In an interview with Wall Street Journal editorial board member Mary Kissel, (embedded below) former Israeli Ambassador to the United States Michael Oren explains that the reason for the “outrage” expressed by Israeli officials to the Obama administration’s acceptance of the Fatah-Hamas unity government is that the United States reversed a...

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On Wednesday, Senators Ben Cardin (D-MD) and Susan Collins (R-ME) led “a bipartisan supermajority of 88 Senators in sending a letter to President Barack Obama” calling the Palestinian unity government “a serious setback to efforts to achieve peace.” The Times of Israel reported further: According to the senators, Hamas’s role in the...

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Egypt’s Third Army has deployed the equivalent of a battalion of soldiers near the Israeli border to conduct counter-terrorism operations and prevent jihadists from targeting Israeli civilians – and especially civilian planes – with anti-aircraft weapons, according to a Wednesday report published in the Times of Israel by veteran Israeli...

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Veteran journalists took turns at Wednesday’s daily State Department press briefing aggressively questioning the wisdom and coherence of the Obama administration’s approach to a recently appointed Palestinian unity government – agreed to by the rival Hamas and Fatah factions – hours after rockets fired from the Hamas-dominated Gaza Strip struck...

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The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reported Tuesday that leading members of the the House Foreign Affairs Committee are questioning the Obama administration’s apparent decision to cooperate with the Palestinian unity government that was agreed to last week between the ruling Fatah party and the Gaza-based terrorist group Hamas. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) and...

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Lebanon’s former head of General Security Jamil al-Sayyed, who spent four years in jail because of his alleged role in the killing of former Lebanese premier Rafik Hariri, has launched a campaign to end the power-sharing arrangement between Shi’ites, Sunnis and Druze. This would effectively pave the way for Hezbollah...

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Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman left the country Tuesday for a ten-day mission to Africa. According the Foreign Ministry, Liberman’s trip will be in part to promote economic cooperation—he is traveling with representatives of “some 50 companies.” Liberman’s itinerary will include Rwanda, the Ivory Coast, Ghana, Ethiopia and Kenya. In Kenya, FM...

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In the June 2014 issue of The Tower Magazine, Editorial Assistant Aiden Pink wrote The Anti-Zionism of J Street. J Street is an organization that boasts of being “pro-Israel and pro-peace,” and has garnered much controversy since its founding in 2008. Recently, it was overwhelmingly defeated in its effort to be included...

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A month after the breakdown of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian leadership after the latter signed a deal with Hamas, a poll was published today suggesting more than 50 percent of Palestinians are against a return to the negotiating table. The Palestinian Center for Public Opinion survey indicated that 56.3% were against...

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Israel signed an agreement on Sunday to be a partner in the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research project. UPI reported on the agreement signed by the European Commission’s President José Manuel Barroso and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: With a budget of more than $100 billion over the next seven years, the Horizon...

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