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The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) identified another site where it claims that Iran is carrying on undeclared nuclear research, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. The National Council of Resistance of Iran said underground labs in suburban Tehran have been used since 2008 to enrich uranium. It said the...

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Diplomacy

Writing that “determining how best to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons and not just another Washington test of partisan and political loyalty,” former Democratic Senator Joseph Lieberman urged all members of his party to attend Israeli Prime Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before a joint session of Congress next week in...

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Israel

Have you ever tried to “ask Siri” a question on your smartphone and received a ridiculous answer? Or been informed by “her,” or ‘him” that what you are saying doesn’t compute? Have you ever been in your car and tried to phone someone by using your voice instead of your...

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The failure to address Iran’s work towards weaponization is the biggest failing of the emerging nuclear deal between the P5+1 nations and Iran, according to proliferation expert Emily Landau of the Institute for National Security Studies, The Times of Israel reported yesterday. After describing the deal as “deeply flawed,” the Times...

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Democratic Senators Dianne Feinstein (D – Calif.) and Dick Durbin (D – Ill.) invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to a closed-door meeting next week when he is in Washington D.C. with the stated goal of “maintain[ing] Israel’s dialogue with both political parties in Congress,” The Times of Israel reported...

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The shift of the United States towards Iran is a “big mistake,” said Amos Yadlin, the top candidate for Minister of Defense if the Zionist Union forms the next Israeli government, in an interview with The Jerusalem Post on Monday. Yadlin, who currently heads Israel’s Institute of National Security Studies (INSS), also described...

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The boycott movement that targets Israel has “limited impact” on Israel but “directly harms its intended beneficiaries, the Palestinians,” according to an analysis by Carrie Sheffield that was published at Forbes on Sunday. The numbers speak for themselves: Israel (population 8.3 million) has GDP of $291 billion, the Palestinian Territories (population...

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Human Rights

Terrorists from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have kidnapped at least 70 Assyrian Christians after raiding their villages according to the activist group A Demand For Action, the Associated Press (AP) reported today. The latest assault began before dawn on Monday, when the militants swept through the villages...

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The terms of a proposed nuclear deal between the West and Iran “reported by the AP [Associated Press] are even more worrying than those that were leaked in Jerusalem,” according to David Horovitz, editor-in-chief of The Times of Israel, in an analysis published Monday. After anonymous sources in Jerusalem leaked...

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The jury in a Federal District Court in New York found the Palestinian Authority (PA) and PLO liable under an American terrorism law for six terror attacks against Israeli targets in which Americans were wounded and killed and awarded the victims $218.5 million, The New York Times reported today. The...

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