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September 8th, 2015 
Awake Goy (JTA) – The chief rabbi of France called on his country and the European Union to find solutions for the tens of thousands of immigrants streaming in from the Middle East.
Rabbi Haim Korsia spoke of the immigrants – among them many refugees from Syria – at an annual ceremony in Paris’ Synagogue de la Victoire on Sunday in memory of approximately 76,000 Jews whom Nazi authorities and local collaborators deported to death camps in Eastern Europe during the Holocaust.
“France is a land of asylum and hospitality; France, the cradle of human rights, cannot ignore these women and men who fall at the gates of our borders, with the only hope — that of living,” said Korsia. “France, which radiates around the world through its values of humanism, universality and sharing, cannot be silent while facing the trial of its fellow human beings.”
Stopping short of calling for France to offer asylum to the refugees, Korsia urged “civic and human burst, strong gestures from our country and the European Union, so that solutions can be found as quickly as possible.”
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two Jewish extremist teens were indicted for an arson attack last month on a Bedouin tent in the West Bank.
Avi Gafni, 19, and a minor were indicted on charges of incitement, threats, conspiring to commit a felony, and obstructing justice in the mid-August attack , the Shin Bet security service said in a statement after a gag order on the case was lifted Monday.
Gafni, originally of Beit Shemesh, is “a violent ‘hilltop youth’ activist and a member of a Jewish terror group, which is behind the attack,” according to the Shin Bet. He has been ordered by the military several times to stay away from the West Bank after being suspected of involvement in other attacks, according to the Shin Bet.
Graffiti spray-painted on a rock near the burned-down tent, which was used for storage and unoccupied at the time of the attack, included a Star of David and the words “administrative revenge,” which could have referred to the recent administrative detention orders for three suspected Jewish extremists arrested after the July 31 arson attack on a West Bank Palestinian home. Under administrative detention, prisoners can remain in custody for up to six months without a hearing or charges, renewable indefinitely. Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners remain in administrative detention in Israeli prisons.
Meanwhile, the group and their opponents also organized rival rallies in Munich, with an estimated 300 PEGIDA supporters attending.
Scuffles with police broke out during similar marches in the German capital of Berlin.
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Russian defense minister Lavrov talks by phone with Kerry, confirms aid sent to Assad to help fight terrorism
AFP — Moscow on Monday dismissed US concern of a Russian military buildup in Syria, saying its military aid to Bashar Assad was nothing out of the ordinary.
Over the weekend US Secretary of State John Kerry phoned his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov to express concern about reports of an “enhanced Russian buildup” in Syria.
“The Russian side has never concealed the fact that it is sending military equipment to the Syrian authorities to help them fight terrorism,” Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told AFP, commenting on the Kerry-Lavrov phone talks.
“Lavrov confirmed that such aid has always been provided and is being provided.”
Citing US administration officials, The New York Times reported last week that Russia had sent a military advance team to its ally Syria and was taking other steps that Washington fears may signal plans to vastly expand military support for the beleaguered Assad.
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(JTA) — South African Jewish leaders condemned an African National Congress review of their country’ s dual citizenship policy in what they say is a bid to prevent its citizens from serving in the Israeli military.
Banning dual citizenship is scheduled to be discussed anew at the ruling party’s national general council meeting next month, the Sunday Times reported, citing Obed Bapela, head of the ANC’s national executive committee’s subcommittee on international relations. The party had discussed the ban in July.
The measure would not just affect dual Israeli-South African citizens, as millions of South Africans reportedly hold dual citizenship, the Sunday Times reported.
“Obed Bapela has undermined the very core value of South Africa’s democracy by proposing a change to our law purely to prevent one sector of our society, in this case South African Jews, from having a relationship with Israel,” the South African Jewish Board of Deputies and the South African Zionist Federation said in a statement condemning the proposal while noting the Jewish community makes up 0.1 percent of the South African population.
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The former head of Israeli spy agency Mossad has criticized the regime’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the way he has been managing relations with the United States after a recent nuclear agreement between Iran and the P5+1 group.
Meir Dagan on Monday called on the Israeli premier to stop fighting against US President Barack Obama over the recent nuclear accord, saying the Netanyahu’s measures are alienating Tel Aviv from Washington.
Dagan said that “it was a strategic decision by Israel to adopt a policy against the United States,” but “the problem is Iran, not President Obama.”
The Israeli prime minister has been taking every measure possible to kill Iran’s nuclear agreement on the US Congress floor, but to no avail, given enough support was gained from Senate Democrats for the Obama administration’s efforts to end years of American confusion over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.
On September 2, Democratic Senator Barbara Mikulski became the 34th and the last senator Obama needed to prevent his veto power from being overridden to ensure the passage of the accord, against which Republicans have launched a campaign backed by the United States’ pro-Israeli lobbies.
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The leader of the Gaza-based Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has called for national unity among Palestinian factions but urged postponement of national leaders’ first congress in two decades pending a compromise.
Speaking at a Monday press conference in the Qatari capital Doha, Khaled Meshaal further emphasized that leaders from his Islamic movement and the West Bank-based Fatah faction had to come up with a unified front.
“The cause of Palestine is bigger than Hamas and Fatah,” the Hamas chief said during a press event in the Persian Gulf Arab state. “We as Palestinians, we are being divided against ourselves; there’s a lack of authority. It’s unbelievable and it’s unacceptable from any Palestinian leader.”
Meshaal, however, went on to say that a proposed congress of Palestinian leaders scheduled to take place later this month should be delayed due to yet unresolved differences among them.
“Postpone the meeting of the National Congress until there’s a compromise for the meeting,” he declared arguing, “The meeting should be about the laws and regulations we agreed on otherwise this will lead to more division.”
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