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Children given military training in Hamas summer camps

Approximately 30,000 Palestinian children and teenagers have signed up to attend Hamas’ 25 summer camps in the Gaza Strip. The camps run by Izzadin al-Kassam, Hamas’ military wing, include military training with live fire, combat tactics, and religious indoctrination. In an announcement marking the opening of summer camp the al-Kassam brigades declared: “The responsibility to

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Middle East

Ivanka Trump: People should appreciate my father’s ‘tremendous empathy’ and ‘warmth’

CLEVELAND – Ivanka Trump is vouching for her father and his character as she gets set to address the Republican National Convention later this week, saying in an interview for ABC’s “Good Morning America” that people should appreciate Donald Trump’s empathy and warmth. “I don’t know that people appreciate his tremendous empathy and his warmth,

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Synagogue with dark past invites Pokemon hunters to its revival

As the Pokemon Go phenomenon grows, some institutions connected to European Jewry’s darkest hour have taken precautions against it. The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and State Museum in Poland has banned the addictive smartphone game, in which players viewing their environments through their device”s camera run in search of animated figures that the game”s application superimposes on

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International

RNC shuts down YouTube comments in wake of anti-Semitic abuse

Anti-Semitism continues to ominously swirl around the Donald Trump campaign. The Republican convention shut down comments on its YouTube livestream after anti-Semitic abuse appeared during a speech by Linda Lingle, the Jewish former governor of Hawaii. Comments including “Make America Jewish Again” punctuated by yellow stars of David and “Ban Jews” appeared on the feed,

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Donald Trump on John Kasich: ‘If I got beaten that badly, I wouldn’t show up, either’

CLEVELAND – Donald Trump said it’s fine if Ohio Gov. John Kasich doesn’t want to attend the Republican National Convention, saying if he lost as badly as Mr. Kasich did in the GOP primary contest, he wouldn’t show up, either. “Well look, he signed a pledge, number one, but honestly, he got beaten so badly,”

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