Israel has been countering Iranian efforts to use suitcases to smuggle GPS components into Syria to upgrade Hezbollah’s rocket arsenal, Neri Zilber reported Thursday for The Daily Beast. In 2017, once it appeared that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad would survive the civil war that was tearing his country apart, Zilber,...

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In response to the Israeli security cabinet’s decision to withhold the equivalent of what the Palestinian Authority pays to terrorists and their families from tax receipts it collects, PA President Mahmoud Abbas said that he will refuse all taxes collected by Israel on behalf of the PA, The Times of Israel...

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The Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, which exercises complete political and military control over Lebanon, appears to have threatened to attack Israeli passenger flights and popular tourist destinations in the Jewish State in a video circulated on social media, JNS reported Thursday. The video marked the anniversary of the death of...

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The Islamist terrorist group Hamas, which exercises complete political and military control over the Gaza Strip, may initiate an all-out confrontation with Israel in the near future to coax the international community into sending aid to the poverty-stricken enclave, an Israeli security report said on Wednesday. The Times of Israel...

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Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, the head of the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah, thanked Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif for his regime’s help in fighting what he called “Zionist aggression,” The Times of Israel reported Monday. Earlier this week, Zarif had met with top Lebanese officials in Beirut, including Nasrallah. According to Al-Manar...

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The bombing of a bus carrying members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) killed a reported 41 people, The New York Times reported Wednesday. A car filled with explosives detonated near the bus, which was traveling between the cities of Zahedan and Khash near the border with Pakistan. Initial...

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Despite all the corrupt, tyrannical theocracies and dictatorships in the Middle East, the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) — the academic umbrella organization for the field — aims its harshest criticism at the only democracy in the region: Israel. MESA’s disdain is apparent in the dozens of “advocacy letters” it...

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After the terror group he leads dictated the makeup of a new Lebanese government, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah denied that Hezbollah controls Lebanon, The Times of Israel reported Monday. Nasrallah’s remarks were aimed at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who, earlier this week, told visiting ambassadors, “Iran has many branches, one of...

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Hezbollah supporters rode their motorcycles near the border with Israel, in a show of defiance against the Jewish State, The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday. The demonstration prompted the IDF to declare that Hezbollah was “making a mockery” of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the 2006 war between Israel and the...

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An Israeli government report charges that staffers at some of the most prominent organizations and NGOs advocating boycotts of Israel are also members of terrorist groups, The Times of Israel reported Sunday. The report, Terrorists in Suits, which was released by Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs, charged that a number...

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