The United States, United Kingdom and France launched more than 100 missiles on Friday night against what they say were Syrian chemical weapons facilities in response to a chemical weapons attack in Douma, near Damascus, a week ago, the BBC reported on Saturday. The Pentagon said the strikes, which began...

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By withdrawing from Syria too soon, the United States would effectively hand over the country to Iran and Russia, risking a catastrophic “strategic collapse in a region long deemed vital to U.S. interests,” Joshua S. Block, CEO and President of The Israel Project, warned in an op-ed published in The Hill...

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Following reports of a new, deadly chemical weapons attack by the Assad regime in Syria, the United States and eight other nations called for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council, The Hill reported Sunday. Russia, which has backed Syria militarily, and holds veto power in the Security...

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The United States on Saturday blocked a draft United Nations Security Council statement expressing “grave concern” over Israel’s handling of the Hamas-led “March of Return” along the border with Gaza and calling for an “independent and transparent investigation” into the violence. The resolution, tabled by Kuwait which represents the Arab...

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Just days after the United States Congress passed the bipartisan Taylor Force Act into law, the Palestinian Authority published its 2018 budget, which includes $355 million allocated to payment of terrorists and their families, Palestinian Media Watch reported Wednesday. The Taylor Force Act would reduce U.S. aid to the PA...

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Following the passage of five resolutions by the United Nations Human Rights Council condemning Israel, both the United States and United Kingdom lashed out at the council for its anti-Israel bias, The Jewish Chronicle reported Friday. While the UK did not vote against all of the resolutions, it voted against...

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Americans are “as strongly pro-Israel” as anytime in the thirty years Gallup has polling American attitudes on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the polling agency assessed in a news alert released on Wednesday. The 64% of Americans who sympathize more with Israel matches the high previously recorded in 1991 and 2013. Gallup:...

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American and Israeli forces launched operation “Juniper Cobra” on Tuesday, a two-week joint military training exercise bringing together more than 4,500 service personnel from the IDF and the United States military’s European Command (USEUCOM). The Marine Corps Times reported that the U.S. dispatched over 2,500 service members to the training,...

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The United States State Department has announced that it will officially move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem in May, to coincide with the 70th anniversary of Israel’s independence. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on 22 February that Ambassador David Friedman and a small group of staff will work in an...

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Recently, we saw the inherent danger of a permanent Iranian presence in Syria. Iran launched its first direct military operation against Israel, dispatching a drone from the Tiyas Airbase in Syria’s central Homs region. The Israelis used an Apache helicopter to intercept and destroy the drone, then sent eight fighter...

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