The Times of Israel reported Friday on a new video appearing at the official Facebook page of Fatah, the political party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, praising female fighters and suicide bombers. The Times reports that  the narration of cites three notorious female terrorist as role models for Palestinian women....

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Day 5 of Operation Protective Edge has ended. Daily recap: the fifth day of Operation Protective Edge pic.twitter.com/2bkpzZ7Q9g — IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) July 13, 2014 Palestinians are not immune from Hamas’s rocket fire. Rockets landed in Hebron and Bethlehem, the IDF Spokeperson said. Four rockets landed in total in the attack-...

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An analysis written Thursday by Lt. Col. Michael Segall, a senior analyst at the Jerusalem Center of Public Affairs, documents the rhetorical support Iran has given to Hamas’s rocket war against Israel. Segall explains that with no Arab states stepping forward to offer support for Hamas, Iran has stepped into...

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Today, the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA) provided an analysis describing “how characteristics of the recent escalation is a clear proof that Iran and the terrorist organizations took advantage of periods of calm” to build arsenals capable of reaching most of Israel. JCPA senior analyst and retired IDF Lt. Col....

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The Times of Israel reported Thursday that terror groups affiliated with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movment have joined Hamas and other Islamist groups in firing rockets into Israel. Palestinian Affairs correspondent Elhanan Miller of the Times writes: The Nidal Al-Amody force of Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for...

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Israel will not rule out any military action until there is an end to rocket fire, one of the masterminds behind Israel’s Operation Protective Edge told a conference call organized by The Israel Project on July 8. “(Hamas is) attacking civilians as usual and we are determined to defend ourselves,”...

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Nahum Barnea, one of Israel’s best known columnists who writes for the daily Yedioth Ahronot and is often a critic of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wrote a column today observing that “Hamas is doing a lot” to provoke Israel into invading Gaza but that it is “facing Benjamin Netanyahu, one of...

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Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces (ISF) believes a couple of extremist Islamist groups are preparing for multiple attacks within Lebanon, with the main threat coming from ISIS. A military court charged 28 people with membership of ISIS on July 7. Seven others are already in custody. The charges leveled against the...

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Israeli government ministers were among the many Jews who visited the family of 17-year-old Arab Jerusalem resident Muhammed Abu-Khdeir, who was apparently killed by right-wing radicals on July 2. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke with Muhammed’s father Hussein on July 7. “I would like to express my outrage and that...

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Israel has arrested at least six people in connection with the July 2 murder in Jerusalem of Arab teenager Muhammed Abu Khdeir. As a result of the 17 year old’s killing widespread rioting erupted in Jerusalem, northern Israel and parts of the West Bank. Palestinians have claimed that the murder...

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