The United States responded to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas calling U.S. Ambassador to Israel a “son of a dog,” and told the Palestinian leader that his people would be better-served if he worked on “improving the lives of the Palestinian people and advancing the cause of peace,” The Times of Israel...

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Germany has rejected a key United States demand to designate the Lebanon-based Shiite militia Hezbollah as a terrorist organization in its entirety as part of talks to rein in the nuclear program in Iran, Benjamin Weinthal reported for Fox News on Tuesday. Two sources familiar with the ongoing negotiations between...

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In response to continued attempts by Hamas to plant improvised explosive devices (IEDs) the Gaza border fence with Israel, Israel attacked numerous sites inside the Gaza Strip and destroyed two terror tunnels, one of which had crossed the border into Israel, The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday. According to the IDF,...

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In a hearing of the United Nations Human Rights Council, the son of a terror victim called the world body and a number of its members states accessories in the murder of his father for their failure to condemn the Palestinian Authority’s “pay to slay” scheme, which rewards terrorists and...

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Israel’s internal security agency, the Shin Bet, announced that one of nine people it had arrested from a ring that smuggled guns from Hamas in Gaza to the West Bank was an employee of the French consulate in Jerusalem, The Times of Israel reported Monday. Romain Franck, a French citizen...

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The recent escalation along Israel’s border with Gaza, including an Israeli attack on the Hamas-ruled enclave over the weekend that destroyed two terror tunnels, is fueled in part by Hamas’s attempt to prepare for its planned “great march of the return,” a leading analyst of Palestinian politics explained to a press...

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Adiel Kolman, a 32-year-old father of four from Kochav Hashachar, died of his wounds last night after being stabbed near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City earlier in the day. The attacker, named by security officials as Abd el-Rahman Bani, walked up to Kolman and stabbed him repeatedly in...

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Israeli tanks fired on a number of Hamas targets inside the Gaza Strip, following a series of explosions caused by improvised explosive devices (IED) at Israel’s border with the Hamas-controlled enclave, The Times of  Israel reported Thursday. “IDF troops retaliated by firing from a tank at positions belonging to the...

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Israel is not at the center of the bloodshed in the Middle East; instead, the Islamic Republic of Iran connects many of the region’s “trouble spots,” TIP CEO and President, Joshua S. Block, argued in an op-ed published in The Jerusalem Post on Monday. “Of all the policy myths that...

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Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi issued a decree on Thursday which formalizes the Iranian-backed Hashd al-Shaabi militia, also known as Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), as a force under the command of the country’s security forces. Rudaw, a Kurdish news site, reported that the directive will grant to Hashd al-Shaabi many...

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