Palestinian terrorist groups have issued statements celebrating Monday’s bus bombing in Jerusalem, which left 21 people injured. The Iran-backed terrorist group Hamas said in a statement on its website that it “welcomes the Jerusalem operation, and considers it a natural reaction to Israeli crimes, especially field executions and the desecration of...

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Israeli authorities have confirmed that a bomb was responsible for a blast in southeast Jerusalem that injured 21 people on Monday, Haaretz reported. The explosion tore through a bus in the city’s Talpiot neighborhood at about 5:45 PM, engulfing it and a nearby bus and car in flames. “Based on a professional investigation by police demolitions...

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JNS.org – The Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tank this week presented its Alberto Nisman Award for Courage to Judge Royce Lamberth. A senior district judge for the District of Columbia, Lamberth is no stranger to the Iranian-backed terrorism that cost Alberto Nisman his life as he investigated Tehran’s...

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Zuhair Bahloul, a member of the Knesset from the Labor Party, reignited an old controversy this week, claiming that Palestinians who attack Israeli soldiers are not terrorists. “Those who attack families in their sleep cannot be considered terrorists if they attack an army base,” maintained Bahloul on Army Radio. Alluding to...

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Last Thursday, another stabbing attack — one not so different than any of the other 211 stabbing attacks carried out against Israelis since last October — took place in Hebron. What We Know and What We Don’t Know Two young Palestinian men stabbed an Israeli soldier, and were subsequently shot by nearby troops. A...

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The Palestinian Authority has continued to award lifetime payments to convicted terrorists, despite a promise to end the practice, an investigative report published Sunday by The Mail on Sunday (MoS) revealed. The report was part of a broader investigation into what the paper described as the “wasteful” use of British taxpayer money. According...

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Kuwait issued orders to deport 60 Lebanese nationals for their alleged ties to the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, Agence France-Press reported Monday. The move comes weeks after the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) designated Hezbollah as a terrorist organization. The 60 individuals were considered “dangerous cases” by the Kuwaiti government, and have had their...

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JNS.org – The former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic finally received a modicum of justice this week, when a United Nations court in The Hague sentenced him to 40 years in prison for his monstrous war crimes. The 10 charges Karadzic was convicted of included his role in the massacre...

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The Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel Prize for Literature, has condemned the 1989 fatwa issued by Iran calling for the killing of author Salman Rushdie. The academy did not condemn the fatwa, which was issued in reaction to the alleged blasphemy in Rushdie’s book The Satanic Verses, when it was first announced....

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In the wake of deadly terrorist attacks at Zaventem Airport and Maelbeek metro station in Brussels on Tuesday that killed at least 31 people and injured about 300 others, law-enforcement agencies in Europe’s major cities are scrambling to beef up security at airports and transport hubs. This latest horrific incident – and the...

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