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Diplomacy

By withdrawing from Syria too soon, the United States would effectively hand over the country to Iran and Russia, risking a catastrophic “strategic collapse in a region long deemed vital to U.S. interests,” Joshua S. Block, CEO and President of The Israel Project, warned in an op-ed published in The Hill...

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MidEast

Fifteen years ago, when future Israeli NASCAR driver Alon Day first started training for his successful career in motorsports, he had to use simulators and travel often to Europe because there was no regulation-size track in Israel. That situation is about to be remedied with the May 22 opening of Motor City, Israel’s...

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Iran

A prominent Iranian cleric said last week that Hezbollah, the terrorist organization that exercises complete political and military control over Lebanon, will “turn Haifa and Tel Aviv into ghost-towns,” The Jerusalem Post reported Saturday. Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, who made the threat in his Friday sermon, is a senior member of Iran’s...

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MidEast

The Islamist terror group Hamas, which is in complete political and military control of the Gaza Strip, “is sending Gazans to their death for good headlines,” a senior adviser to Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas charged, The Times of Israel reported. Referring to the current round of Hamas-orchestrated riots along...

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Iran

On the occasion of its National Nuclear Day, Iran boasted that it could enrich uranium to 20% in just two days’ time, if the United States would withdraw from the deal, the Associated Press reported Monday. The threat is an indication that the 2015 nuclear deal left much of the...

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Iran

Referring to an airstrike in Syria, attributed to Israel, which killed at least seven Iranian military personnel, a top adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader has said that, “The crimes will not remain unanswered,” Iran’s official Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported Tuesday. Ali Akbar Velayati, a foreign policy adviser to Ayatollah Ali...

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Israel

If your doctor orders an electrocardiogram (EKG or ECG) to check your heart rhythm and blood flow or to diagnose a heart attack, a technician will stick 10 or 12 adhesive electrodes to your chest, arms and legs. A computer then creates a graph showing the electrical impulses moving through...

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Iran

Two United States government officials told NBC News that Israel informed the Trump administration prior to its attack against the Tiyas airbase in Syria, Haaretz reported Monday. Prior to the report, Russia and Syria had initially blamed Israel for the attack, which reportedly killed 14 military personnel belonging either to Iran’s...

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MidEast

The overnight air strikes against a Syrian air base, which came on the heels of a deadly chemical weapons attack on a Damascus suburb, have been attributed to Israel by Syria, and, one of its patrons, Russia, The Washington Post reported Monday. If true, it would be the second attack...

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Some 20,000 Palestinians demonstrated in five locations along the Israeli-Gaza border on Friday, in what Israel described a Hamas-orchestrated riot to breach the security fence and infiltrate into Israel. The Times of Israel reported that demonstrators threw rocks and firebombs at Israeli troops on the other side of the fence...

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