Morocco and Albania will join the International Stabilization Force (ISF) in Gaza, which will handle aspects of peacekeeping in Gaza during the Trump administration’s Phase II of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, The Jerusalem Post has…
Category: 3. Middle East
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Morocco, Albania, Greece to join Indonesia in Gaza ISF
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India sentences 3 to death for rape of Israeli and American women, killing of Indian man
An Indian court on Monday sentenced three men to death for gang raping an Israeli woman and an Indian woman and for killing an Indian man, according to news outlets in the South Asian country.
In the March 2025 incident, a group of three…
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US build-up of warships and fighter jets tracked near Iran
The Abraham Lincoln, which leads a strike group with three guided missile destroyers, carries 90 aircraft including F35 fighters, and 5,680 crew, was reportedly deployed to the Gulf region in late January but has not been seen in satellite…
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Lindsey Graham warns Iran survival could collapse Abraham Accords
The Iranian regime is teetering on the edge of collapse, the US must follow through on its promises to aid the Iranian people or risk facing a catastrophe “worse than Afghanistan,” and risks facing the fall of the Abraham Accords if the Islamic…
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How Iran uses influencers to spread regime rhetoric
The Iranian regime is using “access diplomacy,” selectively granting entry to Western journalists or influencers seen as sympathetic or willing to operate within tightly defined boundaries, to reinforce Tehran’s narrative that “rioters”…
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Gaza weddings resume amid war damage, displacement
Gaza residents are holding weddings again in the wake of the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, though celebrations are smaller and more restrained than before, the Qatari Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported last week.Most weddings are now reportedly…
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Takamitsu Muraoka, Japanese pioneer of Dead Sea Scrolls Hebrew studies, dies at 88
Japanese pioneer Hebraist Takamitsu Muraoka died last week in Leiden, the Netherlands, at age 88, after suffering a stroke a few weeks earlier and never fully recovering.
A specialist in Semitic languages and biblical Hebrew, Muraoka was…
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The settlement movement owes its success in expelling West Bank communities to the Oslo accords
The temporary division of the West Bank, made by the Oslo accords as a guideline for the gradual military deployment, was meant to expire by 1999. But the temporary has become eternal
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Can US bunker busters end Iran’s nuclear program?
Reports on Friday that the US was ordering an additional round of mega bunker buster bombs, known as the 30,000 pound Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP), on an emergent basis raised the issue anew of whether the American military possesses the…
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Hamas used emojis to signal operatives to prepare for Oct. 7 assault
Hamas used a sequence of emojis sent to its operatives’ phones as a coded signal to prepare to launch the October 7, 2023, terror onslaught, it was revealed on Monday.
The revelation was first reported by Channel 12 news and approved for…
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