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Fast Forward Amnesty Slams Russian Bombing for Syrian Civilian Deaths
A day after officials announced a deal between Russia and Israel to cooperate in the war on terror, Moscow was criticized for the civilian toll its bombing in Syria has caused. Russia’s bombing of Syria has killed many civilians and may amount to a war crime, Amnesty International said on Wednesday, presenting what it said…
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Fast Forward Hezbollah Militant Killed in Syria Raid
BEIRUT — Lebanese militant leader Samir Kuntar was killed in an Israeli strike that hit a building in the Damascus district of Jaramana in the early hours on Sunday, the Lebanese Hezbollah group and Syrian government loyalists said. The powerful Lebanese Hezbollah group said Kuntar (alternatively spelled as Qantar) was martyred in an Israeli aerial…
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Fast Forward Dutch Jewish Refugee Village May Shelter Syrians
The Dutch owner of land that was once a village for Jews fleeing the Nazis offered to house there refugees from Syria and Iraq. Joep Karel, the owner of the area in Slootdorp, 35 miles north of Amsterdam, made the offer earlier this month to the government’s Central Agency for the Reception of Asylum Seekers,…
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Fast Forward Israel Reportedly Strikes Military Convoy Near Damascus
Israeli jets reportedly struck a Syrian army convoy north of Damascus. The raid, reported by Israel’s Channel 2 citing Arab media sources, reportedly targeted a convoy loaded with missiles after it had left an army base. Israel has been reported to have struck occasionally in Syria in the course of that country’s years-long civil war….
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Fast Forward Ben Carson Slammed by Jewish Advocates for ‘Nice’ Refugee Camp Remark
Jewish refugee advocates blasted Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson’s comments after a visit to a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan for underestimating the scope and complexity of a global crisis. Carson, a leading candidate in the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, visited the Zaatari camp for refugees fleeing Syria’s civil war over the…
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News Jews Unite To Defend Policy on Syrian Refugees — With a Few Exceptions
On the face of it, Morton Klein would seem to embody everything that has driven most Jewish communal organizations to oppose the current call to stop admitting refugees from Syria into America. Klein, who leads the right-wing Zionist Organization of America, was born in a displaced persons’ camp in Germany after World War II. He…
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Fast Forward House Votes To Block Syrian Refugees — Some Jews Join GOP Majority
The U.S. House of Representatives, defying a veto threat by President Barack Obama, overwhelmingly passed Republican-backed legislation on Thursday to suspend Obama’s program to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees in the next year and then intensify the process of screening them. The measure, quickly drafted this week following the Islamic State attacks in Paris on Friday…
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Fast Forward 10 Jewish Groups Defend Plan To Admit Refugees
Ten Jewish groups are among 81 joined in a letter to every member of Congress urging them not to roll back plans to accept Syrian refugees into the United States. “To turn our back on refugees would be to betray our nation’s core values,” said the letter sent Tuesday, as Congress began considering measures which…
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