Wednesday, The Times of Israel reported on statements broadcast this week on Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency by Salah Zawawi, the PLO representative to Iran. “The US and the western countries have created a fake regime in Palestine to get rid of it and have supplied it with the most advanced...
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Israeli ride-hailing application GetTaxi has announced a $150 million funding round that will help it start a service in New York for corporate customers and expand its service to new European cities. The company says it will also invest in expanded services in New York City and London. Vostok Nafta,...
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Today was the thirty-eighth day of Operation Protective Edge. Hamas continues to assert that it will not make an agreement that doesn't meet its demands. Isn't a central demand Israel's destruction? — Jonathan Schanzer (@JSchanzer) August 14, 2014 The Tower Today covered the violence marred start to a new five...
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Despite accepting the five-day extension to the current ceasefire, Hamas released a new video showing that instead of working on a reconstruction plan for Gaza, it is making more of the M-75 rockets it uses for attacking large Israeli cities. Based on technology acquired from Iran, Hamas has already fired...
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The Algemeiner reported Tuesday that a group of Kurdish supporters joined a pro-Israel demonstration in front of the White House last week not just to support Israel but to call for Kurdish independence. A video of the incident is embedded below. According to The Algemeiner. The protesters chanted “No Hamas,...
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Wisam was born in northern Iraq 17 months ago with life-threatening congenital heart disease. His family is one of 200,000 adherents of the Yazidi faith who have escaped to the mountains near their hometown of Sinjar under persecution by the Islamic State, the al-Qaeda terrorist group offshoot formerly known as...
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Today was the thirty-seventh day of Operation Protective Edge. I love how all they're saying on the news right now is essentially: "We have no idea what's going on." — Sharon Udasin (@sharonudasin) August 13, 2014 Earlier today, The Tower reported on the violation of the ceasefire by Hamas, when at...
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Al Monitor reported today that Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, publicly rejected the idea that engagement with the West in nuclear talks could lead to any closer relations with the United States. Speaking to foreign diplomats as well as officials form Iran’s foreign ministry, Khamenei said that engagement with...
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The Egypt-sponsored peace talks between Israel and Hamas have fallen apart, with the current 72-hour ceasefire set to expire at midnight local time. Shortly after Hamas announced that the talks failed, but before the ceasefire itself ended, red alert sirens were heard throughout southern Israel. Hamas official Ali Barake states negotiations...
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Prof. William Schabas, who has been tabbed by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to investigate war crimes that may have been committed during the recent hostilities between Israel and Hamas, tried to deflect charges that he is biased against Israel in an interview yesterday with Israel’s Channel 2....
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