Washington Institute managing director Michael Singh late last week sought to outline what a nuclear deal with Iran would look like if the Obama administration and its allies pursue a strategy that holds out sanctions relief until Iran takes long-understood steps to meet roughly a half-dozen United Nations Security Council...

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Israeli-Nigerian ties have both deepened and broadened in recent years, after a relative low point four years ago when Nigeria’s then-foreign minister made a point of publicly castigating his Israeli counterpart. Half a year later a new Nigerian government under Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan took over. Abuja subsequently increased both...

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Hamas officials are scrambling to halt what has become a broadly acknowledged slide in the organization’s international position and domestic popularity. After making a series of bad gambles – betting heavily on the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood being the most damaging – the group finds itself in a tailspin. Some of...

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Turkish diplomats scrambled for a second day to contain the fallout from a Washington Post bombshell published late Wednesday night, as journalists published more details surrounding allegations that top Turkish officials – including the country’s prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and its intelligence chief Hakan Fidan – deliberately burned 10...

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The launch of a new website may reignite a smoldering media controversy over how Palestinian rock throwing – a common tactic directed at Israeli civilians and police forces – is portrayed. Last August the New York Times was blasted by media outlets and watchdog groups for what they described as...

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In a story published last week about Israeli innovation, The Tower noted that stories about record-setting acquisitions by U.S. technology giants are becoming fairly routine. The specific post described how Israel had just been ranked among world leaders in the development of human capital, and the mention of routine tech...

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A major Israeli Air Force exercise continued into its second week, refocusing attention on what the Washington Post last week called “an apparent message to Iran” that the Jewish state – which has committed to preventing the Islamic republic from succeeding in what is widely seen as a drive to...

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Turkish officials, including the country’s prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and its intelligence chief Hakan Fidan, deliberately burned “up to 10 Iranians who had been meeting inside Turkey with their [Israeli] Mossad case officers” by alerting Iran of their existence, according to an expose published late last night by the...

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The IDF has announced the discovery and destruction of a second tunnel dug underneath Israel from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, following one disclosed earlier this week that had been built to open up near a kindergarten which authorities believe Palestinian terrorists intended to target. The new tunnel stretched dozens of yards into Israel,...

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Endemic Palestinian Authority (PA) corruption long ago reached the point where top PA figures were suing each other over the issue. Literally dozens of top officials were investigated last April for corruption, nepotism, and mismanagement. European auditors have gotten around to putting a price tag on the misuse, misallocation, and...

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