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Syria

Iran and units of its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have been gaining a foothold in Syria by aiding residents in areas where the Assad regime can’t reach, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Hanin Ghaddar, an expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, told the Journal that Iran is using...

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Iran

The United States Treasury Department said that it broke up a network of front companies that transferred more than $1 billion to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in violation of U.S. sanctions, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported Tuesday. According to the statement from Treasury, the firms acting as front...

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Several 2020 Democratic presidential candidates have met with AIPAC officials and constituents representing the group in town for the annual policy conference, despite reports of a widespread boycott, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. The candidates had earned praise from the far-left activist group MoveOn, which had publicly called on them...

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Israel

The chairman of New Zealand’s biggest mosque told a rally attended by thousands in the city of Auckland on Saturday that Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad, was behind the far-right terrorist attack on two Christchurch mosques that left dead fifty people and wounded dozens of others. In a video posted online,...

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Rep. Ilhan Omar

Controversial freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar (D -Minn.) lashed out Tuesday at Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) for pushing back against anti-Semitism during the latter’s appearance before the annual AIPAC conference, The Hill reported. In her speech, Pelosi stressed that Democrats remain “relentlessly bipartisan” in support of Israel and vowed that “we...

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On Saturday March 23, I attended UNC-Chapel Hill’s (UNC-CH) “Conflict Over Gaza,” which I had hoped might possibly be constructive but in reality, was an anti-Israel hate-fest. The three-day conference was sponsored by UNC’s Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies and the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies. As...

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Dialing 911 in an emergency is something that we’ve all been instructed to do since childhood. And old-fashioned, simple dialing is what most of us are still doing, even in an age of far more sophisticated technology. This is despite the fact that most of us are no longer calling...

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After a tension-filled day, a rocket was fired into southern Israel from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, sending thousands of residents to shelters, The Times of Israel reported Tuesday. Israel warned that it was ready to launch additional strikes against terror targets in Gaza, as the IDF moved more troops to...

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Diplomacy

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked AIPAC for working to build “support for Israel on both sides of the aisle, Democrats and Republicans alike,” and said that those who “want to pull America and Israel apart” will be unsuccessful, in his speech before the organization on Tuesday. Describing the ties...

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Diplomacy

Arab states no longer “honestly” think about Israel in such negative terms, Nikki Haley told the AIPAC policy conference Monday, as the former United States Ambassador to the United Nations said she has “hope” that anti-Israel bias at the international body is in decline. “I was meeting with a couple...

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