Israel’s political and military echelons are deeply concerned with the unfolding, tragic events in Egypt. On July 3rd the Egyptian Defense Minister and Chief of Staff General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi stipped the Muslim Brotherhood-linked government of President Mohammad Morsi of after massive protests called for the president’s removal. The action...

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Details emerged throughout today regarding the pin-point strike conducted by Israeli Air Force jets overnight against a “terror site” south of Beirut in Lebanon, which occurred less than 24 hours after four rockets had been fired into Israel from Lebanon. Social media accounts and news outlets had quickly narrowed the...

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Diplomatic tensions between the U.S. and Turkey escalated today, with Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu lashing out at Washington following recent criticism from U.S. officials: In an interview broadcast live on private television channel Kanal 24 late on Aug. 21, Davutoğlu said that Erdoğan targeted a mentality in his comments claiming that...

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Reports are trickling out of the Middle East that Israeli Air Force jets Friday morning conducted a pin-point strike on a target in southern Lebanon, less than a day after four rockets were fired at Israel out of the Hezbollah-dominated region. A statement by the Israeli Defense Forces described the...

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Four Grad rockets were fired from southern Lebanon at Israel this morning, triggering renewed concerns that regional instability was spilling over into Israel. One of the rockets was intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome system. The Lebanese military quickly restricted access to the launch site, which is inside an area heavily...

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The White House is blasting comments made by Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan blaming Israel for the Egyptian military’s actions against former president Mohammed Morsi. Erdogan had discovered a 2011 video of French-Jewish intellectual Bernard Henri-Levy calling on the military to block the Brotherhood from taking power, and based on that...

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Israel’s internal security organization the Shin Bet – roughly the equivalent of America’s FBI – has set up a new unit to confront the growing threat that jihadi groups in Egypt’s increasingly anarchic Sinai Peninsula may attack Israel. Intelligence and military analysts have increasing emphasized the scope of the threat....

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Media watchers spanning the political spectrum – from the Washington Free Beacon to Bloomberg and Atlantic columnist Jeffrey Goldberg – expressed something between resignation and outrage yesterday, as Al Jazeera America aired within hours of its launch an interview with Harvard professor and noted conspiracy theorist Stephen Walt. The interview...

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Earlier this year veteran Israeli journalist and Times of Israel founding editor David Horovitz evaluated advances in Israeli water technology and concluded that it had functionally eliminated a water crisis that had been plauging the country: But for Israel, for the foreseeable future… the water crisis is over…. an insistent...

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Senior Hezbollah member Nabil Qaouk bragged today that the Iran-backed terror group is capable of saturation bombing Israeli population centers, bragging that Israeli cities were being targeted with tens of thousands of missiles. Last week a car bomb ripped through the Dahiyeh district in southern Beirut. The area is a...

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