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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Netanyahu plans to surround all of Israel with fence
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his government is preparing a plan to completely surround the country with security fences.
“At the end, in the State of Israel, as I see it, there will be a fence that spans it all,” Netanyahu said Tuesday while on a tour of the security fence being constructed on the country’s eastern border with Jordan. “Will we surround all of the State of Israel with fences and barriers? The answer is yes. In the area that we live in, we must defend ourselves against the wild beasts.”
The plan will also address the threat from underground tunnels that cross the border, Netanyahu said, according to the Times of Israel.
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From Russia Today
Austrian swimming pool off-limits to ‘unaccompanied refugees’ amid child rape outrage
Published time: 9 Feb, 2016 21:01
© Wolfgang Rattay / Reuters
The alleged sexual assault of a 10-year-old boy by an Iraqi refugee in Vienna has sparked mixed reactions: while locals feel unsafe and blame the government, pro-immigration campaigners claim such cases should not be the basis for “general mistrust.”
After the boy was allegedly brutally raped in southwestern Vienna by a 20-year-old refugee in the changing rooms at a swimming pool, people became more worried about their families’ safety in the Austrian capital. The suspected child abuser, who arrived in Austria from Iraq in September of last year, leaving a wife and a child back at home, is one of many newcomers who now prevail in their neighborhood, locals say.
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From Russia Today
Erdogan threatened to ‘open doors to Greece and Bulgaria’ and flood EU with migrants – report
Published time: 9 Feb, 2016 15:49
© Darrin Zammit Lupi / Reuters
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatened to “put refugees on buses” and flood Europe with migrants if EU leaders did not offer him enough cash to help curb the influx of asylum seekers, a leaked record of a high-level meeting claims.
“We can open the doors to Greece and Bulgaria anytime and we can put the refugees on buses,” Erdogan was quoted as telling European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and European Council President Donald Tusk after being told that the EU was offering Turkey €3 billion over two years.
The minutes of the meeting that apparently took place in November in Antalya have been published by the Greek financial news website euro2day.gr
After Tusk mentioned the difficult situation in the European Union, Erdogan, who reportedly demanded €6 billion over two years, said: “So how will you deal with refugees if you don’t get a deal? Kill the refugees?”
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From Russia Today
‘Worst in decades, no way to improve for now’ – Kremlin on Russia-Turkey relations
Published time: 9 Feb, 2016 15:22
Russian President’s Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov. © Sergey Guneev / Reuters
Relations between Russia and Turkey have deteriorated so far it is virtually impossible to normalize them, Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov has declared. Moscow is still expecting an apology from Ankara.
“The relations have now hit their worst state in the past several decades. And we regret to conclude so,” Peskov told journalists Thursday, adding that it’s not Russia who is to blame for the current situation.
He added that Turkey has committed “aggressively treacherous actions against Russia” in the recent months, alluding to the downing of the Russian Su-24 bomber in November.
The Russian military jet was downed over the Syrian territory while returning to the Khmeimim airbase after being hit by a Turkish air-to-air missile. One of the two Russian pilots, Lieutenant-Colonel Oleg Peshkov, was shot dead by militants while parachuting to the ground, having ejected from the stricken aircraft. His partner, navigator Captain Konstantin Murakhtin, survived, but one Russian Marine in the rescue team who was recovering Murakhtin was killed when the rescue helicopter was destroyed by a tank missile launched by a militia group.
“Turkey still has not given an adequate qualification to their actions and has not issued an appropriate apology. Therefore, to speak of the possible ways of normalizing the relations would be ill-timed,” Peskov said.
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From Russia Today
Turkey main transit route of militants, lets Russian ISIS suspects move to 3rd countries –ambassador
Published time: 9 Feb, 2016 14:23
© Khalil Ashawi / Reuters
Russian citizens detained in Turkey on suspicion of terror-linked activities are usually deported to third countries, thus escaping prosecution, says Russia’s ambassador to Ankara. None of them have ever been charged in Turkey.
Turkey remains one of the main channels of foreign fighters’ transit to territory under Islamic State (IS, former ISIS/ISIL) control, Andrey Karlov, Russian ambassador to Turkey, told RIA Novosti.
Yet cooperation between Moscow and Ankara on terrorism issues leaves much to be desired, the diplomat acknowledged.
Turkey does not report to the Russian embassy when people with Russian passports are captured while trying to join IS. The Russian embassy often learns about such facts from media reports.
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From Russia Today
Striking new visualization of Europe’s refugee crisis
Published time: 8 Feb, 2016 20:28
Flow of refugees in Europe / Lucify
A new online map depicting the recent flow of refugees into Europe using United Nations (UN) data visualizes the full extent of the crisis.
Created by the Finnish website Lucify using data from the UN’s Refugee Agency, it charts the pattern of migration from 2012 to 2015 and kind of looks like Europe during World War 2 if it was reversed and vertically flipped.
According to the UN, more than 800,000 Syrian asylum seekers have come to Europe between 2011-2015.
Lucify estimates they would fit onto eight football pitches if standing tightly together, similar to the conditions they no doubt experienced on their way to Europe.
More than four million Syrian refugees are being registered in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, North Africa and Turkey, with many living in refugee camps.
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From The Times of Israel
Israeli and Turkish negotiating teams are set to meet Wednesday in Switzerland, as part of ongoing efforts to reach a détente between the two once-close allies, Western diplomats said.
Israel will be represented at the Geneva talks by Joseph Ciechanover, a former head of the Foreign Ministry appointed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Ciechanover also represented Israel at the UN probe into the IDF raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla in 2010, which led to the deaths of 10 Turkish nationals and exacerbated a freeze between the two countries. His Turkish counterpart at Wednesday’s talks is said to be Foreign Minister Feridun Sinirlioğlu.
According to a high-ranking Israeli official quoted by Haaretz, most of the issues on the agenda have been resolved, but two major hurdles remain: Turkey’s demand that Israel end its military blockade on the Hamas-run Gaza Strip — designed by Israel to prevent Hamas importing weaponry — and Israel’s demand that Turkey put an end to the Hamas presence in its capital.
From The Daily Mail
‘It’s not about safe schools, it’s activism in the classroom’: Mother pulls children out of school after it introduced ‘transgender awareness program’
- A mother has pulled her children out of Victoria’s Frankston High School
- Cella White claims her son, 14, was told he could wear a dress to school
- She’s unhappy with the program that promotes transgender awareness
- Program is designed to create safe environments for gender diverse pupils
Victorian mother Cella White has reportedly pulled her children out of a school over claims a program that promotes transgender awareness is ‘brainwashing’ students within the institutions
A mother has reportedly pulled her children out of a school over claims a program that promotes transgender awareness is ‘brainwashing’ students within the institution.
Victorian mother Cella White said her 14-year-old son was told in science class that he could wear a dress to Frankston High School, about 40 kilometres south of Melbourne, and call transgender students by their preferred pronoun, the Herald Sun reported.
The government-funded program – run by the Safe Schools Coalition since 2010 – is designed to create safe and inclusive school environments for same-sex attracted, intersex and gender diverse students.
‘This isn’t about safe schools, it’s transgenderism and gay activism bought into the classroom,’ Ms White told the publication.
The mother of four said the school’s policy could see children sharing a bathroom with gender-diverse students.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Presidents Conference meets with Erdogan amid Turkey-Israel reconciliation efforts
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A delegation from the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as Turkey and Israel seek to improve ties.
Stephen Greenberg, the chairman of the umbrella foreign policy body for U.S. Jewish groups, and Malcolm Hoenlein, its executive vice president, met with Erdogan Tuesday in Ankara, according to a statement by the group.
“They discussed a range of issues including relations between Turkey, the United States and Israel, terrorism and extremism, and regional conflicts,” the statement said. “The delegation was accompanied by heads of the Turkish Jewish Community, led by Isak Ibrimzadeh.”
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From PressTV
Yemeni forces capture Saudi town, villages in Asir
The Yemeni army, backed by Popular Committees loyal to the Houthi Ansarullah movement, has established control over a Saudi border town.
According to a statement released by Yemen’s army on Tuesday, the Yemeni forces managed to fully capture the town of al-Raboah in the kingdom’s southwestern Asir province after fierce clashes with Saudi troops, the Arabic-language al-Mayadeen news website reported.
The report added that the Yemeni forces captured a number of villages east of al-Raboah before advancing towards the town.
The Saudi troopers, though heavily baked by warplanes and choppers, fled the area and left behind their military equipment and weaponry. The Saudi forces also sustained heavy damage and casualties in the clashes.
In another retaliatory operation against the Saudis, the Yemeni forces also killed several Saudi troopers in the Midi area of Yemen’s western Hajjah province. They also destroyed five Saudi armored vehicles.
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From PressTV
UN urges Ankara to let in Syrians stranded at Turkey border
The United Nations refugee agency has called on Turkey to open its borders to thousands of Syrian refugees who have massed along its frontiers as a result of ongoing militancy in their home country.
Turkey has let in some vulnerable people and the wounded, but many more are not being allowed in, William Spindler, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), said on Tuesday.
“We are asking Turkey to open its border to all civilians from Syria who are fleeing danger and seeking international protection,” Spindler said.
According to reports, Turkey, which is already home to 2.5 million Syrian refugees, has largely kept its gates closed in recent days amid the latest influx of Syrian fleeing war in their homeland.
Huge crowds have been forced to wait at Turkey’s Oncupinar border crossing, with only medical emergencies allowed through.
From Russia Today
RT debate on migrant influx: Source of enrichment or tragedy for Europe
Published time: 9 Feb, 2016 20:35
© / RT
Are migrants a threat to Europe, its citizens, and its values, or are all the fears just hysteria stemming from prejudice? Eurosceptic MailOnline columnist Katie Hopkins and liberal political and social commentator Mo Ansar discuss the issue on RT.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Film on French fugitive living free in Israel stirs unease
PARIS (JTA) — An authoritative voice and phone credit was all Gilbert Chikli needed to steal millions of euros from seasoned bankers and businessmen in his native France.
One of France’s most famous criminals, the 50-year-old Chikli was sentenced in May by a Paris court to seven years in jail for defrauding dozens of telephone victims out of more than $8 million in 2005-06 while he was living in Israel.
But Chikli is living as a free man in Israel — the country has no extradition treaty with France.
Now his story is getting a fresh look because of a new and controversial French film starring President Francois Hollande’s girlfriend, Julie Gayet, based loosely on the Chikli saga. Coming at a time of rising Jewish emigration from France to Israel, the French-language feature “Thank You for Calling” (known in France as “Je Compte sur Vous,” French for “I’m counting on you”) is drawing attention in both countries to a criminal fringe of French Jews for whom aliyah, or immigration to Israel, serves as a get-out-of-jail card.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Report: Iran successfully hacked former IDF chief’s files
(JTA) — The computer database of a former Israel Defense Forces chief of staff reportedly was compromised in an Iranian cyber attack late last year.
Yaser Balaghi, a hacker working for Iran, gained access to the full contents of the unidentified army leader’s computer, the Times of Israel reported Tuesday, citing Israel’s Channel 10.
The operation was halted midstream when the hacker’s identity was compromised. It targeted nearly 2,000 people all over the world, including scientists, Israeli army generals and Persian Gulf-area human rights activists.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
U of Illinois Chabad menorah vandalized for 3rd time within a year
(JTA) — A menorah outside the Chabad house at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign was vandalized for the third time in 10 months.
The vandalism took place early Sunday morning outside the Chabad Center for Jewish Life, a surveillance video released by the University of Illinois Police Department shows, the Daily Illini student newspaper reported.
The video showed a man and a woman breaking an arm off the 9-foot menorah. The woman has been arrested, according to a Facebook post Monday night by Illini Chabad director Rabbi Dovid Tiechtel.
“Thank you all to the tremendous outpouring of love and concern. It’s heartwarming to see the strength of our entire community,” Tiechtel wrote in the post. “We must commit to not allow these things to happen on campus or anywhere, no matter in what state of mind, your actions count and matter.”
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From Russia Today
Not so ‘infertile’ after all: Pope backtracked on Europe comments after ‘angry’ Merkel call
Published time: 9 Feb, 2016 14:33
Pope Francis (L), German Chancellor Angela Merkel. © Reuters
The Pope apparently doesn’t think that Europe is “a barren woman” after all. In a phone call with German Chancellor Angela Merkel after his 2014 European parliament speech, Pope Francis told her the continent wasn’t that ‘infertile,’ an Italian newspaper has reported.
Addressing the European parliament in 2014, Pope Francis said that “In many quarters, we encounter a general impression of weariness and aging, of a Europe which is now a ‘grandmother,’ no longer fertile and vibrant. As a result, the great ideas which once inspired Europe seem to have lost their attraction, only to be replaced by the bureaucratic technicalities of its institutions.”
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From Russia Today
Trip to Israel and ‘vampire breast lift’ included in Oscar ‘goody bag’
Published time: 9 Feb, 2016 04:53
© Lucy Nicholson / Reuters
A ten-day first class trip to Israel and a blood-sucking breast lift are among the gifts Oscar nominees will receive in this year’s “goody bag.” The bizarre gifts make up the most expensive bag yet, valued at $200,000.
All acting and directing nominees will receive the bag, which includes a 15-day walking tour of Japan. However, a $250 “arouser” has been allotted exclusively to the females, according to The Daily Beast.
The male nominees also won’t be able to avail themselves of the new “must have” Hollywood treatment called the “Vampire Breast Lift” in which a patient’s own blood is injected into their cleavage, so don’t expect Leonardo DiCaprio to be flaunting a new chest any time soon.
The trip to Israel is said to be the most expensive gift in the bag, valued at $55,000.
Israel’s Tourism Minister, Yariv Levin, said the purpose of the gift was to give the nominees a chance to “experience the country first hand and not through the media” according to Haaertz. The Minister said that if the stars choose to use their vouchers, their trips “will have enormous resonance among millions of fans and followers, including social media.” It was not immediately clear whether a walking tour of the occupied Palestinian territories is part of the package.
A $250 vaporizer is the cheapest item reported on the list. The full list of the goody bag’s contents includes:
• A 10-day, first-class trip to Israel ($55,000)
• One year’s worth of Audi car rentals ($45,000)
• A 15-day walking tour of Japan ($45,000)
• Three private training sessions with a celebrity trainer ($1,400)
• A laser skin-tightening procedure ($5,530)
• A lifetime supply of skin creams ($31,200)
• A fitness package in a private villa ($6,250)
• A Haze Dual V3 Vaporizer ($249.99)
In a year when the Oscars have already come under criticism for a lack of diversity in the nominees, the opulence of the bag is sure to draw more controversy to the ceremony.
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From The Times of Israel
UK Labor leader Corbyn holds first meeting with Jewish leaders
Opposition chief, who has referred to Hamas and Hezbollah as friends, said to back Israel’s right to secure, recognized boundaries
The leader of Britain’s main opposition Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, met Tuesday with leaders of the UK Jewish community for the first time since winning the post in September.
“The meeting has resulted in significant clarifications of the views of the Leader of the Opposition on key issues for the Jewish community,” said the Board of Deputies of British Jews in statement Tuesday.
Frequently accused of an anti-Israel bias, Corbyn and two of his senior advisers met with BoD President Jonathan Arkush and Chief Executive Gillian Merron “on a range of matters of interest and concern to the UK Jewish community,” the Jewish umbrella group said.
“We had a positive and constructive meeting and were pleased that Mr. Corbyn gave a very solid commitment to the right of Israel to live within secure and recognized boundaries as part of a two state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict,” Arkush said, according to the statement.
He added that there had been welcome agreement in some key policy areas, but that “there were still matters on which the Labour leader could make firmer commitments.”
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