The Associated Press (AP) reported today that Shiite militias in Iraq are proving to be “just as brutal as that of their sworn sectarian enemies,” the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). In a grisly video recently posted online, a Shiite fighter shouts the name of a revered imam in victory...

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Monday marked one of the bloodiest days in Israel in recent months, with the stabbing attack in Tel Aviv, the car attack and stabbing at Alon Shvut, and more violent incidents in Kafr Kana and other Arab communities in Israel. Sergeant Almog Shiloni, 20, from Modi’in, killed in Tel Aviv,...

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Citing a report in a Brazilian newspaper O Globo, The Jerusalem Post reported today that Hezbollah has been smuggling arms to criminal gangs in that country. According to the report in the Rio de Janeiro-based paper, Federal investigators in Brazil have been probing possible ties between Lebanon and criminal gangs in Brazil...

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A 24-year-old woman has been killed, and three others injured, including a soldier, in two separate terror attacks in Israel today. The Times of Israel reported on the attack that took place this afternoon in the West Bank area of Gush Etzion, just south of Jerusalem, when a man got out of his...

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The Palestinian propaganda machine continues to exploit the growing tensions in Jerusalem and the series of vehicle terror attacks that have shocked the city in recent weeks. In the last example of direct incitement to violence against Jews and Israel, Palestinian activists created an “event” (Arabic link) on Facebook in which they call...

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Amid growing tensions in Jerusalem, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called on Saturday for the destruction of Israel. In a series of tweets, he attacked Israel and urged the arming of Palestinian Arabs in the West Bank: “This barbaric, wolflike & infanticidal regime of #Israel which spares no crime has no cure but to...

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A  series of overnight blasts targeting the homes of Fatah officials in the Gaza Strip has prompted Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah to cancel his scheduled trip Saturday to the Hamas-ruled area. Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports: Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah has cancelled a visit to Gaza planned for...

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Since the beginning of 2014, at least four terror attacks have been carried out in Israel using motor vehicles as a weapon. The attacks left four people dead and 30 wounded, many of them seriously. Two of these attacks took place yesterday, when two Palestinian drivers drove their cars into groups...

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Hezbollah head Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday warned that rockets in the Iran-backed terror group’s arsenal were capable of hitting any place in the Jewish state—specifically that Jerusalem “will not find a single piece of land” that rockets could not hit—and that Israel would be forced to close its ports in...

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Hours after a Palestinian killed one pedestrian and injured 14 more in Jerusalem, a second vehicle deliberately targeted three Israel soldiers in the West Bank area of Gush Etzion today. The Times of Israel reports that three soldiers were injured, one seriously, in the attack: A Palestinian vehicle hit the...

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