Ongoing tensions between Hamas and Egypt – which have seen the popularity of the Iran-backed terror group plummet amid a media blitz conducted by Egyptian security officials – deepened on Monday after a high-ranking Hamas delegation was besieged by protesters outside their Cairo hotel. Arabic media outlets are now suggesting...
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Egyptian security forces are preparing for anti-Hamas demonstrations. Popular suspicion that the Iran-backed Palestinian terror group may try to bolster the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood against large-scale anti-government protests planned for June 30 has been deepening. Arab-language media is reporting that police authorities are preparing for the backlash. Theories under which Hamas provided...
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Swedish Minister for International Development Cooperation Gunilla Carlsson announced today that Stockholm plans to cut assistance that it provides to the Palestinian Authority (PA), after Swedish officials became dissatisfied with the pace of Palestinian negotiations with Israel. Sweden currently provides $107 million annually to the Gaza Strip and the West Bank....
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The Al Quds Brigade of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorist organization has posted pictures on its website boasting that it is giving military training in Gaza to children as young as six years old. PIJ’s boasts follow those of Hamas, which likeways runs summer camps training children to become...
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Hamas officials are scrambling to shore up ties with Iran, which have been strained by the role that Iran and its Lebanese terror proxy Hezbollah have been playing in bolstering the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria: “I cannot say the relationship with Iran was severed, but it was affected,” Salah...
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Speaking Sunday at a youth summer camp in the Gaza Strip, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh proclaimed to the crowd that Israel would be destroyed to make way for a Palestinian state. Arab media sources summed up his speech with the headline ‘Haniyeh: No future for Israel on the land of Palestine.’...
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Lebanese Christians have joined just about everybody else in the region in blasting Hezbollah for its role in the Syrian conflict, and for dragging Lebanon into the now two and a half year conflict. Veteran Lebanese politician Samir Geagea made the point a few weeks ago: The LF leader said...
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Hizb al-Tahrir, a group committed to the restoration of an Islamic Caliphate, recently held demonstrations in Gaza and Ramallah this week. In the past the Palestinian Authority (PA) has broken up demonstrations by the group. Not so much this time. The change has analysts worried that hard-line Islamist groups may be gaining a...
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South Korea is seriously considering purchasing the Israeli made Iron Dome systems, which intercepts and kills short range rockets and missiles. The Tower has learned that advanced negotiations took place between the two countries during a private visit to Israel by Brigadier General Lee Hee Woo, President of a Chungnam...
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Today Israel marked the 46 anniversary of the beginning of the Six Day War. The war formally began with preemptive air strikes against the air forces of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan. The armies of all three countries had mobilized and were positioned to attack Israel or suffocate it economically. The...
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