Although the security situation in Jerusalem and other areas in Israel has calmed somewhat in recent days, Palestinian incitement and calls for terrorist acts against Israelis are continuing. The Hamas movement called Thursday (Twitter Arabic link) on Arabs in the West Bank and Jerusalem to do all they can “to defend...

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The Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, announced Thursday that it had broken up a “wide-ranging” Hamas terror plot run by Saleh al-Arouri, a top Hamas official who lives and operates openly in Turkey. CNN reports that more than 30 suspects were arrested after authorities investigated a series of explosions...

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While Iran already possesses the necessary materials for a nuclear bomb, any additional concessions would make the regime “a virtual nuclear power,”  which is why allowing negotiations to expire with “no significant change” in Iran’s demands is better than concluding a bad deal, José María Aznar, the former premier of Spain...

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Arab-language news reports and social media indicate an increasing presence of supporters of the terrorist organization ISIS within the Gaza Strip. Hamas, the terrorist organization that runs Gaza, has denied (Arabic link) any ISIS presence in the Gaza Strip itself, and rejects that it has any possible connection to the other organization. But Arab...

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Reports emerged Friday morning that at least 30 Hamas members had been arrested in the West Bank in recent weeks for planning a series of terror attacks against Israeli targets. Senior Palestinian officials told veteran Arab affairs correspondent Avi Issacharoff that the expansive West Bank network was both funded and...

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The Jerusalem Post reported yesterday that three Palestinians were indicted this week on charges of plotting to assassinate Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman this past summer. The three men – Ibrahim el-Zir, Ziad el-Zir and Anans Bech, all from Harmala in the West Bank – allegedly decided to assassinate the...

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A terror attack on a synagogue in Jerusalem’s Har Nof neighborhood yesterday left five people – four rabbis and a Druze policeman – dead and several others injured Tuesday when two Palestinians entered during morning prayers armed with knives, meat cleavers, and a handgun and attacked worshipers inside. Secretary of State John...

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The Fatah movement and Palestinian Authority officials are giving contradictory messages following the murder of five Israelis in a Jerusalem synagogue. While Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas condemned the attack, one of his senior advisors and the official Facebook page of Fatah praised the attack, in which two Palestinians shot...

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In the wake of  today’s terror attack at a Jerusalem synagogue, Jake Tapper of CNN’s The Lead made a startling observation: More people with American citizenship have been killed by Palestinian terrorists in the last year than have been killed by ISIS. — Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 18, 2014 The...

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Secretary of State John Kerry strongly condemned this morning’s terror attack in Jerusalem (video embedded below), calling it “a pure result of incitement.” The Associated Press reports: Kerry, who spoke Tuesday before, noted that Israel had acted to calm the situation by easing age restrictions on Muslim worshippers at the...

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