In 2011 the International Atomic Energy Agency accused Iran of conducting work at its Parchin military facility that provided “strong indicators of possible nuclear weapon development.” The U.N. nuclear watchdog subsequently requested access to the site, and Iran refused. In 2012 reports emerged that Iranian officials were hurriedly destroying evidence of previous...
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Speaking yesterday to an estimated 13,000 delegates at AIPAC’s 2013 Policy Conference, U.S. Senator John Cornyn linked the bipartisan American consensus in favor of a strong U.S.-Israel relationship to common values shared between the two countries: Strong support for Israel on Capitol Hill reflects the strong support for Israel in...
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Newly minted Secretary of State John Kerry is on his first trip abroad, and it’s a marathon. According to the State Department’s “Travels With Secretary of State John Kerry,” after stops in the UK, German, France, Italy, and most recently Turkey, Kerry is planning to hopscotch across the Middle East, notably skipping Israel and Jordan,...
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The U.S. has come down hard on Turkey for Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s statements earlier this week calling Zionism a crime against humanity. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Erdogan Friday evening and scolded him for the comments, made at a conference for the U.N. Alliance of Civilizations in...
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Officials from the rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas this week threatened President Barack Obama with violence and “catastrophe” during his upcoming March visit to the region. Issa Qaraqe, the Palestinian minister for prisoner affairs and a member of the Western-backed Fatah faction, instructed the president to pressure Israel to...
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Turkey’s Islamist Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan — who in recent weeks has belittled Israeli efforts to seek rapprochement, mocked Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad for not militarily attacking the Jewish state, and accused Jerusalem of “state terrorism” — declared Wednesday that Zionism is a “crime against humanity”: Speaking in Vienna at a United...
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