Top Palestinian figures spent much of Tuesday walking back statements – aired in recent days by a range of Palestinian Authority (PA) figures, including reportedly by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas himself – threatening to dissolve the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) if Israel refused to make sufficient concessions to entice Ramallah...

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Like the city of Pompeii was at once destroyed and preserved by the volcanic ash that settled upon it from the violent eruption of nearby Mt. Vesuvius in the year 79 CE, the village of Kantur on the Golan Heights was both destroyed and preserved by a massive earthquake nearly 700...

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Despite protests from dozens of lawmakers, Tunisia’s Interim Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa decided to allow Israeli tourists to visit the North African country even though there are have been no diplomatic relations with Israel since 2000. “There is a decision to allow Israeli tourists into Tunisia,” Jomaa said at an...

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Top U.S. and Israeli officials on Monday reacted coldly to threats by Palestinian Authority (PA) leaders that they might disband the Palestinian government and transfer control of their territory to either Israel or the United Nations. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the threats earlier this week: Prime Minister Binyamin...

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The two leading Palestinian factions – Fatah, headed by Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, and the terrorist organization, Hamas – met in Gaza on April 22 in the latest bid to end the schism between them, at the time the United States and Israel were trying to save from collapse peace...

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Thai authorities have disrupted a major Hezbollah terror plot targeting Israeli tourists traveling through the country during the Passover holiday season. The Iranian-backed global terror group has killed more Americans than any other terrorist organization except Al Qaeda. First revealed by journalists in Thailand on Thursday, the story of the foiled attack was...

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Civilians in Israel’s south endured renewed rocket fire today as at least 10 missiles launched from the Gaza Strip slammed into the Sederot and Sha’ar Hanegev areas, triggering Israeli air strikes in retaliation. No injuries were reported on Israel’s side. The violence comes amid two significant diplomatic moves that suggest...

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In the April 2014 issue of The Tower Magazine, author and scholar, Joshua Muravchik, reviews John B. Judis’s new book Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict. In John B. Judis and the Future of Liberal Support for Israel, Muravchik looks not only at Judis’s premises and mistakes,...

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The arrest of an Arab-Israeli human rights activist on suspicion of being recruited by Hezbollah threatened on Thursday to expand into a broader scandal over the role of a controversial U.S.-based non-profit that has been criticized for funneling money to anti-Israel organizations and activists, including to those that support waging...

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Israeli innovation has not only been good for Israel, but the lessons learned by the Israeli tech sector are being shared with others. Writing in the Times of Israel, Vijeta Uniyal, an Indian born entrepreneur tells of a recently launched program in which Israelis will teach female Indian entrepreneurs the...

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