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Osama bin Laden ordered his al-Qaeda deputies not to attack Iran, which he called a “main artery” for his terror organization’s operations, recently-disclosed documents from his Pakistan compound reveal. The order was part of a collection of 112 letters taken from bin Laden’s compound by U.S. special ops forces after he was killed in 2011....

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Despite the threat of arrest, former Israeli prime minister and president Shimon Peres traveled to South Africa to deliver the keynote address at a pro-Israel event Sunday night. The 92-year-old Peres was undeterred by threats from South Africa’s Muslim Lawyers Association to have him arrested and prosecuted for war crimes. South African Jewish leaders...

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The CEO of an American metallurgical firm was arrested on charges of illegally smuggling metals to Iran that could be used for aerospace, missile, and even nuclear use, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday. Erdal Kuyumcu, the CEO of  Global Metallurgy LLC, allegedly exported cobalt-nickel powder to Iran twice without first...

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DeepOptics, a pioneer of dynamic focal glasses, has raised $4 million in Series A funding toward the development of its proprietary technology designed to streamline vision for the two billion people requiring multifocal vision correction. As reported by ISRAEL21c last October, DeepOptics seeks to disrupt the multibillion-dollar multifocal market with...

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hosted the newly installed Egyptian ambassador to Israel on Monday, The Times of Israel reported. According to a statement by the Prime Minister’s Office, “the two discussed, among other things, relations between Israel and Egypt, regional issues and the diplomatic process with the Palestinians.” After the...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced the formation of a new Israel-Africa Knesset caucus and confirmed that he will be traveling to the continent this summer, The Jerusalem Post reported on Tuesday. Netanyahu, who will be the first sitting Israeli prime minister to visit Africa since Yitzhak Shamir in 1987,...

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Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon said that the Iran-backed regime of President Bashar al-Assad has used banned chemical weapons against civilians since the current ceasefire began, Reuters reported on Tuesday. “The Syrians used military grade chemical weapons and lately have been using materials, chlorine, against civilians, including in these very days,...

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This is the cover of the McGraw-Hill textbook “Global Politics: Engaging a Complex World“: Here is a scan of page 123. The book republished the propaganda poster of The Map That Lies! The same lies are repeated here. To recap: Map 1: calling public lands that made up far more than...

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Hamas’ execution of its own commander last month suggests a widening schism among leaders of the terrorist group as well as a loss of authority in the Gaza Strip. Mahmoud Ishtiwi, a senior figure in the Izzedine al-Qassam Brigades who commanded 1,000 men during Hamas’ 2014 war with Israel, was...

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Iran

A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that victims of Iranian terror could seize $2.8 million in frozen Iranian funds to settle the damages owed to them. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the victims could use money from funds that were frozen after Iran’s Islamic Revolution...

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