Lawmakers from the House of Representatives on Thursday dispatched a letter to the Obama administration – signed by 354 members, comprising over 80 percent of the chamber – calling on Secretary of State John Kerry try harder in securing a deal with Iran that puts a nuclear bomb beyond Tehran’s...

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A White House meeting on Wednesday between President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saw the two leaders emphasizing mutual cooperation across a range of issues, with Netanyahu also outlining how new regional realities have aligned Jerusalem with traditional U.S. allies long considered hostile to the Jewish state....

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In an interview with Wall Street Journal editorial board member Mary Kissel (embedded below), UN Watch’s executive director, Hillel Neuer, revealed that human rights icon Aryeh Neier, the former executive director of Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union, opposed the appointment of William Schabas to investigate Israel’s conduct...

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Al Monitor reported today that Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, publicly rejected the idea that engagement with the West in nuclear talks could lead to any closer relations with the United States. Speaking to foreign diplomats as well as officials form Iran’s foreign ministry, Khamenei said that engagement with...

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William Schabas, who was appointed Monday by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to head an investigation into Israel’s conduct during Operation Protective Edge, argued in a blog post last year that the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government would not constitute a war crime. Schabas argued...

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The Times of Israel reported yesterday that last week’s initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange of Mobileye, an Israeli startup that makes automobile accident avoidance systems, raised $890 million, a record for an Israeli company in the United States. The previous record is held by Partner Communications...

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Today was the twenty-fifth day of Operation Protective Edge and the fourteenth day of ground operations in Gaza. Five soldiers were killed yesterday in a mortar attack. Daniel Marash, 22 Omri Tal, 22 Shay Kushnir, 20 Noam Rosenthal,20 Liran Adir,31 Z’L Caídos ayer por Israel y por nosotros Mis hijos — Spain for Israel (@spain4israel) August...

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Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel called for disarming the terrorist organization Hamas yesterday. He made those remarks in a phone call to his Israeli counterpart, Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon. The Defense Department website provided an account of the call, relayed by Pentagon press secretary Rear Adm. John Kirby: Kirby said Hagel...

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Admittedly we did not discover this in a secret archive in Gaza City or Doha. But the events of recent weeks have laid bare what appears to be a remarkably consistent effort on the part of one of the world’s most brutal terrorist organizations to defeat the Jewish state in...

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A recent poll by Pew Research finds that Americans fault Hamas for the current violence in the Middle East by a margin of more than 2 to 1. The Washington Free Beacon reported today on the results of that poll: More than twice as many Americans blame Hamas for the...

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