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Rockets fired at US embassy in Iraq after attacks on bases
Three rockets were fired at the US embassy in Iraq early Thursday, the Iraqi army said, at the end of a day marked by rocket and drone attacks on bases hosting American forces in Iraq and Syria. The embassy itself was not hit, the army said, but three nearby places in Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green…
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Trump Denies Saying Hitler ‘Did A Lot Of Good Things’
Former President Donald Trump’s camp denied a recent claim that he praised notorious Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler for the “good things” he has done. In a new book titled “Frankly, We Did Win this Election” by Wall Street Journal’s Michael Bender, the former president allegedly praised Hitler in a conversation with his then-chief of staff John…
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Buckle up: Palestinian twins turn Boeing 707 into restaurant
Palestinian twin brothers Atallah and Khamis al-Sairafi, 60, bought the old plane for $100,000 Palestinian workers in the Israel-occupied West Bank are putting the final touches on a decommissioned Boeing 707 aircraft to ready it for a new kind of takeoff: as a restaurant. Its enterprising owners, 60-year-old twin brothers Ata and Khamis al-Sairafi, expect…
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Israel’s new government fails to extend law barring citizenship for Palestinians
Israel’s new government has lost a parliamentary vote to extend a temporary law that bars citizenship for Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza who are married to Israelis, an early setback for the fragile coalition. The vote ended in a tie following a long night of debate, requiring a simple majority for the law…
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Grooming junior jihadists
Hamas prepares the next generation of terrorists The international community and mainstream media are shamefully ignoring a major destructive scandal in progress right now – the indoctrination of children into terrorism. In the northern hemisphere it is the middle of summer and typically school children in many countries enjoy a mid-year summer break. Summer activity…
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Playwright Samah Sabawi on displacement, activism, and THEM
The concepts of displacement and seeking refuge may seem like things of the past for some, but for so many, they are still daily struggles. With the United Nations Refugee Agency estimating that there are over 80 million people currently who have been forcibly displaced, and over 26 million who are considered refugees, it is…
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Iran starts process of enriching uranium metal
Vienna: Iran has begun the process of producing enriched uranium metal, the UN atomic watchdog said, a move that could help it develop a nuclear weapon. European powers said the decision, taken less than a month after President Ebrahim Raisi was elected, threatened to torpedo talks to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. The move was…
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Israel Sent Drone Swarms To Hunt Down Hamas In Gaza
As the rocket volleys across the Israel-Gaza border dominated air waves in May, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had been quietly deploying its drone swarms to hunt down specific targets within the Hamas which it suspected to be masterminding the attack on the country. Though drones have become increasingly common in conflict zones across the world,…
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Israel’s new government dealt blow in controversial citizenship vote
Israel’s new government faced its first big defeat in parliament on Tuesday, failing to renew a controversial law that prevents Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip who marry Israeli citizens from gaining citizenship themselves. It was the first major political test for Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who for nearly a month now…
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Covid-19 Delta Variant More Easily Infects the Fully Vaccinated, Israel Finds
The Delta variant of the coronavirus may be substantially better than past strains at infecting fully vaccinated people, officials in Israel warned Monday. However, their conclusions have yet to be vetted by outside scientists, and vaccinated people still remain very well protected against more serious illness and death from the variant. According to the Israel Ministry of…