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Israel21c reported on Sunday that Israel has set up a field hospital outside of Gaza to help treat Gazans injured in the course of Operation Preventive Edge. Israel Defense Forces Chief of General Staff Benny Gantz confirmed reports Sunday afternoon that the IDF is going to set up a field...

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With Hamas claiming that they have “captured” an Israeli soldier, Israeli army officials have revealed that they can account for only six of the seven soldiers who were reportedly killed when an armored personnel carrier was hit during a street battle in the Shuja’iyya neighborhood of Gaza. However, a representative of...

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United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon flew to Cairo on a Qatari-chartered plane, Newsweek reported Monday. Accepting the flight from Qatar, which sponsors the terrorist organization Hamas, puts Ban in a compromised position. Newsweek notes that when he condemned the Israeli efforts to defend itself from Hamas rockets on Sunday, it marked “the first...

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The Washington Post published an overview today of the resources that Hamas puts into building tunnels to allow its operatives to infiltrate Israel, as well as Hamas’ strategy for utilizing the tunnels. Describing this emerging “tunnel war,” a Palestinian militia document obtained by the  news Web site al-Monitor said the objective of the underground network was “to...

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OurCrowd, a leading equity crowdfunding platform for accredited investors, recently announced that it has successfully raised $60 million in the aggregate to date over its platform for its 46 portfolio companies. Twenty of these companies have already raised more than $1 million each in investments, and four companies have raised...

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The second week of Operation Protective Edge came to an end today. It was also the end of the third day of ground operations inside Gaza. Over 1,820 rockets were fired at Israel from #Gaza by Hamas since July 8. #IsraelUnderFire — Israel Foreign Min. (@IsraelMFA) July 21, 2014 In...

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Global Affairs

The Times of  Israel today reported today on the growing trend of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic protests in Germany. An angry mob gathered on Berlin’s famed Kurfürstendamm avenue Thursday. Draped in Palestinian flags and shaking their fists in rage, they chanted in German, “Jude, Jude feiges Schwein! Komm heraus und kämpf...

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The Wall Street Journal on Friday afternoon announced that Iran and the P5+1 global powers had reached an agreement to extend through late November talks over Tehran’s nuclear program. The interim Joint Plan of Action (JPA) was set to expire July 20, amid increasing speculation that talks would be extended as a...

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The Algemeiner reported yesterday on remarks Representative Brad Sherman (D-Calif) made to Al Jazeera last week criticizing Hamas (video embedded below). Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., who sits on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, also slammed the network’s coverage of the latest round of fighting between Hamas and Israel during his...

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The Jerusalem Post cited reports Monday that the Israeli military struck a Sudanese weapons stockpile last week. Sources in Khartoum claimed on Monday that Israeli forces struck a weapons arsenal which held long range missiles for Hamas. The Arabic-language UK-based newspaper Al-Arab reported that the government in Sudan is not confirming...

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