MidEast

Israel’s State Attorney found that a spokesman for Breaking the Silence (BtS), an NGO that alleges abuses by Israel soldiers, lied when he claimed that he had beaten a Palestinian suspect, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. Dean Issacharoff, spokesman for BtS had spoken of an incident where he beat...

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Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir has accused Hezbollah of having “kidnapped the Lebanese system,” as he warned at a press conference in Riyadh on Thursday that regional efforts were under way to oust the terrorist organization from the Lebanese government. The Times of Israel reported that al-Jubeir called on...

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Russia vetoed a United States resolution at the United Nations Security Council on Thursday that would have extended an international investigation into chemical weapons use in Syria. This is the tenth time Russia has blocked such a resolution at the Security Council to shield its Syrian ally from UN action...

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During Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s trade mission to Israel recently, the state’s Water Council signed two agreements to increase collaboration and establish new partnerships between Wisconsin and Israel. An agreement with the Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev seeks to establish the first National Science...

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The international campus organization Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), which promotes the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel, views that “eliminating the Jewish nation-state is the only way to achieve ‘justice’” a new report released by a Jerusalem based think tank concluded. The roughly 50 page report titled...

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Confronting Iran’s hegemonic ambitions in the Middle East needs to be a “bipartisan priority,” the Democratic congressman who initiated a letter signed by 42 of his colleagues to United States Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, protesting Iranian interference in Syria, said on Wednesday. “A permanent Iranian presence in Syria is...

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