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Breaking News Israel Strikes Hamas Targets In Gaza After Rocket Attack
Israeli aircraft carried out a series of strikes in Gaza on Monday, wounding at least four people, witnesses said, after a rocket fired from the Palestinian territory hit an empty area in southern Israel. The Israeli military said its planes attacked five positions belonging to Hamas, the Islamist group that runs the Gaza Strip, in…
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Community To Fight Radical Islamic Terror, Europe Must Move From Gestures To Action
Brandenburg Gate, one of the most recognizable landmarks in the world, once the scene of mass Nazi rallies, emblazoned with swastika flags, was this week lit up with the flag of the Jewish State of Israel. Who would have thought in their lifetime, or even in the space of eighty years, this would ever happen?…
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Breaking News Israel Frees UN Worker Said to Have Aided Hamas in Gaza
(JTA) — A United Nations employee from Gaza who assisted Hamas was released after six months in an Israeli prison. Waheed al-Bursh, a Palestinian engineer working for the United Nations Development Program in Gaza, was sentenced last week in Israel for assisting the terrorist group last year by transporting to a Hamas-run facility 300 tons…
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Breaking News $178M Judgment Against Hamas Backers to Family of Slain Infant
JERUSALEM (JTA) — A U.S. court ruled that Iran and Syria must pay a total of $178.5 million in damages to the family of an infant with dual American-Israeli citizenship who was killed in a terrorist attack by a member of Hamas. Chaya Zissel Braun was 3 months old when she was thrown from her…
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Fast Forward Israeli Soldiers ‘Catfished’ by Fake Hamas Cuties on Facebook
Some Israeli soldiers now know better than they might like that you can be anyone on the Internet, following the country’s Military Intelligence Unit foiling a Hamas plot in which the militant group stole information from troops by posing as attractive women on social media. “Anyone who was infected, is not infected anymore. If it…
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Community In Israel, A Case For The Status Quo
The status quo is not the ideal solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But it’s better than any of the alternatives. And sometimes that’s the best that can be done in an imperfect world. Secretary of State John Kerry argued in his recent speech that Israel can be either democratic or Jewish, but not both. What…
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Community When Neo-Nazis Collaborate With Hamas, Should Jews Trust The Right Or The Left?
In a January 5th post entitled “March on Whitefish Moves Forward,” Andrew Anglin, the American neo-Nazi who founded the “Daily Stormer,” updated his supporters on plans for an armed march that he earlier described as “against Jews, Jewish businesses, and everyone who supports either” in Whitefish, Montana. In this particular post, Anglin added that, “a…
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Breaking News Neo-Nazis Claim Hamas Will Speak at Montana March
(JTA) — A neo-Nazi website claims a member of the Palestinian Hamas movement will speak at its planned anti-Jewish rally in Whitefish, Montana. Andrew Anglin, who runs the Daily Stormer website, wrote in a post published Thursday that nationalist groups from the United Kingdom, Sweden, France and Greece will attend the march. He said the…
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