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Iran

The Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah and its allies swept to victory in municipal elections in the Bekaa valley region of eastern Lebanon on Sunday. Hezbollah won a “complete victory” in the cities of Baalbek and the town of Brital, which borders Syria, according to its deputy chief, Sheikh Naim Kassem. Hezbollah competed in 80 of the...

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Iran announced Monday that it has tested another ballistic missile, which it claimed to have a range of 2,000 kilometers (1,250 miles)—enough to reach Israel and most of the Middle East. Brig. Gen. Ali Abdollahi, deputy chief of staff of the Iranian armed forces, said that the missile, which was tested...

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas did not deny that his government gives payments to jailed terrorists when confronted on the issue by Norwegian Foreign Minister Borge Brende. The exchange was reported by the Norwegian newspaper Dagen last week. Brende reportedly demanded that Abbas stop using foreign aid to pay terrorists and their families. Abbas did not deny the...

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Iran

Former Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta would “probably not” believe that President Barack Obama was serious about his promise to take action to stop Iran from building a nuclear bomb if Panetta could make his assessments over again, he conceded in a New York Times Magazine article published on Thursday. Panetta, who was the director...

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Global Affairs

United Hatzalah sent a delegation of EMTs, paramedics, doctors, and logistics personnel to Panama to train their counterparts in providing the proper response for a Mass Casualty Incident (MCI). “We put a lot of emphasis on dealing with a terror attack due to the current worldwide political situation, but we...

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Diplomacy

President Barack Obama’s deputy national security adviser for strategic communications admitted that the administration’s fundamental selling point for the nuclear deal with Iran was false, according to a profile written by David Samuels and published Sunday in The New York Times magazine. Ben Rhodes, described as having a “mind meld” with...

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Europe

Eight early-stage Israeli startups have been awarded  €50,000 ($57,000) grants from the European Commission’s SME Instrument Program, which helps small- and medium-sized businesses advance development of products judged to be of high potential importance for Europe and beyond. Nineteen percent of Israeli companies that submitted applications won grants, more than double the 8.7 percent rate of all...

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Diplomacy

“Today we have diplomatic relations with 161 countries – more than at any time in our history,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the AIPAC policy conference in March. “And by the way, there are not that many countries left. There are only about 200 countries in the world.” Despite the number...

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Europe

In recent years, too many in the African American community have expressed a disconnect to Holocaust topics, seeing the genocide of Jews as someone else’s nightmare. After all, African Americans are still struggling to achieve general recognition of the barbarity of the Middle Passage, the inhumanity of slavery, the oppression...

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Iran

Hamas fired mortars at Israeli troops seeking to uncover terror tunnels built by the Iran-backed terrorist group for the fourth consecutive day on Friday. Israel launched air raids against Hamas positions inside the Gaza Strip in response to the attacks. IDF troops have been operating near the border with Gaza and inside the enclave to find terror...

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