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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Australian PM under fire for saying ISIS terrorists worse than Nazis
(JTA) — Australian Prime Minister Toby Abbott said that Islamic State terrorists are worse than the Nazis, spurring criticism from a top Australian Jewish leader.
“The Nazis did terrible evil, but they had a sufficient sense of shame to try to hide it,” Abbott said Thursday in a radio interview with the Fairfax station 2GB, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. “These people boast about their evil, this is the extraordinary thing. They act in the way that medieval barbarians acted, only they broadcast it to the world with an effrontery which is hard to credit.”
Abbott later said that he stood by his words, and “not by the interpretation that other people might want to put on it.” He also said he is “not in the business of trying to rank evil.”
Robert Goot, president of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, called the comparison “injudicious and unfortunate.”
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From PressTV
Israel stages missile attack on north of Gaza Strip
The Tel Aviv regime has launched a missile attack on the north of the besieged Gaza Strip, Israeli media say.
According to The Times of Israel, Israeli warplanes targeted a base belonging to the Palestinian resistance movement of Hamas early Thursday morning. Two missiles were reportedly fired in the attack.
There is still no word on the possible casualties of the airstrike which was the second of its kind against Gaza over the past week.
The attack reportedly follows “sniper fire” from the base which hit several houses in the Israeli town of Netiv Haasara, north of the besieged coastal sliver, The Times of Israel claimed, adding that no one was killed or injured in the incident.
Last summer, the Israeli regime launched a brutal attack against Gaza, killing 2,140 Palestinians, including 557 children.
From PressTV
Netanyahu to toughen rules on Palestinian stone-throwers
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly initiated a move to harden the existing rules on dealing with the Palestinians who throw stones on Israeli forces.
Netanyahu’s office said on Wednesday that he and other members of the Israeli cabinet are considering giving the troops a freer hand to shoot at Palestinian stone-throwers, including minors.
The suggestion for intensified rules came amid an increasing wave of stone-throwing in the occupied al-Quds and West Bank. A video last week, which went viral on the Internet, showed an Israeli trooper being bitten by women and children after he brutally attacked and placed an injured young boy under headlock for throwing stones.
Israeli media then blamed the current rules for the inability of the Israeli soldier to fight back and use his rifle against the women and children. On paper, Israeli forces are allowed to fire with live bullets in “life-threatening” situations. However, the new measures could enable them to also fire at Palestinians who flee after throwing rocks.
Israeli forces frequently open fire on Palestinians and injure or kill them for a variety of excuses. In early July, Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian teenager who, according to Israeli military sources, had only hurled stones at them. However, witnesses and local residents said the shooting had been completely without provocation.
From The Times of Israel
Migrants flood Budapest rail station as police end blockade
Hungary halts westbound trains, saying it won’t let more groups of migrants deeper into the European Union
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Migrants poured into Budapest’s Keleti train station Thursday as police ended their blockade, but there were no trains running to Western Europe, the goal of many of the migrants.
The rail company said its stance was due to “railway transport” security reasons.
Police shut down the Keleti terminal to migrants on Tuesday, preventing those with valid tickets but no travel docuThousands of migrants to arrive in Athens as political tensions rise in Europements from boarding trains to Austria and Germany, many migrants’ preferred destination.
There was no immediate explanation from police or other authorities of Thursday’s decisions, which came hours before Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban was to meet European Union leaders in Brussels to discuss the crisis.
On Wednesday, migrants had threatened to walk the 170 kilometers (105 miles) to the Austrian border if police would not let them board trains to their desired destinations in Austria and Germany.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Zero-tolerance policy on anti-Semitism, Belgian PM vows
(JTA) — Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel vowed to apply a zero-tolerance policy on anti-Semitism during visits to several Jewish institutions in Antwerp.
Michel visited the Flemish capital in northern Belgium Tuesday with that city’s mayor, Bart de Wever, and Jan Jambon, Belgium’s federal minister of security and interior affairs, at the invitation of Joods Actueel, an Antwerp-based monthly Jewish publication.
“Anti-Semitsm is unacceptable,” the Belga news agency quoted Michel as saying in Antwerp. “I want a zero tolerance policy on it.”
Security for Jews in Antwerp, where some 18,000 Jews live, was a prominent issue on the agenda during the visit by the three officials. Last year, the federal Belgian government allocated $4.5 million to providing extra security until 2017 to Belgian Jews, who have 19 schools and approximately 45 synagogues in Antwerp alone.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Kerry: U.S. will use ‘all tools’ to confront Iranian destabilization
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Obama administration will oppose Iran’s bids to destabilize the region “with every national security tool available,” U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said, defending the Iran nuclear deal.
“In a letter that I am sending to all the members of Congress today, I make clear the administration’s willingness to work with them on legislation to address shared concerns about regional security consistent with the agreement that we have worked out with our international partners,” Kerry said in a major Iran policy speech Wednesday at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.
One of the fears expressed by deal skeptics is that the sanctions relief for nuclear restrictions deal reached in July between Iran and six major powers will release tens of billions of dollars that Iran can use to increase its disruptive activities in the region and elsewhere.
Kerry and other Obama administration officials are lobbying hard to keep Congress from killing the Iran deal by a Sept. 17 deadline. They hit a milestone Wednesday when Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., became the 34th senator to pledge to back the deal, guaranteeing that it would survive any bid to override President Barack Obama’s pledged veto should Congress reject the deal.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Sources close to Netanyahu indicate he’ll keep fighting Iran nuclear deal
(JTA) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is expected to continue his campaign against the Iran nuclear deal, even as President Barack Obama has secured enough congressional support to sustain a veto of any effort to block it.
Hours after Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., announced that she was supporting the agreement, effectively ensuring that the deal will survive attempts in Congress to overturn it, an unidentified “source close to” Netanyahu said that “a clear majority in the American public and in Congress” agree with his opposition, the Times of Israel reported.
“Netanyahu is expected to take the line that even though Obama has managed to preserve his right to uphold a veto, the deal with Iran still does not have legitimate public support,” according to Haaretz.
The Jerusalem Post reported that a “senior official” in the Israeli government said that Netanyahu “has a responsibility to speak out against the deal” and “will continue to do so.”
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From Russia Today
Worst refugee crisis since WWII
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04 September 2015
04:45 GMT
“I think the crisis was absolutely expected,” President Vladimir Putin told journalists at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, discussing the current refugee crisis in the EU.
“We in Russia, and me personally a few years ago, said it straight that pervasive problems would emerge, if our so-called Western partners continue maintaining their flawed … foreign policy, especially in the regions of the Muslim world, Middle East, North Africa, which they pursue to date,” said Putin.
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04:22 GMT
The Syrian father who lost his wife and two toddlers to the waters of the Mediterranean collapsed in anguish as he identified their bodies.
Three-year-old Alan Kurdi, his five-year-old brother Ghalib, and their mother, Rehanna, drowned as they attempted to cross from Turkey into Greece on Wednesday.
The photograph of the boy’s tiny body lying face-down on the beach in Turkey appeared in newspapers around the world, prompting both sympathy and outrage worldwide.
Aylan’s five-year-old brother Galip and mother Rehan, 35, were among 12 people, including further children, who died after two boats capsized while their passengers were trying to reach the Greek island of Kos.
From Ynet News
Europe exploring Israeli solutions to migrant crisis
Bulgaria and Hungary are looking into Israeli designed border fences and systems in order to help tackle the massive refugee crises currently enveloping European nations.
Reuters
09.03.15
Faced with a surge in migration from the Middle East and North Africa, two European countries are exploring the possibility of erecting towering steel security fences along parts of their borders, similar to Israel’s barrier with Egypt.
Hungary and Bulgaria have made preliminary inquiries about buying the Israeli-designed fences, according to an Israeli business source who declined to be named due to the sensitivity of the discussions.
Both EU countries are beefing up their borders to deter migrants, many of them refugees from wars, who are seeking to use them as gateways to richer countries further north and west, particularly Germany.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Holocaust denier David Irving leading tour of WWII sites
(JTA) – Convicted British Holocaust denier David Irving is leading a weeklong tour of World War II sites in Poland and Latvia.
The tour, which began Wednesday in Warsaw and ends Sept. 10, cost about $3,000 per person and includes Hitler’s “Wolf’s Lair” bunker headquarters and the Treblinka and Belzec death camps.
Irving, who has been barred from several countries and was jailed in 2006 in Austria, launched what he calls “Real History” tours in 2010.
“Don’t miss this lifetime adventure!” a notice for the trip on his website states. “Make up your own mind about the truth.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Jewish history in the Yukon to be documented
TORONTO (JTA) — Jews in Canada’s far North have received a government grant to document Jewish history in the Yukon.
The $55,000 grant from the Yukon territorial government will allow the Jewish Cultural Society of Yukon to research a small, Gold Rush-era Jewish cemetery in Dawson City and the influence wielded by the Jewish community there, CBC News reported.
The information will be used to create a mobile display that will travel across Canada, said Rick Karp, the society’s president.
“It’s going to travel everywhere and hopefully bring a lot more people up here, from a tourism perspective, into Yukon,” Karp told CBC. “It will point out to people that there was a Jewish influence in Canada beyond Montreal and Toronto and Winnipeg and the large cities.”
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From The Times of Israel
AIPAC official: PM’s Congress speech hurt Iran deal opposition
Member of pro-Israel lobby tells Israeli media that Netanyahu’s March address transformed Iran deal into partisan issue; AIPAC spokesman says the comments ‘do not represent or reflect our views’
An official from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the leading pro-Israel lobby in the US, on Thursday blasted Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for harming the opposition to the Iran nuclear deal by insisting on addressing Congress on the issue in March.
“Netanyahu’s speech in Congress made the Iranian issue a partisan one,” the AIPAC official told Israel’s Walla news. “As soon as he insisted on going ahead with this move, which was perceived as a Republican maneuver against the president, we lost a significant part of the Democratic party, without which it was impossible to block the agreement,” said the official, who asked not to be named.
AIPAC’s spokesman Marshall Wittmann dissociated the organization from the remarks. “The comments by the purported ‘AIPAC official’ to Walla News about the prime minister do not represent or reflect the views of our organization and were not authorized by us,” he told The Times of Israel. Ahead of Netanyahu’s speech to Congress, he also noted, AIPAC made plain it firmly supported the prime minister’s address. “AIPAC welcomes the prime minister’s speech to Congress and we believe that this is a very important address,” Wittmann said at the time. “We have been actively encouraging senators and representatives to attend and we have received an overwhelmingly positive response from both sides of the aisle.”
Dozens of Democratic lawmakers were absent from Netanyahu’s speech — which had been set up without the knowledge of the White House — including President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden.
AIPAC has been at the forefront of the battle against the agreement reached in July between Iran and the world powers, which curbs Iran’s nuclear program in return for the lifting of crippling economic sanctions. But, according to veteran Israeli journalist Ben Caspit, the lobby had opposed Netanyahu’s speech to Congress and urged him to reconsider in anticipation of the strain it would place on US-Israel ties. Netanyahu apparently declined, and the speech went ahead.
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From The Times of Israel
Russia stalls on assigning blame for Syria chemical attacks
Proposal by UN secretary-general to set up three member panel snagged on fine details raised by Russian envoy
UNITED NATIONS — Russia is holding up Security Council approval to establish a new international body to assign blame for chemical attacks in Syria’s deadly conflict for the first time.
Russia’s UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, who holds the council presidency in September, told reporters Wednesday that Russia had questions about the proposal by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
He also raised the possibility that the council might need a new resolution to deal with allegations that the Islamic State extremist group has used chemical weapons including mustard gas in neighboring Iraq.
The Syrian government denies using chemical weapons but the United States and other Western nations contend Syria’s government is to blame, especially for barrel bombs containing chlorine and other toxic agents dropped by helicopters, since the opposition doesn’t have aircraft.
Ban sent a letter to the council last Thursday recommending the establishment of a three-member independent panel backed by experts with the freedom to go anywhere in Syria to identify those responsible for using chlorine and other chemical weapons so perpetrators can be brought to justice. The council was supposed to respond in five days.
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From The Times of Israel
Biden to test political waters in Florida as he mulls 2016
Interest in a presidential run for the VP surges as Clinton’s campaign struggles to gain momentum
WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden is headed to Florida, where he’s sure to get a glimpse of his presidential prospects as he considers a late entry into the 2016 Democratic primaries.
Biden plans to appear at Miami Dade College and headline a private fundraiser for Senate Democrats on Wednesday as he mulls a potential challenge to Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton. Interest in a Biden bid has intensified in recent weeks as Clinton has struggled with what some Democrats consider a lackluster start to her campaign and scrutiny over her use of a private email account and server as President Barack Obama’s secretary of state.
“There’s a malaise inside the race right now with Clinton. People I know who are supporting her are not necessarily withdrawing, but are unenthusiastic,” said Tony Bisagnano, an Iowa state senator who backed Biden’s campaign in 2008 and wants him to run again.
But he cautioned: “We’re getting close to where it’s going to be a tough race if he waits much longer.”
A Democrat familiar with Biden’s deliberations said recent discussions have focused on whether Biden’s family would be ready to pursue a third presidential campaign only months after the death of the vice president’s son, Beau Biden.
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