MidEast

The cultural organization of the United Nations on Tuesday adopted a third resolution indicating that Israel has no historical or legal right to any part of Jerusalem, ignoring the Jewish people’s millennia-old bond with the city. The UNESCO resolution, which was voted on as Israel celebrated its 69th Independence Day, was introduced by Algeria, Egypt,...

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A new document outlining the principles of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas “is unlikely to represent any profound change in Hamas’s true position toward Israel,” The New York Times reported Monday, citing unnamed experts. The Times noted that in addition to recently selecting “hardliner” Yahya Sinwar to head the group...

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A Tunisian engineer who worked for Hamas before being assassinated last December was the architect of the terrorist group’s “air force,” a Hamas spokesman said in an al-Jazeera program broadcast on Sunday. Hamas engineer Mohamad Zawari was “one of the leaders of the military wing that oversaw the ‘Ababil’ unmanned drone program,” the...

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The Trump administration’s national security advisor, Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, accused Iran of applying the “Hezbollah model” to take advantage of weak regimes and destabilize the Middle East on Fox News this past Sunday. According to McMaster, the “Hezbollah model” strategy includes targeting weak governments in the region and...

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On the eve of Israel’s Memorial Day on Sunday, a $25 million Hall of Remembrance dedicated to fallen soldiers was unveiled on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, where Israel’s national cemetery and other memorial and educational facilities are located. The hall features a 60-foot mountain of stones and a bell made...

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Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said that his country’s 69th birthday marked “the Independence Day of all the Jewish people” in a video released Monday. “Sixty-nine years ago, in the moments just after David Ben Gurion declared the birth of the State of Israel, we all went out to dance in the...

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