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There is no way Bostonian ALS sufferer Peter Frates could have known that people across the world would take him up on his ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. But after the former Boston College baseball star called on his athlete friends to dump buckets of ice water over their heads to...

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Today was the forty-ninth day of Operation Protective Edge. Leo McKinstry in @Daily_Express on #British progressive ('useful idiots') and their "obsessive hatred of #Israel" – http://t.co/ADY7zSGbJH — Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) August 25, 2014 IDF statistics for Operation Protective Edge show that, between July 8th and August 25th, more than 4,150 rockets and mortars...

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MidEast

In an op-ed appearing in The New York Times today, Israeli ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor observed that even as most of Hamas’ Arab sponsors, “which historically have included Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia,” have “abandoned the terrorist group,” the country of Qatar has emerged as one of the terrorist...

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Ynet reported yesterday on an Al Jazeera interview with Cairo-based Hamas leader Moussa Abu Marzouk, in which he defended the terror group’s widely criticized mass executions late last week. (The interview is embedded below.) During the interview, Abu Marzouk was asked whether “the information regarding the 18 informers (was) based...

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Terrorism

Israel’s internal security agency, the Shin Bet, released statistics for July which revealed a significant spike in violence within the West Bank. Although overshadowed by the terror attacks from Gaza, the increase in the West Bank is troubling. While 2,622 rockets and mortars were fired from Gaza towards Israeli towns and cities in the month...

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The Hollywood Reporter reported Saturday that a group of some 190 Hollywood notables signed a pro-Israel petition. The group, which calls itself the Creative Community for Peace (CCFP), released the following statement last week: We, the undersigned, are saddened by the devastating loss of life endured by Israelis and Palestinians in...

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Kidnapped American reporter Peter Curtis who was held for two years in Syria by Al Qaeda was released to UN peacekeeping forces in the Golan Heights. He is now believed to be safe in Tel Aviv in the care of the American government. Curtis was given a medical check at...

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Today was the forty eighth day of Operation Protective Edge. islamic supremacists’ explicit intent is to kill civilians. Israel specifically tries to avoid. Guess who's condemned http://t.co/h2laAxmyxL — Benjamin Weingarten (@bhweingarten) August 24, 2014 The Tower today covered a profile of Hamas commander Raed al-Attar who was killed last week...

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The mass public executions by Hamas in the past week have caused even Palestinian officials in the West Bank to compare the Iran-backed terror group in Gaza to the brutal ISIS terrorists. Tayyib Abd al-Rahim, Secretary-General of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ office, said  the public executions without trial of the...

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Diplomacy

The Iranian regime threw up another roadblock in front of the international community, rejecting IAEA requests for access to its top secret Parchin military base where it is suspected to be carrying out nuclear weapons development. Iran’s move makes it more likely that Tehran won’t be able to fulfill five...

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