Israel shares key files from Iran nuclear archives with EU allies

(Worthy News) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is slated to travel to Europe this week in a bid to rally support from key allies for amending the international nuclear deal with Iran and for pushing Iranian forces out of Syria.

Netanyahu is set to meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday, followed by meeting with the leaders of France and the U.K.

According to British daily The Times, ahead of his visit to Berlin, Paris ‎and London, Netanyahu shared with Israel’s allies some of the top-‎secret files obtained by the Mossad Israel’s intelligence agency, ‎proving the military nature of Iran’s nuclear program.‎ [ Source: Israel Hayom (Read More…) ]

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Supreme Court: Colorado Ridiculed Jack Phillips’ Faith

(Worthy News) – Many legal analysts agree: the Supreme Court didn’t deliver the home run for religious freedom with its Jack Phillips decision that many people of faith were hoping for. In a narrow ruling, it left unresolved the constitutional free speech clash between Christian wedding vendors and LGBT customers who want their services.

The court did, however, put local and state government bodies on notice about how religious people are treated.

The court described Phillips as “an expert baker and devout Christian.” It noted that in 2012 he told a same-sex couple in his Denver cake shop that he would not sell them a gay wedding cake but would sell them other baked goods. [ Source: CBN News (Read More…) ]

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The American Bible Society Affirms Biblical Marriage, Employees Resign in Protest

(Worthy News) – The American Bible Society, one of the world’s oldest Bible distributing organizations, is defending its decision to ask employees to sign a statement of faith affirming traditional marriage.

The new policy (LINK) asks employees to conduct themselves according to biblical principles, including refraining from extra-marital sex and honoring God through marriage between one man and one woman.

“I will seek to refrain from sexual activity outside of the marriage covenant prescribed and exemplified in the Bible: ‘a man will leave his father and mother and unite with his wife, and the two will become one,’ symbolizing the relationship between Christ and His Church,” the statement reads. [ Source: CBN News (Read More…) ]

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Palestinian ‘Naksa Day’ protests come amid heightened Gaza tensions

(Worthy News) – Palestinians are gearing up for Tuesday’s “Naksa Day” . The day is commemorated as the “setback” when Israel took over the West Bank and Gaza as well as East Jerusalem during the Six Day War. Along with Nakba Day and Land Day it makes up one of the key Palestinian protests of the spring and summer every year. This year the events come after months of protests along the Gaza border in which more than one hundred Palestinians have been killed and thousands wounded in clashes.

Over the years Naksa Day has seen limited protests among Palestinians, but some of them have turned violent. In 2011 the Bashar Assad regime and Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Yarmouk camp in Damascus encouraged thousands to march on the Golan border. In clashes with Israel security forces up to thirty of the protesters were killed and the UN’s human rights chief Navi Pillay reminded Israel that it had a “duty to ensure that its security personnel avoid the use of excessive force.”

To mark the day in 2016 Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah claimed Israel was perpetuating a “dangerous cycle of violence.” In 2017 the US based Palestinian Community Network wrote that “we focus on the 1967 territories today, but we always continue organizing for liberation and return, and freedom for all our people on all our land.” [ Source: Jerusalem Post (Read More…) ]

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Trump cancels Eagles’ White House visit over national anthem dispute

(Worthy News) – President Donald Trump has canceled the Philadelphia Eagles’ visit to the White House in celebration of their Super Bowl victory because not all players planned to attend.

In a statement released Monday evening by the Office of the Press Secretary, Trump said that the Eagles “are unable to come to the White House with their full team”:

“They disagree with their President because he insists that they proudly stand for the National Anthem, hand on heart, in honor of the great men and women of our military and the people of our country,” the statement read. [ Source: Washington Times (Read More…) ]

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Merkel: Germany will exert its influence to push Iran out of Syria

(Worthy News) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and German Chancellor Angela Merkel emerged from their 90-minute meeting in Berlin on Monday still disagreeing about the merits of the Iranian nuclear agreement, but in accord about the need to push Iran out of other countries in the Middle East.

Germany, Merkel said at a press conference with Netanyahu after their meeting, “will exert our influence in such a way that Iran is pushed out of this region,” and that Berlin will take a “very close look at Iran’s activities in the region and seek to contain it.”

Netanyahu said that pushing Iran out of Syria is not only important for Israel, but should also be important for Germany because of the prospects of a “religious campaign” inside the country that will push even more refugees toward Germany. [ Source: Jerusalem Post (Read More…) ]

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Netanyahu: Israel wants to stave off ‘humanitarian collapse’ in Gaza

(Worthy News) – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that Israel was “examining various possibilities to prevent a humanitarian collapse in Gaza.”

Netanyahu made the remarks to reporters as he was boarding a plane for Paris, after meeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin.

“I spoke with Chancellor Merkel about the situation in Gaza and repeated the fact that the entire border situation is due to the economic situation. Plain and simple,” he said. [ Source: Times of Israel (Read More…) ]

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Turkey says it may attack Kurdish rebel stronghold in Iraq

(Worthy News) – Turkey has threatened to attack Iraq’s Qandil region, where outlawed Kurdish rebels maintain their headquarters.

Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag told reporters Monday that militants of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, frequently carry out attacks against Turkey from bases in the Qandil mountains and elsewhere in Iraq.

Bozdag said “everyone knows that Qandil is a center for terror. Turkey could enter Qandil, everything is possible at any time.” [ Source: Fox News (Read More…) ]

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Facebook’s privacy woes grow in Washington

(Worthy News) – Lawmakers are slamming Facebook over a report that the company shared its users’ personal data with a range of device makers, which one House Democrat suggested means CEO Mark Zuckerberg lied under oath in April.

“Sure looks like Zuckerberg lied to Congress about whether users have ‘complete control’ over who sees our data on Facebook. This needs to be investigated and the people responsible need to be held accountable,” tweeted David Cicilline (D-R.I.), the ranking member of the House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee.

He was referring to a story on Facebook in The New York Times, as well as to congressional testimony Zuckerberg delivered in April, following revelations that Facebook let Trump campaign-linked data firm Cambridge Analytica improperly access information on as many as 87 million Facebook users via an academic researcher. [ Source: Politico (Read More…) ]

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Trump Says Mueller’s Appointment Is Unconstitutional — Here Are 7 Reasons Why

(Worthy News) – President Donald Trump questioned the legality of the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller on Monday while indicating that he will let the Russia investigation proceed.

“The appointment of the Special Counsel is totally UNCONSTITUTIONAL!” Trump wrote on Twitter Monday morning. “Despite that, we play the game because I, unlike the Democrats, have done nothing wrong!”

The president issued his message one day after The New York Times published leaked confidential letters from his attorneys to Mueller. In the letters, Trump’s legal team exhaustively addresses Mueller’s queries but never challenges the legality of the special counsel’s appointment. [ Source: Epoch Times (Read More…) ]

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