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Palestinian Affairs

Wednesday, The Times of Israel reported on statements broadcast this week on Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency by Salah Zawawi, the PLO representative to Iran. “The US and the western countries have created a fake regime in Palestine to get rid of it and have supplied it with the most advanced...

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The terror financing trial of the Arab Bank, based in Amman, Jordan, began yesterday in Federal District Court in Brooklyn. The New York Daily News reports: The plaintiffs suing Arab Bank for facilitating money transfers to charities controlled by Hamas and suicide bombers are 300 victims and family members of 24...

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Israel

Israeli ride-hailing application GetTaxi has announced a $150 million funding round that will help it start a service in New York for corporate customers and expand its service to new European cities. The company says it will also invest in expanded services in New York City and London. Vostok Nafta,...

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Today was the thirty-eighth day of Operation Protective Edge. Hamas continues to assert that it will not make an agreement that doesn't meet its demands. Isn't a central demand Israel's destruction? — Jonathan Schanzer (@JSchanzer) August 14, 2014 The Tower Today covered the violence marred start to a new five...

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Terrorism

The Daily Beast reported yesterday that two weeks ago, when he pledged his support the Palestinians fighting Israel, Qassem Suleimani, the commander of the Qods Force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), singled out five groups for special mention: Hamas’ Qassam Brigades, the Islamic Jihad’s Al-Quds Brigades, the Abu Ali Mustapha...

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MidEast

Over the past day, news agencies are reporting that France and Germany are sending aid to the Kurds in response to the growing threat of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). The ISIS threat was described by France as “catastrophic.” The Associated Press (AP) reported Wednesday: It said...

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Diplomacy

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday rejected the possibility that diplomatic initiatives publicly fronted by Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif would include broader rapprochement between Tehran and the West. “There are no benefits in having relations or negotiations with the United States, except in certain specific cases,” Khamenei...

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Despite accepting the five-day extension to the current ceasefire, Hamas released a new video showing that instead of working on a reconstruction plan for Gaza, it is making more of the M-75 rockets it uses for attacking large Israeli cities. Based on technology acquired from Iran, Hamas has already fired...

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Tuesday Israel Hayom is reporting a historic first achieved by the IDF during recent ground operations in Gaza. Israel deployed an unmanned transport vehicle during the fighting in Gaza during Operation Protective Edge. “This is history,” Lt. Avidav Goldstein, the head of the IDF’s unmanned vehicle unit, said. “I feel...

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Terrorists fired eight rockets from Hamas-controlled Gaza at Israeli towns and cities shortly before the end of the 72 hour truce yesterday and after Hamas had already agreed to extend the ceasefire by five days. It was the last in the long list of consecutive ceasefires in the past six weeks...

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