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From The Times of Israel
PM to make direct appeal to US Jews in bid to thwart Iran deal
Netanyahu and Jewish groups team up for virtual ‘town hall’ format, with PM taking questions from audience on nuclear deal
WASHINGTON – In the latest of a series of attempts to persuade US voters to push their legislators to reject the Iran nuclear deal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will deliver an address to the North American Jewish community next week to discuss the agreement, which he staunchly opposes.
The announcement, issued by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, comes a day after President Barack Obama held a mass conference call with supporters of the deal, to rally them behind the controversial agreement.
According to Conference of Presidents, Netanyahu will address US and Canadian Jewish communities through a live webcast on Tuesday afternoon. In addition to delivering remarks, the prime minister will also take questions from participants.
In a virtual twist on a town hall meeting, the Conference of Presidents and Jewish Federations in the US and Canada are encouraging participants to join the call through computers and cell phones as well as through group viewings at Jewish institutions.
“The prime minister will deliver remarks directly from his office in Jerusalem, which will be transmitted to computers, cell phones and flat screens set up in synagogues, organizations and Jewish community centers large and small throughout the continent,” the Conference of Presidents said in an announcement Friday afternoon.
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From PressTV
Palestinians to take infanticide case to UN
The Palestinian Authority (PA) says it would take to the UN Security Council (UNSC) the case of a recent terrorist attack that killed a Palestinian infant and severely injured other family members in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
The Authority issued a statement on Friday, saying it would raise “the crimes and terrorism of [Israeli] settlers against the Palestinian people” with the Security Council.
The Palestinian baby boy was burnt to death in the early hours of Friday, when Israeli settlers, wearing black balaclavas, smashed a window and threw a Molotov cocktail into the parents’ bedroom while they were asleep in their house in the West Bank village of Duma, south of Nablus.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who has held the Israeli regime responsible for the attack, has also ordered Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki to file a lawsuit with the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the horrific incident, denouncing the “war crimes and crimes against humanity committed each day by Israelis against the Palestinian people.”
The UNSC has released a statement, saying its members “expressed profound outrage and condemned in the strongest terms the vicious terrorist attack.”
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From PressTV
Israeli forces kill 2 Palestinian on Gaza border, West Bank
Two Palestinians have been shot dead by Israeli forces in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
In the latest incident, the Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian teenager in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah on Friday night.
Palestinian sources said that 14-year-old Laith Khaldi was shot in the chest by Israeli forces near a checkpoint north of Ramallah. He was rushed to a nearby hospital with fatal injuries following the assault. However, the teenager succumbed to his wounds in the hospital.
Separately, the Tel Aviv regime forces also killed a Palestinian in the northern town of Beit Lahia in the besieged Gaza Strip. Palestinian medical sources identified the 27-year-old as Mohammad Al-Masri.
Gaza Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra confirmed that another man was also injured and rushed to a hospital.
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From The Times of Israel
Former US defense chief against Pollard release
Rumsfeld calls decision to free Israeli spy a ‘bad idea,’ says it won’t make Iran deal ‘any less of a disaster for Israel, free world’
The United States’ former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld said this week that the scheduled release of Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard in November was a bad idea.
Rumsfeld said he advised President George W. Bush to “forcefully” refuse Israeli entreaties to free Pollard.
Rumsfeld, Bush’s defense secretary from 2001 to 2006, posted a letter on Twitter that he wrote to Bush in March 2001, ahead of a visit by Israeli officials early in Bush’s presidency.
“Releasing Pollard was a bad idea in 1998 & 2001,” Rumsfeld said in his tweet. “It is not a better idea today.”
Rumsfeld copied the March 16, 2001, letter to Bush Secretary of State Colin Powell, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and Vice President Dick Cheney.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
White House briefing of AIPAC activists ends in communication breakdown
Got questions about the Iran nuclear deal? Too bad, if you were an AIPAC activist at a briefing this week with top Obama administration officials.
At the briefing Wednesday, Howard Kohr, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee director, stopped the proceedings before his activists could ask questions. The question is why? And what does the leak of the story mean?
Did the Obama administration bigfoot AIPAC and muscle into the pro-Israel group’s lobbying session only to disingenuously complain when administration officials ran out of their allotted time? Or was AIPAC not sufficiently accommodating when administration officials asked to make their case to pro-Israel activists?
Here’s what happened, as confirmed by four people close to the top Obama officials who spoke anonymously, as well as an AIPAC spokesman, who spoke on the record.
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From PressTV
Palestinian shot in baby killing protest dies
A Palestinian teenager who had been shot during a protest against the death of a toddler in an arson attack by Israeli settlers has died of his wounds.
Palestinian health officials said Saturday that the 18-year-old Laith al-Khaldi succumbed to his wounds a day after being shot in the chest during a demonstration over the killing of Ali Saad Dawabsha, the toddler who burned to death in an attack by Israeli settlers against his house in the village of Duma in the West Bank.
The Israeli military had said it shot Khaldi near Ramallah after he hurled fire bombs at the forces present in the site of the demonstration.
Demonstration continued Saturday in various West Bank cities, with massive clashes reported between angry protesters and Israeli forces in the city of al-Khalil (Hebron). Clashes also erupted between the Palestinians and the settlers in Kusra in northern West Bank, forcing the Israeli army to declare the area a closed military zone.
At least 10 people were wounded in overnight clashes with Israeli police in the Israeli-occupied east al-Quds (Jerusalem). The Tel Aviv regime also said two police officers were lightly wounded in the clashes.
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From Russia Today
Turkish military jets leave Kurdish village in ruins, kill 9 – local media
“We condemn this bombardment that led to the martyrdom of people from the Kurdistan region and call on Turkey not to bombard civilians again,” Massoud Barzani said in a statement on Saturday, Reuters reported.
“The PKK must keep the battlefield away from the Kurdish region in order for civilians not to become victims of this war,” Barzani added.
On Saturday, Turkish fighter jets reportedly bombed a village located on the outskirts of Kandil Mountains, where PKK camps are based. Local media say at least nine civilians were killed, a pregnant woman among them, while 15 others were injured.
From The Times of Israel
Israeli condemnation ‘not enough,’ say US Jewish groups, after baby killed
Fatal firebombing of Palestinian family by alleged Jewish terrorists prompts unusually harsh criticism by mainstream US Jews
WASHINGTON — American Jewish groups used unusually harsh language Friday in denouncing the firebombing attack in the Palestinian village of Duma that resulted in the death of a 18-month-old boy, with some leading organizations suggesting that the Israeli government needed to step up its actions to prosecute so-called “price tag” hate crime attackers.
Noting that “this incident was most likely a so-called “price tag” attack perpetrated by extremist Israeli Jews,” the Anti-Defamation League called upon the Israeli government to step up action against the perpetrators of price tag attacks.
Assailants threw Molotov cocktails overnight into two residences in the Palestinian village near Nablus. The residents of one of the houses fled with severe injuries, but could not manage to rescue their young son, Ali, who perished in the blaze. Grafitti left on the walls of the houses suggested that the firebombing was carried out by Jewish terrorists in a “price tag” attack as revenge for ostensible actions or policies against the settlements.
ADL National Director Jonathan Greenblatt, ADL National Director, and Carole Nuriel, Director of ADL’s Israel Office, wrote in a joint statement that “expressions of outrage” by Israeli leaders “are no longer enough.”
“The perpetrators of these crimes need to face specific, enhanced consequences for these despicable acts of hate and terrorism,” the two demanded. “Community and religious leaders must make unquestionably clear that any act of hate and violence is unacceptable, un-Jewish, and that anyone involved in such incidents will be shunned by the community, let alone prosecuted to the full extent of the law. They must take concrete steps to identify and root out extremist elements. They must model and educate about how to express political and social views through legitimate, democratic outlets.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Jewish terror draws Netanyahu’s focus homeward
WASHINGTON (JTA) – Ahead of what may be the toughest diplomatic battle of his career, a final bid to kill the Iran nuclear deal, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has suddenly found himself facing down a terrorist threat – apparently from Jews.
The flow of Iran messaging from the Prime Minister’s Office was interrupted Friday by Netanyahu’s fierce condemnation of a predawn arson attack in the West Bank village of Duma, near Nablus, which killed an 18-month-old boy, Ali Saad Dawabsha.
Extremist Jewish settlers were suspected. Hebrew slogans were spray painted at the scene, and witnesses reported seeing masked men fleeing toward a nearby settlement. Netanyahu ordered an all-out manhunt to find the killers.
“We condemn this,” Netanyahu said after a bedside visit with Dawabsha’s 4-year-old brother, Ahmed, who was hospitalized along with his parents for severe burns. “There is zero tolerance for terrorism wherever it comes from, whatever side of the fence it comes from, we have to fight it and fight it together.”
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From Russia Today
Ukraine strips UK journalist of accreditation for ‘inciting attack’
“We’re also considering a ban to enter Ukraine for her,” the Security Council’s press secretary Yelena Gitlyanskaya posted on her Facebook page.
A day earlier, Logan’s photos on Facebook caused outrage online, as some users possibly wrongly interpreted her post as evidence that her remark had triggered a massive shootout between the Lugansk militia and the Ukrainian army.
In the post, Logan described how one of the commanders asked her if they should open fire so that the journalists could film it.
She hesitated, but the commander went on to saying that they “needed to shell them anyway” as they had shelled the militia’s positions earlier.
“Okay, why not then,” Logan wrote, and it’s unclear if that’s what she told the commander, or just an ironic remark.
