MidEast

A Palestinian legislator from Nablus is presenting an “unprecedented” challenge to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and the PA’s rampant corruption, according to a report by Jonathan Schanzer and Grant Rumley published Monday in The Daily Beast. Schanzer and Rumley are respectively the vice president for research and a research fellow...

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Sen. Chuck Schumer (D – N.Y.) said that an Iranian cyber-attack on a dam near New York City was a “shot across the bow” of the United States, which should be answered with harsher sanctions, the Associated Press reported on Friday. “Now it looks clear that the Iranians did it,” Schumer said during...

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Militants from the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas are fighting alongside the Islamic State in the Sinai Peninsula, while ISIS fighters are continuing to receive treatment in Gaza hospitals, a senior IDF official told Palestinian media. Maj.-Gen. Yoav Mordechai, the coordinator of government activities in the territories, specifically cited a Salafi militant named Mahmoud...

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Guinness World Records has confirmed that Israel Kristal, a Polish-Jewish Holocaust survivor who now lives in Haifa, is now the world’s oldest living man. “I don’t know the secret for long life,” Kristal said upon receiving his new title. “I believe that everything is determined from above and we shall never know...

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Campaigns to boycott Israel are a strong predictor of anti-Semitism on college campuses, a new study has determined. The AMCHA Initiative, which focuses on campus anti-Semitism, studied more than 100 American universities, both public and private, with large Jewish undergraduate populations. The report, which incorporated media and eyewitness reports of anti-Semitism, found significant statistical correlations between...

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The latest wave of terror in Israel may not be conducted by “lone wolves,” as is commonly believed, but guided by the hidden hand of Hamas, a leading terror researcher has reported. Shaul Bartal of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies wrote that obscuring the genesis and motivations of such attacks...

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