Hamas’s admission this week that it was responsible for the construction of a tunnel built between the Gaza Strip and Israel – and that the tunnel was to be used in attacks – has sharpened concerns that the group is trying to launch a spectacular terror attack in order to...

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U.S. officials have confirmed to the Daily Beast the details of a Washington Post report revealing that Turkey last year deliberately burned roughly 10 Israeli spies who were working in Iran on the country’s nuclear program. The Daily Beast quotes former Israeli Mossad chief Danny Yatom describing the move as...

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Hamas officials are scrambling to halt what has become a broadly acknowledged slide in the organization’s international position and domestic popularity. After making a series of bad gambles – betting heavily on the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood being the most damaging – the group finds itself in a tailspin. Some of...

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The IDF has announced the discovery and destruction of a second tunnel dug underneath Israel from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, following one disclosed earlier this week that had been built to open up near a kindergarten which authorities believe Palestinian terrorists intended to target. The new tunnel stretched dozens of yards into Israel,...

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Hamas last month for the first time confirmed that the Iran-backed terror group possesses Man Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS), parading them through the streets of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. The systems have been described by the State Department as “particularly attractive weapons to terrorists and criminals” due to their...

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Israeli soldiers this weekend uncovered a mile-and-a-half-long tunnel running between the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and ending near an Israeli kindergarten, underscoring concerns that the Iran-backed terror group is seeking to rebuild its fractured credibility with a spectacular terror attack. The left-leaning Israeli paper Ha’aretz reports that the tunnel is parter...

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A retired 61 year old Israeli colonel was bludgeoned to death today, with reports conveying eyewitness testimony from the man’s wife describing a well-planned terror attack. Accounts indicate that two Palestinians wielding iron bars and axes killed Seraya Ofer, which if confirmed would make the murder the latest in a...

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Scholars have struggled for quite literally decades to unpack the development and psychology of suicide terrorism. The indoctrination process involves not just propaganda but institutions which channel and ground particular kinds of ideological moves. A series of recent studies by Israeli Lt. Col. Anat Berko has sought to analyze, more...

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A series of announcements and moves out of Turkey – ranging from skepticism expressed by the country’s Turkish President Abdullah Gul to new developments in an anti-Israel show trial – have observers worrying that Ankara is backsliding on U.S.-driven efforts to achieve diplomatic rapprochement between Israel and Turkey. Israeli-Turkish relations...

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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan met yesterday with top officials drawn from what Hamas describes as its political and military operations. A Hamas statement confirmed the attendance of among others Khaled Mashaal and Ankara-based Saleh al-Arouri. The two are respectively the terror group’s political bureau head and the founder of...

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