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Iran's Khamenei says UAE 'betrayed' Muslim world with Israel deal - Al Jazeera English

The United Arab Emirates betrayed the Islamic world and the Palestinians by reaching a deal towards normalising ties with Israel, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a speech.

The Palestinians have fiercely opposed the normalisation as weakening traditional Arab refusal to form ties with Israel before the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.

That past Arab support was one of the Palestinians' few advantages in moribund peace talks with Israel. Palestinians have held public protests and burned the UAE flag in anger.

"Of course, the UAE's betrayal will not last long, but this stigma will always be remembered. They allowed the Zionist regime to enter the region and forgot Palestine," Khamenei said on Tuesday. "The Emiratis will be disgraced forever... I hope they wake up and compensate for what they did."

Iranian authorities have harshly criticised the United States-brokered deal between the UAE and Tehran's longtime foe Israel, with some officials warning the UAE and Israel fostering closer ties risks conflagration in the Middle East.

An Emirati official dismissed Khamenei's comments.

"The path to peace and prosperity is not through incitement and hate speech," foreign ministry official Jamal al-Musharakh said.

"That kind of rhetoric is counterproductive to peace in the region."

Israel and the UAE expect economic benefits from the deal, the first such accommodation between an Arab country and Israel in more than 20 years, which was forged largely through shared distrust of regional foe, Iran.

'We reject this conspiracy': Israelis and Palestinians react to UAE deal

Palestinians were dismayed by the UAE's move, worried it would weaken a long-standing pan-Arab position that called for Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories and acceptance of Palestinian statehood in return for normal relations with the Arab countries.

Emirati officials have attempted to spin the agreement as being struck in return for Israel suspending its plan to annex large parts of the illegally occupied West Bank, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said annexation was only temporarily off the table.

The UAE's foreign minister recorded a message for the Palestinian diaspora living there on Monday, the day of the first commercial flight between the Israel and the Emirates.

Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan said he wanted to reassure the Palestinian community of his country's commitment to "establishing an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital".

"We will continue to support the Palestinian cause based on our historic stance that stems from a deeply rooted, unshakable belief that will never change as a result of any considerations," Sheikh Abdullah said.

Economic ties

On Saturday, the UAE announced it was scrapping its economic boycott of Israel, with officials from the two countries saying they are looking at cooperation in defence, medicine, agriculture, tourism and technology as part of the deal.

On Monday, the first direct flight by Israel's flagship carrier El Al landed in Abu Dhabi, carrying US and Israeli officials including President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

The UAE is the third Arab nation after Egypt and Jordan to establish diplomatic relations with Israel. Unlike the two other countries, the Gulf state does not share a border with Israel.

In recent years, the UAE has held quiet talks with Israel and allowed Israelis with second passports into the country for trade and talks.

The Trump administration has tried to coax other Arab countries to engage with Israel. Israeli officials have publicly mentioned Oman, Bahrain and Sudan as countries who may follow suit.

But in a statement earlier this month, Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok told US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that his government had no mandate to normalise ties with Israel at this time.

SOURCE: Al Jazeera and news agencies

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Jacob Blake: Trump brands Kenosha mayor 'a fool' as he heads to city - BBC News

US President Donald Trump has branded the Democratic mayor of Kenosha "a fool", accusing him of standing up for "radical anarchists".

Speaking en route to the city, Mr Trump said Kenosha would have been burnt to the ground by protesters were it not for the National Guard he deployed.

The Wisconsin city saw days of violence after Jacob Blake, a black man, was shot in the back by police.

Local leaders have asked the president to stay away.

But Mr Trump has ignored their pleas as he pushed a strong "law and order" message ahead of November's election.

"I think a lot of people are looking at what's happening to these Democrat-run cities and they're disgusted," the president said before boarding Air Force One to fly to Wisconsin.

"They see what's going on and they can't believe what's taking place in our country. I can't believe it either."

Although Mr Trump claimed he sent the National Guard into Kenosha, they were actually deployed by Wisconsin's governor.

He cited reports that protesters had tried to break into the house of Kenosha's Democratic Mayor John Antaramian.

"I saw last night where these radical anarchists are trying to get into the mayor's house and lots of bad things were happening to this poor foolish, very stupid mayor. I mean how he can be mayor I have no idea.

"They had tremendous numbers of people really harassing him horribly and I guess trying to break into his house and he still sticks up for them because he's a fool. Only a fool would stick up for them like that."

The claim of the break-in attempt is unconfirmed.

Mr Trump said he was visiting the city "for law enforcement and for the National Guard".

"They've done a great job in Kenosha. They have put out the flame immediately," he said.

In Kenosha the president will meet police officers but not the Blake family. He said previously it was because relatives had wanted lawyers present.

Over the weekend Mayor Antaramian said it was not a good time for Mr Trump to visit.

"Realistically, from our perspective, our preference would have been for him not to be coming at this point in time," he told National Public Radio.

What's the latest in Kenosha?

In an interview with CNN, Mr Blake's father, Jacob Blake Sr, said his son's life was more important than a meeting with President Trump.

"I'm not getting into politics. It's all about my son, man. It has nothing to do with a photo op," he said.

Mr Blake Sr said his son was still paralysed from the waist down, "holding on for dear life".

Jacob Blake, 29, was shot several times in the back by a police officer during an arrest, as Mr Blake tried to get into a car where his three children were seated.

"We are dealing with an individual that a couple of weeks ago was running around with the boys and talking to me on the phone and laughing, to an individual that cannot move his leg," Mr Blake Sr said.

Mr Blake's shooting sparked a fresh wave of anti-racism protests in the US.

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2020-09-01 16:32:03Z
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Jacob Blake: Father 'refuses to play politics' as Trump visits Kenosha - BBC News

The father of a black man shot by police has refused to "play politics" with his son's life when Donald Trump visits the city of Kenosha on Tuesday.

Jacob Blake's shooting sparked a fresh wave of anti-racism protests in the US, prompting calls for President Trump to acknowledge him and his family.

The president will meet police officers on the visit, but not the Blake family.

The visit comes with "law and order" becoming highly politicised ahead of the 3 November presidential election.

In an interview with CNN, Mr Blake's father, Jacob Blake Sr, said his son's life was more important than a meeting with President Trump.

"I'm not getting into politics. It's all about my son, man. It has nothing to do with a photo op," he said.

Local officials have urged Mr Trump to not visit Kenosha, in the state of Wisconsin, fearing his presence in the city may reignite protests that have calmed down in recent days.

But Mr Trump has rejected their pleas, accusing Democratic mayors and governors of failing to get a grip on the violence. He is pushing a strong law and order message in his bid to a win a second term in the White House, although critics accuse him of stoking tensions.

Ahead of the Kenosha trip, the president said he would not meet Mr Blake's family because they wanted lawyers to be present.

Mr Trump has also defended a teenage supporter accused of fatally shooting two men amid demonstrations over Mr Blake's shooting.

Who is US teen accused of Wisconsin protest murders?

He suggested that Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, was acting in self-defence, telling reporters: "I guess he was in very big trouble, he probably would have been killed."

What did Blake's father say?

"This is not politics. This is about the life of my son," Mr Blake Sr said, adding that his son was still paralysed from the waist down, "holding on for dear life".

Jacob Blake, 29, was shot several times in the back by a police officer during an arrest, as Mr Blake tried to get into a car where his three children were seated.

The officer involved in the shooting on 23 August, named as Rusten Sheskey, has been placed on administrative leave while an investigation takes place.

Mr Blake Sr said that since his son's shooting he had "received some threats".

Asked how his family was coping, Mr Blake Sr said he had had to take his other son, 20, to hospital because he was depressed.

The father gave no further details but added: "It's sad to me how people don't understand the kind of pressure this family is under."

Why is Trump's Kenosha visit controversial?

The governor of the state, Democrat Tony Evers, has urged Mr Trump to reconsider his trip, warning his presence will "hinder our healing" and arguing that the citizens of the town are already traumatised.

The White House said the president was expected to meet with law enforcement and tour "property affected by recent riots".

What's going on in Portland?

Portland, Oregon, has also become a major flashpoint for demonstrations since a wave of Black Lives Matter protests were touched off by the killing of another African American - George Floyd - in May.

Mr Floyd died in Minneapolis after a police officer knelt on his neck for a prolonged period during an arrest.

In July, the Trump administration deployed federal forces to Portland, ostensibly to protect a federal courthouse and other federal property. But they were later withdrawn amid allegations their heavy-handed tactics only heightened the unrest.

On Saturday night, right-wing activist Aaron "Jay" Danielson, 39, was shot dead in the city after he was seen going to protect a caravan of Trump supporters from counter protesters.

Asked to condemn supporters who had fired paint pellets during a confrontation with anti-racism demonstrators on the same night, Mr Trump described the protest as "peaceful" and said paint was "a defensive mechanism, paint is not bullets".

He told a reporter: "Your supporters, and they are your supporters indeed, shot a young gentleman... and killed him, not with paint but with a bullet. And I think it's disgraceful."

Media reports say a man who calls himself an anti-fascist is being investigated over the death of Mr Danielson.

Meanwhile, protests erupted in Los Angeles, California, on Monday night after an incident in which police shot dead a black man in a southern neighbourhood of the city.

Police say the man - named in local media as 29-year-old Dijon Kizzee - fled after officers spotted him riding a bicycle in violation of vehicle codes. According to the police, the man was shot at the end of a pursuit, after he allegedly struck an officer and dropped a bundle of clothing he was carrying.

"The deputies noticed that inside the clothing items that he dropped was a black semi-automatic handgun, at which time a deputy-involved shooting occurred," Lt Brandon Dean told reporters.

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2020-09-01 12:45:35Z
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Jacob Blake: Father 'refuses to play politics' as Trump visits Kenosha - BBC News

The father of a black man shot by police has refused to "play politics" with his son's life when Donald Trump visits the city of Kenosha on Tuesday.

Jacob Blake's shooting sparked a fresh wave of anti-racism protests in the US, prompting calls for President Trump to acknowledge him and his family.

The president will meet police officers on the visit, but not the Blake family.

The visit comes with "law and order" becoming highly politicised ahead of the 3 November presidential election.

In an interview with CNN, Mr Blake's father, Jacob Blake Sr, said his son's life was more important than a meeting with President Trump.

"I'm not getting into politics. It's all about my son, man. It has nothing to do with a photo op," he said.

Local officials have urged Mr Trump to not visit Kenosha, in the state of Wisconsin, fearing his presence in the city may reignite protests that have calmed down in recent days.

But Mr Trump has rejected their pleas, accusing Democratic mayors and governors of failing to get a grip on the violence. He has made law and order a key issue in his bid to a win a second term in the White House.

Ahead of the Kenosha trip, the president said he would not meet Mr Blake's family because they wanted lawyers to be present.

What did Blake's father say?

"This is not politics. This is about the life of my son," Mr Blake Sr said, adding that his son was still paralysed from the waist down, "holding on for dear life".

Jacob Blake, 29, was shot several times in the back by a police officer during an arrest, as Mr Blake tried to get into a car where his three children were seated.

The officer involved in the shooting on 23 August, named as Rusten Sheskey, has been placed on administrative leave while an investigation takes place.

Mr Blake Sr said that since his son's shooting he had "received some threats".

Asked how his family was coping, Mr Blake Sr said he had had to take his other son, 20, to hospital because he was depressed.

The father gave no further details but added: "It's sad to me how people don't understand the kind of pressure this family is under."

Why is Trump's Kenosha visit controversial?

The White House said the president was expected to meet with law enforcement and tour "property affected by recent riots".

Mr Trump has also defended a teenage supporter accused of fatally shooting two men amid demonstrations over Mr Blake's shooting in Kenosha last week.

Who is US teen accused of Wisconsin protest murders?

He suggested that Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, was acting in self-defence, telling reporters: "I guess he was in very big trouble, he probably would have been killed."

What's going on in Portland?

Mr Floyd died in Minneapolis after a police officer knelt on his neck for a prolonged period during an arrest.

On Saturday night, right-wing activist Aaron "Jay" Danielson, 39, was shot dead in the city after he was seen going to protect a caravan of Trump supporters from counter protesters.

He told a reporter: "Your supporters, and they are your supporters indeed, shot a young gentleman who - and killed him, not with paint but with a bullet. And I think it's disgraceful."

Media reports say a man who calls himself an anti-fascist is being investigated over the death of Mr Danielson.

Meanwhile, protests erupted in Los Angeles, California, on Monday night after an incident in which police shot dead a black man in a southern neighbourhood of the city.

Police say the man in his 30s fled after officers spotted him riding a bicycle in violation of vehicle codes. According to the police, the man was shot at the end of a pursuit, after he allegedly struck an officer and dropped a handgun in a bundle he was carrying.

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Trump defends Kenosha gunman Kyle Rittenhouse saying he acted in self defence - The Sun

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2020-09-01 07:46:47Z
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Trump defends supporters accused in deadly clashes - BBC News

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US President Donald Trump has defended supporters of his for their alleged roles in recent deadly street clashes.

He suggested a teen accused of killing two in Wisconsin last week and Trump fans involved in clashes in Oregon on Saturday had acted in self-defence.

Mr Trump pointed out his Democratic White House challenger, Joe Biden, had not specifically disavowed far-left activists accused of civil disorder.

The violence has come amid widespread, largely peaceful anti-racism protests.

Mr Biden, leading in opinion polls ahead of November's election, has spoken out against violence, accusing Mr Trump of having caused the divisions that stoked it.

What did Trump say?

At Monday's White House news conference, Mr Trump blamed Mr Biden and his allies for violence in cities run by Democratic mayors and governors.

A CNN reporter asked the Republican president whether he would condemn supporters of his who had fired paint pellets during a confrontation with counter-protesters at the weekend in Portland, Oregon.

In the ensuing street clashes, a member of a right-wing group, Patriot Prayer, was killed by a suspect who has reportedly described himself as a member of antifa, a loosely affiliated network of mainly far-left activists.

On Monday, police named the man shot dead as Aaron Danielson. No arrest has been made.

"Well, I understand they had large numbers of people that were supporters but that was a peaceful protest," Mr Trump replied to the CNN reporter, in an apparent veiled dig at US media outlets whom he has previously accused of ignoring violence at Black Lives Matter demonstrations.

"Paint is a defensive mechanism, paint is not bullets.

"Your supporters, and they are your supporters indeed, shot a young gentleman who - and killed him, not with paint but with a bullet. And I think it's disgraceful."

Another reporter asked Mr Trump whether he would condemn a shooting in Kenosha, Wisconsin, allegedly by a teenager once pictured at one of the president's rallies.

Kyle Rittenhouse, 17, is accused of shooting three people, two fatally, last week amid demonstrations in the city over the police shooting of Jacob Blake.

"We're looking at all of that," Mr Trump said in his first public comments on the shooter, "that was an interesting situation, you saw the same tape as I saw, and he was trying to get away from them, I guess, it looks like. And he fell, and then they very violently attacked him.

"And it was something that we're looking at right now, and it's under investigation.

"I guess he was in very big trouble, he probably would have been killed."

Two Democratic congressmen pilloried Mr Trump for the remarks. Joe Kennedy III of Massachusetts tweeted: "This is the United States President justifying a double murder by a white man illegally carrying an assault rifle across state lines."

Kyle Rittenhouse, who was charged as an adult, has not yet been brought to trial.

Representative Eric Swalwell of California tweeted that the president had just made Republicans "the Mass Shooter Party".

Lines drawn on law and order

Aleem Maqbool, BBC News, Kenosha

Throughout the summer, President Trump has referred to those taking to the streets across America as looters, rioters, anarchists and thugs. That is even though most of the demonstrations calling for an end to racial injustice, and to police brutality, have been peaceful.

But just as Democrats accuse the president of exploiting and even stoking the unrest for political gain, so Donald Trump's supporters accuse Democrats of the same thing.

"Our mayor is a Democrat, the governor is a Democrat, and the fact that they refused help early on just shows me that they were playing politics," one Trump supporter in Kenosha told me this evening.

In fact, the Wisconsin governor called in the National Guard the day after Jacob Blake was shot by a police officer in the city.

But with the aggressive messaging on law and order coming from the White House, the battle lines have been drawn on this issue - one we will be hearing much more of over the next nine weeks.

What did Biden say?

Earlier on Monday, Mr Biden forcefully condemned the violence at recent protests while accusing President Trump of making the country unsafe.

It was the Democratic nominee's most determined effort yet to counter Republican criticism that he was weak on law and order.

"Do I look like a radical socialist with a soft spot for rioters?" said Mr Biden, speaking in Pittsburgh, in the critical US election state of Pennsylvania. "Really?"

The former US vice-president accused Mr Trump of having fomented violence in the US for years.

"You know," said Mr Biden, "he may believe mouthing the words law and order makes him strong but his failure to call on his own supporters to stop acting as an armed militia in this country shows how weak he is."

"Does anyone believe there will be less violence in America if Donald Trump is re-elected?" he asked.

The Democratic nominee took no questions from the media.

Mr Biden's remarks represented a pivot from his main line of attack so far - that the White House has mishandled its response to the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 180,000 people in the US.

What did Biden previously say?

Mr Biden spoke out against violent protests a number of times between May and July, according to a Washington Post fact-check.

Democrats hardly touched on the issue during their convention from 17-20 August, focusing instead on racial justice and African-American victims of police brutality. Rioting and looting was a central theme of the Republican convention a week later.

Since the shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin on 23 August reignited civil strife, Mr Biden and his campaign have renewed their criticism of violence at demonstrations.

According to the Associated Press news agency, Mr Biden has been prodded by anxious Democrats - including within his campaign - to be more vocal in denouncing protest-related violence.

Research by Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on 11 August found support for the racial justice protests has fallen 13 percentage points, and for Black Lives Matter by 10 points, from June to August.

Wisconsin - which was pivotal in Mr Trump's against-all-odds election victory four years ago - is a must-win state for Democrats in November.

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