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Hussein Sheikholeslam, a senior adviser to Iran’s parliament speaker, blasted British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond and said that “Israel should be annihilated,” Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency reported today. “Our positions against the usurper Zionist regime have not changed at all; Israel should be annihilated and this is our ultimate...

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Hamas fired rockets at Israel from residential areas in Gaza during Operation Protective Edge last year in an attempt to provoke IDF retaliatory strikes and cause civilian casualties, Wojciech Cegielski, a reporter for Polish Radio, wrote in an op-ed published by Ha’aretz today. Cegielski worked in Gaza for a month last...

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On the first floor of a mosque in the Bedouin Arab village of Hura, 30 women with headphones over their brightly colored headscarves are providing customer service to clients of Bezeq, Israel’s largest telecom. Zainab, 21, smiles and gently caresses her pregnant belly as she prepares to handle the next...

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Last week’s rocket attacks on the northern Galilee and Golan Heights by a Syrian cell of the Iran-backed Islamic Jihad terrorist group were likely a part of “an Iranian effort to maintain a limited front from which it can engage Israel without igniting a broader war,” and may be repeated “at...

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A federal judge in Manhattan, George B. Daniels, ordered the Palestinian Authority (PA) to post a $10 million bond and pay $1 million more per month as it appeals a verdict that found it liable for a series of terrorist attacks in Israel that killed 33 people and injured over...

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A Syrian school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the human development agency devoted to Palestinian refugees, posted two cartoons encouraging the killing of Jews by cars on its Facebook page, blogger “Elder of Ziyon” reported yesterday. One cartoon featured a smiling Palestinian boy attacking a caricature of...

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