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Iran

Secretary of State John Kerry failed to address growing bipartisan concerns that the Obama administration will grant Iran access to dollars as part of last year’s nuclear deal, the Associated Press reported Friday. “The United States is not standing in the way and will not stand in the way of...

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The deputy chief of staff of the Israeli military warned that Hezbollah poses an “unprecedented” threat to Israel, and that any future war with the Iran-backed terrorist group will be “devastating,” the Associated Press reported last week. “In any future crisis, they are not going to see a small war in...

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The political war against the legitimacy of Israel and the Jewish state continues in many forms, including through the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of Palestinian People (CEIRPP). This attack was launched in the General Assembly on November 10, 1975, as part of the same...

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Stanford University’s student senate unanimously passed a resolution condemning anti-Semitism, including the demonization and delegitimization of Israel, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported last week. The passage of the bill comes two weeks after an earlier resolution had been considered and tabled as opponents added numerous amendments to render the bill...

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No technology is smart enough to control the weather. According to research from IBM, weather is to blame for 90 percent of the world’s crop losses, and an estimated one-quarter of those losses from disease and infestation could be prevented through more accurate weather-predicting models. That’s why the Israeli startup...

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Iran

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei pledged continued support for the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah during a meeting with the Iranian Students’ Islamic Association, The Jerusalem Post reported on Thursday. “Hezbollah and its faithful youth are shining like the sun and are a source of honor for the Muslim world,”...

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Sen. Marco Rubio (R – Fla.) and co-sponsor Sen. Joe Manchin  (D – W. Va.) introduced on Tuesday the Senate version of a concurrent resolution calling on the United States to “continue to exercise its veto in the United Nations Security Council on resolutions regarding the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.” A...

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Europe

Being a British Jew and voting for the Labour Party under party leader Jeremy Corbyn is like being an American Muslim and voting for Donald Trump, former BBC television director Danny Cohen told the Times of London on Saturday. “If you are Jewish how can you vote for them? How...

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Several members of a Hamas cell behind Monday’s suicide bombing of a Jerusalem bus have been arrested, Israeli security services disclosed Thursday. The Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service, said that several cell members from Bethlehem have been arrested following a manhunt that also included the IDF and police. After...

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Diplomacy

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, and afterwards praised the “very successful” discussions that he said led to new understandings over their mutual concerns with the conflict in Syria. “I set the goal of the meeting as strengthening coordination between Russia and Israel...

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