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Israeli intelligence services reportedly tipped off the United States on an impending Iranian attack on “U.S. interests in the Gulf,” senior Israeli officials told Channel 13. Israel shared the information with the White House prior to National Security Adviser John Bolton warning Iran on Sunday night that the U.S. would...

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The United States may reconsider its relationship with countries it deems anti-Israel, the U.S. Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism said on Sunday, after an earlier shift in policy toward equating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism. Elan Carr said in an interview with Reuters that, “The United States is willing to...

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With a strong bipartisan voice, members of Congress have reiterated Israel’s right to self-defense, after a barrage of almost 700 rockets was fired by Gaza-based terrorist groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad into Israel since Saturday. In a joint statement, Reps. Eliot Engel (D-NY), Brad Schneider (D-IL), Nita Lowey (D-NY),...

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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani signed a bill into law on Tuesday designating all U.S. forces in the Middle East as terrorists and declaring the U.S. government a sponsor of terrorism. The legislation passed the Iranian parliament last week in response to Washington’s decision in April to designate the country’s Islamic...

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The White House said on Tuesday that the United States is working to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization. The decision will bring harsh sanctions against the world’s oldest Islamist movement, which has more than a million members across the Middle East. “The President has consulted with...

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A bipartisan bill to monitor incitement in Palestinian textbooks has been introduced by Reps. Brad Sherman (D-CA) and Lee Zeldin (R-NY) and has been forwarded to the influential House Foreign Affairs Committee, of which both lawmakers are members. Co-sponsors of the legislation include Reps. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), David Trone (D-MD),...

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