Growing concerns that violence from the increasingly anarchic Sinai Peninsula will spill over into Israel spiked over the weekend, as shots were fired on Israeli soldiers Sunday night. Israeli military officials responded to the incident by ramping up security in southern Israel. Jihadists have engaged in a string of attacks...

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Hamas is manufacturing and testing rockets capable of striking Israel’s densely packed population centers. The missiles include a Gaza-built version of the advanced Iranian Fajr-5. Israel substantially degraded the Gaza-based terror group’s storehouses of advanced missiles during November’s Operation Pillar of Defense, which Jerusalem launched to stem months of increased...

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On Tuesday an attack on a northern Sinai checkpoint killed two and injured six. Later that evening and overnight assailants launched attacks on an airport checkpoint and near an army base. On Wednesday gunmen opened fire on the car of a senior military commander. On Thursday a soldier was killed, reportedly trying to...

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A combination of political ideology and entrenched anti-Semitism within Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development (AKP) Party threatens to derail efforts to reconcile with Israel – at significant cost to Ankara’s interests – according to an array of recently published analyses and reporting. Relations between the two countries were frozen by...

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Middle East analysts have traditionally outlined at least four broad categories of internal structural problems plaguing efforts to establish and stabilize a viable Palestinian state. The Western-backed Palestinian Authority government (PA) which controls the West Bank lacks sovereignty over even the Palestinian-controlled territories that they explicitly reserve for a future...

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Dozens of terrorists linked to Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated groups have entered the Sinai Peninsula from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip with the intention of clashing with the Egyptian army, according to a senior Egyptian official. The official told the London-based Al-Hayat newspaper that Egyptian authorities have observed the entry of 150 Izz al-Din al-Qassam...

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A majority of Palestinians believe that the Palestinian Authority should reject efforts by the Obama administration to “bring Palestinians and Israelis back to the negotiating table without any preconditions,” according to a poll published by the Ramallah-based Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research. The question wording accounts for concessions,...

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Blasts were heard today in the Israeli resort Eilat, raising fears that Islamists had fired rockets in the direction of that city. No shrapnel have been found so far, but Eilat and its surrounding areas have been targeted by rockets from the Sinai several times during the past year. The...

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A Gaza Strip businessman was forced to shutter his gas canister factory – which he had run for 30 years, and which employed 45 workers – after Hamas authorities discovered that he was painting his gas canisters silver. Gas canisters painted silver, it turns out, are too Israeli to be...

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Pro-Morsi protesters at Cairo University – which was the scene of bloody clashes overnight – were heard chanting an anti-Semitic slogan threatening massacres against Jews: Pro-Morsy protesters at Cairo University chant the anti-Jewish slogan: “Khaybar, Khayber, O Jews, the army of Mohamed will return.” — Egypt Independent (@EgyIndependent) July 3,...

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