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Diplomacy

With its water and agricultural technology, Israel has the “the kind of model we are striving to achieve,” Davendra Fadnavis, chief minister of the Indian state of Maharashtra, told The Times of Israel in an interview Thursday. India, said Fadnavis, had several major agricultural challenges that Israel was helping the...

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Diplomacy

After a young Israeli-Arab man from northern Israel used social media to convince other Israeli-Arabs to volunteer for the IDF, he was surprised when his efforts were rewarded with messages of support for Israel from all over the Arab world, Shlomi Eldar reported Wednesday for Al-Monitor. M. is an Israeli Arab Muslim who...

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Global Affairs

In Argentina, the fallout from the probable murder of Special Investigator Alberto Nisman is rapidly turning into an ugly round of “accuse the Jews.” That turn of events was perhaps inevitable, given last week’s epic Twitter rant by Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner depicting Nisman as the local representative...

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Diplomacy

Rep. Dan Kildee (D – Mich.) introduced a bipartisan Congressional resolution Thursday calling on Iran to “release all detained Americans immediately,” The New York Times reported. Characterizing the resolution as the product of legislative anger at Iran, the Times reported: The latest evidence of indignation was seen on Thursday when...

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Diplomacy

Former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri said that the Arab world would have to be “aggressive” as it counters Iran in “Yemen and beyond,” Al Arabiya reported Monday. In his comments to journalists in Washington, Hariri sketched out an ambitious plan to target Syria, which he called “the joint” of Iran’s influence in...

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Human Rights

Calling the prosecution of reporter Jason Rezaian an indication of “Iran’s ruthless internal power struggles and the politicization of its judicial system,” an editorial in The Washington Post Thursday warned that “well-meaning foreign visitors … are vulnerable to being seized as hostage.” The Rezaian case has become a showcase for Iran’s ruthless...

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Iran

A map of the current position of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), as well as Iranian anti-ISIS forces, shows that while Iran will continue fighting ISIS, it has no interest in defeating the terror organization. The map was created by security researcher Michael Pregent, who was interviewed yesterday by...

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Diplomacy

British Prime Minister David Cameron said in an interview with The Jewish Chronicle published today that he understands and supports Israel’s needs to protect its citizens, stating that Israel had a right to defend itself against Hamas during Operation Protective Edge last year. “What I’ve seen is the attacks that take place...

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Iran

Lebanese officials condemned Hezbollah’s use of child soldiers in Syrian civil war after the Lebanon-based terrorist organization announced the death of a 15-year-old boy “during his observing the obligation of jihad.” Announcements of this kind published by the Iran-sponsored militia usually relate to the organization’s fighters killed while fighting in Syria, and therefore it is believed (Arabic...

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Featured

Police forces controlled by the terrorist organization Hamas violently dispersed several hundred protesting Gaza youth on Wednesday, arresting many demonstrators who were peacefully protesting against the dismal economic situation in Gaza under the iron-fisted rule of the Islamic militant fundamentalist movement. Hundreds of young people attended the protest that called for improving...

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