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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Putin: Syria in no position to open front against Israel
(JTA) — The Syrian army is not in a position to open a second front against Israel, Russian President Vladimir Putin told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Moscow.
“Our main goal is to defend the Syrian state,” Putin said of Russia’s actions in Syria, including moving troops into the country. “However, I understand your concern and I am very pleased that you have come here to discuss all issues in detail,” he told Netanyahu on Monday at the start of the leaders’ meeting.
Netanyahu said he had made the trip to Russia to “clarify our policies” on Syria and Iran, and to “make sure that there is no misunderstanding between our forces.”
“Iran and Syria have been arming the extremist Islamic terrorist organization Hezbollah with advanced weapons aimed at us, and over the years thousands of rockets and missiles have been fired against our cities. At the same time Iran, under the auspices of the Syrian army, is attempting to build a second terrorist front against us from the Golan Heights,” the Israeli leader charged.
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From PressTV
Israeli forces clash with Palestinians in West Bank
Israeli forces have once again attacked Palestinians demonstrators protesting against Tel Aviv’s recent restrictions on access to their revered religious sites.
The clashes took place on Monday when Israeli forces attacked demonstrators near Aida refugee camp close to the Palestinian city of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.
The protesters slammed Israel’s aggression against the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East al Quds (Jerusalem) over the past week, while similar clashes were also reported outside Joseph’s Tomb located on the outskirts of the city of Nablus.
Some 2,000 illegal Israeli settlers escorted by Israeli soldiers went inside the holy shrine for visiting and praying.
The move sparked anger among local Palestinians as the site is considered sacred to both Muslims and Jews but Israel has barred Palestinians from praying there.
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From PressTV
Israeli forces kidnap 11 Palestinian children in East al-Quds
Israeli forces have abducted at least 11 Palestinian children during a series of raids on a number of houses across the Israeli-occupied Old City of al-Quds (Jerusalem).
The Palestinian Wadi Hilweh Information Center said eight minors were arrested on Monday as Israeli military vehicles rolled into Ras al-Amud neighborhood of East al-Quds (Jerusalem).
The center added that three children were also detained in al-Issawiya neighborhood of East al-Quds.
In recent months, Israeli forces have frequently raided the houses of Palestinians in the West Bank, arresting dozens of people, who are then transferred to Israeli prisons, where they are kept without charge.
There have been many reports about the deteriorating health of Palestinian prisoners held inside Israeli jails.
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From PressTV
Hamas calls on Cairo to stop flooding Gaza border area
Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has called on the Egyptian government to stop submerging the border area between the Gaza Strip and Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.
“We are holding official contacts with Cairo to halt this move,” Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said in statement issued on Sunday.
Zuhri stressed that Cairo’s measure would impact Palestinians’ livelihood negatively as it endangers the underground waters in the area and might even damage the houses on the Palestinian side of the border.
“We hope that [Cairo] would accept our request to halt these rejected measures,” he added.
Earlier this month, the Egyptian military started to flood the borderline with seawater in an attempt to annihilate the underground tunnels used by Palestinians to bring in supplies to the strip, which has been under a crippling siege by the Tel Aviv regime since 2007.
“The Egyptian army has begun to build huge pipelines along the border with the Gaza Strip,” a Palestinian security source confirmed on September 2.
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From Ynet News
Israel wary as Russia, Iran expand Syrian presence
Russia rapidly expanding base in Syria; Israeli, Russian chiefs of staff agree to create coordinating committee after Netanyahu, Putin discuss need to avoid military “misunderstandings”.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday in order to set up a system to prevent any clashes between the Russian and Israeli armies in the region, as Moscow continues to send troops to its growing base on Latakiya, and as American sources report that Russia has placed 28 fighter jets and a bomber at another base.
Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot later met his Russian counterpart and the two agreed to create a committee to plan coordination.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Will German welcome of refugees come at Jews’ expense?
BERLIN (JTA) – The migrants sit slumped together on the sidewalk outside the State Office for Health and Social Affairs here, resting on donated sleeping bags, clutching food handouts, smoking, sleeping, fiddling with their cellphones.
They have come to this city by the tens of thousands, propelled by German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s pledge to welcome at least 800,000 asylum seekers into the country. Many are Syrians, but there also are migrants from Iraq, Pakistan, Albania, Afghanistan and other countries.
The Syrians have braved perilous journeys by inflatable raft through the waters between Turkey and Greece, marched for miles on sunbaked roads en route to Athens, circumvented Hungary’s harsh border controls and passed through Macedonia, Serbia and Austria to find their way onto trains bound for Germany.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
91-year-old woman charged as accessory to murder for SS work at Auschwitz
(JTA) — A 91-year-old woman alleged to have been a Nazi SS member working in Auschwitz has been charged with 260,000 counts of accessory to murder.
German prosecutors said Monday that the woman, whose name was not disclosed, is accused of serving as a radio operator for the notorious extermination camp’s commandant for two months in 1944, The Associated Press reported.
The court is not expected to decide whether to proceed with a trial until next year, according to AP.
The announcement came just days after a German court said it was waiting for medical clearance before trying another Auschwitz employee, Reinhold Hanning, 93, with 170,000 counts of accessory to murder.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
In Greek elections, neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party sees slight gain
ATHENS, Greece (JTA) — The neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party made slight gains in Greek elections, remaining the country’s third largest party.
In Sunday’s balloting, the fifth general election in the last six years and second since January, Golden Dawn received 6.9 percent of the vote, giving it 18 seats in the 300-member national parliament, with nearly all of the votes counted.
In the January elections, the party had received 6.3 percent of the vote and 17 seats. Analysts attributed the rise to lower voter turnout.
The far-left Syriza party under Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras won with nearly 36 percent of the vote, but fell just short of an overall majority under the country’s reinforced proportional representation system. The center-right New Democracy Party finished second with 28.1 percent.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Iranian president says it’s premature to talk normalizing ties with U.S.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on American television that it was premature to discuss normalizing U.S.-Iran relations.
“The enmity that existed between the United States and Iran over the decades, the distance, the disagreements, the lack of trust, will not go away soon,” Rouhani said in an interview with the CBS news program “60 Minutes,” a rare direct encounter with the U.S. media.
“What’s important is which direction we are heading? Are we heading towards amplifying the enmity or decreasing this enmity? I believe we have taken the first steps towards decreasing this enmity.”
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From The Times of Israel
Comeback kid Tsipras storms to victory in Greek election
Despite austerity deal, left-wing Syriza party leader wins second mandate of the year, warns of ‘difficulties ahead’
ATHENS (AFP) — Greece’s charismatic left-wing leader Alexis Tsipras romped to victory in Greece’s general election Sunday, winning his second mandate as premier this year despite a controversial austerity deal struck with European leaders.
With around 90 percent of the votes counted, Tsipras’s Syriza party won 35.53 percent of the vote compared to 28.05 percent for conservative New Democracy and — in a sense of deja vu — will again form a coalition government with the small nationalist Independent Greeks party.
As results showed the radical 41-year-old pulling ahead after a tight race shadowed by painful tax rises and pension reforms that lie around the corner, New Democracy leader Vangelis Meimarakis admitted defeat.
“It appears that Mr Tsipras’s Syriza is first, I congratulate him,” said the 61-year-old lawyer and former defence minister, whose defeat signals the end of a decades-long era in which the conservatives and socialists alternated in power.
Turnout stood at 56 percent, slightly less than in January when six out of 10 voters cast their ballots, the interior ministry said.
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From The Times of Israel
Recalling Holocaust, Swiss Jewish leader urges refugee relief
In public appeal, Herbert Winter says ‘privileged’ Switzerland is ‘morally obligated to act for those less fortunate’
Citing Switzerland’s refusal to take in greater numbers of Jews during the Holocaust, the president of its Federation of Jewish Communities urged his government to take in migrants from the Middle East.
Federation president Herbert Winter’s plea, titled “Refugees: No, the Boat is not Full,” was published Tuesday in the Les Temps daily.
While thousands of Jews found refuge in neutral Switzerland from the Nazi genocide, “thousands also were turned away at the borders and murdered in concentration camps,” Winter wrote.
The Swiss are “privileged” to have good economic circumstances and “morally obligated to act for those less fortunate,” wrote Winter, who cited the integration of Swiss Jewry into society as proof that host countries benefit from immigration as much as the newcomers.
More than 340,000 migrants, many of them refugees, have crossed over to Europe from the Middle East this year, according to the European Union’s border authority. The flow has increased drastically in recent weeks, as tens of thousands entered through Hungary and Slovenia.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
In Austria, a Jewish sheep breeder shepherds migrants
(JTA) — Even at his remote sheep pasture in the Austrian countryside, Hans Breuer was too disturbed by the plight of the Syrian refugees streaming into his country to go about his daily routine.
Especially troubling to Breuer, a 61-year-old Jewish shepherd and singer of Yiddish songs, were the overcrowded conditions at Traiskirchen — a government-run refugee camp near Vienna that was featured on the local news last month because its 4,500 residents were double the intended capacity.
“I was sick of this crime, I asked my wife whether we should do something, and that’s how it began,” Breuer told JTA last week, recalling his recent experiences assisting dozens of refugees.
In August, Breuer showed up at Traiskirchen with peaches, water and meat from a sheep he had slaughtered for the refugees — one among his flock of 200 that he keeps near his trailer home 15 miles from Vienna, where he lives with his wife, Mingo Georgi, and two of his five children. The Traiskirchen visit, he said, motivated him to help out in other ways, including assisting migrants in their trek from Hungary to Austria by transporting them closer to the border.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Washington scandal reveals politics behind European Jewish memorials
WASHINGTON (JTA) – A small government agency for preserving European historical sites has been accused of criminal malfeasance, roiling Jewish community officials who say the agency has played a critical role in memorializing Europe’s Jewish past.
The controversy surrounding the U.S. Commission for the Preservation of America’s Heritage Abroad offers a glimpse into the workings of influence in the capital and reveals how the focus in Washington on lost Jewish heritage at times stirs resentment among non-Jewish Americans of European descent.
Some are concerned that the controversy could roll back recent strides in getting European nations to confront and memorialize their role in the decimation of European Jewry.
“A lot of sites important to different parts of the Jewish community would not continue to be in existence if not for the commission,” said Mark Levin, who directs the National Conference Supporting Eurasian Jewry, a body that advocates for Jews in many of the countries where the agency has helped set up memorials.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
HIAS, Reform rap Obama administration for lowballing Syrian refugees
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Two U.S. Jewish organizations said the Obama administration’s offer to absorb at least 10,000 Syrian refugees over the next year was inadequate.
“Increasing the total number of refugees from 70,000 to 85,000 for next year and to 100,000 for the year after is a nice symbolic gesture,” Mark Hetfield, the president of HIAS, a Jewish group that assists in refugee resettlement and advocates for immigration reform, said Sunday in a statement. “It is a baby step in the right direction. But it is not leadership.”
The Reform movement also said in a statement Monday that Secretary of State John Kerry’s proposed numbers did not meet the mark.
“The new admission numbers remain insufficient considering the scope of the crisis at hand,” said Rabbi Jonah Pesner, the director of the Reform’s Religious Action Center.
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From The Times of Israel
Trump slips, Fiorina rises, in post-debate poll
Carly Fiorina picks up points after challenging the billionaire candidate over his approach to women
Republican front runner Donald Trump slipped in the polls after this week’s Republican presidential debate while former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina shot to second place, a new poll released Sunday found.
The CNN/ORC poll had Trump still leading the field, with 24 percent of Republican voters supporting him, but that total was down eight percentage points from earlier this month.
“The only poll that matters is the big one. You know that one. It’s going to be the election,” Trump told CNN’s ‘State of the Union’ in a telephone interview, saying he was surprised by the results.
Fiorina, meanwhile, gained after a strong debate performance in which she icily skewered the brash real estate mogul for disparaging her looks in comments reported by Rolling Stone magazine.
“I think women all over this country heard very clearly what Mr Trump said,” Fiorina said in Wednesday night’s debate.
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From The Times of Israel
Wiesenthal Center tells Jews not to go to Reykjavik
LA-based NGO issues travel advisory after Icelandic capital’s ‘extreme anti-Israel and anti-Semitic’ boycott
The Simon Wiesenthal Center on Friday issued a travel warning for Jews wishing to visit the Icelandic capital after Reykjavikmunicipality voted Tuesday in favor of a boycott of Israeli goods “as long as the occupation of Palestinian territories continues.”
In an emailed statement Friday, the associate dean of the LA-based Jewish NGO, Rabbi Abraham Cooper, said that while Iceland was a popular destination with many Jews and Israelis, “when the elected leaders of its main city pass an extreme anti-Israel and anti-Semitic law, we would caution any member of a Jewish community about traveling there.”
Cooper also accused those behind the boycott of hypocrisy, for singling out Israel as a target. “The Jewish state alone — not Syria, not Iran, not North Korea, or the Sudan — is being subject a dangerous double standard that needs to be denounced by all fair-minded people,” he said.
Iceland’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday distanced itself from the boycott decision, saying the move was “not in line” with the country’s foreign policy. Its government told The Times of Israel that the resolution by the capital was its own and not representative of the country’s stance.
“The Ministry for Foreign Affairs wishes to underline that the City Council’s decision is not in line with Iceland’s foreign policy nor does it reflect on Iceland’s relations with the State of Israel,” a spokesperson said by email.
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