MidEast

The world’s interest in reaching a nuclear deal with Iran has compelled it to ignore the regime’s extensive human rights abuses, leaving its many “political prisoners, torture victims and persecuted ethnic minorities with little hope of any respite,” Rahim Hamid wrote in The Telegraph on Tuesday. Hamid is a member...

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During his first official visit to Australia this week, Chief Scientist at the Israeli Ministry of Economy Avi Hasson signed a research-and-development agreement with the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. With branches in New Zealand, Fiji, across Asia, the US and Britain, Commonwealth Bank is the first Australian member of a...

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Emerging details suggest that Wednesday’s mass-shooting attack in San Bernardino may have been an extensive terror plot. Gunman Syed Rizwan Farook, who along with his wife Tashfeen Malik killed 14 people and injured at least 17 more after storming a social services center, had been in contact with “more than...

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Israel’s internal security agency announced the arrest of several Jewish suspects due to “concrete suspicions” that they were involved in the July firebombing of a Palestinian home that left a toddler and his parents dead, the Associated Press reported Thursday. The arson attack occurred in July in the West Bank...

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Iran’s attempt to advance a military nuclear program from the late 1980s is at the heart of its decades-long violation of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). Its secret work on the development of a nuclear bomb encapsulates the deceptive behavior that lost Iran the trust of the international community, and...

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In addition to demonstrating “moral myopia and academic perversity,” boycotts of Israel by academic associations are often in violation of the groups’ very own charters, Eugene Kontorovich and Steven Davidoff Solomon argued in an op-ed (Google link) published Tuesday in The Wall Street Journal. Kontorovich and Solomon, respectively professors of law...

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