The Qatari government “has refused effectively to crack down” on “every important case of suspected terror finance involving a Qatari national in past years,” according to the first part of a study released Wednesday. The Daily Beast reported on the study, written by David A. Weinberg of the Foundation for Defense of...

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Hamas, the terrorist organization which  rules the Gaza Strip, is again courting Tehran and preparing to announce its support of the Iranian leadership and of the Syrian regime. Diplomatic sources told the Al-Arab newspaper (Arabic link) that a Hamas delegation, which is currently visiting Tehran, wants to regain the trust...

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An overwhelming majority of Palestinians support the recent spate of attacks on Israelis amid heightened tensions over the most sensitive holy site in Jerusalem, according to a Palestinian opinion poll released on December 9. The poll conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (Arabic link) also found...

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Palestinian social activism revolves around the concept of “resistance” (in Arabic, muqawama) against Israel, rather than “peace.” Over the years, “resistance” has come in a variety of forms—militant, political, economic, electronic, and even illustrated muqawama. In a recent development, Palestinian activists say they are launching a symbolic superhero figure called “Gaza Man,” the...

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Imad al-Alami, a senior Hamas official with close ties to Iran, is currently operating out of Turkey according to a report published yesterday in Foreign Policy by Jonathan Schanzer and Grant Rumley, respectively the vice president for research and a research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Schanzer...

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Blogger “Elder of Ziyon” published a translated interview with Palestinian human rights activist Bassam Eid yesterday. The interview with Eid was originally conducted in Hebrew by Ishai Friedman and was published on his blog. One of the central subjects of the interview was a supposed Palestinian boycott of Israel and...

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Arab Bank plc, which was found liable this year for hundreds of claims against it for aiding the terrorist organization Hamas, appealed to the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in New York on Tuesday to dismiss thousands of new claims. Reuters reports: A lawyer for the Jordan-based bank asked the 2nd U.S....

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At least twenty members of a cell affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan were arrested “on suspicion of forming a military wing and planning to smuggle arms into the West Bank,” according to a report today in The Times of Israel. The men, all members of the Muslim Brotherhood or...

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In an account published yesterday in The Atlantic, former reporter for the Associated Press (AP) Matti Friedman explains how bias develops and influences international reporting from Israel. Friedman identifies both news agencies and NGO’s as effectively complicit in advancing the Hamas media strategy in particular and anti-Israel narrative bias more broadly. He notes:...

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A growing number of Palestinian youths are trying to flee from the Gaza Strip into Israel, despite risk of injury or arrest, the Arab news portal “24” reported (Arabic link). At least 12 such cases have occurred during the past two weeks. One youth was identified as Mahmoud Saleh, a...

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