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Low-level members of Hezbollah are growing increasingly frustrated with the Iran-backed terrorist militia, with many saying that they just want to be paid so they can go home. Hanin Ghaddar, the managing editor of the Lebanese news website NOW, came to this conclusion after interviewing after interviewing a number of young men who have been...

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Israel

Given that the student body at Oberlin College is “clearly sensitive to so many cultural, ethnic, racial, sexual, and gender groups’ needs,” its relative silence in the wake of reports that Oberlin Professor Joy Karega posted items on her Facebook account that vilified Jews and Israel is “disconcerting,” Emily Shire wrote...

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Iran

The United States Navy intercepted a massive Iranian arms shipment in the Arabian Sea on March 28 that was likely headed to Houthi rebels in Yemen, the Pentagon announced on Monday. This is the third time a suspected Yemen-bound weapons shipment from Iran has been seized in recent weeks. The arms,...

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Diplomacy

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday extended Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas an invitation to meet, reiterating an offer he made on Thursday after Abbas said that he would be willing to get together. “I’ve cleared my schedule this week,” the prime minister told reporters. “Any day he can...

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Diplomacy

The Galilee International Management Institute has signed a five-year cooperation agreement with the Chinese government on innovations in agriculture. The Galilee public training institute offers advanced seminars to professionals from over 170 transitional and industrialized countries, in an attempt to promote cooperation on global and regional levels. Over the last...

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MidEast

JNS.org – Over the years, I’ve spoken at or attended a number of academic conferences on the subject of rising anti-Semitism. Parleys like these are essential for boosting our understanding of why, seven decades after the end of the World War II, the taboo around anti-Semitic invective—whether directed at Jews...

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Iran

The head of Iran’s armed forces said that the Islamic Republic seeks to have a “mighty presence” in Latin America in order to assert its naval power, the Tasnim news agency reported on Saturday. Maj. Gen. Ataollah Salehi told reporters in the port city of Bandar Abbas that Iran plans to modernize its navy in the new...

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235 members of Columbia’s faculty, or perhaps more by now, have signed a letter to the Columbia Board of Trustees urging them to reject calls to divest from companies doing business with Israel. The signers of this letter have defended a core value of the American university. Regardless of where...

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Iran

The Obama administration’s reported plan to provide Iran with access to the U.S. dollar and American financial markets is meeting bipartisan opposition in Congress. U.S. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are arguing that “the White House has backtracked on commitments made to Congress last summer to maintain financial pressure...

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Iran

One year after Iran and world powers announced the framework for the nuclear deal, “the Iran we have long known—hostile, expansionist, violent—is alive and well, and as dangerous as ever,”  Yousef al-Otaiba, the United Arab Emirates’ ambassador to the United States, wrote in an op-ed published Monday in The Wall Street...

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