Egypt has begun flooding the smuggling tunnels that run between the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula. The tunnels’ destruction is among the terms of an Egyptian-brokered agreement to end Israel’s eight-day Operation Pillar of Defense, which the Jewish state launched in November 2012 after weeks of escalatory rocket and missile...

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Israeli media sources are making much of an announcement indicating that the country’s Iron Dome missile defense system will be featured in the upcoming Aero India show. The defense systems and aerospace exhibition is one of the world’s most important, and the Iron Dome short-range system will be featured alongside David’s...

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Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal used a recent speech, carried by Arabic-language media outlet Al-Hayat, to emphasize that Hamas will not accept a Palestinian state alongside Israel. His statement is in tension with recent second-hand leaks the effect that Mashaal was ready to compromise on Hamas’s commitment to the eradication of the Jewish state. The stance...

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Senior Hamas official Izzat al-Risheq has described as “baseless” reports that the Iran-backed terror group is prepared to accept the existence of Israel. The denial was echoed by Hamas legislator Salah Bardaweel, who denied that the group was ready to accept a two state solution and further delineated between accepting...

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Hamas’s Khaled Mashaal may seek the PLO presidency, according to Arabic outlets reporting on efforts to replace current PLO chair (and incumbent Palestinian Authority President) Mahmoud Abbas. Mashaal was in Jordan on Monday for talks with the country’s King Abdullah II, and reportedly both Jordan and Qatar are ready to...

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Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh on Thursday announced the opening of a Gaza-based military academy that will train schoolchildren to violently target the Jewish state. Haniyeh said that the new academy would prepare children as young as 12 for the establishment of a Palestinian state “from the river to the sea.”...

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Nearly twice as many Israelis were injured by terror attacks in 2012 than in 2011, according to a report by the Israel Security Agency. Domestically, most of the fatalities and injuries were the result of attacks from the Gaza Strip in October and November of 2012. The Palestinian terror group Hamas...

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Senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) official Khader Habeeb is praising Iran for its support of Palestinian terrorism, declaring that Tehran has “adopted” terror groups since the Iranian revolution. The declarations can be considered reciprocation for statements made last week by Speaker of the Iranian Parliament Ali Larijani in which he expressed support...

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Iran is attempting to expand its influence into impoverished African nations by funneling ammunition and supplies to state actors and terror-linked rebel groups throughout the continent, fueling ethnic conflict and government repression. A recently published expose in The New York Times reporting on a global Iranian arms network stretching from Afghanistan to...

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Israel is the only Middle Eastern country to rate as “free,” according to the latest annual report by Freedom House, a top U.S.-based pro-democracy NGO. Israel is an anomaly in its region, with many of its neighbors receiving negative ratings, and Syria – until recently advocated by many foreign policy analysts...

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