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From the Daily Mail
Rush to convert your green cards into votes against Trump and other ‘bullies and bigots’: Puerto Rican congressman tells millions of Hispanics to become citizens
- Illinos Rep. Luis Gutierrez urged 8.8 million green card holders to become naturalized citizens in response to Donald Trump’s immigration rhetoric
- Complains about ‘mean and frankly, let’s be honest, racist attacks on Mexican immigrants’
- Gutierrez wants more Latinos to be able to vote so Democrats can crush Trump and other Republicans in 2016
- ‘Every time you see Trump’s face on your TV, vow to learn a little more English or a few more history facts so you can take the [citizenship] test’
- ‘Let’s turn Trump’s negative words into something positive. That is how you deal with bullies and bigots’
A Democratic congressman wants millions of people who hold U.S. green cards to become American citizens in order to send Donald Trump and other Republicans a message that they’re ‘mean and frankly, let’s be honest, racist.’
Louis Gutierrez, who is the senior House Democrat from Illinois and a Puerto Rican immigrant, spoke on the House floor just after 10:00 Wednesday morning, delivering a message especially to more than 5 million Hispanic U.S. residens who are eligible for citizenship today.
‘Every time you see Trump’s face on your TV, vow to learn a little more English or a few more history facts so you can take the [citizenship] test,’ he said.
From PressTV
Israel plans to build 800 more settler units in West Bank
Israel is planning to build at least 800 more settler units in the occupied West Bank amid an international outcry against the Tel Aviv regime’s land grab policies.
The Israeli human rights group Peace Now said Tuesday that Israel’s Civil Administration secretly allocated land for 800 housing units inside the Givat Eitam settlement south of Bethlehem.
The planned settler units will reportedly be built on the land belonging to Palestinian residents of the village of al-Nahla south of Bethlehem, and northeast of the Efrat settlement.
The rights group added that the allocation comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 2013 announced that plans for more settlement construction are canceled in Givat Eitam.
Israel has tried to change the demographic makeup of al-Quds over the past decades by constructing illegal settlements, destroying historical sites and expelling the local Palestinian population.
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From PressTV
Israel fumes at ICC move to probe into Gaza flotilla raid
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is infuriated by the International Criminal Court (ICC) request to reopen a probe into the Zionist regime’s 2010 attack on a Gaza-bound aid flotilla.
Netanyahu on Thursday said that the move is motivated by “cynical political reasons.”
He claimed that the Israeli forces acted in self-defense in stopping the flotilla, saying the raid was aimed at maintaining the regime’s naval blockade on the Gaza Strip.
Netanyahu’s remarks came after the ICC ordered its chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to reopen a probe into the attack which left nine Turkish activists dead.
In a statement on Thursday, a panel of three ICC judges said the prosecutor “committed material errors in her determination of the gravity of the potential case,” requesting her to reconsider decision not to investigate the event.
From The Times of Israel
Netanyahu rebukes UK’s Hammond for ‘failure of diplomacy’ on Iran
PM hits back at visiting British foreign secretary, who on Wednesday claimed there was no deal that would have been ‘welcomed in Tel Aviv’
The newly finalized agreement between Iran and world powers to curb the former’s nuclear program is a “failure of diplomacy” that allows Iran to avoid choosing between nuclear capability and economic growth, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond in Jerusalem on Thursday.
The prime minister said that the agreement threatens Israel’s existence and regional peace and security. “It lifts the sanctions today and paves a path to the bomb tomorrow,” Netanyahu said.
Meeting a day after Hammond slammed Netanyahu for his outspoken opposition to the Iran nuclear deal, the two discussed the terms of an agreement branded by Netanyahu as a “historic mistake.”
Britain is one of the six world powers — along with China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States — that struck the deal with Iran after a 13-year standoff over its disputed nuclear program.
Hammond, who came to Israel in an effort to reassure Netanyahu that Tuesday’s deal was in Israel’s best interest, told a joint press conference that “robust measures” would ensure its success.
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From The Times of Israel
US, Israeli counterterror teams talk tactics
Security experts from both countries forge connections in Washington, DC meeting
WASHINGTON — The counterterrorism teams of the United States and Israel met this week in Washington, DC for strategic discussion.
The meeting at the US State Department came “in the context of the two countries’ close and ongoing security cooperation,” the State Department said.
Leading the team for the United States was Counterterrorism Coordinator Tina Kaidanow, and for Israel, Director General of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ambassador Alon Roth-Snir and Deputy National Security Adviser and Head of the Counterterrorism Bureau Eytan Ben-David.
“This is one of the United States’ longest standing strategic counterterrorism dialogues and provides an opportunity to formally review the full range of counterterrorism issues that are of concern to our two countries,” the statement said.
“Both delegations reaffirmed their commitment to continuing and strengthening joint Israel-US consultation and cooperation on common counterterrorism challenges.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Netanyahu slams ‘cynical’ ICC move to reopen Mavi Marmara case
(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the International Criminal Court’s request to reopen a probe into Israel’s 2010 raid on a Turkish ship attempting to breach the blockade of the Gaza Strip.
In a statement issued shortly after the request Thursday, Netanyahu said that the court’s renewed focus on the Mavi Marmara raid, in which Israeli forces killed nine Turkish activists during clashes, was “motivated by cynical politics.”
The case against Israel at the ICC was first filed in May 2013 by the Union of Comoros, a tiny Indian Ocean island state, where the Mavi Marmara was registered.
In January, Comoros asked ICC judges to review ICC Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda’s decision in November not to pursue any charges against Israel. A panel of three ICC judges on Thursday requested on Thursday that the prosecution review that decision, citing “material errors” in Bensouda’s “determination of the gravity of the potential case,” the French news agency AFP reported.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Samsung removes online cartoons mocking Jewish hedge fund founder
(JTA) — A Samsung subsidiary removed online cartoons that showed the Jewish founder of a hedge fund as a vulture with a large beak.
Samsung C&T removed the cartoons on Wednesday, The Associated Press reported, days after the company condemned anti-Semitism in the wake of anti-Semitic expressions in the South Korean media in reporting on the proposed merger between Samsung C&T, a construction company, and Cheil Industries.
The removal of the cartoons attacking Paul Singer, the Jewish founder of New York-based Elliott Associates, came a day before shareholders of Samsung C&T were to vote on the merger, which is opposed by Singer’s fund, the third-largest shareholder in Samsung C&T. Both companies are subsidiaries of the Samsung Group, South Korea’s largest family-controlled conglomerate. The merger is part of a consolidation effort.
Along with depicting Singer as a vulture, the cartoons show him hiding an axe behind his back while taking money from a man in ragged clothes.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
C-SPAN caller accuses Jewish senator of dual loyalty to Israel
(JTA) — A talk-show caller accused a Jewish U.S. senator, Ben Cardin, of dual loyalty to Israel.
Eric from Georgia said on C-SPAN that the Maryland Democrat, the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, should disclose that he is Jewish when discussing U.S.-Iran relations.
“Mr. Cardin looks like a regular white guy, nice guy, whatever, but in actuality he’s a Jewish white guy,” Eric said Wednesday. “If the public was informed of that by C-SPAN, I think they would take his comments differently.”
Cardin appeared on C-SPAN to discuss his reactions to the Iran nuclear deal signed on Tuesday, which he has said raises “a lot of questions.”
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