Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former president of Iran and an ally of current President Hassan Rouhani, called for the destruction of Israel and described the country as “alien” and “temporary,” according to a report Monday in Iran’s official IRNA news agency. Rafsanjani, who heads the powerful Expediency Council, which...

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Leaders of the terrorist groups Hamas and Hezbollah met last week in Beirut with officials from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, according to a report by Avi Issacharoff in The Times of Israel. Senior members of the Palestinian terror group Hamas and the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah met with officials...

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A United Nations Human Rights Council hearing on last year’s war between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas was highlighted by testimony on Monday from three military experts who said that the Council’s recently commissioned report on the war would encourage further terrorism. The three experts were Col. Richard Kemp, former...

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Following Wednesday’s terror attacks on military checkpoints, Egypt has stepped up its campaign against “Sinai Province,” the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) affiliate in the Sinai, The Times of Israel reported today. Egyptian forces have commenced heavy fighting against the ISIS affiliate on Wednesday, two days after Egypt’s attorney general was...

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An Israeli general has accused Hamas of aiding the Sinai affiliate of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, Ha’aretz reported today. Maj. Gen. Yoav Mordechai made his remarks in an interview with the Arabic satellite channel Al Jazeera. Israel has “clear information that Hamas is supporting the Wilayat Sinai, which belongs to Daesh,” Maj....

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Following deadly clashes in the Sinai between the Egyptian government and terrorists affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that “terrorism is knocking at our borders,” The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. “Terrorism is knocking at our borders,” the prime minister said...

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The Shin Bet, Israel’s security intelligence service, announced today that it had broken up a Hamas-linked terror cell in the West Bank, The Times of Israel reported. The group was reportedly in the planning stages of a major terror attack. Though the arrests have been made over the past few months,...

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Update, July 1: Following the publication of the piece below rebutting JTA reporter Ron Kampeas’ inaccurate claims, JTA substantively revised its account concerning the timing of Israel’s aid operation in Haiti. After it became clear that a needs assessment team led by Ambassador Amos Radian was in place in Haiti on...

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Consulting a number of Israeli policy-makers and experts, the BBC explained in a report on Monday why Israel fears a nuclear Iran. A retired officer from Israel’s secret service, Mossad, told us that issues related to Iran take up most of the time and energy of Israel’s intelligence services. That...

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Bilateral negotiations between Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javid Zarif resumed today in Vienna, amid continuing fallout from a Tuesday speech by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in which the country’s top authority set down a range of red lines backsliding from parameters agreed...

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