Speaking Sunday at a youth summer camp in the Gaza Strip, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh proclaimed to the crowd that Israel would be destroyed to make way for a Palestinian state. Arab media sources summed up his speech with the headline ‘Haniyeh: No future for Israel on the land of Palestine.’...

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Lebanese Christians have joined just about everybody else in the region in blasting Hezbollah for its role in the Syrian conflict, and for dragging Lebanon into the now two and a half year conflict. Veteran Lebanese politician Samir Geagea made the point a few weeks ago: The LF leader said...

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Hizb al-Tahrir, a group committed to the restoration of an Islamic Caliphate, recently held demonstrations in Gaza and Ramallah this week. In the past the Palestinian Authority (PA) has broken up demonstrations by the group. Not so much this time. The change has analysts worried that hard-line Islamist groups may be gaining a...

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South Korea is seriously considering purchasing the Israeli made Iron Dome systems, which intercepts and kills short range rockets and missiles. The Tower has learned that advanced negotiations took place between the two countries during a private visit to Israel by Brigadier General Lee Hee Woo, President of a Chungnam...

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Today Israel marked the 46 anniversary of the beginning of the Six Day War. The war formally began with preemptive air strikes against the air forces of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan. The armies of all three countries had mobilized and were positioned to attack Israel or suffocate it economically. The...

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Turkey was engulfed by anti-government protests over the weekend and into Monday, after small demonstrations aimed at stopping the demolition of a city park in Istanbul were met with heavy-handed police tactics, including the use of tear gas, which in turn triggered further protests. On Friday Turkish protesters across the country took...

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In 2005 Hamas won municipal elections in the West Bank city of Qalqilya, triggering declarations from some observers to the effect that power would force the Iran-backed terror organization to govern pragmatically. When the organization won the Palestinian legislative elections in 2006, the same analysis was expanded to encompass hopes...

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This week’s campaign to free seven kidnapped Egyptian security officials in the Sinai Peninsula exposed deep rifts between the Egyptian army and the country’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked government. The regime and its Brotherhood allies are preventing the army from uprooting the terrorist networks in the territory. A top jihadist explains the Brotherhood’s...

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Israel will hold its seventh annual “Turning Point” civil defense drill next week. Israeli civilians face a unique security environment. When under missile attack by Iranian proxies in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, the most time any Israeli civilian anywhere in the country has to reach a shelter is three...

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Seven Egyptian security personnel abducted last week in the Sinai Peninsula have been freed after the Egyptian military dispatched heavy armor and war planes to the territory. A spokesman for Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked president Mohammed Morsi declared that the release of the kidnapped personnel would not stop the government’s military...

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