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April 19th, 2016 
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Jonathan Pollard, left, arriving at a federal courthouse in New York with his wife, Esther, to check in at a probation office just hours after he was released from prison, Nov. 20, 2015. (Ilana Gold/WCBS-TV via AP Images)
(JTA) — Information that convicted American spy for Israel Jonathan Pollard provided to Israel 30 years ago is still classified as “top secret” and “secret” and its disclosure could harm U.S. national security, the U.S. director of national intelligence said.
James Clapper wrote in a February letter to the U.S. Parole Commission that the intelligence Pollard gathered in the 1980s while working as a civilian analyst for the U.S. Navy was sensitive enough to justify severe restrictions on his movement and online activity, which are part of his parole restrictions.
The letter was included in several exhibits provided last week to the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York in Manhattan by Pollard’s attorneys as they attempt to have the restrictions on Pollard’s parole loosened. Pollard’s attorneys sent copies of the exhibits to JTA.
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Published time: 18 Apr, 2016 21:13
A Syrian refugee tries to catch his breath as he stands in a crowded line to get registered in the national stadium of the Greek island of Kos, August 12, 2015. © Alkis Konstantinidis / Reuters
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has become the latest Ankara official to threaten Brussels with the abandonment of last month’s migrant agreement, just as the EU is considering making it easier to revoke the visa-free privileges it promised.
“The deal we struck with the EU is very clear. We want this human tragedy to end, our citizens to travel visa free, and the customs union to be updated,” Cavosoglu told parliament in a speech.
“If the EU doesn’t keep its word, including the migrants deal we will cancel all agreements.”
According to the Turkey-inspired agreement, Ankara has promised to accept repatriated refugees from Greece with no EU entry permits, in exchange for sending the same number of vetted Syrian refugees. To finance this, Turkey would be given up to €6 billion in European funding over the next half-decade.
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Published time: 18 Apr, 2016 15:19
Bashar Ja’afari © Shannon Stapleton / Reuters
Syria’s chief government negotiator has accused Israel of cooperating with Islamic State and Al-Qaeda militants in the Golan Heights, a region captured from Syria in 1967. The comments were made during talks to discuss the future of war-torn Syria.
Bashar Ja’afari made the accusations after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel would never relinquish the Golan Heights.
“This Israeli provocation…confirms without any doubt the cooperation between Israel and terrorists of Daesh (an Arabic acronym for Islamic State, IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) and Nusra Front on the demarcation line between where the Golan is and UN troops are positioned,” he told reporters during peace talks in Geneva, after meeting the UN special envoy to Syria.
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Published time: 18 Apr, 2016 11:20
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Swedish support for EU membership has dropped amid the European refugee crisis, with the majority of citizens saying the bloc is heading in the wrong direction, according to a new poll.
The survey, conducted by Swedish polling company TNS Sifo and commissioned by public broadcaster SVT, asked 1,142 people aged 18 to 79: “What do you think in general about Sweden being a member of the EU?”
It found that just 39 percent of Swedes believe that being in the EU is a positive thing, compared with 59 percent last autumn.
Around one-fifth of the respondents said that membership was a bad idea, while just over half said the EU was going in the wrong direction. A mere 8 percent said they believe things are improving.
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Published time: 17 Apr, 2016 06:28
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A Russian jet has intercepted a US reconnaissance plane in the Baltic Sea, the Pentagon has said only a few days after it decried Moscow for its military aircraft buzzing a US destroyer in the same area.
The alleged “interception” occurred on Thursday, Danny Hernandez, a spokesman for European Command told CNN. He said the Russian Su-27 “performed erratic and aggressive maneuvers,” only 50 feet (15 meters) away from the US aircraft.
The US Boeing RC-135 aircraft was “intercepted by a Russian SU-27 in an unsafe and unprofessional manner,” Hernandez said, stressing that the US jet never entered Russian airspace.
“The unsafe and unprofessional actions of a single pilot have the potential to unnecessarily escalated tensions between countries,” he said.
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- The administration has tried to stop Congress from passing the legislation
- Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Juberi told Washington lawmakers the country would be forced to sell $750 billion in Treasury securities
- The revelations come as President Obama decided whether to declassify 28 pages of sealed 9/11 documents
- White House will make a decision by June
- Bush and Obama administrations have refused to unseal the documents, arguing their release would jeopardize national security
- Suggestions the files could expose a Saudi connection to the attacks
- 15 of the 19 hijackers – and Osama bin Laden – were from Saudi Arabia
- President Obama will arrive in Riyadh on Wednesday for meetings with King Salman and other Saudi officials
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The families of 9/11 victims in the US are reportedly infuriated at the administration of President Barack Obama for ‘siding with Saudi Arabia‘ over a congressional bill that could incriminate Saudi officials for the deadly attacks on September 11, 2001 in America.
The families of victims are making a renewed push to declassify 28 pages of a 838-page congressional report on the worst terror attack on American soil, which points the blame towards Saudi Arabia.
Until now,the Obama administration has so far refused to reveal the contents of the missing pages and looks to be leaving the decision to a Congressional vote.
Speaking to the New York Times, Mindy Kleinberg, whose husband died in the World Trade Center on September 11 said: ‘It’s stunning to think that our government would back the Saudis over its own citizens.’
Ms. Kleinberg is part of a group of victims’ family members pushing for the legislation against the Middle Eastern country, however so far all attempts to sue the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia have failed.
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(JTA) — The mayoral candidacy of a Bucharest politician who said local Jews lied for money about the number of their brethren killed in the Holocaust “presents a concern,” a Romanian watchdog group on anti-Semitism said.
Marian Munteanu of the National Liberal Party, Romania’s second largest, made the accusation in a press statement he co-signed in 1994, when he was part of the Christian-nationalist Movement for Romania organization.
Jewish groups put the number of Romanians killed in the Holocaust at 420,000 to “obtain illicit moneys from Romanian people through disinformation and manipulation of public opinion, with the complicity of treacherous elements who infiltrated the Romanian institutional structures,” the statement read, the online edition of Evenimentul Zilei reported Thursday.
The Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of Holocaust warned that Munteanu “presents a concern” not only because of his nationalist rhetoric and “statements minimizing or denying” the Holocaust, but also for “misrepresenting” reality today, according to the Agerpres news website.
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Published time: 18 Apr, 2016 14:39
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The Syrian Army’s operation against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) militants near the country’s capital Damascus – said to be a successful step – has provided an impressive video shot via a quadcopter drone.
The footage by a LifeNews crew purports to show helicopters, tanks and ground troops employed by the government forces against the jihadists. The video was published Sunday.
“The extremists are trying to resist [the advance], but their effort is futile,” the report says.
A half-year-long bombing campaign against the terrorists by Russian Air-Space Forces and Navy has allowed the Syrian Army to turn the tide in the bloody civil war, which has raged in the country since 2011.
Government troops have achieved several important victories against the militants in recent months, including the liberation of the historic city of Palmyra.
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Published time: 18 Apr, 2016 12:35
People shop at a market in the neighbourhood of Molenbeek © Yves Herman / Reuters
Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel has confirmed an earlier comment by the country’s interior minister, who said that a portion of the Muslim community was “dancing” in the streets following the deadly Brussels attacks in March.
“I confirm that there have been expressions of support for the attacks. The council of [national] security has also been informed [about the incident],” Michel said, as cited by Belga news agency.
He added, however, that the apparent support for the deadly attacks came from “minorities” in the Muslim community and that “it is not appropriate to generalize” about the community as a whole.
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WASHINGTON (JTA) — Joe Biden and John Kerry said the Obama administration remained committed to advancing a two-state solution and criticized Israel and the Palestinians for obstructing its path.
Biden, the vice president, and Kerry, the secretary of state, addressed J Street’s annual gala and lavished praise on the liberal Jewish Middle East policy group for embracing the Obama administration’s push last year for a nuclear deal with Iran in the face of opposition from centrist pro-Israel sentiment.
Each speaker emphasized that the Obama administration had not given up on the two-state solution, although Kerry’s 2013-2014 efforts collapsed into mutual recriminations between Israel and the Palestinians, and Israel and the United States.
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Hillary Clinton campaigning at a Bronx Organizing Event in New York City, April 13, 2016. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
NEW YORK (JTA) — The day before the New York presidential primaries, Hillary Clinton distributed an essay linking her policies to the “ancient lessons” of Passover.
In the essay, sent out to Jewish and other media in English, Yiddish and Hebrew on Monday, Clinton highlighted her record on religious freedom, state benefits, Israel and global justice – and pledged to continue that work as president.
“I didn’t grow up celebrating Pesach. But over the years, I’ve attended seders where I was inspired by the remarkable story told in the haggadah – a tale of a people who, sustained by fortitude and faith, escaped slavery and reached their freedom,” Clinton said. “As Jewish people around the world prepare for this festival, I wanted to offer a few of my own thoughts on ancient lessons that still hold wisdom for today’s world.”
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