Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, newly elected as the country’s president,  has “dominated every aspect of Turkish life more than anyone since the founder of modern Turkey, Kemal Ataturk,” Benny Avni wrote yesterday in Newsweek: He has achieved this by breaking all the rules. According to the bylaws of his own...

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An op-ed published yesterday in the Saudi owned, London-based newspaper Asharq al-Awsat argued that the Middle East conflict once known as the “Arab-Israel” conflict has shifted so much that it needs to be recast as one between Israel along with moderate Arab regimes, on the one hand, and extremist regimes, terror...

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Today was the twenty-third day of Operation Protective Edge and the twelfth day of ground operations in Gaza. Three soldiers were killed today when they attempted to secure a booby-trapped building and it was detonated and collapsed on them. The death toll for IDF soldiers now stands at 57. Two...

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Turkey and Qatar, which have taken the lead in giving political and financial support to Hamas, have made a concerted effort over the last week to undercut the Egyptian-sponsored ceasefire efforts between Israel and the Palestinians. Al Monitor reported yesterday: Having been largely isolated so far, Turkey and Qatar are trying to gain...

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The Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH), a group behind the Mavi Marmara incident and has recently been the subject of anti-terror investigations, has announced that it is planning a second flotilla in efforts to undermine Israeli security in the Gaza Strip. Bulent Yildirim, director of the IHH, announced the plans for “Freedom Flotilla II” on Thursday, in only...

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The Wall Street Journal reported today (via Google) that the inability of John Kerry to arrange a ceasefire by engaging Qatar and Turkey despite “Israel, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia caution[ing] Mr. Kerry against relying” on the two allies of Hamas, reveals a rift between the United States and many of its...

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The twentieth day of Operation Protective Edge and the ninth day of ground operations have concluded. DAILY RECAP: Day 20 of Operation Protective Edge. Since the start of the operation,we have struck 3865 terror targets pic.twitter.com/eSqaeIwnIH — IDF (@IDFSpokesperson) July 28, 2014 Today The Tower covered the recent anti-Israel protests...

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Responding to reports that the United States, anxious to facilitate a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, “may be looking to Qatar and Turkey to help negotiate an end to the hostilities,” Jonathan Schanzer and David A. Weinberg, respectively vice president for research and senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense...

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The Times of  Israel today reported today on the growing trend of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic protests in Germany. An angry mob gathered on Berlin’s famed Kurfürstendamm avenue Thursday. Draped in Palestinian flags and shaking their fists in rage, they chanted in German, “Jude, Jude feiges Schwein! Komm heraus und kämpf...

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Yesterday Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Israel of perpetrating a “systemic genocide” against the Palestinian people. Those comments came a few hours before violent protests against the Israeli embassy in Ankara and the Israeli consulate in Istanbul: Turkish police today fired tear gas at protesters outside the Israeli consulate in Istanbul,...

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