooting them dead during various encounters in the occupied West Bank.
Ashraf Mashal, the head of the General Prosecutors’ Office in al-Khalil (Hebron), said on Tuesday that autopsies performed on three Palestinian youths killed the previous day in the city revealed that Israeli soldiers had sprayed their dead bodies with additional rounds.
Mashal said Israeli forces fired many live rounds into the heads of the three Palestinians apart from firing shots into various parts of their bodies.
Two Palestinians were fatally shot on Monday morning as they purportedly opened fire on and sought to run over Israeli troopers near the illegal Kiryat Arba settlement on the outskirts of al-Khalil, located about 30 kilometers (19 miles) south of al-Quds (Jerusalem).
An Israeli soldier was injured during the exchange of gunfire between the Palestinian pair and the Israeli forces.
Moments later, Israeli military forces shot and killed another Palestinian youth in the same area as he allegedly tried to carry out a similar car ramming attack. Two Israeli troopers sustained injuries in the second assault.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health identified the Palestinians as Qasim Farid Jaber and Ameer Fuad al-Junaidi from al-Khalil, and Yousef Mustafa Tarayra, 18, from the town of Bani Naim, east of al-Khalil.
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From Russia Today
Second batch of Russian jets leaves Syria airbase
Published time: 16 Mar, 2016 04:36
Pilots of Russian Su-34 bomber jets from Syria welcomed home at an airbase in Voronezh region. © Igor Kovalenko / Sputnik
The second group of Russian warplanes left the Khmeimim airbase in Syria’s Latakia province on Wednesday morning, the Russian Ministry of Defense has announced.
“Another group of Russian aircraft took off from the airbase in Khmeimim heading to places of permanent deployment on the territory of the Russian Federation,” the military statement said.
The ministry added that the new batch of planes comprising Su-25 fighter jets is led by a strategic airlifter, the Il-76. All planes returning to home bases in Russia are flying in “flocks” headed by a “leader” aircraft – either Tu-154 or Il-76 transport aircraft – that carries the technical engineering crew, along with other cargo.
Once the group reaches the Russian border, each individual plane separates from the squadron and heads to its original place of deployment.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Don McLean denies wife’s accusations that he is anti-Semitic
(JTA) — “American Pie” singer Don McLean has denied allegations from his “soon-to-be ex-wife” that he called her an anti-Semitic slur.
“Among the many lies told about me by my soon to be ex-wife Patricia is the statement that 24 years ago I made an anti-semetic [sic] remark,” McLean wrote Monday on Twitter, misspelling his wife’s name, Patrisha.
“This is false given the facts. I was married for almost 30 years to a Jewish woman who I worshiped[sic]. I was proud to have 2 Jewish children.”
The 70-year-old rock star also noted that he had written a song called “Jerusalem” and is a “staunch supporter of Israel.”
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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.
