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It's summer again, and as has become customary in recent years, thousands of Gazan children will flock to terrorist-organized summer camps to engage in semimilitary training, including the use of live ammunition and simulated kidnappings of Israeli soldiers, Ynet reported Tuesday.
As the U.S. media have focused on the Syrian civil war and Iran's elections, news organizations have failed to concentrate on what I consider a key player in the equation: Hezbollah, the Shiite militia.

Former President Bill Clinton had blunt words for Israel during a visit and speech at a noted academic facility: Agree to a two-state solution. The Palestinians are having more babies than you.

Hollywood icon Barbra Streisand, 71, brought her movie past to life this week during a trip to Jerusalem that left her outraged over the treatment of women by ultra-Orthodox Jews.

Entertainer Barbra Streisand is attacking Jewish religious practices in Israel that treat women differently from men.

Sen. Rand Paul's call to end U.S. foreign aid, including to Israel, set off a debate not only within Mr. Paul's Republican Party in America, but also among Israelis, for whom decades of U.S. financial backing have become an accepted norm.
The surprising victory of a reformist candidate in Iran's presidential election has put Israel in a difficult position as it tries to halt the Iranian nuclear program: With Hasan Rowhani likely to enjoy an international honeymoon, Israel could have a hard time rallying support for new sanctions — or possible military action — against its archfoe, even as it says the clock is ticking on Tehran's march toward nuclear weapons.

Lebanon media reported Friday that Syrian President Bashar Assad's next plan to win back his war-torn nation from rebel fighters is to create a force on the Golan Heights with one unifying purpose: To oppose Israel.

President Obama needs to get in the game and become a greater force in the Syrian conflict and help rebel fighters, former president Bill Clinton said on Wednesday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu couldn't be clearer: Peace talks with the Palestinians will not come with strings, including one aimed at freezing construction in contested settlement areas.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu kicked off a two-day visit to Poland, which Germany's Nazis occupied during World War II and in which they committed the worst crimes ever against the Jewish people, with a stern warning about a potential Holocaust from Iran.

A leopard can't change its spots, but can an interventionist resist the urge to intervene? That's the question senators must pose to Samantha Power, President Obama's choice for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, at her confirmation hearing, coming up soon.
Was the 2012 presidential election hampered by President Obama and the Internal Revenue Service unfairly delaying conservative groups' tax-exempt status and restricting certain conservative groups' agenda? From leaked conversations between Mr. Obama and his election-team staff, it's a known fact that Mr. Obama thought he would lose the 2012 election to Mitt Romney.

A senior Israeli official on Sunday said the ruling Likud Party will not accept a Palestinian state with the borders favored by the Palestinians and the international community, a new hurdle to U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry's effort to restart peace talks in his latest visit to the region.

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