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In an interview with Qatar-owned broadcaster, Al Jazeera, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I – Vt.), who ran last year for the Democratic Party’s nomination for president, said that he supported Israel’s right to exist, rejected the anti-Israel BDS campaign, and blasted the anti-Israel bias at the United Nations, the Jewish Telegraphic...

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President Donald Trump said “no lasting peace” can be achieved between Israel and the Palestinians “unless the Palestinian leaders speak in a unified voice against incitement to violence,” during a joint appearance with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the White House on Wednesday. .@POTUS: "There can be no lasting peace unless...

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All 100 members of the U.S. Senate signed a letter Thursday urging the United Nations to stop unfairly targeting Israel. The senators noted that while the U.S. co-founded the UN “with the intention of saving future generations from war,” today many member states and agencies “are using the U.N.’s privileged platform to...

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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Wednesday that the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran “fails to achieve the objective of a non-nuclear Iran; it only delays their goal of becoming a nuclear state.” In prepared remarks to the press, Tillerson said the deal “represents the same failed approach of the past that brought us...

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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson denounced Iran as “a leading state sponsor of terror” on Tuesday, revealing that the Trump administration has ordered a review on whether continuing to lift nuclear-related sanctions on Iran is in the national security interest of the United States. “When the interagency review is completed, the administration looks forward...

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Iran “aspires to be a regional hegemon” and remains “the most significant threat” to the United States and its allies, the head of the U.S. Central Command said in a congressional testimony on Wednesday. Gen. Joseph Votel warned of Tehran’s ambitions in Yemen, Lebanon, the Gaza Strip, and Syria, noting that the...

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