Two Democratic presidential candidates – Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke – said Wednesday that they consider President Donald Trump to be a white supremacist, an extraordinary charge against a sitting president.
Both White House hopefuls shared their comments on a day when Trump visited two cities mourning mass shootings, including El Paso, where the gunman who killed 22 people appeared to have written an essay echoing Trump’s disparaging language about immigration.
The New York Times reported that Warren, asked in a brief interview if she believes Trump is a white supremacist, replied “yes” without hesitation.

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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu visited the scene of the terrorist attack in which Dvir Sorek was murdered on Wednesday night.
“The land of Israel is acquired through suffering. We lost Dvir here, a dear son of the Sorek family who also lost his grandfather here a few years ago. Our hearts are with them and we embrace them during these difficult times, ” the prime minister said.
“I come from the Kirya now, where I received regular updates, including the GSS advance. Our answer to the killers is twofold: they come to ruin and we will build.”
“We will reach those who perpetrated this horrific murder and bring them to account, as well as those who sent them.”
Read more at Arutz Sheva.

Najah Bakhirat, president of Al-Aqsa Academy of Endowments and Heritage, claimed that “there is an Israeli plan with American support to empty the city of Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa Mosque from Palestinian residents and turn it into a holy place for Jews.”
He warned that “Israel wants to Judaize Jerusalem and remove its Arabs as part of the preparation for the rebuilding of their Temple.”
The claim that Israel plans to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque and replace it with a Holy Temple is common among Palestinian Arab officials. Israel has also been accused of using chemicals to erode the foundations of the mosque in order to cause it to collapse.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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Hamas commented today to take responsibility for the murder of yeshiva bochur Dvir Sorek hy”d and said the attack was in responce to Israel’s attempts to annex parts of the West Bank.
“The attack in Etzion is a powerful response to talks of annexing the occupied [West Bank],” Hamas said in an official statement.
“This is a decision of our people to expel the occupier from the bank. It’s proof that our people’s intifada continues in the West Bank and that the young do not renounce their struggle until the occupation is vanished and settlers expelled,” said Hamas.
Hamas also said the attack “proves” that the Israel’s security policy of coordination with the Palestinian Authority is a failure.

A 92-year old German man will go on trial in October charged with helping to murder 5,230 prisoners, many of them Jewish, at a Nazi death camp in World War Two, prosecutors said on Thursday.
In what will be one of the last cases against Nazi-era crimes, Bruno D. is accused of being an SS guard in the Stutthof concentration camp near Gdansk, in what is today Poland, and of being involved in killings between August 1944 and April 1945.
The suspect has made a partial confession, said a spokeswoman for the Hamburg prosecutors, but gave no further details. Under German rules for court cases, the suspect’s full name is not published.

President Donald Trump’s envoy to the Middle East, Jason Greenblatt, condemned the attack in Gush Etzion in which Dvir Sorek was murdered.
“Hamas again murders and boasts about it. This is another repugnant and shocking act of an organization that chooses to wreak havoc and death, supposedly in the name of concern for civilians,” Greenblatt wrote on Twitter on Thursday.
He added, “We send our deep condolences to the family of 19-year-old Dvir Sorek.”
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
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Israeli student and off-duty soldier Dvir (Yehuda) Sorek, 18, was found dead late Wednesday night at 2 AM near a settlement in the Gush Etzion area, reportedly with stabbing marks over his body. Medical services have confirmed his death upon reaching the scene.
Israel Defense Forces (IDF), along with Israel Police and Shit Bet personnel, began extensive combing in the region in a massive manhunt after the perpetrators.
Hebrew local media reported that there have been no arrests as of yet.
Read more at i24NEWS.
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The father of the Israeli yeshiva bochur Dvir Sorek — who was murdered on Wednesday night in a terrorist attack — fought back tears on Thursday as he told reporters, “We received a gift for almost 19 years.”
Dvir Sorek, a resident of Ofra, was found stabbed to death near the Migdal Oz community in the Gush Etzion in the early hours of Thursday morning.
Israeli security forces believe Sorek was the victim of a terror attack and a manhunt is underway in the area.
The Israeli news site Walla quoted Dvir’s father, Yoav, as saying, “Terrorist attacks accompany us all, all of Israeli society. It is part of the reality of life and the long struggle for the life we ​​lead here.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised on Thursday to “secure our sovereignty over our historic homeland,” hours after the body of 19-year-old yeshivah student and Israel Defense Forces’ recruit Dvir Sorek was found stabbed to death outside Kibbutz Migdal Oz in Gush Etzion.
At a cornerstone-laying ceremony for 650 new homes in the Samaria city of Beit El, just one town away from Sorek’s hometown of Ofra, the prime minister said: “We promised to build hundreds of housing units—today, we are doing it both because we promised and because our mission is to establish the nation of Israel in our country, to secure our sovereignty over our historic homeland,” according to a statement put out by the Likud Party.