President Barack Obama “suspects a bipartisan majority would oppose the deal he is prepared to make” with Iran, a staff editorial asserted today in The Washington Post. The editorial cited three concerns about the emerging deal identified by “authorities ranging from Henry Kissinger, the country’s most senior former secretary of state,...

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The Times of Israel last week published a feature on The Israel Project (TIP), highlighting the organization’s work on pro-Israel messaging and its impact on the “war of ideas” being waged in traditional and social media outlets. TIP publishes The Tower. The article describes TIP, led by its President &...

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A poll released today by The Israel Project, publisher of The Tower, and the polling firm Paragon Insights, shows that 65% of Americans agree that Hamas is a terrorist organization and that Israel “must stop” Hamas’ terror. A new national poll surveyed 1,010 likely voters between July 21-22, 2014, specifically...

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The third intifada has begun in the West Bank, according to the man who led Hamas’ regime in Gaza until the power-sharing deal brought in a Fatah-Hamas Palestinian government in June. Former Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh described the clashes as an “intifada,” or uprising. “We’re not saying the intifada will start;...

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Jordan is facing threats on three fronts: from Syria, ISIS in Iraq and potentially from Hamas in the West Bank, former head of the Israel Defense Forces Operations Branch Maj.-Gen. (ret.) Israel Ziv told a news conference of The Israel Project on June 24. The threat to Jordan from ISIS,...

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Deepening concerns that Monday’s newly announced Palestinian unity government locks in a “Hezbollah model” for any future Palestinian state – a dynamic that has among other things proven terminal to Lebanese efforts to create robust political institutions – made their way into the day’s State Department briefing: QUESTION: The –...

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In a rare public display of Jerusalem’s  displeasure with the State Department, Israeli Ambassador to Washington Ron Dermer took to the Facebook social-media website to offer his views on the American decision to maintain ties with the new Palestinian government. The government was formed jointly by Hamas and Fatah. The...

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Hamas on Wednesday made a point of clearing out of the Gaza residence of Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas – a move that Reuters described as “the most concrete sign yet that [the group and Abbas’s Fatah faction] are moving toward reconciliation” – amid deepening concerns among analysts that...

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The Daily Beast on Wednesday published details of a new poll by The Israel Project – which the organization formally published later that morning – finding that “over twice as many Americans agree with Israel’s claim that they are not primarily to blame for the failure of the Middle East...

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Israeli soldiers patrolling the Golan Heights can now see Islamist flags flying on the Syrian side of the border, The Tower has learned. Islamist groups have taken up positions to the south of Quneitra, the largest Syrian town close to Israel, particularly in the area of Kudneh.  “A-Raya flags with...

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