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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Australian church: Jesus was not Palestinian
SYDNEY (JTA) — Jesus was not Palestinian, a major church denomination in Australia said after an umbrella Jewish group’s challenge to a story that said Christ was born in Palestine.
Two Palestinian members of the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network, which has links with the Uniting Church of Australia, wrote the story that appearedDec. 22 in the online political publication New Matilda. The Australia Palestine Advocacy Network has a relationship with the Uniting Church of Australia, the country’s third largest Christian denomination, through the Palestine Israel Ecumenical Network.
Stuart McMillan, president of the Uniting Church of Australia, wrote in response to a letter from Peter Wertheim, executive director of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry: “I would like to assure you and the Jewish community that the Uniting Church does not accept the view that Jesus was Palestinian. We affirm that Jesus and most of his early followers were Jewish. We note that Jesus was born neither in Israel nor in Palestine, but in the Roman-occupied province of Judea, and that it is entirely inappropriate for anybody to attempt to claim political capital from the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem to bolster claims of either ‘side’ of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute.”
In the article, Samah Sabawi and Bassam Dally wrote: “An official delegation representing our country in Israel has added fuel to the flames of extremism abroad by applauding proven human rights violators and insulting the living descendants of Christ in his home of birth in Palestine.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Peace Now: Israel has plans for over 55,500 West Bank housing units
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Ministry of Housing is working on plans for more than 55,500 units in West Bank settlements, according to a new Peace Now report.
More than half the units are for construction east of the security barrier and include more than 8,000 units in the controversial E1 area, two new settlements and the legalization of at least six outposts, said the report, which was issued Monday.
The information was provided to Peace Now by the Housing Ministry following a freedom of information petition, according to the organization.
In response to the report, Israel’s housing minister, Yoav Galant, reportedly denied that there are plans to develop E1, the corridor between Jerusalem and the West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim. Settlement of the area would deny a contiguous area for a future Palestinian state.
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From Russia Today
Captured ISIS fighter says ‘trained in Turkey, ISIS thinks it’s safer here than Syria’
Published time: 28 Dec, 2015 06:00
Turkey is training Islamic State terrorists in a camp disguised as a training ground for the Free Syrian Army, a 20-year-old jihadist captured by the Kurdish YPG told Sputnik. The prisoner said Ankara’s help to the “moderate” Syrian opposition is not as innocent as portrayed.
Captured by the Kurdish People’s Protection Unit (YPG) fighters in Northern Syria in November, Abdurrahman Abdulhadi, a Syrian national-turned Daesh (Islamic State) fighter, says he was trained in Turkey before receiving his first assignment with Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL).
The YPG maintains external security in the three Democratic Union Party (PYD) run areas, and is fighting Islamist groups, primarily Jabhat al-Nusra and IS. The PYD, an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Turkey, has effectively been ruling parts of Syria after government troops were forced to withdraw from the areas in 2012. With special permission from the local Kurdish authorities, Russian journalists received first-hand testimony that Turkey is “a friend” of Islamic State.
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“They only appear to be enemies, however, they are friends,” the 20-year-old Abdulhadi, whose brother, Til Berak, is still fighting for IS told Sputnik Turkey. While Turkish nationals constitute only about “10 percent” of jihadists he had come across, the prisoner said Turkey is actively training Islamic State fighters.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Jewish-Israeli teen held for planning attack on left-wing demonstrators
(JTA) — A Jewish-Israeli teenager is in police custody for allegedly planning an attack on left-wing demonstrators at a Tel Aviv march.
The 18-year-old man was arrested at the Dec. 19 rally after throwing a glass bottle at protesters, according to the Times of Israel. No one was injured, and the arrest was not reported in the media until Monday.
Some 3,000 people attended the rally protesting right-wing incitement against left-wing advocacy organizations.
READ: Israeli officials condemn Breaking the Silence and restrict its activities
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From Russia Today
Europeans contradict themselves speaking in public & in private – Lavrov
Published time: 28 Dec, 2015 08:06
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov © Vladimir Astapkovich / Sputnik
European politicians don’t say publicly anything sensible about the standoff with Russia, which they do in private, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.
“Sometimes the things they say from a podium contradict what they tell you in one-on-one talks, when nobody can overhear them,” the minister told Zvezda TV channel. “Alone most of EU members tell me things I find quite sensible, said Lavorov: that it was wrong to confront Russia over Ukraine, which, in fact, fell victim to this European Union policy that forced it to chose between the two.
“They all say, let things quiet down a bit and we can go back to normal relations, the strategic partnership. But when they all gather together and speak in public, they just can’t say those things,” he said.
Lavrov said such ambiguity puzzles him and puts it doubt the wisdom and foresight of EU officials.
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