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Diplomacy

Nuclear weapons experts, who have reviewed the Iranian nuclear archive that Israel recovered from a Tehran warehouse, concluded that Iran lied that a uranium mine was under control of its civilian atomic energy agency in a paper published jointly by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Institute for Science...

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Diplomacy

The United States announced Wednesday that it was withdrawing troops from Syria after what it described as the “defeat” of the Islamic State terrorist group. The decision, however, is a fatal miscalculation with potentially devastating consequences for Syria and the region. Our enemies are weakened, but by no means defeated....

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Diplomacy

Albania expelled two Iranian diplomats, including the ambassador, for “damaging its national security,” Reuters reported Thursday. Benjamin Weinthal reported in The Jerusalem Post that the two had been expelled for a terror plot that targeted a World Cup match between Israel and Albania in 2016. The move to expel the...

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Iran

The international community must rigorously enforce the United Nations-brokered peace deal between the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels and Yemen’s internationally recognized government or risk a permanent “Hezbollahisation” of the conflict, TIP Senior Fellow Julie Lenarz wrote in an op-ed published in the European Union’s The Parliament Magazine on Thursday. “From the conflict’s...

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Israel

Nineteen artists from around the world have joined 20 Israeli artists for a two-week “ArtBnB” residency in Jerusalem, creating works around the clock in the public space and giving master classes and workshops. A wandering exhibition on December 20 showcases all the products of the collaborative initiative based at three...

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Diplomacy

At the United Nations Security Council meeting discussing the terror tunnels that Hezbollah built from Lebanon into Israel, the country’s Ambassador to the UN accused the Lebanese army of tipping off Hezbollah about Israel’s operation to locate and destroy the tunnels, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. “Israel gave UNIFIL...

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Europe

The German government has come under fire for funding Palestinian schoolbooks that praise martyrdom and glorify Palestinian terrorists such as Dalal Mughrabi, who was involved in the murder 38 Israelis, including 13 children, in 1978. Benjamin Weinthal reported in The Jerusalem Post that a member of the federal parliament urged...

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Europe

The Netherlands passed a binding resolution on Monday to cut 7 percent of assistance to the Palestinian Authority (PA) in 2019, JNS reported. The Dutch parliament voted 94-56 in favor of the motion. The 7 percent cut in aid reflects the exact percentage of the PA’s budget spent on terror...

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Diplomacy

Ahead of the United Nations Security Council open meeting on Hezbollah, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on the council “to condemn Hezbollah’s wanton acts of aggression,” in a speech he delivered Wednesday. Prior to Netanyahu’s speech, IDF spokesperson Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus explained how the army detected the fourth...

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Israel

A time capsule containing three disks with hundreds of digital files of documents including Israel’s Declaration of Independence, flag and national anthem, the Bible, and children’s drawings will fly to the moon aboard the Beresheet (Genesis) unmanned spacecraft in February. Israeli nonprofit SpaceIL and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) presented the time capsule on December...

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