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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
WATCH: Recalling Holocaust, Jewish congressman slams bias against Syrian refugees
Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, knows from Jewish history. He also knows from Syrian history.
A leader of the (unofficial) congressional Jewish caucus, he is out and front on Jewish and pro-Israel issues. He also helped write the 2003 Syria Accountability Act, which isolated the Assad regime, in part because of its abuses of the rights of its citizens and of its neighbor Lebanon.
Engel melded both interests in a speech Wednesday at a joint meeting on foreign fighters convened by the Foreign Affairs and Homeland Security Committees, with a rhetorical device invoking the helplessness of Jews in 1938 as a measure of a real and present bias against Syrians. He used the casual locution “the other day” to lead into a powerful punch, saying:
I look forward to a good conversation about what we do now. Because it’s up to us whether we will stand with our allies and partners and effectively confront an enemy, or allow fear and panic to make us forget who we are and what we stand for as a nation. And I’d like to say a bit about that, because I’m unsettled by what I’ve heard from some people in Congress this week.
I read a poll the other day. The question was quote, “What’s your attitude towards allowing political refugees to come into the US?” unquote. Sixty-seven point four agreed with the response, “With conditions as they are, we should try to keep them out.” More than two thirds. “Try to keep them out.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Effigy of haredi Jew burned at Polish protest against refugees
WARSAW, Poland (JTA) – An effigy of a haredi Orthodox Jew was burned at the end of a demonstration in Poland against taking in Muslim refugees.
Dozens protested Wednesday evening in front of the City Hall in Wroclaw, in western Poland.
When one of the demonstrators set fire to the effigy, which was holding the flag of the European Union, others chanted “God, Honor and Fatherland.”
Piotr Kadlcik, a Polish-Jewish activist, told JTA, “Recalling anti-Jewish stereotypes proves that we are still divided and that cooperation is not possible.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
British Jewish lawmaker raps Twitter for handling of anti-Semitic tweets
Luciana Berger, 34, the Labour Party’s shadow minister for mental health, was subjected to as many as 2,500 anti-Semitic tweets over a three-day span in October 2014. On Wednesday, she said that Twitter has not taken enough steps to curb anti-Semitic content on the site, which she still receives.
“It did feel that progress was frustratingly slow,” Berger, Britain’s youngest Jewish parliamentarian, told the Jewish Chronicle in London about last year’s incident. “Twitter asked me to report any abusive tweets using what was then an onerous online system which took a few minutes to report every tweet.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Pollard will need US gov’t permission to travel for as long as 5 years
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Jonathan Pollard may not leave his area of residence for up to five years after his release without advance permission of his probation officer, the U.S. Justice Department said.
The Justice Department on Wednesday published the terms of parole for Pollard, the spy for Israel sentenced to life in 1987. He will be released on Friday from a federal prison in Butner, North Carolina.
Under the terms, the Justice Department said in emails to JTA, Pollard must serve the remainder of his term – effectively five years — in a “district of release” that a department spokesman declined to define. Pollard’s lawyers have said that he will live and work in New York City.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Jewish, Arab birthrates in Israel about even
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The birthrate of Jewish and Arab women in Israel is about even, according to new Israeli figures.
Jewish women in Israel had a birthrate of 3.11 children and Arab women had a birthrate of 3.17 children at the end of 2014, according to Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics. The figures were released Tuesday, ahead of World Children’s Day.
Slightly more than a decade ago, there was nearly a two-child gap in the birthrate, with Arab women at 4.3 compared to Jewish women at 2.6.
At a total of 2.74 million, children make up 33 percent of Israel’s population, according to the CBS. Some 1.945 million, or 71 percent, are Jewish and 713,000, or 26 percent, are Arab.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
John Kasich would create department of Judeo-Christian values as president
WASHINGTON (JTA) — As president, Republican candidate John Kasich said he would establish a government department to promote Judeo-Christian values.
In an interview Tuesday with NBC, Kasich described the department as a latter-day version of the pro-Western propaganda that the United States broadcast in the former Soviet Union.
“Its job would be fundamentally to revive what we used to do when we beamed messages into the former Soviet Union,” said the Ohio governor, who is among more than a dozen hopefuls vying for his party’s nomination. “We need to beam messages around the world about what it means to have a Western ethic to be part of a Judeo-Christian society.”
Kasich said it would target four regions where freedoms are absent: Russia, China, Iran and the Middle East. Post-Soviet Russia is a society where Christian influence, through the Russian Orthodox Church, is pervasive. Kasich did not explain how or why he was distinguishing Iran from the Middle East.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
11 Jewish groups join call for Congress to accept Syrian refugees into US
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Eleven Jewish groups are among 81 that sent a letter to Congress members urging them not to roll back plans to accept Syrian refugees into the United States.
“To turn our back on refugees would be to betray our nation’s core values,” said the letter sent Tuesday, as Congress began considering measures that would put a stop to the Obama administration’s plans to bring in 10,000 Syrian refugees over the next year. “It would send a demoralizing and dangerous message to the world that the United States makes judgments about people based on the country they come from and their religion.”
Among the Jewish groups signing are the Union for Reform Judaism, HIAS, the National Council of Jewish Women, the Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee.
Calls, especially from Republicans, to stop the refugee plan have proliferated since the massive terrorist attack in Paris last Friday. There is evidence that one of the attackers may have slipped in with the refugees flooding Europe, though Germany’s top security expert said a passport carried by one of the attackers may have been a ploy to stoke fears. A majority of state governors, most of them Republicans, have said their states will not take in the refugees, although states have little say in where refugees are settled.
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From Russia Today
NATO’s Allied Rapid Reaction Corps to test ‘simulated’ troop deployment near Russian borders
Published time: 18 Nov, 2015 11:59
More than five thousand air, sea and ground troops take part in a multinational NATO maritime exercise BALTOPS in the Baltic Sea to demonstrate the resolve of allied and partner forces to defend the Baltic region near Ustka, Poland June 17, 2015. © Agencja Gazetai / Reuters
NATO is conducting its first-ever test deployment of troops in the Baltic from a UK-based command center. The simulated build-up close to Russia’s borders is aimed at checking the capabilities of the organisation’s Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) to control large formations ‘within a challenging security crisis.’
A large-scale command exercise named Arrcade Fusion 15 (AF15), lasting two weeks and involving over 1,700 troops from 20 NATO countries plus Sweden, is underway in three Baltic states – Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. AF15 is a command-post exercise by the ARRC, which is based in Gloucestershire, UK. Arrcade Fusion exercises have taken place annually since 1992.
This year the ARRC is deploying its headquarters for the exercises to the Baltics for the first time at Latvia’s Lielvarde air base, with elements working concurrently in Lithuania, Estonia and the main HQ in the UK.
Official statements say the scenario for the maneuvers is “fictitious” with “realistic global security threats” played on computers only.
“My aim is to evaluate our deployability, test key emerging concepts that can be used to develop NATO’s Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF), and strengthen our partnership with our allies, especially those in the Baltic region,” said Commander of HQ ARRC Lt Gen Tim Evans.
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From Russia Today
Russia hits 206 ISIS targets in Syria after confirming bomb downed passenger plane over Sinai
Published time: 18 Nov, 2015 11:42
A Russian Tupolev 95 long-range bomber launches a massive air strike on the Islamic State infrastructure in Syria. © Ministry of defence of the Russian Federation / RIA Novosti
On the day Moscow officially confirmed a terrorist attack as the cause of last month’s downing of a passenger plane in Egypt, the Russian military hit over 200 terrorist targets in Syria in 127 sorties.
The escalated Russian operation involved not only warplanes flying from an airfield near Latakia, but also strategic bombers operating from Russian territory.
On Tuesday, Russian warplanes conducted 127 sorties and hit 206 targets, a source in the Russian defense ministry told RT.
Russian strategic bombers such as Tu-22M3s, Tu-95MCs and Tu-160s were previously used for patrol missions as part of Russia’s nuclear deterrence. Their deployment in a conventional armed conflict marks an evolution in Russian military tactics.
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From Russia Today
Far-right party skyrockets to top 3 in German polls amid refugee crisis
Published time: 18 Nov, 2015 06:23
Supporters of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) demonstrate against the German government’s new policy for migrants in Berlin, Germany, November 7, 2015 © Hannibal Hanschke / Reuters
Anti-refugee rhetoric has propelled the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party to third place in the country, a fresh poll has revealed.
According to a weekly survey by INSA, AfD would have received 10.5 percent of the vote if an election was held Wednesday.
This means that the ultranationalist party has surged ahead of left-leaning parties the Greens and Die Linke (Left Party), which both registered 10 percent support.
Support for AfD appears to have skyrocketed in recent months, as they had only 3 percent in the polls as recently as August.
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From Russia Today
Israeli troops arrest 6yo boy & leading activist at Palestinian refugee camp (VIDEO)
Published time: 18 Nov, 2015 06:06
Israeli Defense Forces forcefully detained a six-year-old boy and an activist in the Aida Palestinian refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, according to a new video released by a local activist group.
The Popular Struggle Coordination Committee published a video showing Israeli forces in full combat gear coming into the Aida refugee camp, located near the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and forcefully detaining two people, including a small boy.
The video starts out with three Israeli troops taking away the six-year-old boy, identified as Abdallah Lutfi Yousef, and dragging him by his arm.
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From The Times of Israel
Israel: Assad used 90% of Syria’s missiles on rebels
Senior IDF official says some projectiles transferred to Hezbollah, which now has some 150,000 rockets
November 19, 2015, 12:44 am
Syria has used over 90 percent of its ballistic missile arsenal over the five-year civil war on fighting opposition rebels but some missiles have made their way to Hezbollah in Lebanon, according to a senior Israeli military source.
“The number of (Syrian) ballistic missiles left is less than 10 percent,” a senior IDF officer told Reuters on Wednesday. “That could still change. They could start making them again,” he added.
Syrian opposition fighters say Syrian President Bashar Assad has fired dozens of the scud-type missiles on rebel strongholds since the armed insurgency against government forces began in 2011.
Israel has been keeping a close eye on Hezbollah’s missile capability and weapons transfers from Syria and Iran to the terror group.
Israeli officials say they consider the transfer of advanced weapons to the group to be a red line; a number of airstrikes in Syria over the past several years have been attributed to Israeli efforts to stymie the movement of missiles.
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