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March 3rd, 2016 
Awake Goy Former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri says he is prepared to keep domestic dialogue with the Hezbollah resistance movement, after the group was designated a terrorist organization by the [Persian] Gulf Cooperation Council [(P)GCC].
Hariri made the remarks during a news conference on Wednesday in the Lebanese capital, Beirut.
He did not make any comments regarding the council’s decision to list the resistance group as terrorist, but said he aimed to continue meetings with Hezbollah “to avoid sedition” in Lebanon.
Hezbollah, a key political and military force in Lebanon, has been fighting Daesh terrorists operating in Syria. The group has also been fighting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.
The recent move by the (P)GCC, which comprises Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Bahrain, and Kuwait, comes weeks after Riyadh announced that it was cutting USD 4 billion in aid to Lebanese security forces.
The aid was cut after Lebanon failed to follow Riyadh’s lead in endorsing joint anti-Iran statements at separate meetings held in Cairo and Jeddah.
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Smoldering logs, debris, burned down or set-ablaze shelters are all part of the scenery at the Calais “Jungle” camp. Realizing that its demolition is inevitable, migrants are still refusing to move away from the camp. Many refugees remain desperate to get to Britain, which is why they are refusing accommodation in official asylum centers, where they fear they will be forced to claim asylum in France.
Although the southern part of the camp is on the verge of complete disappearance, many migrants are hoping to “buy time” and move to the northern part, which has not yet fallen under the demolition plans, Polly Boiko reports.
Europe says assistance to be used to support ‘daily lives of Palestinians’ and ‘to ensure functioning’ of the PA, reaffirms commitment to two-state solution.
The European Commission authorized the transfer of EUR 252.5 million on Tuesday. It was the first assistance package to the Palestinian Authority this year, and comes as a continuation of its annual commitment to providing financial assistance to the Palestinian Authority.
“The European Union renews its concrete commitment to the Palestinians,” said EU High Representative for Foreign Policy and Security Affairs Federica Mogherini. Mogherini said that the assistance package is geared towards helping the lives of individual Palestinians, including those living in refugee camps. “Through this package, the EU supports the daily lives of Palestinians in the fields of education and health, protecting the poorest families, and also providing the Palestinian refugees across the country with access to essential services,” she added.
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BERLIN (JTA) — Germany is trying again to ban the country’s main neo-Nazi party.
Three days of hearings began Tuesday in Germany’s top court – the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe – to examine the constitutionality of outlawing the far-right National Democratic Party of Germany, or NPD.
An attempt to ban the party failed on a legal technicality in 2003. Observers say a second failure would be devastating.
At issue is whether the NPD poses a threat to democracy. It is difficult to ban a party in Germany due to post-Nazi era laws designed to safeguard free speech.
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WASHINGTON (JTA) — The Indiana Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill banning state dealings with entities that boycott Israel or its settlements.
The bill approved 47-3 on Tuesday, with bipartisan backing, defines “the promotion of activities to boycott, divest from, or sanction Israel” as meeting the standard of “extraordinary circumstances” necessary under state law to mandate divestment from a company.
The state House of Representatives passed the measure in January. Gov. Mike Pence, a Republican who was a pro-Israel leader when he was in the U.S. Congress, is expected to sign the bill into law.
“This will place Indiana among the select vanguard of states that have publicly defended the Jewish State of Israel using proactive legislation,” said a statement Wednesday by the Jewish Affairs Committee of Indiana, which led the lobbying effort for the bill.
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NEW YORK (JTA) — Members of the New York City Council’s Jewish caucus are drafting legislation aimed at combating anti-Semitism at the City University of New York.
Councilman Mark Levine, who chairs the 14-member caucus, said he expects legislation to be submitted within a month, the New York Post reported Wednesday. The law would require CUNY officials to report all incidents of bias at its campuses to the council.
“We’re not convinced that the university is adequately tracking what is clearly a pattern of bigotry,” Levine told the Post.
On Monday, the Post reported that James Milliken, the chancellor of CUNY, a 24-campus public university in New York City, had appointed two attorneys to investigate claims of anti-Semitism. According to the Post, the school will also establish a task force to address campus bigotry.
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Gorbachev is celebrating his birthday on Wednesday by receiving some 150 guests, including family members, friends, former colleagues and people working in his charity foundation. Just days ago, the foundation presented Gorbachev’s new book of memoirs.
In the West, Gorbachev is best known for dramatically easing the tension of the Cold War, reducing arms, withdrawing Soviet troops from Afghanistan and Eastern Europe, and pushing for liberal reforms. He is the man who US President Ronald Reagan asked to tear down the Berlin wall, the symbol of a split Europe and divided world.
Domestically, however, Gorbachev is far from being universally praised, even though it’s now a quarter of a century since he stepped down. Under his watch the USSR went through a profound economic crisis, which eventually resulted in the savings of millions of people simply disappearing. His crusade against alcohol was disastrous, and led to a bloated black market for liquor and wasteful destruction of wineries.
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