The recent revelation that Turkey’s intelligence chief Hakan Fidan burned ten Iranians working with Israel’s Mossad inside Iran had quickly generated predictions that Western intelligence agencies would begin limiting their cooperation with Ankara. The ten had been working with Jerusalem to discover details of Iran’s nuclear program – widely considered...

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Controversy swirled this weekend and into Monday regarding the positions of major pro-Israel groups toward efforts by the Obama administration to delay the imposition of new sanctions against Iran, with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) issuing a rare on the record statement Saturday night: “AIPAC continues to support...

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Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon warned over the weekend that Hamas was arming itself and seeking to conduct what the Israeli official called “a renewal of violence”: “Hamas sees it as a way to lay infrastructure for terror attacks. We consider Hamas, which is engaged in digging and controls Gaza,...

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Analysts have been issuing increasingly pointed warning that Hamas is seeking to stage large-scale attacks in an effort to restore the terror group’s crumbling credibility, the result of a series of failed diplomatic gambles that saw the Palestinian faction align itself with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and Turkey. Cairo’s post-Brotherhood government...

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Israeli Air Force (IAF) jets today struck a Syrian military base with advanced missiles that Israel may have thought were intended for Hezbollah, according to an Obama administration official who spoke to CNN. If confirmed the move would be the most recent of several times that the IAF has reportedly...

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The IAF had for years trained with Turkey’s air force, until Turkey cut off relations with Israel and began making concentrated efforts to prevent the Jewish state from participating in security forums and multilateral military exercises. Ankara was criticized for seeking to isolate Israel at the expense of Israeli-European interoperability,...

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Egypt has for months moved to degrade Hamas’s infrastructure and weaponry. Cairo blamed Hamas for facilitating the movement of personnel and materials used by jihadist groups operating in the Sinai – groups which target both Egyptian and Israeli targets – and has sought to close off both the Palestinian terror...

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The government of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced overnight Sunday that it was proceeding with the second of four goodwill releases of Palestinian terrorism convicts, part of a package of concessions that Jerusalem is offering the Palestinian Authority (PA) in order to entice PA officials to continue engaging in...

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A controversy over foreign funding of NGOs that attack Israel – including a Palestinian group that publishes material glamorizing suicide bombers and promoting anti-Semitic libels – has been rekindled by a wide-ranging watchdog group report outlining German funding for such groups. Titled “German Funding for Political Advocacy NGOs Active in...

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Announcements of multi-million and even billion-dollar acquisitions of Israeli startups are becoming something of a routine, with Israel’s tech sector being driven in part by a unique environment conducive to civilian-military innovation in general by an internationally recognized environment that nurtures the development of human capital. The Israeli military’s official...

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