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Tal Law Likud-Kadima Committee Faces Impasse
• The joint Likud-Kadima committee to replace the Tal Law looks in jeopardy after the Likud co-chair, possibly spooked by addressing a conference of Haredim, went back on many of his positions about...
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Sundown
● Nakoula Basseley Nakoula has stepped forward to admit a role in managing the company that produced the anti-Muhammad film that allegedly sparked the attacks in Libya and Egypt yesterday. [HuffPo] ●...
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As the U.S. Sits on the Sidelines, an al-Qaida Affiliate Emerges as One of...
More than 45,000 deaths and 22 months since the beginning of the Syrian uprising, the White House has finally run aground on the incoherence of its Syria policy. Having refused to provide the...
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Daybreak
• According to the Times, Turkish authorities say that al-Qaeda plots against a synagogue in Istanbul as well as the American Embassy in Ankara were foiled. In a raid in February, 12 alleged members...
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Daybreak
• Boston and the neighboring towns of Belmont, Cambridge, Newton, Waltham and Watertown are on lockdown as police seek the second of two Chechen brothers suspected of committing Monday’s attacks at the...
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• The University of Bologna has a Kosher section in its library that includes a very recently discovered Torah. The complete scroll is thought to be more than 850 years old, making it the world’s...
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Yemen, the Crucible of al-Qaida, Was Once a Powerful Arabian Kingdom Run by Jews
Yemen was one of the first nations to be converted by Muhammad’s followers in the seventh century C.E., and it has been a Muslim country ever since—now known as a refuge for al-Qaida and a regular...
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Israel Uses Drones and Fences To Guard Against Syrian Threat
Israel’s newest wall snakes along its northern border, long the country’s quietest, climbing over the mountains separating the Golan Heights from Syria and across the grassy hills and plateaus...
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Iranian War of Attrition Keeps Assad in Power
As the Syrian civil war grinds on toward its fourth year, no end appears in sight. It is the greatest disaster in the Levant in a generation: More than 115,000 people have died. Around 2 million...
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Syrian Rebels Allege Assad Used Poison Gas
It’s been a particularly violent day in different hotspots in the world. First, out of Syria, the forces loyal to Syrian dictator Bashar Assad are being accused of using poison gas in Syria’s nearly...
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Arabs Shouldn’t Be Mad at U.S. About Israel, but About Iran
Some in Washington are starting to examine whether President Obama’s inaction in Syria and withdrawal from Iraq is responsible for a wave of bloody sectarian violence pitting Sunnis and Shiites against...
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El Ghriba Synagogue, Djerba Off the Tunisian coast, the small island of Djerba is home to a tight-knit community of Kohanic Jews. Only about 1,000 remain, living among a Muslim population of about...
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• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu endorsed a two-state solution for the first time, but attached conditions that have left Palestinians unsatisfied, to say the least. [WP] • While generally...
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• Despite the recent revelation that Hezbollah was maintaining an arms cache in southern Lebanon, as well as a bunch of tough talk from both sides, Israel’s top general said that war is not imminent....
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A scene in Sacha Baron Cohen’s movie Brüno has landed the British-Jewish performer in hot water with the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, the pro-Palestinian terrorist group. In the scene, the title...
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• A new study argues that al Qaeda has spurned Hamas’s desire for closer cooperation. The global jihadist network is concerned that Hamas’s jihadist intentions are not quite global enough. [Ynet] •...
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• Jordanian authorities arrested several suspects in connection with yesterday’s bombing of a convoy carrying Israeli diplomats from Amman to Israel (an assault in which no one was injured). Jordanian...
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Syrian President (which is to say, dictator) Bashar Assad has some thoughts on Israel for investigative journalist extraordinaire Seymour Hersh. The clearest stand he takes is that there will be no...
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According to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Vice President Biden did not, as some had alleged, tell Prime Minister Netanyahu that Israeli settlements endangered U.S. troops. But what about...
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• Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden’s number-two man, blames Arab leaders for “surrendering” to Israel in a new tape. [Haaretz] • What exactly are the U.N. soldiers in southern Lebanon supposed to do?...
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