Middle East

Russia, not Hezbollah, sent drone into Israel — report

A drone that crossed into northern Israel last month belonged to Russia — not Hezbollah, as was initially suspected — the Haaretz newspaper reported Sunday. The unmanned aerial vehicle entered Israeli airspace from Syria on July 17. The Israel Defense Forces attempted to shoot down the aircraft three times, but failed. Israel’s security services initially […]

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International, Middle East

‘If they see the facts, they won’t believe Palestinian lies’

Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon expressed great satisfaction with the visit to Israel he led in which 11 UN ambassadors representing countries from four different continents had the opportunity to observe life in Israel for themselves. “It was a very effective visit. We managed to show them the chief challenges we’re dealing with

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International, Middle East

Why New Israeli Settlements Set Back the Day of Peace

The U.S. State Department’s recent harsh rebuke of unchecked Israeli settlement building and mounting Palestinian house demolitions has set off countervailing criticism from those who question not only its tone and timing but the very definition of illegal settlement building. The world does not often agree on international issues, but there is an international consensus

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Middle East

Israeli company reveals list of ISIS terror targets

An Israeli company has hacked into ISIS secret online messaging group “telegram”, and has revealed lists of potential targets for attacks planned by the terror group, Channel 10 News reported on Wednesday. Only 500 people worldwide are members of the secret group, and new members are only accepted by recommendation by one of the existing

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International, Middle East, USA

Greens add support for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel to official party policies

OTTAWA – Canadian Greens voted at their convention Sunday morning to add boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel to their roster of party policies, despite their leader opposing the resolution. A polarizing debate took over the convention floor during the weekend’s final plenary session. The resolution was brought forward by the party’s shadow justice critic,

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International, Middle East

Regev blasts ‘racist’ Lebanese athletes for refusal to travel with Israelis

Culture and Sport Minister Miri Regev on Sunday decried the Lebanese Olympic delegation’s refusal to travel on the same bus as their Israeli counterparts as “anti-Semitism” and “the worst kind of racism.” On Friday, Lebanese Olympic athletes attempted to block the Israeli team from traveling with them to the opening ceremony, according to a report

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International, Middle East, Sports & Competitions

Celebrities gift an ambucycle to United Hatzalah

JERUSALEM (Press Release) — Recently retired NBA all-star Amare Stoudemire and current NBA star Omri Casspi on Friday afternoon, Aug. 5, gifted their friend, Entourage TV actor Jeremy Piven, with a life-saving ambucycle. The ambucycle immediately became part of Israel’s national emergency medical services (EMS) organization, United Hatzalah’s, response team. “Just the idea that we can use

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, Sports & Competitions, Theatre, Film & Broadcast

Iran defends mass execution, hits back at criticism from West

Tehran (dpa) – Iran defended its mass execution of criminals as a means of tackling terrorism on Saturday, days after 20 men described as members of an extremist and criminal Sunni group were hanged in a single day. “We are doing everything to protect our people from terrorists,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghassemi was quoted

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Middle East

US airstrike kills three al-Qaeda operatives in Yemen

Washington (dpa) – The United States killed three members of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) in an airstrike in central Yemen, US military authorities announced Friday. The airstrike, which took place on Thursday, occurred in Shabwah Governorate, US Central Command said in a statement. “AQAP remains a significant threat to the region, the United

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Middle East, USA

GOP congressman rapped for charging Obama is ‘playing for some other team’

WASHINGTON — After Rep. Lee Zeldin created a firestorm for publicly musing whether US President Barack Obama is “playing for some other team,” liberal Jewish organizations castigated the GOP congressman for suggesting their commander in chief is secretly acting as a foreign agent. In a statement Wednesday, Zeldin responded to a Wall Street Journal report

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Middle East, USA