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| July 21, 2015
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Watch: Obama Eldritchly Repeats Clinton’s Disastrous North Korea Deal

view videoWATCH: Sound bite comparison makes one wonder why Obama bamboozled the American public, & his European partners, by using same negotiators in Iran deal and using same speech writers that Clinton used in failed Korean deal.

By Ari Yashar

 

Not only has it been revealed that some of the very same American negotiators that sealed then-US President Bill Clinton’s failed nuclear deal with North Korea in 1994 worked on President Barack Obama’s similar deal with Iran signed last Tuesday – now it appears Obama even got the same speech writers.

Bill Clinton and Barack Obama – Photo: Reuters

The Washington Free Beacon on Monday released a compilation of public statements made by both presidents defending their respective deals, with an uncanny similarity noticeable between the two that would seem to bode ill for the Iran deal, given that Clinton’s failed deal led North Korea to conduct its first nuclear test in 2006.
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| July 19, 2015
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Hamas ignores ISIS credit for 6 car bombings, suggesting Fatah involvement

Gazan’s report seeing Islamic State graffiti taking credit for the attacks but Hamas officials, embarrassed at losing 6 cars in Hamas stronghold suggest Fatah, or even Israeli complicity.

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH

 

Hamas and Islamic Jihad on Sunday threatened to hunt down and punish those responsible for a series of bombings that destroyed the vehicles of some of the groups’ military commanders.

ISIS Graffiti seen at explosion site in Gaza, July 19, 2015

The pre-dawn explosions, which took place in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City, destroyed at least six vehicles. No one was hurt.

Denouncing the perpetrators as “suspicious and hired tools,” the two group’s armed wings, Ezaddin al-Qassam (Hamas) and Al-Quds Battalions (Islamic Jihad), said that the explosions were designed to serve Israel’s interests and goals. Continue Reading »

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| July 14, 2015
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Nuclear Agreement Made With Iran: Here’s the Deal’s Main Points

Iran to reduce advanced centrifuges from 20,000 to 6,104, convert Fordow facility into research centre, and reduce enriched-uranium stockpile from 5 tons to 300 kg.

Associated Press

 

After 18 days of intense and often fractious negotiation, world powers and Iran struck a landmark deal Tuesday to curb Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for billions of dollars in relief from international sanctions – an agreement designed to avert the threat of a nuclear-armed Iran and another US military intervention in the Muslim world. Here are the main points.

The Iran Deal Read the the full text of the deal

Enrichment: Iran will reduce the number of uranium-enriching centrifuges it has from almost 20,000 to 6,104, and reduce the number of those in use from nearly 10,000 to half that. Continue Reading »

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| July 13, 2015
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Second Israeli UAV Crashes in Lebanon

Lebanese army reported  Saturday: “Around 8:30 a.m., a drone belonging to the Israeli enemy fell in the port of Tripoli,”
• Photographs taken at the scene appear to identify an unarmed Hermes drone.
• IDF declines to comment – Again.

By Daniel Siryoti, Israel Hayom Staff & Reuters

 

An Israeli surveillance drone crashed into the sea near the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli on Saturday morning, according to Lebanese officials.

A drone, claimed to be Israeli, is pulled out of water near Tripoli, Saturday – Photo: EPA

Keeping with its policy regarding foreign reports, the Israel Defense Forces declined to comment. Continue Reading »

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| July 11, 2015
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45 ISIS Insurgents Die of Food Poisoning From Ramadan Feast

Kurdish media reports the poisoning of 45 Islamic State fighters who died eating the Iftar meal, after the day’s Ramadan fasting.

By: Jewish Press News Briefs

 

45 ISIS fighters died on Monday night after eating poisoned food at a group Iftar meal in Mosul, Iraq. The report was released by Al Sumaria News, a Kurdish paper.

Islamic State (ISIS) insurgents – Photo courtesy: Wikipedia

The Iftar meal is the one Muslims consume after the day’s Ramadan fasting is over.

While the source of this poisoning is unknown, in November, the Times of Iraq reported that Syrian Free Army Rebels and the local cooks had poisoned the food of ISIS fighters in the Fath El-Sahel camp, killing dozens of them. Continue Reading »

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| July 11, 2015
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Arab News: IDF enters Syria with tanks & bulldozers to clear refugee camp near border

IDF task force with tanks and bulldozers crosses half-kilometre into Syria to dismantle a Nusra Front controlled refugee camp, according to Arab media reports
• IDF declines to comment.

By Daniel Siryoti & Israel Hayom Staff

 

An Israeli military task force, accompanied by tanks and bulldozers, crossed about 500 yards into Syrian territory near Quneitra recently and dismantled a refugee camp in the area, Arab news outlets reported Thursday.

Israeli Druze look over the border with concern at the fighting in Syria – Photo: AP

According to the reports, the refugee camp, consisting of tin huts and tents, was built in an area controlled by the Nusra Front and was home to dozens of Syrian families that had fled the nearby fighting. Continue Reading »

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| July 10, 2015
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Nasrallah tells televised crowd, Iran is world’s only hope to liberate Jerusalem

From his secret underground hideout, Hezbollah leader delivers annual speech via large screen to Beirut neighbourhood.
Meanwhile, in Iran, anti-Israel/anti-American rallies spread across the country as yet another deadline is set for negotiations on its nuclear program.

By Roi Kais & The Associated Press

 

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah gave his annual speech Friday to mark “Al-Quds Day,” calling Iran “The only hope left for liberating Palestine and Jerusalem.

Nasrallah on the big screen.

Nasrallah’s speech was televised and filmed in a hidden bunker and screened in a event in the Dahiya quarter of Beirut. He also said that Iran would be “perverting her own religion” if Tehran agreed to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s demands that Israel be recognized as a Jewish State. Continue Reading »

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| July 10, 2015
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Lebanese newspaper: Syrian rebels armed by Israel

Former top aide to an Israeli Dep. Minister is said to have been involved in supplying arms to Syrian rebels.

By ARIEL BEN SOLOMON

 

A top Syria expert told The Jerusalem Post that a report published on Thursday in a Lebanese newspaper close to Hezbollah claiming that Israel arms Syrian rebels was “really not serious.”

An IDF soldier stands atop a tank near Alonei Habashan on the Golan Heights, close to the ceasefire line between Israel and Syria. – Photo: REUTERS

The Al-Akhbar newspaper said it obtained documents based on intelligence information hacked from Israeli defense officials and the computer and phone of Mendi Safadi, an Israeli Druze who has served as chief of staff for Deputy Regional Cooperation Minister Ayoub Kara.

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| July 9, 2015
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Day Iran Makes Deal with US Will Be Rally & Parade Dedicated to Israel’s Destruction

Annual Quds day event of fiery anti-Israel rallies in Tehran falls on last Friday of Ramadan, the date of new Iran deadline, and attracts tens of thousands of people seeking Israel’s annihilation.

By HERB KEINON

 

Regardless of whether the world powers and Iran sign a nuclear deal by the new Friday deadline, chants of “Death to Israel” are expected to reverberate throughout Iran that day as it happens to fall on the anti-Israel Quds day.

Iranian protestors burn an Israeli flag during a demonstration in Tehran on July 25, 2014 to mark the Quds Day. – Photo: BEHROUZ MEHRI /AFP

Quds day – initiated in 1979 by the Islamic Republic’s founder Ayatollah Khomeini – is an annual event of fiery anti-Israel protests in Iran on the last Friday of Ramadan that attracts tens of thousands of people.

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| July 9, 2015
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Hamas Presents 2 New Missiles at Gaza Military Victory Parade

Hamas’s ‘military wing’ displays two models of new missiles during victory rally to mark one year since Gaza’s last war with Israel.

By Ben Ariel

 

Hamas’s so-called “military wing”, the Al-Qassam Brigades, on Wednesday held a rally in Gaza marking the one year anniversary of last year’s war with Israel.

Hamas Military Wing Displays Missile in Gaza 2014 Parade – Photo: islamicinvitation Turkey

Several hundred people crowded into a central Gaza City square after the traditional fast-breaking meal during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan for the rally, according to the AFP news agency.

Members of the Al-Qassam Brigades, with their faces covered with black scarves, stood in front of what appeared to be models of two missiles about three to four meters (9 to 13 feet) in length aboard the bed of a military truck. Continue Reading »

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| July 8, 2015
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IDF Intel Officer: Hamas Aided ISIS Assault on Egyptians In Exchange of Weapons

IDF colonel said Hamas is so desperate for replacement weapons, that they aided the ISIS assault last week that killed Egyptian military in Sinai, with the goal of accessing new routes to renew their smuggling.

By Reuters & Israel Hayom Staff

 

Israel accused Hamas on Tuesday of supporting last week’s assaults by Islamic State affiliates on Egyptian forces in the Sinai in the hope of freeing up arms smuggling to the Gaza Strip.

Islamic State-affiliated militants in Sinai – Photo: Reuters

The remarks followed Israeli allegations that Hamas members provided training and medical treatment for the Sinai insurgents, charges dismissed by Hamas as a bid to further fray its troubled ties with Cairo. Continue Reading »

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| July 8, 2015
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Palestinian Official Claims France Abandoned UN Peace Talk Initiative 

PA Foreign Minister Riad al-Malki claims France was pressured to drop its proposal that advanced a UN resolution that forces resumption of peace talks.

By Elad Benari

 

The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) Foreign Minister Riad al-Malki said Tuesday that a French diplomatic bid to advance a United Nations resolution to restart the peace process between Israel and the PA has been abandoned by France, Haaretz reports.

However, senior PA officials in Ramallah later told the newspaper that al-Malki’s comments were not entirely accurate, and were based more on his analysis of the updates he had received on the matter than on information from an official decision by Paris. Continue Reading »

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| July 6, 2015
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Report: Jordan thwarts Iranian-planned terror plot

Jordanian security forces reported to have  arrested foreigner possessing 45 kg of high-grade explosives in ‘most serious case in a decade’. 

By Roi Kais

 

The Jordanian newspaper Al Rai reported Monday morning that Jordanian security forces had foiled a terror plot by a member of an Iranian-backed group.

Joint training by Jordanian and US militaries (Archive Photo: Getty Images)
Joint training by Jordanian and US militaries – Archive Photo: Getty Images

According to the report, the suspect belongs to the Iranian Bayt al-Maqdis group – which is unrelated to the identically named Egyptian group has recently changed its moniker sworn allegiance to the Islamic State group.

The suspect reportedly holds Iraqi and Norwegian citizenship, was arrested in northern Jordan, and found to be in possession of large amounts of explosives. Continue Reading »

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| July 6, 2015
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The Palestinian Authority Arrests West Bank Hamas Group Planning to Attack It

PA security claims it discovered a large Hamas cell in Samaria planning to attack its security apparatus.

By Ari Yashar

 

The Palestinian Authority (PA) claimed its security forces caught a large Hamas cell that was planning to harm the security of Arab residents in Judea and Samaria by attacking the PA security apparatus.

PA Security Forces spokesperson Adnan Damiri said that Hamas had established a cell in the region to undermine security, according to the report on Israel Radio (Kol Yisrael) on Monday.

Damiri added that members of the cell – who were arrested in northern Samaria likely near the PA governmental seat of Ramallah – admitted to planning an attack and training to be able to carry it out. Continue Reading »

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| July 5, 2015
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Teheran unveils new far reaching radar system to deter Israel assault

Iranian Revolutionary Guard holds ceremony to boast new radar array placed in strategic position parallel to Israel, that can detect approaching IDF aircraft from 600 km away.

By Reuters

 

Iran says it has deployed a new domestically built long-range radar system, signalling a strengthening of its air defences as it holds what may be the final days of talks on a nuclear deal with world powers.

IRGC Ghadir phased radar station
IRGC Ghadir phased radar station

Brigadier General Farzad Esmaili, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ (IRGC) air defence force, unveiled the Ghadir phased-array radar in Ahwaz city in southwestern Khuzestan province near the Iraq border, state television said late on Saturday. Continue Reading »

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