Hezbollah allies are scrambling to fend off charges that the Iran-backed terror group is pushing underwater drilling in order to manufacture a conflict with Israel. Hezbollah’s brand as a Lebanese organization protecting Lebanese territory from Israel has been shattered by its involvement in the Syrian conflict on behalf of the Bashar al-Assad...

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Israeli soldiers this weekend uncovered a mile-and-a-half-long tunnel running between the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and ending near an Israeli kindergarten, underscoring concerns that the Iran-backed terror group is seeking to rebuild its fractured credibility with a spectacular terror attack. The left-leaning Israeli paper Ha’aretz reports that the tunnel is parter...

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Israel’s Ramat Gan Safari Park is taking congratulations over the birth of second baby Asian elephant in three months. Lalana, which is Hindi for ‘a girl’, was born earlier this month, exactly two months after her now-niece Latangi was born. Conservation blog Zooborns has full write-ups on the births of...

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The Israeli military last week made a point of highlighting the Israeli Air Force’s abilities to conduct long range operations, including the IAF’s midair refueling capabilities. The Washington Post notes that the display comes on the eve of talks between the West and Iran: In an apparent message to Iran,...

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A retired 61 year old Israeli colonel was bludgeoned to death today, with reports conveying eyewitness testimony from the man’s wife describing a well-planned terror attack. Accounts indicate that two Palestinians wielding iron bars and axes killed Seraya Ofer, which if confirmed would make the murder the latest in a...

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The amount and sophistication of centrifuges at Tehran’s disposal are critical variables in debates over what concessions the Islamic regime must make in order to meet the half-dozen or so United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions calling on the country to verifiably halt its nuclear weapons program. At stake is...

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Hezbollah’s global branding has for decades rested on the core claim that it is a Lebanese organization defending Lebanese interests. The group and its Iranian sponsors sought to characterize Hezbollah as engaging in what they termed “resistance” against Israel, rather than as being a global terror organization operating at the...

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The World Economic Forum (WEF) – the Geneva-based non-profit famous for hosting the annual Davos conference – just issued its first-ever Human Capital Index. The goal of the Index is, per a press release published by the organization, to identify “the most successful countries in the world when it comes...

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Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea today slammed Hezbollah for trying to use purported threats to energy resources near the country’s coast as a pretext for generating tensions with Israel. Caretaker Energy Minister Gebran Bassil, a politician from the Hezbollah-allied Free Patriotic Movement, has begun a process by which energy companies...

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White House officials announced Wednesday night that the Obama administration will substantially curtail assistance to Egypt, but that they aspired, according to the Washington Post, “to maintain a robust military and diplomatic partnership with Egypt.” Among other restrictions, the administration will withhold delivery on high-priority military items such as F-16...

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