The Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas on Saturday offered to share its rocket arsenal with any Arab country that would be willing to attack Israel. Fathi Hammad, a spokesman for the Iran-backed Islamist group, said in an interview with the Hamas-run Al Aqsa TV that the group  has become “the leading manufacturer of...

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Israel’s Shin Bet security agency on Thursday announced the arrest of a seven-man Hamas cell in the West Bank, which was planning to kidnap an Israeli soldier in order to negotiate the release of a convicted terrorist. The arrests were made in the Hebron area and included three brothers —...

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The Shin Bet announced Wednesday that it had arrested a cell of four Palestinians, including three minors, who had perpetrated four shooting attacks in the West Bank. The Israeli secret service said that the arrests had been made in conjunction with the Border Police and IDF and that family members had...

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Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman acknowledged his country’s recent airstrikes against Syrian targets, saying in an address to European Union ambassadors on Wednesday that the strikes were meant to prevent Hezbollah from receiving “advanced weapons, military equipment and weapons of mass destruction.” Though it is unusual for an Israeli government official...

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An official TV channel of the Palestinian Authority repeatedly broadcast a song calling for violence against Israel last week, the watchdog group Palestinian Media Watch reported Monday. The broadcast of the song “Long Live Fatah Men” occurred during Fatah’s party conference, from November 29 to December 4. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud...

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The Israel Defense Forces held a large-scale drill near the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, improving preparedness for possible cross-border terrorist attacks from the coastal enclave. The drill, which was led by the military’s Gaza division and included the evacuation of an Israeli school near the Gaza border, tested how the army would respond to terrorist infiltrators...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday harshly criticized the election of a convicted murderer and terrorist to a key committee of Fatah, the Palestinian Authority’s ruling party. Marwan Barghouti is serving five life sentences in an Israeli prison for his role orchestrating murders during the Second Intifada in the early 2000s. He...

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Four Palestinian men were found dead in a collapsed smuggling tunnel between the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula, local authorities said on Sunday, blaming the Egyptian military for flooding the pathway. The four men “were found dead after the tunnel they were working in was flooded nine days ago...

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Two Iranian men were charged Thursday with plotting a terror attack against the Israeli embassy in Nairobi, Kenya. Sayed Nasrollah Ebrahim and Abdolhosein Gholi Safaee were arrested Tuesday after taking pictures of the Israeli embassy on their mobile phones while in an Iranian diplomatic car, prosecutor Duncan Ondimu said. Their driver,...

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Israel has one glaring problem: lousy timing. Most of Israel’s apparent problems, certainly the ones its critics claim it has, emerge from Israel’s repeated inability to be synchronized with prevailing global moods. But patience has its rewards—over time, as challenges facing Israel turn out to be global rather than local,...

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