Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) twice tried to get President Barack Obama to announce that the United States would veto any United Nations resolutions calling for an independent Palestinian state. But Reid was rebuffed both times, Politico reported Thursday. The requests from Reid came as he was trying to line up...

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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s announcement Wednesday that he no longer considers himself bound by the Oslo Accords shows that he has “effectively given up” on a negotiated peace deal with Israel, The New York Times stated in a staff editorial. It is hard to gauge what President Abbas’s declaration before the United Nations General Assembly...

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An Israeli couple were killed in a shooting while driving between Itamar and Elan Moreh in the West Bank. The assailants reportedly shot multiple times from at least two weapons, a rifle and a handgun, before speeding away in their car, which was later abandoned. The Times of Israel reported that four children were also...

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In his speech today at the United Nations General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu listed a litany of incendiary statements and violent plots made by Iran and its terrorist proxy groups against the Jewish state, but promised that Iran’s “plan to destroy Israel will fail.” He specifically noted that Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali...

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Kuwait Airways must change its booking practices after it illegally discriminated against an Israeli by refusing to let him book a flight from New York to London, the U.S. Department of Transportation ruled Wednesday. The Associated Press reported: Eldad Gatt, an Israeli citizen, complained to the Department of Transportation that in 2013...

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Mahmoud Abbas’ speech to the United Nations on Wednesday has made the headlines for its seeming rejection of previous agreements with Israel. Less noted is that the speech is a veritable tissue of lies. Below are only a few of the most egregious examples taken from news reports.  “As long...

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The deputy chief of staff of the Iranian armed forces blamed Israel for the disasters in Mecca this month, in which more than 100 people died when a construction crane collapsed and more than 700 died in a stampede. Brig. Gen. Massoud Jazzayeri said that tragedies, in which more than 150 Iranians...

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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi called for renewed Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, saying that successful talks would lead to peace between Israel and more Arab countries. In an interview with the Associated Press Sunday, Sisi said that resolving the Palestinian issue could “change the face of the region and … bring about enormous improvement...

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An Egyptian student who was convicted of having “indecent ideas” for supporting gay rights has released a YouTube video supporting Israel. Sherif Gaber, a former sociology student who went into hiding after being sentenced to a year of hard labor for “contempt for religion” and “dissemination of indecent ideas,” has...

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Major General Ataollah Salehi, the commander-in-chief of the Iranian army, said this week that the army is “glad” to be at the “forefront” of those carrying out the wishes of Iran’s Supreme Leader to destroy Israel, the Washington Free Beacon reported Wednesday. “Israel only barks, no matter how much weapons are...

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