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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
New Argentine president pledges to cancel pact with Iran on AMIA bombing
“We will propose to the Congress to cancel the pact with Iran as we promised in the campaign,” Mauricio Macri said Monday morning in his first news conference after being elected in a runoff vote the previous day.
Macri, the opposition candidate, will take office on Dec. 10. He won the runoff with 51.4 percent of the vote, defeating Daniel Scioli, a close ally of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, who garnered 48.6 percent, according to the final results released Monday.
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From The Times of Israel
Anne Pollard said set to sue Israel for millions
Ex-wife of freed spy reportedly claims Israeli officials tarnished her image, wants to be formally recognized as an agent
November 22, 2015, 12:31 am
Anne Pollard, the ex-wife of the American-Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, is set to sue the Israeli security establishment for “injustices” caused to her in the years leading up to his release from prison, and is demanding to be officially recognized as an Israeli operative, Channel 10 reported Saturday night.
The Pollards were arrested in 1985 in the US for espionage. Anne served three and a half years in prison, and her former husband was released Friday morning, after serving 30 years. To mark the occasion, Anne Pollard returned from Israel, where she now lives, to Washington, DC, where the two were both arrested almost exactly 30 years ago.
According to the report, Anne Pollard is expected to seek millions of dollars in reparations from the state as she claimed her image had been deliberately tarnished by Israeli officials, who she said in some cases even portrayed her as “insane.” The bulk of the lawsuit, however, will reportedly deal with the arrangements concerning Pollard’s official status, as she is demanding to be formally recognized as an Israeli agent.
“[Anne] Pollard made many attempts to arrange her status in Israel and was told that she would have to wait for [Jonathan] Pollard’s release,” her attorney Roie Attias told Channel 10. “It is time to settle these commitments.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
In first, Orthodox Jew to head Argentina’s Jewish political umbrella group
Ariel Cohen Sabban was elected Nov. 19 with 52 percent of the vote to 44 percent for the incumbent, Julio Schlosser. He will start his three-year term on Dec. 15.
“Not only a president was elected, but an entire team, which includes Orthodox Jews and also Conservatives, social and sports institutions,” Cohen Sabban told the Argentine media after his victory. “We will represent the entire Jewish community.”
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From Russia Today
Most Ukrainians think country headed in wrong direction on 2nd anniversary of Maidan uprising
Published time: 22 Nov, 2015 00:43
Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko takes part in a commemoration ceremony at the site where anti-Yanukovich protesters were killed during clashes in Kiev, Ukraine, November 21, 2015. © Gleb Garanich / Reuters Two years ago, protesters gathered in central Kiev to demand change and reforms, eventually ousting then-President Yanukovich. However, 730 days later, the country is far from prosperity, with mounting debts and a costly conflict in the east. TrendsUkraine turmoil
On Saturday, thousands of people gathered in Kiev’s central Independence Square, better known as Maidan, to celebrate the Day of Dignity and Freedom, marking the second anniversary of the Euromaidan protests. Various events were held around the city.
President Petro Poroshenko attended a commemorative ceremony devoted to those killed during the Maidan protests and laid flowers and lit candles at the “Heavenly Hundred” memorial.
“Together with all the heavenly hero’s we honored the memory of our hero’s,” Poroshenko tweeted.
He was booed by some protesters, however, who had come to decry the country’s dire economic situation. “Neither Poroshenko, nor the authorities… they don’t care for the people. We stay here with our questions concerning Financial Maidan… They neither want to hear us nor to hold restructuring measures,” one man told Ruptly.
From The Times of Israel
Putin visits Tehran for first time in eight years
Russian president, Iranian leaders to discuss support for ally Bashar Assad in ending Syrian civil war
November 23, 2015, 2:30 pm
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived Monday in Tehran for talks with Iran about the devastating conflict in Syria where the two nations are allied in support of the Damascus regime.
On his first trip to Iran in eight years, Putin met supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country’s ultimate authority, who has backed Syrian President Bashar Assad since an uprising broke out in 2011.
What began as a conflict between Assad’s forces and Western- and Gulf-backed rebels has since spiraled into a civil war and multi-faceted fighting that has killed more than 250,000 people.
Attention is currently focused on stopping Islamic State group jihadists, who last year took control of large parts of Syria and surged into Iraq, from breaching Assad’s defenses and taking Damascus.
The threat from IS has taken on new potency and spread into Europe since the jihadists committed coordinated gun and bomb attacks in Paris 10 days ago, killing 130 people.
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From The Times of Israel
Ahead of Israel visit, Kerry hops to Abu Dhabi to talk about Syria
Ceasefire talks would aim to end fighting by beginning of next year, but participants have still not been decided on
November 23, 2015, 1:17 pm
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Abu Dhabi on Monday to meet his Emirati counterparts on efforts to build a Syrian opposition coalition to lead peace talks with the Damascus regime.
Kerry has scheduled meetings with Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed al-Nahyan and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan.
US officials said he also hoped to meet Saudi officials.
The American envoy is spearheading international efforts to halt Syria’s four-and-half-year civil war by putting opposition and rebel factions around a table with Bashar al-Assad’s government.
Major powers with an interest in the conflict have set an ambitious target date of January 1 for talks and a ceasefire to begin, but the participants have yet to be identified.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Israel just approved immigration for 9,000 Ethiopian Jews — here’s who they are
The move comes two years after the arrival of 450 Ethiopian Jews then deemed to be the “last” such group. Indeed, there have been several groups said to be the last since Ethiopian immigration began in the 1970s.
The initial wave was supposed to have ended with a giant military-style operation in 1991. Then Ethiopian aliyah “ended” again, in 1998. Then again in 2008. And again in 2010. Each time, advocates of continuing Ethiopian immigration prevailed upon the government to let in not just more Jews, but other groups with Jewish ancestry.
Experts and Ethiopian community members say this group may actually be the one capping three decades of Ethiopian immigration. But when the new arrivals hit Israel, they’ll encounter a whole new set of challenges. Ethiopian-Israelis lag in employment, wages and education, and have protested what they call institutional discrimination.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Mayor of Spring Valley, NY, secretly vowed to block Jewish developers
NEW YORK (JTA) — A mayor in suburban New York’s Rockland County secretly pledged to reject all building permit applications by Jewish developers, according to a newspaper report.
The mayor, Demeza Delhomme of Spring Valley, was secretly recorded in March saying he would vote against all Jewish-submitted building permits but would accept permits by Haitians, the Journal News reported. The newspaper obtained the secret recording. Delhomme is Haitian-American.
Spring Valley has been the site of pitched political battles between the burgeoning Orthodox Jewish population and local opponents.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Israel’s Ron Dermer to ZOA: We must defeat ‘militant Islam,’ but Islam is not the enemy
Dermer, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, issued his declaration Sunday night during his keynote address at the annual Louis Brandeis Award Dinner of the Zionist Organization of America. He warned of a global network of diverse Muslim terrorist groups waging a relentless war to create a world where “women are chattel, gays are hanged and minorities are either eliminated or persecute” — and one where Israel and the United States do not exist.
At the same time, Dermer rejected the idea that the “problem is Islam itself.”
“Faiths tend to be very malleable things,” Dermer said. “They get interpreted in different ways at different times. For most of the last 1,400 years, Islam was much more tolerant to minorities than Christianity was. Jews, of all people, should know this.”
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From Russia Today
French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle launches first anti-ISIS missions in Syria & Iraq
Published time: 23 Nov, 2015 15:36
The French nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle © Jean-Paul Pelissier / Reuters
Military jets from France’s Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier on Monday flew their first missions over Islamic State-controlled territories in Syria and Iraq and carried out their first airstrikes.
The jets have hit two Islamic State targets in Iraq, the French military said on Twitter.
The presence of 26 military aircraft aboard the Charles de Gaulle triples French forces in the region, adding to the 12 planes already stationed in the UAE and Jordan: six Rafale and six Mirage 2000 aircraft.
The Charles de Gaulle, France’s only aircraft carrier, was deployed in the Mediterranean on Saturday.
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From The Times of Israel
Bennett: I shot PM ‘between the eyes’ to stop talk of West Bank pullout
Jewish Home leader told private meeting of West Bank party activists how he made Netanyahu reverse talk of unilateral moves; watch your words, colleague warned him
November 23, 2015, 12:35 pm
Jewish Home party leader Naftali Bennett claimed he forced Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to backtrack on recent comments he made of possible Israeli unilateral pullouts in the West Bank by giving the prime minister a verbal “bullet between the eyes,” Army Radio reported on Monday.
Bennett allegedly made the statement during a private meeting last week with Jewish Home party activists from West Bank settlements. The education minister’s remark prompted fellow party member Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel, sitting alongside him, to caution him to be careful in his choice of language.
“Abroad Bibi talked about unilateral moves; he went back on it after I put a bullet between his eyes,” Bennett reportedly said.
Ariel immediately called on Bennett to “watch your language.” Bennett responded: “Don’t misunderstand, it is of course a metaphor.”
Bennett then warned the gathering, “If you leak it from here, there will not be any more meetings like this.”
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From The Times of Israel
At least 10 people shot in New Orleans playground
Police say it is unclear who started the shooting or why; victims in various conditions evacuated to hospital
November 23, 2015, 5:17 am
New Orleans police said at least 10 people, and probably more, were wounded Sunday in an apparent shootout at a park in New Orleans’ 9th Ward.
Police spokesman Tyler Gamble said police were on their way to break up a big crowd when gunfire erupted at Bunny Friend Park.
He said ambulances took 10 people to hospitals, and police were told that others were taken by private vehicles.
Gamble said investigators don’t know how serious the wounds are, or what started the shooting.
He said there were two groups at the park — people who had walked there in a neighborhood parade and people watching or participating in a video.
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