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A Twitter account attributed to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) claims to show Iranian soldiers in Lebanon near the border with Israel, the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) reported on Friday. In the tweet, published last week, the faces of the soldiers were obscured, but they had been...

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Diplomacy

A general in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), stipulated on Saturday, that President Barack Obama, as well as leaders of the European Union (EU) should convert to Islam in order for there to be peace between the United States and Iran to be possible. The report that has been...

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Diplomacy

Thirty-seven Gaza children who had traveled to the Erez border crossing for a trip into Israel were prohibited from entering by the terrorist organization Hamas. The New York Times reports: Israeli officials and organizers of the highly unusual weeklong peace-building visit said that it had been fully coordinated with the...

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Diplomacy

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R- S.C.) promised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Saturday night that Congress would react strongly to any United Nations Security Council (UNSC) efforts to impose a peace settlement on Israel. Graham also referred to statements made by President Barack Obama saying that he agreed with the sentiment that “the...

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Israel

Israeli security officers arrested two Palestinians suspected of throwing a firebomb that wounded an 11-year-old Israeli girl and her father. During questioning, both confessed to carrying out the attack, The Jerusalem Post reported. The two, one of them a 16-year-old, were arrested early Friday morning soon after the incident near Nablus...

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Europe

Over 200 Jews from Ukraine arrived in Israel this week, fleeing the country’s civil war, The Washington Post reported Thursday, bringing the yearly total up to more than 5,000. The Post focused its report on a family, identified only by their first names, “Yulia, Kostiantyn and their daughter, Valerie.” So...

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Iran

An analysis published this week in Haaretz indicates that Hezbollah is using Iranian and Syrian assistance to build up its terror infrastructure in the Golan Heights, a move that is likely to deepen concerns that the Iranian-backed organization is positioning itself for a dramatic escalation at in the region at...

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Global Affairs

How does a world of billions feed itself sustainably in the future? AgTech — agriculture technologies — are the key. And Israel is driving much of this innovation, from non-toxic pesticides to high-yield seeds, to sensors that tell farmers when plants are thirsty. Gideon Soesman, 44, is betting on AgTech...

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Diplomacy

Iranian Parliament Chairman Ali Larijani arrived in Lebanon on Monday, the second stop on a three-country tour – Syria and Iraq are the other two destinations – amid growing concerns from the Sunni world and boasts from Tehran that have the Iranians controlling four Arab capitals. Larijani, meeting with Lebanese...

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MidEast

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif, in a letter sent other foreign ministers, wrote that “lifting of all sanctions, is an essential component of any agreement,” Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency reported Wednesday. According to Fars, Zarif wrote further: “The second objective envisaged by JPOA, namely the lifting of all...

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