The Qatari government “has refused effectively to crack down” on “every important case of suspected terror finance involving a Qatari national in past years,” according to the first part of a study released Wednesday. The Daily Beast reported on the study, written by David A. Weinberg of the Foundation for Defense of...

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An overwhelming majority of Palestinians support the recent spate of attacks on Israelis amid heightened tensions over the most sensitive holy site in Jerusalem, according to a Palestinian opinion poll released on December 9. The poll conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (Arabic link) also found...

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Imad al-Alami, a senior Hamas official with close ties to Iran, is currently operating out of Turkey according to a report published yesterday in Foreign Policy by Jonathan Schanzer and Grant Rumley, respectively the vice president for research and a research analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Schanzer...

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A day after allegations of Israeli strikes in Syria, speculation concerning the circumstances of the attacks point to an Israeli interception of a missile stockpile en route to Hezbollah terrorists. Syrian television claimed that the Israeli military hit targets near Damascus on December 8. The regime of Bashar al-Assad rushed...

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Interpol issued “red notice” arrest warrants for more than 40 senior Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated figures over the weekend, including the head of the Doha-based International Union of Muslim Scholars Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi. A red notice seeks “the location and arrest of wanted persons with a view to extradition or similar lawful...

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Arab Bank plc, which was found liable this year for hundreds of claims against it for aiding the terrorist organization Hamas, appealed to the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in New York on Tuesday to dismiss thousands of new claims. Reuters reports: A lawyer for the Jordan-based bank asked the 2nd U.S....

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Supermarket chain owner Rami Levy said he will continue employing Arabs in his stores, despite a stabbing attack in one of his stores yesterday. In an interview with Israeli army radio, Levy said: I get requests from extremist elements asking me not to employ Arabs. Occasionally, they are even threatening to...

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Two Israelis were stabbed in an apparent terror attack in a Rami Levy supermarket outside of Jerusalem today. The attacker was shot and wounded while two suspects are being questioned. The Times of Israel reports: The assault took place at a Rami Levy supermarket in the Mishor Adumim industrial zone, east...

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The symbolic vote today in France’s National Assembly supporting Palestinian statehood is “a grave error” according to French-Jewish lawmaker Meyer Habib. Habib, who represents French citizen in eight Mediterranean countries including Israel, also said that the vote “will remove France from any position in which it can participate in any...

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At least twenty members of a cell affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan were arrested “on suspicion of forming a military wing and planning to smuggle arms into the West Bank,” according to a report today in The Times of Israel. The men, all members of the Muslim Brotherhood or...

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