World leaders have condemned the deadly terror attack that killed four Israelis at the Sarona Market in Tel Aviv on Wednesday. PM: I am sickened by the appalling attack in Tel Aviv. We stand with Israel against terrorism & my thoughts are with the victims & families. — UK Prime Minister (@Number10gov)...

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Footage has emerged on Twitter of an Iranian soldier from the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) embedded among Iraqi troops, the latest indication of direct Iranian involvement in its neighboring country’s internal affairs. “In the name of God, the compassionate the merciful. Friday afternoon, the operation to liberate Fallujah....

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In a rare criticism, the United Nations condemned Hamas on Wednesday after the Palestinian terror group announced plans to carry out 13 public executions. The UN is “deeply concerned” by remarks made by Hamas’ attorney general that the organization was planning to carry out public executions in the near future, Office of the High Commissioner...

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The regime of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela has promoted anti-Israel and anti-Semitic themes in an effort to distract from the damage it is doing to the country, a former Venezuelan diplomat wrote Wednesday in the New York Daily News. Diego Arria, Venezuela’s former ambassador to the United Nations, cited a recent...

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While the White House is encouraging foreign banks to do business with Iran, the Islamic Republic has continued to engage in the same illicit behavior that initially prompted its sanctioning, President Barack Obama’s former undersecretary of the treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed (Google link) Friday. Stuart Levey, now the chief legal officer of...

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The movement to boycott Israel is “counterproductive to the pursuit of peace and harmful to Israelis and Palestinians alike,” Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton wrote in an open letter on Monday, one day before her church is set to vote on whether to divest from companies that allegedly profit from Israel’s control of...

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The political war against the legitimacy of Israel and the Jewish state continues in many forms, including through the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of Palestinian People (CEIRPP). This attack was launched in the General Assembly on November 10, 1975, as part of the same...

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A Republican and a Democrat from the House Armed Services Committee introduced a resolution on Monday calling on the Obama administration to continue the twenty-plus-year American policy of vetoing any United Nations Security Council resolution that unilaterally tries to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict instead of encouraging bilateral negotiations. The resolution,...

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394 members of the House of Representatives—90 percent of the total—have signed a letter urging President Barack Obama “not to back any resolution at the United Nations that sets parameters for Israeli-Palestinian talks.” In the letter, the members of Congress declared they are “deeply troubled by reports that one-sided initiatives may arise...

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If Bashar al-Assad and senior members of the Syrian leadership are ever captured and brought to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and charged with war crimes, the evidence being gathered by an obscure investigative agency could be crucial to establishing their guilt. In the newest issue of The New Yorker, Ben Taub documented the efforts of the Commission...

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