According to a poll released today by the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion (PCPO), Marwan Barghouti, currently serving five life sentences in an Israeli prison for his conviction in terrorist murders, would be “the most favorite candidate for next presidential elections.” The polling pitted hypothetical candidates from Fatah and Hamas, the two most prominent...

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It was reported Friday that an Argentinian court struck down as unconstitutional a controversial agreement between between the Argentinian government and the government of Iran to establish a joint “truth commission”  to investigate the 1994 bombing at the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina (AMIA), a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires. The...

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Firefights between Yemeni army forces and Al Qaeda fighters killed at least seven people on Friday in the country’s capital of Sana’a, as violence spread to Yemen’s presidential palace on the same day as an assassination attempt almost claimed the life of its defense minister, Major General Muhammad Nasir Ahmad....

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Of all the achievements the Palestinians and Israelis have achieved despite the moribund peace talks, security cooperation in the West Bank has allowed for a tense, but mostly peaceful, co-existence. However, that cooperation is now being threatened by the Hamas-Fatah reconciliation and the announcement that 3,000 Fatah military personnel will...

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Israel’s internal the security agency, the Shin Bet, announced the arrests of seven men in a Hamas terror cell for planning attacks within Israel. The arrests, which were made in recent months, were announced this week. The cell was based in the Palestinian city of Qalqilya, which borders the Israeli...

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Islamist fighters in Syria took their barbarism to the next level with the publication of graphic photographs of two men said to have been executed and then crucified. The jihadist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) announced it had executed seven prisoners in its bastion in northeastern Syria...

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At the same time a report on the incidence of anti-Semitism in Europe was presented, an Israeli man was attacked by six Palestinians in Berlin. On Sunday European Jewish Congress President Moshe Kantor presented a study of European anti-Semitism (.pdf) for 2013 at Tel Aviv University. The Jerusalem Post highlighted some of Kantor’s remarks during...

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A UK newspaper reported on Monday that British aid to the Palestinian Authority helps fund the salaries of convicted terrorists. The Telegraph report is based on research performed by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) and shows the value the Palestinian Authority (PA) places on terrorists. It has revealed that under 2004 Palestinian legislation...

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Palestinian fighters on Thursday detonated a bomb along the northern border of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and launched a mortar shell at an IDF unit operating along the southern border of the territory, developments that the Jerusalem Post contextualized alongside new figures that show that there has been an uptick...

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CNN on Thursday reported that forces loyal to Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime had, as part of an ongoing attack on the country’s largest city, Aleppo, dropped barrel bombs out of helicopters on a vegetable market, killing at least 24 people. Activists and human rights workers distributed video of what Agence...

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