Mike Kelly, a reporter at The Bergen Record, wrote yesterday an extended report about the consequences of the deaths of Sarah Duker and Matthew Eisenfield in a 1996 terror attack. The families of the couple pursued lawsuits against Iran as a “last resort” to achieve some measure of justice for their...

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Hamas is re-equipping itself following Israel’s Operation Protective Edge and looking to acquire or construct longer-range rockets, according to Israel Radio. Palestinian Affairs Correspondent Gal Berger quoted (in Hebrew) Hamas leaders saying they want to strengthen their military capabilities, despite agreeing to a truce with Israel after the 50-day war...

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In a report Thursday, the United Nations revealed that over 5,500 Iraqis have been killed since an Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) offensive started in June. According to The New York Times: Those deaths represent nearly half of the 9,343 civilians killed in Iraq from January through September, the...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday spoke at the opening of the United Nations General Assembly, giving a speech that the Jerusalem Post described as “vintage Netanyahu,” and one that leaned heavily on what has become the consensus understanding of the Middle East as divided into three regional blocs....

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Last week The New York Post published an op-ed by Jonathan Schanzer arguing that the Global Counter-Terrorism Forum (GCTF) “doesn’t hold its members to any standards.” Schanzer observed that a number of the countries on GCTF, including Pakistan, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, “help fund or otherwise sponsor terrorism.” The main focus...

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Hisham Melhem, the Washington bureau chief of Al-Arabiya, wrote an article for this week’s Politico magazine explaining the political dysfunction in the Arab world.  At the outset Melhem laments that “[t]he Arab world today is more violent, unstable, fragmented and driven by extremism—the extremism of the rulers and those in opposition—than at...

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In Where the Shadiest Players Find a Home, published in the September 2014 issue of The Tower Magazine, Jonathan Schanzer outlines several of the dubious ties Turkey has established under the leadership (first as prime minister, now as president) of Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Schanzer observes that “Turkey’s support for Hamas remains strong,” and the...

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Amer Abu Aysha and Marwan Kawasme, the suspects in the kidnapping and killing of Israeli teens Eyal Yifrach, Gil-ad Shaar, and Naftali Fraenkel, were killed early this morning in a firefight with Israeli security forces in Hebron. The Times of Israel reports: The operation was carried out by the Shin...

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On Sunday, Paul Alster reported via The Times of Israel that the United Nations will present the Palestinian Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) with the Equator Prize this week, despite UAWC’s ties to the terrorist group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Alster briefly outlined the PFLP’s history of terror, which...

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Bloomberg News reported this afternoon that the Arab Bank, the biggest lender in Jordan and one of the largest in the Middle East, has been found liable for helping “Hamas militants carry out a wave of violence in Israel that killed and wounded hundreds of Americans.” The Amman-based lender did business...

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