United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon flew to Cairo on a Qatari-chartered plane, Newsweek reported Monday. Accepting the flight from Qatar, which sponsors the terrorist organization Hamas, puts Ban in a compromised position. Newsweek notes that when he condemned the Israeli efforts to defend itself from Hamas rockets on Sunday, it marked “the first...

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The Algemeiner reported yesterday on remarks Representative Brad Sherman (D-Calif) made to Al Jazeera last week criticizing Hamas (video embedded below). Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., who sits on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, also slammed the network’s coverage of the latest round of fighting between Hamas and Israel during his...

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In a phone call Friday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a phone call that was interrupted by Israeli air warning sirens, President Barack Obama reiterated his support for Israel to defend itself. “While I was having the conversation with Prime Minister Netanyahu, sirens went off in Tel Aviv,” said Obama....

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Journalists on Wednesday pressed White House and State Department spokespeople on a set of commitments – made months ago to lawmakers and reporters – in which top administration officials defended nuclear negotiations with Iran by insisting that if talks failed they would cooperate with Congress in imposing new sanctions on...

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The results of a poll released Tuesday by Pew Research showed continued strong support for Israel among Americans of all political denominations as Operation Protective Edge began. The press release accompanying the poll was titled As Mideast Violence Continues, a Wide Partisan Gap in Israel-Palestinian Sympathies. As violence between Israel and Hamas shows...

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The Treasury Department on Thursday leveled sanctions against a Beirut-based network of companies spanning the Middle East and China: Hezbollah relies heavily on front companies such as Stars Group Holding, which continue to procure dual-use material for the organization to enhance its military capabilities. Stars Group Holding has covertly purchased...

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Yesterday evening, President Obama joined many other world leaders in expressing support for Israel as it defends itself from ongoing rocket attacks from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. The Times of Israel reports that the president also offered to help arrange a ceasefire: “The president expressed concern about the risk of further...

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The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday that Iran’s economy is making an impressive recovery from the sanctions relief granted as part of the interim deal with the P5+1 nations last November. It begins by noting that the president of Iran’s chamber of commerce, Gholam Hossein Shafei, “greets trade missions from...

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The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday reported that delegations from energy and automobile companies have been become a near-daily presence in Iran since the easing of sanctions under the interim Joint Plan of Action (JPA): As talks between Iran and six major powers on limiting its nuclear program enter the...

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Reuters on Tuesday published new figures indicating that Iran has for the eighth straight month violated crude export restrictions set by the interim Joint Plan of Action (JPA), with the outlet quoting a range of experts suggesting that the Obama administration has been deliberately looking the other way as Tehran busted...

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