Qatar’s support for radical Islamists across North Africa and the Near East was at the root of a “blunt” exchange between President Barack Obama and Qatari emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani during an April 23rd meeting. Bloomberg published details of the meeting yesterday. The President is not the...

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In an extensive expose published late last month, The Telegraph documented the extent to which Hamas is training Palestinian schoolboys to use assault-style weapons and battle Israel. The outlet documented how the Iran-backed terror group has introduced into the local curriculum military training for 37,000 Palestinian boys aged 15-17. The...

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A new report from a Palestinian human rights group is threatening to deepen a controversy over anti-Israel media bias that has already generated sustained criticism of major news organizations and NGO’s. Early during Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defense in November pictures emerged documenting the death of Gaza-based BBC journalist Jihad...

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Today’s events in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip portend the start of what may be a hot summer on Israel’s Palestinian front – and perhaps several other ones. In the West Bank a Palestinian terrorist stabbed to death 32-year-old Evyatar Borovsky. He was the first Israeli victim of...

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The Israeli Air Force carried out an air strike in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday against a terrorist who was affiliated with a range of jihadi groups, and who had been involved in an April 17 rocket attack from the Sinai Peninsula on the Israeli city of Eilat. Hithem Ziad...

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A Israeli air strike on Gaza Strip terror facilities Sunday failed to stop renewed Palestinian rocket fire from the Hamas-controlled territory. Palestinians launched rockets at Israeli civilians on Saturday and again on Monday, and now Israeli officials are warning that the Jewish state may need to take further action to...

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Officials closely linked to Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas are being investigated by a Palestinian watchdog group for corruption, nepotism, and mismanagement. The Coalition for Transparency in Palestine announced yesterday that it was checking into no fewer than 29 claims that PA officials stole public funds. Endemic corruption within political...

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Hamas is hailing the announcement by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan that he will defy requests from the U.S. not to visit the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip in late May. Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh is celebrating the trip as marking the end of American hegemony: In a brief statement from...

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Fatah and Hamas are again engaging in tit-for-tat infighting, casting new doubts on the chances for a Palestinian unity deal. This week Palestinian Authority security forces arrested Hamas members in the West Bank and Hamas lashed out against the Palestinian Liberation Organization over PLO accusations of Hamas “Talibanization” and “Muslim...

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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reaffirmed his intention to brush off repeated objections from the United States and from the U.S.-backed Palestinian Authority, and to travel to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip later this month: Official Turkish sources told the al-Sharq al-Awsat newspaper that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan...

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