MidEast

A senior official from Fatah, the ruling party of the Palestinian Authority, declared in a TV interview Tuesday that “Hitler was not ‎morally corrupt, he was daring.” Tawfiq Tirawi, a top member of the Fatah Central Committee and former head of Palestinian intelligence, said in remarks broadcast on the Palestinian TV...

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Former congressman and U.S. ambassador to Tanzania Mark Green called on the international community to pay greater attention to Iran’s ongoing human rights violations in an op-ed published Thursday in The Hill. Green argued that Iran will never be able to “realize its full potential” in the wake of the nuclear deal...

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Slovenia’s largest supermarket chain has resumed selling Israeli produce after briefly capitulating to demands by anti-Israel campaigners, The Times of Israel reported Thursday. Two days after the Mercator chain removed Israeli produce from its stores following pressure from the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, which seeks to isolate Israel internationally, the...

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The commander of Iran’s Basij militia said that the $1.7 billion the United States agreed to pay Iran to settle outstanding debts was a ransom for the release of five American hostages over the weekend, Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency reported on Wednesday. “This money was returned for the freedom of...

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Israeli authorities announced that they dismantled a cell of the Iran-backed terrorist group, Hezbollah, which was operating in the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem under the direction of Jawad Nasrallah, son of the terrorist group’s leader, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. The ringleader of the cell was...

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As the Syrian village of Madaya continues to be under siege by the forces of Iran-backed dictator Bashar al-Assad, with nearly two dozen people dead from starvation, the hunger problems continue to worsen throughout the country. One in three Syrians doesn’t have adequate access to food, NPR reported Tuesday. This food insecurity is caused by civilians surrounded...

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