On January 1, Fatah, the largest Palestinian political movement, celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of its first terror attack, a January 1, 1965 attack on Israel’s national water carrier in the Israeli city of Beit She’an. Fatah has published a number a number of images to celebrate the occasion. Imagery and wordplay...

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At a time when Hamas is trying to improve its relations with Iran, Egypt and Qatar are also in the process of rapprochement after years of tension. Resumed ties between them will likely have an impact on the Palestinian terror group, al-Monitor predicted (Arabic link). Hamas waited several days before making an announcement...

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An Israeli girl remains in serious condition following an attack in which a Molotov cocktail was thrown into her family’s car in the West Bank Thursday evening, hours before a terrorist in Jerusalem stabbed and wounded two Israeli police officers. IDF forces on Friday arrested a dozen Palestinians in connection...

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Israeli security officers arrested two Palestinians suspected of throwing a firebomb that wounded an 11-year-old Israeli girl and her father. During questioning, both confessed to carrying out the attack, The Jerusalem Post reported. The two, one of them a 16-year-old, were arrested early Friday morning soon after the incident near Nablus...

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An analysis published this week in Haaretz indicates that Hezbollah is using Iranian and Syrian assistance to build up its terror infrastructure in the Golan Heights, a move that is likely to deepen concerns that the Iranian-backed organization is positioning itself for a dramatic escalation at in the region at...

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Iranian Parliament Chairman Ali Larijani arrived in Lebanon on Monday, the second stop on a three-country tour – Syria and Iraq are the other two destinations – amid growing concerns from the Sunni world and boasts from Tehran that have the Iranians controlling four Arab capitals. Larijani, meeting with Lebanese...

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An 11 year old girl, identified as Ayala Shapira was seriously injured yesterday when a Molotov cocktail hit the car she was riding in with her father. Her father, Avner, suffered only minor injuries. The Times of Israel reports: The girl suffered third degree burns over the majority of her...

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Turkey in recent days has faced renewed criticism for bolstering non-state Islamist actors, including those who seek to supplant traditional American allies across the region and who are committed to the eradication of Israel. Reports over the weekend conveyed a shift in Qatari foreign policy, away from its traditional ally...

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Amid a growing call for Israel to negotiate with Hamas just as Great Britain negotiated with the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), Eamonn MacDonagh responds in On the False Parallel Between Gaza and Northern Ireland, in the December 2014 issue of The Tower Magazine by saying that such comparisons are a “fairy tale” that...

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Kay Wilson, a survivor of a brutal 2010 terror attack, hid Mohammad Zoabi, an outspoken Israeli-Arab Zionist teen, in her house for one month this past summer until he could be spirited off to the United States for his own protection, The Times of Israel reported today. At the height...

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