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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Jonathan Pollard reportedly to speak with Jewish leaders
Jonathan Pollard, left, arriving at a federal courthouse in New York with his wife, Esther, to check in at a probation office just hours after being released from prison, Nov. 20, 2015. (Ilana Gold/WCBS-TV via AP Images)
(JTA) — Freed spy-for-Israel Jonathan Pollard reportedly will speak to Jewish leaders and has received a more Shabbat-friendly electronic monitoring bracelet.
Pollard will speak to members of the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish American Organizations next week in New York, the Forward reported Wednesday, citing unnamed sources informed about the event, at a meeting that will also include U.S. Reps. Jerrold Nadler and Eliot Engel, both New York Democrats. The meeting will discuss, in part, efforts to ease Pollard’s parole conditions, in which the congressmen have been actively involved, the report said.
Notice of the meeting does not appear on the website of the Presidents Conference website, which reportedly informed member organizations of the event by phone rather than by the usual email. This may have been done to prevent news about the meeting from being leaked, an unnamed official told the Forward.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
US ambassador called ‘little Jew boy’ by former Netanyahu aide
Dan Shapiro being sworn in as the 19th United States Ambassador to Israel, Julu 8, 2015. (Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)
(JTA) — A former adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro as a “little Jew boy” on national television.
In a debate on Channel 2 Wednesday, Aviv Bushinsky, according to the Jerusalem Post, said of Shapiro’s recent criticism of Israel: “To put it bluntly, it was a statement typical of a little Jew boy.” Speaking in Hebrew, Bushinsky used the derogatory Hebrew term “yehudoni.”
The U.S. Embassy declined to respond, according to the Post.
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From PressTV
S Arabia obstructing Syria peace talks, UN envoy hints
The United Nations special envoy to Syria Staffan de Mistura has hinted that Saudi Arabia is deliberately undermining ongoing efforts for reaching a political solution in Syria.
In a confidential briefing to the 15-nation UN Security Council meeting on January 18, de Mistura accused Saudi Arabia of complicating his efforts on Syria by trying to tightly control which opposition groups are allowed to participate in the international negotiations to resolve the deadly crisis in the country, according to a report published by Foreign Policy magazine on Thursday.
The UN diplomat also said that the Saudi-backed opposition groups in Syria and their “sponsors” have time and again rebuffed his personal appeals to allow other groups being represented in the talks on Syria.
De Mistura said the High Negotiations Committee (HNC) “insist on the primacy and exclusivity of their role as ‘THE’ opposition delegation.”
He did not name Saudi Arabia, but Riyadh has been the main backer of HNC, hosting its headquarters in the capital Riyadh. The opposition group, which is hugely detested by the Syrian government in Damascus, also enjoys support from major governments including France, Turkey, and Qatar.
“The truth is that the parties remain locked in fixed positions and a ‘zero-sum’ game,” de Mistura told the closed-door meeting, adding, “Parties disagree not only on substance, but what concerns me is that they also question that the UN could or should exercise its discretion in ‘finalizing’ the opposition list.”
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From PressTV
Yemen being pounded by US, British, Israeli jets: Army
Israel, the United States and the United Kingdom have been contributing to Saudi Arabia’s deadly war on Yemen by sending warplanes to bomb the impoverished nation, a Yemeni army official reveals.
Sharaf Luqman, a spokesman for the Yemeni army, said on Thursday that fighter jets belonging to the US, Britain and Israel have been directly bombing Yemen as Saudi pilots are unable to conduct sorties with modern warplanes over Yemen.
The army official said that Yemeni army and fighters of the Houthi Ansarullah movement have so far managed to down three F-16 fighter jets,10 Apache helicopters and dozens of drones.
Luqman said about 400 military personnel from the European and Latin American countries, mainly from Colombia, have been recruited to fight for the Saudis in Yemen.
Reports emerged in late December 2015 that six Colombian troops and an Australian commander had been killed in clashes with Yemen’s Houthi fighters and allied forces in the southwestern part of the country.
According to Yemeni sources, the Colombians have been dispatched to Yemen under an agreement between the United Arab Emirates, a major ally of the Saudis in the Yemen war, and a US-based security services company formerly called Blackwater.
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From Russia Today
Polish towns torpedo plans for refugee centers
Published time: 21 Jan, 2016 14:19
Protesters carry a banner reading “Poland for the Poles – Poles for Poland” during a demonstration in Warsaw. © Kacper Pempel / Reuters
Poles in two towns have successfully torpedoed government plans to settle asylum seekers from the Middle East and North Africa, casting further doubt on Warsaw’s commitment to bear its share of Europe’s refugee influx.
The Polish Office for Foreigners, which oversees refugees arriving in the country, has canceled a tender to open a refugee center in Olecko, a small town in north-east. The town was supposed to host some 120 people from the Middle East and North Africa.
Commenting on the decision, the office said opening the center would endanger residents and may cause public disorder, citing strong opposition from locals. The townsfolk had earlier protested against the planned settlement.
A similar situation was seen in the town of Piwniczna-Zdrój, in southern Poland, close to the Slovak border, where local residents successfully opposed the opening of a refugee center.
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From Russia Today
Islamist fighters in Aleppo, Syria, got reinforcements from Turkey – Russian Foreign Ministry
Published time: 21 Jan, 2016 12:25
Terrorists have increased their activities ahead of the next week’s inter-Syrian talks, with insurgents in the Syrian province of Aleppo receiving reinforcements from Turkey, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said.
The much-anticipated talks between the Syrian government and different opposition groups are scheduled to take place in the Swiss city of Geneva on January 25.
“Unfortunately, in recent days, it’s especially noticeable that ahead of the planned start of the inter-Syrian negotiations in Geneva the activities of terrorist groups have intensified. Obviously, they’re trying to turn the tide in their favor on the battlefield,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said during a briefing in Moscow.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
White House team to visit Israel for defense assistance negotiations
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Members of the Obama administration’s national security team will travel to Israel next week to advance talks on a new U.S. defense assistance package to the country.
“A U.S. delegation will be traveling to Jerusalem next week for the next round of talks,” a senior administration official said Wednesday in an e-mail to JTA, confirming a report that first appeared in Haaretz.
Israel and the United States are negotiating a memorandum of understanding that would extend for another 10 years the current aid package, due to expire in 2018 and which averages $3 billion a year in assistance.
Israel reportedly hopes to increase the annual amount to $5 billion, while Obama administration officials are said to be offering closer to $4 billion. The negotiations come as President Barack Obama has pledged to maintain a robust defense relationship with Israel in the wake of a nuclear deal between Iran and six major powers that Israel had adamantly opposed.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Bernie Sanders’ religion a non-issue for Iowa voters
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (JTA) — On a frigid night in what has been an unusually cold winter here, Bernie Sanders packed more than 1,200 people into the resplendent Orpheum Theatre, a nearly 90-year-old venue in this western Iowa outpost across the Missouri River from Nebraska.
After taking the stage late Tuesday night, the independent Vermont senator vying for the Democratic presidential nomination launched into a nearly 30-minute exegesis on the American economy in typically stem-winding fashion, railing against wealth inequality before turning his attention to the noisome effects of money in politics, paid family leave and other frequent themes of his raucous stump speeches.
The Brooklyn-born Sanders’ brash delivery and in-your-face moxie might seem out of place in idyllic, largely rural Iowa, but the style is resonating with Democratic voters here. Indeed in liberal-leaning Des Moines, the state capital, it is mostly Sanders signs that pepper the snowy front lawns in the city’s central neighborhoods. And it is the face of Sanders — actually 15 of them — that adorns a T-shirt sold by Raygun, a popular local clothing store with a wide selection of caucus-themed apparel. Nearly 250 of the $39 novelty shirts have been sold since early October.
“It’s like your grandpa is running for president,” said Lauren Matysik, a Raygun graphic designer. “It’s so cute.”
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From PressTV
Israeli forces arrest 15 Palestinians across West Bank
Israeli military forces have reportedly arrested 15 Palestinians during separate overnight operations across the occupied West Bank.
Military vehicles rolled into al-Orouj Village, east of Bethlehem, early on Thursday and arrested a 28-year-old woman, identified as Rabe’ah Mostafa al-Orouj, along with her two brothers after breaking into their home.
Israeli troops also arrested two young men in the town of Beit Fajjar, eight kilometers (4.9 miles) south of Bethlehem, the Arabic-language Safa news agency reported.
In the Dheisheh refugee camp just south of Bethlehem, Israeli armed forces detained two Palestinian youths.
Violence broke out as local residents engaged in clashes with Israeli troopers.
Israeli forces fired stun grenades as well as tear gas canisters to disperse the crowd, wounding at least two young men.
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From
the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
At ex-Shin Bet head’s lecture in London, anti-Israel protesters get violent
Ami Ayalon attending a committee meeting at the Knesset, Feb. 18, 2008. (Olivier Fitoussi /Flash90)
(JTA) — At a London university event featuring Israel’s former Shin Bet security service head Ami Ayalon, pro-Palestinian protesters smashed windows, threw chairs and assaulted one of the event’s organizers.
Police were called to the Kings College lecture Tuesday as Ayalon, who is also a left-wing politician and peace activist, attempted to speak but was drowned out by shouts, drumming and the sound of multiple fire alarms, according to Haaretz.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Biblical graffiti spray-painted on Jerusalem home of secular Jewish educator
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Biblical graffiti was spray-painted on the Jerusalem home of a secular Jewish educator.
The graffiti discovered Thursday morning at the home of Yaakov Malkin included a reference to the Book of Psalms about hating “those who are in rebellion” against God, a Star of David and the words “Destruction of Amalek,” referring to the biblical nation that attacked the Israelites fleeing from Egypt. A knife and a threatening letter also were found in front of the house.
Police are investigating the incident; no suspects have been arrested.
Malkin is the academic director of Tmura, the International Institute for Humanistic Secular Judaism, which trains secular rabbis and community leaders for secular communities.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Jewish extremist Meir Ettinger goes on hunger strike
Meir Ettinger, grandson of Rabbi Meir Kahane, in Nazareth Magistrate’s Court, Aug. 4, 2015. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Meir Ettinger, whom Israeli authorities say oversees a Jewish terrorist group, has gone on a hunger strike to protest his administrative detention.
Ettinger, the grandson of the slain far-right activist Meir Kahane, began his protest Wednesday. He was placed in detention on Aug. 15, nearly two weeks after his arrest. He reportedly was transferred recently to solitary confinement and has limited, monitored contact with his family.
He was arrested for “involvement in violent activities and terrorist attacks that occurred recently, and his role as part of a Jewish terrorist group,” according to Israeli authorities. His arrest was linked to the firebombing of a home in the West Bank Palestinian village of Duma that left an infant and his parents dead. Three people, including two minors, have been charged in connection with the attack.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
White House: Robert Levinson likely not in Iran
Josh Earnest, the White House spokesman, explained in a press briefing on Tuesday why the Obama administration had settled for an Iranian pledge to help track the whereabouts of Robert Levinson, rather than his return as part of a prisoner exchange with Iran.
“Now, as we mentioned several years ago, we have reason to believe that he no longer is in Iran, and that’s why we continue to press for information about his whereabouts,” Earnest said. “And we’re going to continue to do that, and we’ve secured a commitment from the Iranians to use the channel that has now been opened to secure the release of those individuals that we know were being held by Iran on unjustly to use those same channels to try to gather information about Mr. Levinson’s possible whereabouts.”
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From Russia Today
UK Litvinenko death inquiry ‘biased,’ ‘very politicized’ – Russian ambassador to RT
Published time: 21 Jan, 2016 21:33
© RT The British investigation into the death of Aleksandr Litvinenko, a former Russian intelligence officer and Kremlin critic, who died from radioactive poisoning in 2006, is “biased” and unjustified, Russia’s UK ambassador Alexander Yakovenko told RT.
“Russia is not satisfied with the way the Litvinenko case was dealt with,” Yakovenko said in an interview to RT, stressing that “the key problem is… that it was not public and open to the press,” so that Russia could not take part in the hearings.
“That is why we cannot accept the conclusions of that case. If it was public, we would be happy to participate [in the investigation], but, unfortunately, it did not happen,” he added.
Yakovenko also emphasized that the results of the inquiry “are not justified,” with the investigation itself being “very politicized” and “biased” as “the coroner investigation was open to [Russia] but later, after [the crisis in Ukraine started], the British authorities decided to switch the process to a secret investigation…”
“In order to prove something, you have to present the facts. As soon as the British side proves… their conclusions, we will be ready to consider [them],” the ambassador stressed adding that now he sees “no grounds for that,” as the Russian side “did not even have a chance to study the documents [of the investigation].”
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From Russia Today
Stone Age cold case: ‘Oldest evidence of war’ dates back 10,000yrs
Published time: 21 Jan, 2016 13:51
A group of 27 nomadic tribespeople, including eight women and six children, were brutally murdered by a rival tribe some 10,000 years ago in what is believed to be the first case of human warfare, according to a new study.
“These human remains record the intentional killing of a small band of foragers with no deliberate burial, and provide unique evidence that warfare was part of the repertoire of inter-group relations among some prehistoric hunter-gatherers,” said Dr. Marta Mirazon Lahr, of Cambridge University’s Leverhulme Centre for the Study of Human Evolution (LCHES), who was in charge of the study published in Nature magazine on Wednesday.
The researchers placed the time of the killing at between 9,500 and 10,500 years ago by using a radiocarbon dating technique, and by examining the samples of the substances found around the skeletons.
The massacre took place in a now-dry lagoon in the Kenyan city of Nataruk, roughly 20 miles (30km) west of Lake Turkana, where the remains were discovered back in 2012. The ancient humans are said to have suffered multiple lethal injuries from stone blades, arrows and clubs. They had their skulls smashed, facial and cheek bones fractured, and hands, knees and ribs broken. Two men even displayed signs of arrow tips still stuck in their skulls and chests. Due to the huge damage sustained, only 12 of the skeletons were in relatively good condition.
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From Russia Today
Twitter users mock ‘integration safety’ guide for refugees with behavior tips for Germany
Published time: 21 Jan, 2016 12:20
A cartoon guide aimed at instructing refugees on the correct way to act in Germany has become an object of ridicule online. The instruction manual, designed in the style of an airplane safety card, inspired a string of mocking tweets and drawings.
The guide, aimed at explaining “Germany and its People,” teaches about common customs, including handshakes and eye contact. It also includes a photo of two men holding hands, with a caption that reads: “In Germany, homosexuals are allowed to show their sexual preference in public.”
Examples of behavior that’s frowned upon are accompanied by a huge ‘X’ over the pictures. Those actions include a man touching the bottom of a woman wearing a short skirt, accompanied by text which reads: “Women are to be respected, no matter what they wear.”
Engaging in fist fights is also frowned upon, according to a separate picture which explains that “conflicts must not be solved with violence.”
The guide was posted online in October by the Bavarian branch of public broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk. However, it wasn’t until this week that it attracted the attention of the Twittersphere, which has since come up with a number of satirical responses.
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From Russia Today
‘No bulls**tting? White should be on top?’ US hangs Russian flag upside down at Lavrov-Kerry talks
Published time: 21 Jan, 2016 01:20
The US State Department just seems to lack attentiveness when it comes to minor details in US-Russian relations: the Russian flag was hung upside down in the conference room in Zurich ahead of a meeting between the top Russian and US diplomats.
Ahead of the key negotiations between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry on the fate of Syria, the situation in the Middle East and the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, US State Department officials were left red-faced when a cameraman pointed out the fact that the Russian flag in the conference room was hanging upside down.
As Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs Glen Johnson led journalists to the appropriate rooms before the diplomatic teams arrived, a cameraman alerted the US State Department official to the obvious mistake.
“Hey Glen, the Russian flag is upside down so the colors [are] in the wrong direction,” the cameraman said.
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