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Global Affairs

It is far from certain the Iran-backed Assad regime in Syria or the Lebanese based Iran-backed terrorist army Hezbollah will clear the fog surrounding the air strike that struck Syria between Thursday night and Friday. One might expect decision-makers in Damascus or Hezbollah’s south Beirut headquarters to respond to U.S....

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CNN reported tonight that Israel’s air force recently attacked a Syrian chemicals weapon cache, probably on Thursday or Friday and probably from within Lebanese airspace. The report cited Western intelligence sources, likely based on radar evidence. The CNN report comes days after Syrian opposition forces reported that IAF strikes had...

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Global Affairs

A top U.S. official disclosed today that Iran and North Korea have developed networks to secure high-tech materials related to their nuclear programs: “Both Iran and North Korea have developed channels that enable them to continue to export and continue to procure the items they need for their weapons industry,”...

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MidEast

Qatar’s support for radical Islamists across North Africa and the Near East was at the root of a “blunt” exchange between President Barack Obama and Qatari emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani during an April 23rd meeting. Bloomberg published details of the meeting yesterday. The President is not the...

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MidEast

Egyptian media outlets are again linking Hamas to violence in the country stretching back to the 2011 Egyptian Arab Spring. Earlier this week Egypt’s former interior minister floated the suggestion that Hamas had a hand in fomenting unrest during the revolution, which saw the overthrow of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak...

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Europe

Legal scholars are calling attention to a little-noticed but legally significant ruling issued last week by a French Court of Appeals in Versailles. The Court was asked to adjudicate whether a French-based multinational conglomerate was violating international law by helping to build a light rail system in Israeli-controlled areas of...

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In an extensive expose published late last month, The Telegraph documented the extent to which Hamas is training Palestinian schoolboys to use assault-style weapons and battle Israel. The outlet documented how the Iran-backed terror group has introduced into the local curriculum military training for 37,000 Palestinian boys aged 15-17. The...

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Iran

Iran and its terrorist proxy Hezbollah are coordinating to seize control of large swaths of Syria in the aftermath of Bashar al-Assad’s expected downfall, according to analysis published today by Israeli Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Dr. Shimon Shapira: Suleimani… now appeared to be prepared to extend Iran’s control to all of Syria....

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Diplomacy

Arab nations are seeking to diplomatically punish Canada over Ottawa’s support for Israel. The incumbent Harper government has sided with the United States and Israel on several initiatives that were opposed by all three countries, but which were driven by Arab nations. Arguably the most dramatic was the Palestinian push...

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Israel

The family of Palestinian terrorist Salam Zaghal, who earlier this week stabbed to death Israeli Evyatar Borovsky in a West Bank attack, is pretty proud of the murderer: “It was destiny, and we take pride in him as a family. What he did is a duty for all Palestinians living...

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