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From The Times of Israel
Wasserman Schultz reportedly nixed Dems’ vote on backing Iran deal
Democratic National Committee chair said to have blocked resolution praising Obama, nuke deal; spokesperson says ‘procedural issues’ got in the way
Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz reportedly prevented consideration of a resolution at the party’s summer meeting that praised President Barack Obama and offered backing for the Iran nuclear deal.
The Washington Post report on Saturday, which cited unidentified “knowledgeable Democrats,” said the resolution was drafted last week with the intention of putting the national committee on record in support of the agreement.
A party spokeswoman told the Post that “procedural issues” prevented consideration of the resolution. But unnamed Democrats said that it was the opposition of Wasserman Schultz that blocked its consideration.
Wasserman Schultz, who is Jewish, has not taken a position on the agreement finalized last month between Iran and six world powers. Her South Florida congressional district is heavily Jewish.
Meanwhile, six Jewish Democratic lawmakers in the House of Representatives sent a letter to colleagues publicizing their support of the Iran deal and that of former Jewish lawmakers. The letter directs Democrats to a New York Times ad on Thursday in which 11 former Jewish members endorsed the agreement, Roll Call reported Friday.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Hundreds of Palestinians riot following Israeli raid in West Bank
JERUSALEM (JTA) — An Israeli soldier was wounded, possibly by friendly fire, during clashes between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians following an Israeli raid in the West Bank city of Jenin.
Israeli soldiers, as well as officers from the Shin Bet security service officers and Israel Police, came to Jenin early Tuesday morning to arrest a senior Hamas operative, the Israel Defense Forces said in astatement. Security forces surrounded the home where the alleged operative was hiding, ultimately demolishing it when the wanted man refused to come out.
Following the arrest, hundreds of Palestinians rioted in the area, throwing rocks and firebombs, according to the IDF, leading to the injury of the soldier as well as at least five Palestinians.
The IDF is investigating the circumstances surrounding the shooting of the soldier.
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From PressTV
Israel relocates Palestinian hunger strikers to different jail
The Israeli regime has transferred to a different prison at least six Palestinian inmates who have been staging a hunger strike over their detention.
According to reports on Tuesday, five of the relocated prisoners were held under solitary confinement in the Negev prison. The Palestinian Prisoner’s Center identified the five as Nidal Abu Aker, Shadi Maali, Ghassan Zawahreh, Badr al-Ruzza and Munir Abu Sharar.
The center went on to say that the prisoners had begun their hunger strike on August 18 to protest their detention without trial.
Kayid Fawzi Abu al-Rish is another Palestinian prisoner who has been on hunger strike for 27 days now. He was held in isolation in the Megiddo jail.
It is not known yet to which Israeli prison the striking prisoners have been moved.
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From PressTV
Israeli forces demolish Bedouin buildings in West Bank
Israeli forces have demolished at least 25 structures, including several homes, belonging to Palestinian Bedouins in the occupied West Bank, making several families homeless.
On Monday, Israeli forces stormed the al-Khdeirat Bedouin community outside the village of Jaba’, near al-Quds (Jerusalem), and destroyed the structures which serve 11 families, the Israeli human rights group, B’Tselem said.
The rights group said the destruction has displaced some 100 people, including about 70 minors.
Every year, hundreds of Bedouin homes are razed to the ground as part of Israel’s settlement expansion projects.
In mid-August, Israeli forces demolished more than 40 Palestinian homes in the occupied Palestinian territories, displacing 54 people, including 33 children, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
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From PressTV
Hero mother in viral clip recounts grappling with Israeli to save son
A video went viral over the weekend showing a Palestinian family wrestling with a ferocious Israeli soldier to save their son, who was seen being forced on the ground. The mother of the family and her two children talked to Press TV about how they fended off the attacker.
“It is an occupation and we expect anything from it. It is not strange for those who kill children and arrest our youths to commit further crimes. Yes, I hit the soldier and I was ready to do anything to defend my child. I really did not care if the soldiers would arrest me, beat me, or even shoot at me,” said the mother.
The incident took place on Friday while the family was taking part in a demonstration against Tel Aviv’s illegal settlement activities in the occupied West Bank village of Nabi Saleh. The regime troops attacked the peaceful rally and arrested some of the protesters. One of the Israeli soldiers cornered the Palestinian kid and placed him in a headlock. His family surrounded the soldier to help him escape. In the footage, the sister can be seen biting the soldier’s hand as bystanders yell, “He is a little boy. His arm is broken.”
“I’m used to taking part in weekly demonstrations. But this time things were a little bit different. My younger brother was being attacked with no mercy. I was not worried about myself. I’m always afraid of losing a member of my family. This is why I won’t allow them to arrest my brother.” said the daughter of the family.
More than half a million Israelis live in over 120 illegal settlements built since Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East al-Quds in 1967. Much of the international community regard the Israeli settlements as illegal because the territories were occupied by Israel in 1967, and they are hence subject to the Geneva Conventions, which forbid construction on occupied lands.
“I’m not afraid of the soldiers and confront them during the demonstrations but this time I was not able to escape them myself because arm was broken. Two days ago the Israeli vehicles stormed our village, I went with the other children and youths to force them out. A jeep chased me to arrest me. I escaped and fell down and broke my arm.” said the boy.
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From Ynet News
Obama: Israel will remain more powerful than Iran
US president reassures critics in recent interview with Jewish-American publication, saying allies will maintain military superiority in Middle East.
Yitzhak Benhorin
09.01.15, 08:58
WASHINGTON – US President Barack Obama continued in attempts at reassuring critics over a recent nuclear deal signed with Iran, telling the Forward in an interview published on Monday that Israel, the US and Gulf States would maintain military superiority over the Islamic Republic for decades to come.
The president said even after the nuclear deal ends in a decade, “They would still be subject to what’s called the additional protocol – a whole range of inspection mechanisms that are in place so that we would know if they were dashing for a bomb.”
Obama said that future presidents will retain a military option to deal with a nuclear Iran, saying, “They will still be a military power that is far weaker than the United States – and for that matter, will be weaker that Israel.”
Obama in a former interview.
Obama was asked in the interview with the major Jewish-American publication whether it hurt him personally when people say he’s anti-Semitic.
“Oh, of course,” Obama said. “And there’s not a smidgeon of evidence for it, other than the fact that there have been times when I’ve disagreed with a particular Israeli government’s position on a particular issue.”
From The Times of Israel
Elite cop hurt in Jenin may have been hit by friendly fire
Security forces arrest two Hamas members, demolish home in arrest operation beset by ‘hundreds’ of Palestinian rioters
Israeli security forces were investigating Tuesday whether an elite police officer wounded by gunfire during an arrest operation in the West Bank city of Jenin late Monday night was hit by friendly fire, according to military sources quoted by Hebrew media. Initial reports had indicated he was injured in a firefight with Palestinian militants.
The wounded officer was evacuated by helicopter to Rambam Hospital in Haifa. He arrived fully conscious, and after undergoing CT scans and other tests was taken to surgery for a bullet wound in the lower body. His condition was listed as moderate and stable.
In a statement Tuesday morning, the Israel Defense Forces said that “gunshots were reportedly fired in the vicinity” of the forces operating in Jenin.
Initial reports by Palestinian media said at least six Palestinians were shot dead in an exchange of fire with the Israeli forces. However, a Palestinian security official did not confirm any dead, saying only that five people had been hospitalized for tear gas inhalation.
The military said a violent riot by “hundreds of Palestinians” erupted in the city and that the crowd hurled rocks and Molotov cocktail at the forces.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Largest Luxembourg supermarket chain stops selling Israeli produce
(JTA) — Cactus, the largest supermarket chain in Luxembourg, has stopped selling produce from Israel until its suppliers verify that it does not originate in the West Bank.
A pro-Palestinian group has held demonstrations over the last months in front of Cactus stores, spurring the decision, Ynet reported. The little income generated from the Israeli goods was not worth the disturbance caused to customers by the protests, the chain’s management said.
The Luxembourg chapter of the Committee for a Just Peace in the Middle East, which organized the protests, hailed the decision last week in a statement posted on Facebook.
Cactus said it will continue to sell SodaStream home soft drink machines and related products, some of which are produced in the company’s West Bank factory in Maale Adumim. The factory is slated to closeby the end of the year, when a larger facility opens in southern Israel.
From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Polish governor tamps down expectations of Nazi gold train
(JTA) — The Polish governor of the province in which a fabled Nazi train loaded with stolen treasures reportedly has been located tried to lower expectations of the discovery.
Tomasz Smolarz, the provincial governor of Lower Silesia, in southwest Poland, said at a news conference Monday in Worclaw that new evidence about the train’s location and its contents “are not any stronger than similar claims made in past decades.”
Smolarz also said that the alleged location of the train car’s discovery has been sealed off in the wake of a surge of treasure hunters and curiosity seekers to the area, Polish Radio reported.
On Friday, Polish Deputy Culture Minister Piotr Zuchowski said at a news conference that he has seen a ground-penetrating radar image indicating that the train, which two unidentified individuals claimed to locate earlier this month, likely exists. Zuchowski said he was “more than 99 percent certain that this train exists,” The Associated Press reported.
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From the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Hungarian official booed off Jewish festival stage for defending disinvited singer
BUDAPEST (JTA) — A government official in Hungary was booed off the stage at the nation’s Jewish culture festival after he defended an allegedly anti-Semitic singer.
At the opening event of the Budapest festival on Sunday, audience members loudly heckled Csaba Latorcai, deputy state secretary of the Prime Minister’s Office, preventing him from finishing his speech. The heckling was in response to Latorcai’s defense of Maria Petras, who had been scheduled to appear at the festival but was disinvited amid allegations of anti-Semitism.
Latorcai said the charges against Petras were “unfounded” and “based on lies.”
Festival organizers canceled Petras’ appearance after some Jewish activists reported that she had performed at nationalistic and ultrarightist events, along with a memorial service for the late anti-Semitic Hungarian writer Albert Wass.
