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Iran’s oil exports are focus of Vienna nuclear talks

Iran’s main focus in nuclear talks that resume in Austria on Monday will be the lifting of all US sanctions in a verifiable process that guarantees Tehran’s unhindered ability to export its oil, the foreign minister said.

Negotiations with world powers to salvage Iran’s 2015 nuclear accord, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action…

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Gaza terror groups launch military exercise amid growing West Bank tensions

The so-called “military” wings of several Palestinian factions on Sunday said they have launched a large-scale, joint maneuver in the Gaza Strip.

The announcement came amid growing tensions in the West Bank and calls by Hamas and other Gaza-based factions for stepping up attacks against Israel.

It also came in wake of unconfirmed reports…

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Antisemitic slurs hurled at US Rep. Josh Gottheimer during NJ event

Democratic US Rep. Josh Gottheimer (New Jersey, 5th District) said hecklers shouted “Jew” and other antisemitic slurs at him as he and Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo descended to Bergen County, New Jersey to promote the Biden administration’s “Build Back Better” infrastructure bill last September, Gottheimer said in a speech at Rutgers…

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‘BBC’ ranks third, after Iran and Hamas, on Wiesenthal Center ‘top 10’ anti-Semitism list

The BBC placed No. 3 on the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s “Global Anti-Semitism Top 10” list for 2021, after Iran and Hamas, the Daily Mail reported on Sunday.

“People might assume we would put neo-Nazi groups on our list, but the BBC is there because when a globally recognized organization allows anti-Semitism to creep into its reporting, it makes…

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Qatar to invest $60 million in Gaza gas pipeline

Qatar will invest some $60 million in a pipeline to bring Israeli natural gas into the Gaza Strip, the Gulf kingdom’s envoy to Gaza, Mohammad al-Emadi, announced on Sunday.

A major Hamas backer, Qatar has pledged some $360 million for Gaza’s reconstruction following the Islamist terrorist group’s conflict with Israel in May.

The energy-rich…

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West Bank terror is a reminder of Gaza’s ‘deceptive calm’

After arresting four terror suspects on suspicion of carrying out the deadly attack near Homesh, in which Israeli civilian Yehuda Dimentman, 25, was murdered, Israel Defense Forces spokesman Ran Kochav said on Sunday that the attack was likely orchestrated from the Gaza Strip.

It has since transpired that the terror cell belonged to Palestinian…

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The PA’s ‘Equal Opportunities for Terrorist Murderers’ policy

Israeli security forces arrested the terrorists suspected of murdering 25-year-old Yehuda Dimentman and injuring others in a shooting attack last Thursday.

The arrest of the terrorist murderers automatically invokes the full weight of the Palestinian Authority’s 2004 Law of Prisoners and Released Prisoners and implementing regulations.

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PA television broadcasts girl calling to ‘trample the necks of the Zionists’

As Palestinian Media Watch has exposed and is clear by the way Palestinian children speak on PA TV, the PA educates its youth to admire terrorist murderers. In addition, they see violence and terror as valid and see the murder of Israelis/Jews as a right because Jews, they claim, don’t have any history in the land and their presence “defiles” it….

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Bennett, Sullivan meet in Jerusalem

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett met with U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on Wednesday at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem.

The two discussed a variety of subjects, among them the ongoing negotiations in Vienna between Iran and the other signatories to the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action nuclear agreement,…

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UN proposing paying nearly $6m to Taliban for security

The United Nations is proposing to pay nearly $6 million for protection in Afghanistan to Taliban-run Interior Ministry personnel, whose chief is under UN and US sanctions and wanted by the FBI, according to a UN document and a source familiar with the matter.
The proposed funds would be paid next year mostly to subsidize the monthly wages of…

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Israel said to arrest over 100 Hamas members in Hebron area in major sweep

Israeli troops operating in the Hebron region in the southern West Bank have in recent days arrested more than 100 Hamas members who were planning to carry out terror attacks, Channel 13 reported on Monday.

There was no official comment from the Israel Defense Forces; however, the TV crew accompanied troops on some of the raids that took place…

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Turkey, Russia working closely on Syria issue as US excluded

Turkey and Russia are meeting in Kazakhstan under the banner of the Astana talks that go back five years, hoping to continue their collaboration on Syria issues.

Turkey, Russia and Iran have coordinated on Syria increasingly since 2017. That was part of a process that took place in the wake of Syrian rebels losing Aleppo and Ankara deciding it…

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US national security adviser set to arrive in Israel for talks on Iran

US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan was set to arrive in Israel Tuesday at the head of a US delegation for meetings with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and other top officials. The sides were expected to discuss Iran and other strategic issues.

Sullivan will also participate in the fourth meeting of the Strategic Consultative Group (SCG)…

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Iran Fires Ballistic and Cruise Missiles in Gulf War Games

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards fired ballistic and cruise missiles on Tuesday during war games in the Gulf, state TV reported, amid heightened tensions with the United States and Israel over possible Israeli plans to target Iranian nuclear sites.

“The use of ballistic missiles by the Revolutionary Guards’ navy is a new concept … and they hit their…

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Illinois poised to divest from Unilever amid continued Ben & Jerry’s boycott fallout

The state of Illinois is expected to divest its pension funds of investments in Unilever this coming Wednesday, JNS has learned.

This looming decision in Illinois marks the latest domino to fall as the global conglomerate continues to come under fire after ice-cream maker Ben & Jerry’s, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Unilever, publicly…

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Stabbing attack attempted near Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate

A possible stabbing attack took place in Jerusalem Sunday when a man attempted to stab two Israelis.

The attacker reportedly tried to stab two young ultra-Orthodox Jews who were Breslov hassidim at a parking lot near Damascus Gate. The two are currently being questioned by police, ynet reported.

According to KAN, the attacker approached the…

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Israeli forces nab suspected terrorists in deadly West Bank shooting

Israeli security arrested the terrorist cell suspected of carrying out a deadly shooting attack in the West Bank last week, the Shin Bet security agency said Sunday morning.

Six suspects were arrested during an overnight raid in the northern West Bank village of Silat al-Harithiya, near Jenin, by the Israel Defense Forces and Israel Police’s…

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Iran’s regime posts image of seeking to engulf Israel in flames

An Arabic language Twitter account of the Islamic Republic of Iran on Sunday published an image that shows the planned burned elimination of the Jewish state in 2022.

The picture shows Israel composed of nails and matches and a book of matches next to words in Hebrew and English declaring: “Just try and you will see.”

The book of matches,…