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On his first visit to Israel, American actor and humanitarian activist Sean Penn declared that the work of his nonprofit J/P Haitian Relief Organization has succeeded largely because of its cooperation with volunteers from IsraAID-The Israel Forum for International Humanitarian Aid. “The indirect impact of IsraAID is that everything that...

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Iran

A recently released investigative report by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, concluded that Iran did work on developing a nuclear weapon, despite the regime’s claims to the contrary, the Associated Press wrote on Wednesday. The International Atomic Energy Agency’s report was significant in coming...

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Iran

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is perpetuating the presence of ISIS in Syria and Iraq while undermining American national interests in the Middle East, Ali Alfoneh, a senior fellow and expert on Iran at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, said Wednesday at a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing....

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Diplomacy

Greece became the second European nation to declare its refusal to abide by the European Union’s newly issued guidelines on labeling Israeli products manufactured beyond the 1949 armistice lines, i24 news reported Tuesday. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was made aware of Greece’s decision after receiving a letter from Greek Foreign...

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MidEast

American and European representatives to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague accused the regime of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad of continuing to use chemical weapons against the Syrian people, Foreign Policy reported on Monday. “Chemical weapons use is becoming routine in the Syrian civil...

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The State Department acknowledged that it had advance knowledge of the execution of a dual Iranian-American citizen by Iran last month, the Washington Free Beacon reported Tuesday. The organization Iran Human Rights, citing “confirmed sources,” disclosed that Iranian authorities hanged Hamid Samiee on November 4 for the alleged murder of...

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Israel

Paris police launched an Israeli-made Skystar 180 aerostat surveillance balloon over the French capital to help assure the security of about 200 worldwide delegates to the 11-day United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21) that began November 30. The Skystar 180 is one of several aerostat models designed and...

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Iran

The United States never sought to use the nuclear deal with Iran to get a full accounting of Tehran’s past nuclear research, Armin Rosen wrote in an article published by Business Insider on Monday, citing a State Department report obtained by the publication. Rosen, who noted that there is “extensive evidence”...

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Israel

A former Cambridge University academic, Marsha Levine, doubled down on her refusal to help a 13-year-old Israeli girl with her research into horses, explaining that she supports a boycott of the Jewish state and thinks that “Jews have become the Nazis,” The Jewish Chronicle (JC) reported Tuesday. The story initially emerged...

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Diplomacy

Following talks at the international climate change conference in Paris, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed the increased military coordination between their two nations, The Times of Israel reported on Monday. “I just had an important talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin. We agreed to...

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