MidEast

JNS.org – One of the most memorable scenes in the 2010 film “Four Lions,” a dark British comedy about a group of the most incompetent jihadis imaginable, takes place as the aspiring martyrs climb into a van for the long nighttime drive down to London, where their plan is to...

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The German department store KaDeWe apologized for removing Israeli wines from its shelves after facing a major backlash, the Associated Press reported Sunday. KaDeWe said on its Facebook page that the wines had been temporarily removed so the importer could relabel them in accordance with new European Union rules that require...

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Belgian Justice Minister Koen Geens remarked that terrorism in Europe was no longer limited to Jews and law enforcement officials, but now affects targets of a different profile, including the general public, The Guardian reported on Sunday. Geens, the justice minister, said that the Paris attacks had shown that the...

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A spokesman for the Iranian judiciary has announced that Jason Rezaian, the Washington Post reporter who was arrested by Iranian authorities in July 2014, was sentenced to prison, Reuters reported Sunday. No details were given regarding the length of his prison term. Rezaian’s lawyer, Leila Ahsan, confirmed that her client was...

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An Israeli woman was stabbed to death and a man was injured during three separate terror attacks on Sunday, The Times of Israel reported. The woman, 21-year-old Hadar Buchris of Safed, was stabbed in the afternoon while waiting for a bus at the Gush Etzion junction in the West Bank....

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One of the Palestinian Authority’s core obligations under the terms of the Oslo Accords is ending the popular anti-Israel incitement that permeates official Palestinian institutions and civil society. The PA’s failure to condemn calls to violence against Israelis, magnified by its own frequent contributions to the toxic rhetoric, has led...

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