Some foreign policy analysts have, in the past, claimed that when Iranian officials call for the eradication of Israel, they mean that peacefully. This will not...

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A former consultant to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is set to become the next head of the Israeli Institute of Biological Research (IIBR). Dr. Shmuel Shapira is expected to replace Dr. Avigdor Sheferman, who is retiring after running the institute for 18 years. The Institute’s researchers...

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In January – amid rumors of a thaw in relations between Israel and Turkey, which had been frozen by Ankara three years ago – Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan bitterly denounced what was widely suspected to be an Israeli air strike on missiles in Syria in transit to Hezbollah....

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More details are emerging about an order given to Palestinian terrorist groups by Syria’s Basher al-Assad regime, under which the groups were given permission to conduct “operations” against Israel from within Syria. The Tower exclusively conveyed the news yesterday. The story was subsequently confirmed by Syrian media outlets, which described...

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Rebels in Syria seeking the overthrow of the Bashar al-Assad regime have kidnapped four UN peacekeepers, the second such a kidnapping has occurred since March. Again the observers are Filipnos attached to the U.N. Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF), which for the last four decades has been tasked with monitoring the...

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By striking military targets inside Syria three times since January – twice this past weekend alone – Israel is engaging in what Former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles would have described as a “brinksmanship” strategy. It is not in Israel’s national interest to intervene in the bloody Syrian civil...

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Two mortar shells struck Israel’s Golan Heights on Monday in the early evening local time. Though the IDF described the mortars as accidental spillover from fighting across the border in Syria, they are bound to deepen fears of escalating violence in the region. On Friday and Sunday Israel reportedly struck...

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One of the world’s most-read online news sites has been slammed by a top human rights group for coverage of Israel deeply marked by bias and lack of context. In the past the Huffington Post has been criticized for outright deleting wire references demonstrating Palestinian support for violence, and the...

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Early this weekend President Barack Obama explicitly defended Israel’s efforts to enforce its “no trasnfer” red line regarding the Syrian conflict. The president emphasized that “the Israelis justifiably have to guard against the transfer of advanced weaponry to terrorist organizations like Hezbollah.” An article published this morning in the Daily...

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Israel is moving quickly to dampen regional tensions in the aftermath of Friday and Sunday air strikes which the Jewish state conducted against military assets in Syria. The air strikes were conducted by Israeli Air Force (IAF) jets hovering in Lebanese airspace, and targeted mostly Iranian and Hezbollah assets. Analysts...

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