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From Russia Today
Turkey risks provoking next world war – Iraq’s Vice President Maliki
Published time: 26 Nov, 2015 19:44
Iraq’s Vice President Nouri al-Maliki. © Hadi Mizban / Reuters
Turkey could bring the world to the brink of the next global conflict, Iraq’s vice President Nuri al-Maliki said in the wake of the downing of a Russian bomber by Turkish air forces.
“Erdogan’s double standards and aggressive policies are threatening a new world war,” al-Maliki said in a statement as he criticized the policies of the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, AFP reported.
The Iraqi politician, who is a former prime minister of the country, also accused Turkey’s leader of hypocrisy as he commented on Turkey’s claims of a short violation of Turkish airspace by the Russian warplane which was downed by the country’s air forces.
“Erdogan claims that a Russian aircraft entered Turkey’s airspace for a few seconds, forgetting that its own planes violate Iraqi and Syrian airspace every day,” al-Maliki said, as quoted by AFP.
Iraq has repeatedly accused Turkey of aiding the rise of terrorist group Islamic State. However, it is not the only country that has lashed out at Turkish policies following the incident with the downed Russian military aircraft.
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From The Daily Mail
FBI tracking 48 high-risk ISIS suspects in the U.S. with more than 500 agents in elite surveillance teams following radicalized people round the clock
- Elite FBI units are following at least 48 high-risk ISIS suspects on U.S. soil
- Surveillance teams track the ‘radicalized’ men and women 24 hours a day
- At least a dozen highly trained agents are working on each case
- ‘Overwhelming’ job is taking up ‘enormous manpower’, senator says
- FBI’s intense surveillance comes in wake of the terrorist attacks in Paris
The FBI is tracking at least 48 high-risk ISIS suspects on U.S. soil round the clock, it has been revealed.
Elite surveillance squads are following the men and women, who are believed to be radicalized, 24 hours a day in case they are planning acts of terrorism.
The FBI is tracking 48 high risk ISIS suspects on U.S. soil round the clock, it has been revealed. The bureau’s intense surveillance comes in the wake of the terrorist atrocities in Paris (pictured) earlier this month
At least a dozen highly trained agents work on each case, meaning far more than 500 are involved in tailing the suspicious individuals.
The bureau’s intense surveillance comes in the wake of the terrorist atrocities in Paris earlier this month, where at least one of the perpetrators is believed to have become radicalized just a month before the attacks.
From the Telegraph (UK)
Here’s how World War Three could start tomorrow
It would only take a small spark to start a conflict between Nato and China or Russia – unleashing previously unseen forms of warfare
By PW Singer and August Cole
10:21AM GMT 24 Nov 2015Editor’s note: This article was originally published on 9 September 2015
There is an old adage that militaries set themselves up by failure by preparing to fight the last war. When it comes to 21st Century warfare, the problem however may not be with looking back, but that we aren’t looking back far enough.
For the last two decades, leaders in London and Washington have become focused on operations in places like Sierra Leona, Bosnia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Syria, where the worry was, and is, weak and imploding states.
But bigger trends are at play globally. We are seeing the return of great power politics – and with it, the risk of powerful states going to war. Conflict with the likes of Russia or China was something that seemed buried with the end of the Cold War. Yet today’s simmering tensions mean there is a risk of such an outcome becoming all too real.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
How the Chabad rebbe helped create food stamps, and other Jewish Medal of Freedom stories
Barack Obama got a big laugh at the Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony on Tuesday when he pretended not to know Barbra Streisand was Jewish.
It was just one of many Jewish moments in one of the most Jewish iterations of the ceremony in memory. Four of the 17 people awarded the United State’s highest civilian honor were Jews: Streisand, violin virtuoso Yitzhak Perlman, film director Steven Spielberg and composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim.
But the president only alluded to the deeply Jewish story of how posthumous honoree Shirley Chisholm — the first black congresswoman, who died in 2005 — helped introduce food stamps in the United States.
Here’s Obama on the affair: “When Shirley was assigned to the House Agricultural Committee — despite the fact that her district was from New York City — she said, ‘Apparently all they know here in Washington about Brooklyn is that a tree grew there.’ But she made the most of her new role, helping to create the supplemental nutrition program that feeds poor mothers and their children.”
In a video on Chabad’s website, David Luchins, a longtime aide to Democrats who is also active in the Orthodox Jewish community, tells the story of how Chisholm, at her retirement party in 1983, recounted that while she was initially furious, she came to see the appointment as a blessing.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Obama administration: Still a ‘big no’ on supporting settlement building
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Obama administration is standing by its “big no” when it comes to supporting any new settlement building in Israel, a spokesman said.
“I can be very clear that we’re not changing – again, we’re not changing – the decades-old U.S. policy regarding settlements,” Mark Toner, a State Department spokesman, said Tuesday when asked at the daily briefing about reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded recognition of Israel’s right to build in the West Bank in exchange for granting Palestinians the same right.
“Every U.S. administration since 1967, Democrat and Republican alike, has opposed Israeli settlement activity beyond the 1967 lines, and this administration’s been no different and will be no different,” Toner said.
“The U.S. government has never defended or supported Israeli settlements and activity associated with them, and by extension does not pursue policies that would legitimize them. And administrations of both parties have long recognized that settlement activity and efforts to change the facts on the ground undermine the goal of a two-state solution.”
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Jonathan Pollard’s lawyers: Job offer stands
NEW YORK (JTA) — Jonathan Pollard’s job offer still stands, his lawyers said, denying a report that it was rescinded.
A spokesman for the attorneys, Eliot Lauer and Jacques Semmelman, contacted JTA on Wednesday to deny a Jerusalem Post report this week that an unnamed “respected” investment firm officially revoked its offer of a research analyst’s position on Monday.
According to the Israeli newspaper’s story, the company said the conditions of parole for the released spy for Israel would have interfered with his ability to do the required work.
Pollard, who was freed Friday after spending 30 years in a federal prison, filed an appeal the same day asking that the parole conditions, including wearing an electronic ankle bracelet with GPS tracking and surveillance of his and any employer’s computers, be dropped. The attorneys described the conditions as “unlawful” and said they would make it impossible for Pollard to have a job.
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From Russia Today
German air force to support France in fight against ‘murderous gang’ in Syria
Published time: 27 Nov, 2015 00:04
© Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters
Germany has agreed to lend military assistance to France and support its expanded aerial campaign against the “murderous gang” after the French President asked Berlin to step up efforts against the Islamic State terrorist group in the wake of the mid-November Paris attacks.
Germany’s participation in the anti-ISIS campaign will include sending between four and six Tornado reconnaissance planes equipped with special infrared cameras to detect enemy positions, as well as a frigate to protect France’s Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier stationed in the Mediterranean. Germany will also provide aerial refueling planes for French jets, Henning Otte, defense spokesman for German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union party told journalists.
“We won’t just strengthen the training mission [for Kurdish Peshmerga fighters] in northern Iraq, but also push forward our engagement in the battle against Isis terror in Syria with reconnaissance Tornados,” Otte said as quoted by the German branch of The Local.
“Germany will be a more active contributor [to the anti-ISIS campaign] than it has been until now,” he added.
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From Russia Today
‘Fighting common evil’: Putin, Hollande agree to share intelligence on terrorist targets in Syria
Published time: 26 Nov, 2015 22:02
November 26, 2015. Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) and French President Francois Hollande hold a joint press conference following their meeting in the Kremlin. © Michael Klimentyev / Sputnik France and Russia have agreed to exchange intelligence data on Islamic State and other terror groups in Syria to increase the effectiveness of their air campaigns in the country as Vladimir Putin received his French counterpart, Francois Hollande, in Moscow.
“France is ready to work hand in hand with Russia to achieve a common goal of fighting terror groups and Islamic State in the first place,” Hollande said after the talks on Thursday evening.
The two leaders have agreed that French and Russian airstrikes would be focused on Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) and other jihadist groups and facilities under their control.
“What we agreed, and this is important, is to strike only terrorists and Daesh (Islamic State) and to not strike forces that are fighting terrorism. We will exchange information about whom to hit and whom not to hit,” Hollande added.
“We grieve with you over the losses that France suffered,” President Putin told his French counterpart, reminding that Russia also “suffered serious losses as a result of a heinous terrorist act against a civilian aircraft.”
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From Ynet News
US Jews still haunted by Pollard affair
Three decades have passed since the Israeli spy’s conviction, and American Jewry is still finding it difficult to recover from the embarrassing affair. ‘Voicing an opinion on the issue could help anti-Semitic bloggers seeking to question US Jews’ motives,’ says pro-Israel activist. For us he was Yonatan Pollard, but for the Americans he remains Jonathan – a small but significant difference in the attitude towards the Israeli spy.
Three decades have passed since Pollard was convicted of spying for Israel, and it seems American Jewry is finding it difficult to recover from the embarrassment and conflict which divided it over the affair. His release last weekend, which was widely covered in Israel, created a very small buzz among the US Jewish community.
Some 5.3 million Jews of the world’s strongest power are caught in the middle of the restrictions imposed on Pollard by the US authorities upon his release and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s warm welcome of the release. The conflicts presented by the Pollard case and the “dual loyalty” issue are still haunting them to this very day.
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From Ynet News
New Argentine president expected to improve ties with Israel
Mauricio Macri, elected to replace Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, is known for his close ties with Argentina’s Jewish community; he also appointed two prominent Jewish figures as ministers in his government.
The recent presidential elections in Argentina are expected to bring about a change in Buenos Aires’s ties with Jerusalem.
While outgoing President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner was in favor of returning the Golan Heights to Syria and has been accused of covering up the 1994 terror attack at a Jewish community center in the Argentine capital, newly-elected President Mauricio Macri has close ties to the country’s Jews.
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From The Times of Israel
The rebbe who helped create food stamps, and other Jewish Medal of Freedom stories
This year’s White House event was one of the most Jewish iterations of the ceremony in memory
November 26, 2015, 3:50 am
JTA — Barack Obama got a big laugh at the Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony on Tuesday when he pretended not to know Barbra Streisand was Jewish.
It was just one of many Jewish moments in one of the most Jewish iterations of the ceremony in memory. Four of the 17 people awarded the United State’s highest civilian honor were Jews: Streisand, violin virtuoso Itzhak Perlman, film director Steven Spielberg and composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim.
But the president only alluded to the deeply Jewish story of how Shirley Chisholm — the first black congresswoman, who died in 2005, and who received a medal posthumously Tuesday — helped introduce food stamps in the United States.
Here’s Obama on the affair: “When Shirley was assigned to the House Agricultural Committee — despite the fact that her district was from New York City — she said, ‘Apparently all they know here in Washington about Brooklyn is that a tree grew there.’ But she made the most of her new role, helping to create the supplemental nutrition program that feeds poor mothers and their children.”
In a video on Chabad’s website, David Luchins, a longtime aide to Democrats who is also active in the Orthodox Jewish community, tells the story of how Chisholm, at her retirement party in 1983, recounted that while she was initially furious, she came to see the appointment as a blessing.
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From The Times of Israel
Netanyahu, Argentina’s president-elect agree to improve ties
Mauricio Macri, known for warm relations with Jewish community, has vowed to end deal with Tehran on AMIA terror probe
November 26, 2015, 12:39 am
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Argentina’s president-elect Mauricio Macri and congratulated him on winning the election.
Netanyahu told Macri that he expected to see relations between Israel and Argentina grow warmer, according to a statement from the prime ministers’ office.
Macri, according to the statement, told Netanyahu that Argentina’s treatment of Israel will change for the better and that cooperation between the two countries is expected to improve.
Netanyahu invited Macri to visit Israel.
On Monday, Macri said that he would work to cancel the agreement signed with Iran to jointly investigate the 1994 attack on the AMIA Jewish center in Buenos Aires, as he had vowed during his election run. Alberto Nisman, the investigating prosecutor who was found dead earlier this year, had traced the authorization for the attack, in which 85 people were killed, to Iran, and identified the Hezbollah suicide bomber who carried out the attack.
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