Egypt’s Third Army has deployed the equivalent of a battalion of soldiers near the Israeli border to conduct counter-terrorism operations and prevent jihadists from targeting Israeli civilians – and especially civilian planes – with anti-aircraft weapons, according to a Wednesday report published in the Times of Israel by veteran Israeli...

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Egyptian media outlets hailed the Sunday inauguration of the country’s former military chief Abdel Fattah el-Sisi as a victory for democracy and the rule of law, even as various Western powers continued to respond with something less than warmth to last month’s election, which saw Sisi win 97% of the...

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American and Hamas officials secretly met numerous times over the last six months, according to a report in the online news website BuzzFeed. The meetings were held between U.S. intermediaries and Hamas’ leadership, which lives outside the Gaza Strip in third-party countries ranging from Egypt to Qatar and Jordan. Topics...

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Yesterday the Palestinian Authority announced the formation of a unity government together with the terrorist organization Hamas. Though State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki announced that the U.S. would “work with” the new regime, Israeli officials as well as an array of U.S. lawmakers are deeply skeptical that doing so would be...

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Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) last week released U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Anne Patterson’s congressional testimony from April erroneously claiming that the Palestinian Authority’s funding of terrorists is because “they have to provide for the families.” On April 29, Patterson presented the administration’s Middle East and North Africa budget request for...

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Israeli border police on Friday apprehended a man they believed was on his way to a suicide attack. The police, near the Tapuach Junction in Samaria, noticed a man, believed to be in his twenties wearing a heavy coat in 95 degree heat. Israel Hayom reports that initially the suspect refused to stop:...

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A day after Pope Francis touched the Palestinian side of Israel’s security fence, with his aides calling for all walls to be torn down, the pontiff paid a visit to the Victims of Acts of Terror Memorial on Mt. Herzl in Jerusalem. Francis deviated from his whirlwind itinerary to visit a...

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The Daily Star yesterday reported on a speech given by Hezbollah’s deputy leader, Sheikh Naim Qassem. “Israel is the main enemy,” said Sheikh Naim Qassem. “But the tactical priority depends on the direct threat, so our confrontation with takfiri groups derives from the direct danger they represent, and it does...

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Pope Francis will host a meeting between Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in the Vatican next month, according to the Associated Press. SKY News suggested the Holy See may be thinking about taking over from the Americans as the broker of any Israeli-Palestinian talks. The offices...

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Israel’s leaders from President Shimon Peres on down roundly condemned the May 24 slaying of three people outside a Jewish museum in Brussels, Belgium, including an Israeli couple and a museum volunteer. President Peres called upon European leaders to take action against any form of anti-semitism and said, “We must act without hesitation...

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