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Fast Forward Is Hezbollah Seeking To Drag Israel Into Syria War?
Israel accused Hezbollah on Monday of orchestrating shelling across the Golan Heights frontier in order to stoke Israeli-Syrian fighting, and called on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his big-power ally Russia to curb the Lebanese guerrillas. Twice last week, mortar rounds or rockets launched from Syria hit areas of the Golan that Israel has held…
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Fast Forward State Department Offers $12M Bounty For Capture Of Hezbollah Leaders
(JTA) — The State Department offered $12 million in rewards for the capture of two leaders of Hezbollah. The United States is offering up to $7 million and up to $5 million “for information that leads to the location, arrest or conviction in any country” of Talal Hamiyah and Fu’ad Shukr, respectively, State Department Counterterrorism…
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Fast Forward Israel Says Hezbollah Controls Lebanon’s Military
Israel said on Tuesday that the Hezbollah guerrilla group, its most potent enemy in neighboring Lebanon, had gained control over that country’s U.S.-sponsored conventional military, signaling both would be in Israeli gunsights in any future war. Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s remarks were a hard tack from more measured recent Israeli estimates that the Lebanese army…
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Fast Forward Hezbollah Leader: Israeli Jews Must ‘Return’ To Former Countries
(JTA) — Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah called on Jews in Israel to “return to the countries from which they came” before his terror organization fights a war with Israel. In his speech Sunday on the Shi’ite commemoration of Ashura, which marks the killing of the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson, Nasrallah called on Jews who immigrated to…
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Opinion Iran Isn’t An Israel Problem — It’s A Jewish Problem
“Israel doesn’t speak in the name of the Jewish people and doesn’t represent it.” Such was the refrain of Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timmerman as he lashed out at Israeli Ambassador Dorit Shavit a few years ago. They were discussing the 1994 Hezbollah attack on the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina in my native Buenos Aires…
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Fast Forward London’s Muslim Mayor Calls For Complete Ban On Hezbollah
(JTA) — London’s Muslim mayor wants Great Britain to make support for all factions of Hezbollah illegal. Sadiq Khan said in a statement Thursday that he plans to request that the government outlaw support for the political wing of Hezbollah, the Jewish Chronicle reported. Support for the terrorist wing of the the Lebanon-based militia and Iranian…
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Fast Forward Congressional Committee Considers Enhancing Hezbollah Sanctions
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A congressional committee convened on Thursday consider enhancing sanctions targeting Hezbollah, the Lebanese terror group and Iranian ally. House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Ed Royce said the 2015 Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Act was a good start, but needed enhancement as Hezbollah still remained a threat to Israel. “Part II of this…
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Fast Forward 2 U.S. Men Charged With Finding Israeli And American Targets For Hezbollah
WASHINGTON (JTA) – Two men living in the U.S. have been charged for working for the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. A release from the U.S. Attorney’s office in Manhattan on Thursday said Ali Kourani, 32, and Samer El Debek, 37, were arrested on June 1 for providing material support to and receiving military training from…
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