Israeli personnel joined the efforts of Kenyan officials seeking throughout the day to end a bloody three-day jihadist assault on the Westgate Mall in Nairobi. Early news reports were conflicted as to the level of Israeli involvement: According to a Kenyan security source, Israeli forces entered the mall, where a...

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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is blaming Israel for – per Iran’s Fars news agency – being the “main cause of regional insecurity” across the Middle East. The recently inaugurated revolutionary-era cleric made the comments in an interview aired Thursday with NBC’s Ann Curry, blasting the Jewish state for bringing “instability...

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A recent report by Moody’s affirmed Israel’s A1 rating largely on the basis of what it described as Israel’s “high-tech niche and entrepreneurial culture,” which the rating agency noted “have continued to underpin its latent dynamism.” A summer innovation summit sought to bring Israeli knowledge and technology to bear on...

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An expose published yesterday in Foreign Policy by Jonathan Schanzer, vice president for research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, outlines Turkish support for the Palestinian terror group Hamas which – among other things – has allowed Hamas operative Saleh al-Arouri to operate out of Turkish territory. Hamas’s domestic...

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The official Palestinian position – registered in the Palestinian National Charter posted by the United Nation – is that “the claims of historic and spiritual ties between Jews and Palestine are not in agreement with the facts of history or with the true basis of sound statehood.” At the Camp...

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The Palestinian Monetary Authority (PMA) yesterday published key figures evaluating the latest business cycle. The report – outlined by [sub] CentralBanking.com – described an “enormous” drop in prospects for a robust West Bank economy. The PMA blamed Israel for the situation, but also noted that Syrian-driven instability and a “political...

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Reuters reports Syrians are growing increasingly aware of extensive Israeli efforts to treat victims of the two and a half year conflict raging inside the Arab country. Israel set up a field hospital early in the conflict. Within a few months Syrians were being transported to regular Israeli hospitals –...

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Palestinian media is reporting that a massive government strike which occurred yesterday may escalate and expand in the coming weeks. Yesterday 95% of Palestinian government workers launched a one-day strike, after their union chief called on them to do so. The union is promising that next week it’ll be a...

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Israeli officials reemphasized today that Jerusalem would enforce its long-established “red line” against any Syrian efforts to transfer advanced weapons, including portions of Damascus’s chemical weapons arsenal, to the Bashar al-Assad regime’s Hezbollah allies: “Our red lines have not changed,” said an Israeli official. “Assad should understand already that he...

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Officials linked to the Palestinian Fatah faction declared yesterday that Friday will be the “first day of popular resistance” against Israel, and have called for attacks against Jewish Israelis and the Jewish state: A statement released by the Brigades, which is Fatah’s military wing, called on all units and sleeper...

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