MSNBC acknowledged that maps it broadcast on Friday purporting to show the dispossession of the Palestinians by Israel, were “factually wrong,” the Washington Free Beacon reported Sunday. MSNBC has admitted that highly controversial graphics aired on the network that depicted Israel as stealing land from the Palestinians were “factually wrong” and that...

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Thousands of people attended rallies in major European cities expressing solidarity with Israel in the wake of the recent upsurge in terror attacks, Ynet reported today. Hundreds of demonstrators, among them politicians and noted Italian societal figures, stood outside the Israeli Embassy in Rome to show their support of Israel. The protesters...

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A terror attack in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba last night killed one and injured 11 more, The Times of Israel reported yesterday. A top Palestinian official praised the attack as an “act of heroism.” According to the police, following an initial investigation, the attacker stabbed a soldier and...

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Longtime NBC correspondent Martin Fletcher issued an unusual apology on Saturday for misleading his audience when discussing the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict the day before on MSNBC. Fletcher’s segment, embedded below, displayed a series of maps produced by anti-Israel activists that purport to show how much land the Palestinians...

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As Israeli officials attempted to quell the violence against their citizens this past week, officials of the Obama administration made a number of controversial statements that they later retracted. The most prominent of these statements came from Secretary of State John Kerry, who in a speech at Harvard on Tuesday...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Germany next week. Israeli ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer confirmed the meeting in an interview with CNN. “That discussion will be, ‘OK, how do we get back to where we were in order to calm things...

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A Palestinian man posing as a journalist and wearing a “Press” logo on his t-shirt stabbed an Israeli soldier before being shot to death near Hebron, the Associated Press reported today. The stabbing occurred on the sidelines of clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinian stone-throwers after Friday prayers in the...

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Joseph’s Tomb, a Jewish holy site located near the West Bank city of Nablus, was set ablaze last night by Palestinian rioters. The shrine, which is in an area under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority, had previously been torched in 1996 and 2000. The Times of Israel reported more: Channel 2 television said Palestinian...

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MSNBC correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin, a reporter with a history of anti-Israel bias, suggested during an on-air segment Wednesday that a terrorist who had been killed after attacking Israeli police was unharmed. Mohyeldin was immediately corrected by anchor Jose Diaz-Balart, who pointed out that the accompanying video clearly showed that the terrorist was,...

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Indian President Pranab Mukherjee said he was “disturbed” by the recent wave of violence in Israel, as he met with his Israeli counterpart Reuven Rivlin Wednesday. “India attaches high importance to its relationship with Israel; we are disturbed by the recent violence,” Mukherjee, who is the first Indian president to visit Israel, told Rivlin....

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