(25.1.2017) T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights condemns in the strongest terms this week’s expected Executive Orders, which effectively close our borders to Muslims, and flagrantly violate America’s longstanding, values-driven commitment to serving as a safe haven for refugees. We likewise oppose any attempts to impose a “values test” on prospective immigrants as a backdoor method of screening on the basis of religion.

As Jews, who know what it means to be targeted by discriminatory laws, we stand firmly with refugees fleeing war, persecution, and economic strife. For many in our American Jewish community, witnessing these refugees and the backlash inspired by some nativists reminds us of our own families who arrived on America’s shores in the early 20th Century.

In 2015, Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas denounced then-President Barack Obama’s threatened use of an executive order to move prisoners from Guantanamo Bay to the United States.

“Why do we even have a Congress,” Roberts thundered, “if the president can issue an executive order on anything?”

It was an important question then and now.

Add to that whatever is done to undermine Obamacare and Medicaid, and one set of dominos is lining up and poised to fall. A possible doctor shortage in the regions that elected Trump is only the start. Since taking office, a mixture of Trump’s executive orders, new proposed legislation in Congress and directives by just-installed agency heads—the first in a coming wave of appointees—is taking aim to destroy a swath of policies adopted to enhance public health, protect the environment and help ordinary Americans by curbing corporate greed.

Der Syrien-Beauftragte der Uno, Staffan de Mistura, könnte demnächst seinen Posten verlieren, wie die Zeitung „Iswestija“ am Mittwoch schreibt. Die endgültige Entscheidung wird wohl nach der nächsten Runde der Syrien-Verhandlungen in Genf am 20. Februar getroffen.

The bill was signed only three days after 9/11 by the George W. Bush Administration. It allows for the use of military force as justification for attacking nearly any community in the world.

„It is time to accept that the capacity to secretly and immediately detain persons whether or not they are implicated in terrorism is a step too far,“ former judge Roger Gyles QC said in the latest Independent National Security Legislation Monitor report, tabled in parliament on Wednesday.

The measure was proposed in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks and introduced in 2003 amid much controversy.

It had an initial 2006 sunset date but has been successively extended.

Last July, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said the government would indefinitely detain those convicted of terrorism-related charges if it felt they posed a danger to society if they were to be released.

The 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force gives the President almost unlimited authority to bomb, detain, and monitor just about anyone, anywhere. It has yet to be amended or repealed and, on January 20th, will be in the hands of Donald Trump.

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Featuring interviews with Congresswoman Barbara Lee, former Secretary of State and Director of the CIA Leon Panetta, and others.

Published on Feb 7, 2017
At 3:00 PM Pacific (6:00 PM Eastern) on Tuesday, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit federal appeals court in San Francisco will hear oral arguments about the Justice Department‘s case to reinstate President Trump‘s travel ban: State of Washington v. Trump

– Tens of thousands tune in to a live-streamed hearing
– Ruling from three-judge panel may come later this week

President Donald Trump’s homeland security secretary took responsibility Tuesday for the haphazard rollout of Trump’s restrictions on entry into the U.S., a striking claim because he was largely left out of the crafting of the order.

Bannon declined to be interviewed by Time for the story, and the photograph had been shot on an earlier occasion. But it raised eyebrows among Trump supporters nonetheless.

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Bannon, described by one associate as “the most well-read person in Washington,” is known for recommending books to colleagues and friends, according to multiple people who have worked alongside him. He is a voracious reader who devours works of history and political theory “in like an hour,” said a former associate whom Bannon urged to read Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. “He’s like the Rain Man of nationalism.”

Bannon brachte ein ideologisches Fun­dament in den Trump Tower, das dem intellektuell völlig desinteressierten Kandidaten abging. Aber mit seinem Gespür für die tiefe Frustration der weissen Arbeiterschaft hatte Trump intuitiv einen möglichen Weg ins Weisse Haus erkannt.

Als Wahlkampfleiter bündelte Bannon die Impulse Trumps in eine radikale Attacke auf arrogante Eliten in Politik, Medien und Wirtschaft, die eine scheinheilige Political Correctness predigen und die Nöte der Bevöl­kerungsmehrheit ignorieren.

Netanyahu‘s behavior in Israel‘s land-grab law saga shows that he no longer bothers to hide that he‘s a puppet whose strings are pulled by Naftali Bennett and his Habayit Hayehudi party.

Israels Rechte ist seit Donald Trumps Wahlsieg vor Freude und Übermut ganz aus dem Häuschen: Rücksichten auf die USA, von denen das Land finanziell abhängt, die Waffen für Milliarden US-Dollar umsonst liefern und diplomatischen Schutz bieten, sind nicht mehr nötig. Endlich dürfen zionistische Siedler in der seit 50 Jahren besetzten Westbank bauen, soviel sie wollen. Auch auf Privatland, das palästinensischen Bewohnern gehört.

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The petition was filed by advocates Suhad Bishara and Myssana Morany of the Adalah Center, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights in Jerusalem, and attorney Saliman Shaheen of the Jerusalem Center.