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Diplomacy

The United Nations Human Rights Counci (UNHRC) yesterday voted to investigate whether Israel committed war crimes during Operation Protective Edge. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasted the decision as a “travesty.” The decision today by the UNHRC is a travesty and should be rejected by decent people everywhere. Rather than investigate...

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Diplomacy

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said yesterday that he believes there is only one solution for the “problem” that is Israel: “Israel’s annihilation is the only real cure, but that doesn’t mean destroying Jews in this region,” he said in his speech, which was posted on his website [Persian...

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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reversed its controversial ban on American airlines flying to Israel late last night. The agency released a statement explaining: The FAA has lifted its restrictions on U.S. airline flights into and out of Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport by cancelling a Notice to Airmen it renewed earlier...

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Diplomacy

Responding to reports that the United States, anxious to facilitate a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, “may be looking to Qatar and Turkey to help negotiate an end to the hostilities,” Jonathan Schanzer and David A. Weinberg, respectively vice president for research and senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense...

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Israel

The 16th day of Operation Protective Edge is over. It also marks the end of the fifth day of ground operations. Rckets seen fired from Gaza into Israel earlier today. Photo by Nati Shohat pic.twitter.com/N2BkBvsSHR — Israel News Feed (@IsraelHatzolah) July 23, 2014 Three more soldiers were killed today, bringing...

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Israel

The Times of Israel reported Wednesday that of the more than 60,000 reservists called up by the IDF in recent week,s a higher percentage of them are women than in any previous IDF operation. The article profiles a number of women and the challenges they overcome to serve in the reserves....

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To give people abroad an idea of what it means to live under a constant barrage of rockets, two Israelis have set up a real time online clock timer that automatically resets when Hamas fires toward Israel. Aaron Friedman, marketing manager at Curiyo, told local media that he thought up...

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Global Affairs

The Wall Street Journal on Monday conveyed reports that Tehran has for the past six months exported a record amount of crude oil to China, which the outlet noted comes “amid a loosening of U.S. sanctions” as Iran negotiates with the P5+1 powers – including Beijing – over its nuclear...

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In an analysis Wednesday, David Horovitz, editor in chief of The Times of Israel, wrote that the focus of the IDF has changed from destroying Hamas’ rockets to destroying Hamas’ tunnels. Horovitz described how the IDF seeks out and destroys the tunnels, and risks inherent in those strategies. But those are defensive...

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Europe

David Ward, a British Member of Parliament, sparked a wave of condemnation yesterday after tweeting that if he lived in Gaza he would “probably” also fire rockets at Israel. Much of the world has acknowledged that the Hamas rockets hurtling towards Israeli cities constitute war crimes, since they are fired indiscriminately at civilians and...

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