A future Palestinian state is in “extreme jeopardy” according to Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. The Palestinian Authority is struggling to cope with a spiraling economic and financial crisis that Fayyad linked to the failure of Arab states to deliver promised assistance. The assistance has become crucial in the aftermath of...

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The Israeli Security Agency recorded 112 terror attacks committed against Israelis in December, including six roadside bombs, three grenades, 98 firebombs, and two incidents of gunfire. The number is down significantly from the 637 attacks registered in November, and reflects relative quiet in the aftermath of Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defense....

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Citing the risk of spillover from the conflict raging in Syria, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has announced plans to build a security fence along the Israeli-Syrian border. Western analysts have become increasingly concerned about the degree to which Sunni-backed opposition forces have been infiltrated by hard-line Islamist elements, with the...

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Bulgarian officials have identified and issued an arrest warrant for one of the suspects in the July bombing of a tourist bus that left five Israelis and a Bulgarian bus driver dead. At least three foreigners aided the suicide bomber, who according to officials did not plan to die in...

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A German columnist’s inclusion in the Simon Weisenthal Center’s list of top anti-Semitic writers is sparking debates across Europe. Jakob Augstein’s online columns in Spiegel have covered topics ranging from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to ultra-Orthodox religious groups in Israel to the U.S.-Israel relationship, citing in particular that he...

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Citing ideological and financial issues, both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority have rejected U.N. requests to take in approximately 150,000 Palestinian refugees from Syria. Hamas’s Gaza head, Ismail Haniyeh, reportedly told UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, that taking in refugees would be used by Israel against Palestinians’...

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Just a day after Israelis go to the polls on January 22, neighboring Jordan will follow suit. “We changed the constitution…a new constitutional court, a new independent commission for elections and then we went to elections,” the monarch told The Daily Show in September. However, a new study suggests that...

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The first Israeli opinion poll of 2013 seems to confirm that the joint Likud Beiteinu party list of incumbent Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has seen its position erode in recent weeks. Wednesday’s Dahaf poll predicts that the list will win only 34 out of 120 Knesset seats in the...

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The Palestinian faction Fatah staged celebrations marking the 48th anniversary of its founding on Tuesday, with masked men marching on the outskirts of Bethlehem wielding guns, axes, knives and mock rockets. Fatah politically controls the West Bank and the Palestinian Authority, and is locked in a battle for Palestinian prestige...

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A top adviser to Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi has declared that Israel will cease to exist in a decade, and is suggesting that Jews of Egyptian descent should evacuate the Jewish State and return to Egypt in order to make room for Palestinian refugees. The Muslim Brotherhood, to which the...

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