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Breaking News Does Hezbollah Have Hamas-Style Tunnels Leading Into Northern Israel?
Israel believes the militant group Hezbollah has probably dug tunnels across the border from Lebanon in preparation for any future war although it has no conclusive evidence, an Israeli army general said on Wednesday. Israel’s vulnerability to tunnels was laid bare during its war against Hamas in Gaza in July and August. What began as…
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Breaking News Arab-Israeli Team Hails Ex-Knesset Lawmaker Accused of Treason
An Arab-Israeli soccer team honored a former Knesset lawmaker who fled Israel amid accusations of treason and espionage. Bnei Sakhnin held a ceremony Saturday saluting prominent Arab figures including Azmi Bishara, who was accused of providing information to the terrorist group Hezbollah during the 2006 Second Lebanon War, and an anonymous Qatari donor who gave…
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Breaking News Hezbollah Calls Border Attack ‘Message’ to Israel
An attack by Hezbollah on Lebanon’s border with Israel which wounded two Israeli soldiers was a message that the group remained ready to confront its old foe despite its engagement in Syria’s civil war, the group’s deputy leader said. The soldiers were wounded by a bomb planted by Lebanese Hezbollah fighters in the Shebaa hills,…
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Opinion With All Due Respect, Can’t My Critics Read?
Those who follow me online have observed that I don’t usually respond to my critics. I confess: I have a little fan club that hangs out in the Comments section and on my Facebook page, cursing my ancestry and generally whooping it up, and they seem to be having so much fun that I hate…
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Breaking News Israel Asks Bangkok Police To Ramp Up Security for Israeli Tourists
The Israeli Embassy in Bangkok asked local police to provide more security for tourists following a thwarted terrorist attack. The request reported Sunday in the Bangkok Post noted that the embassy made special mention of Israeli backpackers on popular routes. Bangkok Metropolitan Police Bureau Chief Kamronwit Thoopkrachang said his force would follow through and increase…
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Breaking News Netanyahu Stays Silent on Attack on Lebanese Hezbollah Site
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would neither confirm nor deny that Israel had struck a target in Lebanon. Lebanese media reported Monday that an Israeli airstrike hit a site in Lebanon known for its arms smuggling and recruitment for Hezbollah. The Daily Star on Monday quoted a Lebanese security source as saying that the Israeli…
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Opinion How Israel’s Politics vs. Security Rift Aids Jihadis
Hamas fighters testing a Gaza-made M-75 long-range missile, November 2013 / Getty Images Maariv’s Eli Bardenstein offered a stunningly clear and disturbing report (in Hebrew, my translation below) on Friday that illustrates the vexing complications introduced into the triangular Jerusalem-Cairo-Gaza relationship by political turmoil in all three places. It makes a very useful companion piece…
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Breaking News Hezbollah Blames Israel for Assassination of Weapons Commander in Lebanon
A Hezbollah commander who fought in Syria’s civil war was shot dead outside his home in Lebanon on Wednesday in an attack which the militant Shi’ite group blamed on Israel. Israel denied any role in the killing of Hassan al-Laqqis, who was shot from close range by a silenced gun as he arrived home at…
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