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by Abigail R. Esman • January
11, 2018 • Special to IPT News  
More
disturbing than the alleged arson at a suburban Paris kosher supermarket
on Tuesday – the third anniversary of the terror attack at the kosher
Hyper-Cacher market, also outside Paris – is this: no one was terribly
surprised. Shocked,
yes;
of course people were shocked – but not entirely surprised.
by Yaakov Lappin • January 9,
2018 • Special to IPT News
Israeli
security forces have uncovered a significant Iranian attempt to
infiltrate the West Bank and use it as a base for launching terrorist
attacks and hostile intelligence gathering
operations against Israel.
by Abha Shankar • January 8,
2018 • IPT News
A
Chicago federal judge on Thursday reinstated a lawsuit alleging that a
virulently anti-Israel group and several of its activists are "alter
egos and/or successors" of a defunct U.S. based Hamas-support
network previously found liable for the murder of an American teen in a
1996 terror attack.
by Sam Westrop • January 4,
2018 • Rabwah Times
In
December, the Muslim American charity, Helping Hand for Relief and
Development (HHRD), organized a conference to honor 'World Disability
Day' at a government-managed college in the Pakistani city of
Timergara. This seems like a noble cause. But Islamist groups often
use noble causes to advance their agenda.
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January 11, 2018 • Times of
Israel
The
organizations listed by Israel include the leaders of BDS against Israel
– groups that through their "anti-normalization" and selective
application of the universal principles of human rights, fail to promote
peace and a two-state framework. Likewise, many of these groups go beyond
simple critiques of Israel and instead aim their frustration at the very
existence of the Jewish State.
January 11, 2018 • Foxnews.com
Nearly
one in 12 Christians across the globe lives in an area where there is
high-level persecution against members of the religion, according to an
annual report by a top religious advocacy group.
January 11, 2018 • CBC News
Former
Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr cannot avoid a huge civil judgment
against him by recanting the confession and guilty plea he made before an
American military commission, lawyers acting for the widow of a U.S.
special forces soldier argue in new court filings.
January 11, 2018 • Reuters
Britain,
France and Germany called on Donald Trump on Thursday to uphold a pact
curbing Iran's nuclear ambitions on the eve of a sanctions ruling by the
U.S. president they fear could torpedo an accord he has relentlessly
criticized.
January 11, 2018 • The
Jerusalem Post
Ayatollah
Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi – considered a successor to Supreme Leader Ali
Khamenei – fled Germany on Thursday for Iran amid criminal complaints
filed against him for crimes against humanity, after the cleric received
medical treatment for a brain tumor.
January 11, 2018 • Deutsche
Welle
A
top German court has toppled the acquittal of seven Muslim vigilantes and
told a Wuppertal court to reconvene the case. The Karlsruhe judges said
the key question was whether the "Sharia Police" intimidated
the public.
January 11, 2018 • Victor
Davis Hanson
By
cutting off hundreds of millions in American aid to the Palestinian
Authority, the president could radically alter the
Middle East.
January 10, 2018 • Jewish
News Service
U.S.
Ambassador to Israel David Friedman tweeted on Wednesday that the reason
why there is no peace between
Israelis and Palestinians is the Palestinian Authority's (PA)
official support for terrorism.
January 10, 2018 • Times of
Israel
Throughout
the month of December, there were 249 terror attacks in the West Bank,
Gaza Strip and Israel, as compared to 84 in November and 71 in October,
according to the Shin Bet's statistics, which were released this week.
January 10, 2018 • Daily
Express
A
powerful Commons committee is to consider launching an inquiry into
claims that the Palestinian Authority is giving British taxpayers' money
to terrorists in prison.
January 10, 2018 • Reuters
Tunisian
demonstrators defied the threat of a security clampdown on Wednesday as
they spilled onto the streets of the capital and at least four other
towns for a third night of violent protest fuelled by economic hardship.
January 9, 2018 • Reuters
The
inability of law enforcement authorities to access data from electronic
devices due to powerful encryption is an "urgent public safety
issue," FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Tuesday as he sought
to renew a contentious debate over privacy and security.
January 9, 2018 • The
Forward
Jewish
Voice for Peace, the fringe anti-Israel group that supports the boycott
of Israel, is back in the news again now that the Israeli government has
officially banned its leaders from entering the Jewish state.
January 9, 2018 • Camera
The
Jan. 3 article by Megan Specia ... whitewashes the United National Relief
Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA), obscuring both the
disproportionate benefits that this unique UN agency enjoys along with
some unflattering facts.
January 9, 2018 • The
Jerusalem Post
The
Palestinian Authority paid terrorists and their families over $347
million last year, according to its own records, the Defense Ministry
reported to the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on
Tuesday.
January 9, 2018 • The
Telegraph
Israeli
intelligence has helped stop terrorists from using civilian aeroplanes in
Europe to carry out major attacks "of the worst kind", Benjamin
Netanyahu said Tuesday.
January 9, 2018 • The
Washington Times
In
the words of a veteran Washington hand, the problem of the United Nations
Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the main U.N. agency dealing with
Palestinians, is always important but never urgent. Well, it just became
urgent.
January 9, 2018 • Associated
Press
Lawmakers
in Greece voted Tuesday to limit the powers of Islamic courts operating
in a border region that is home to a 100,000-strong Muslim minority,
scrapping procedures dating back more than 90 years.
January 9, 2018 • Associated
Press
A
Pakistani court has ordered the release of a radical anti-U.S. cleric who
went to Afghanistan with thousands of volunteers to help the Taliban
fight against Americans after the 2001 U.S.-led invasion, a defense
lawyer said Tuesday. The development comes amid rising U.S.-Pakistani
tensions following President Donald Trump's accusations that Pakistan was
harboring militants and the withholding of American aid to
Islamabad.
January 8, 2018 • Israel
Hayom
The
United Nation's International Children's Fund is spearheading a campaign
to include the Israel Defense Forces on a U.N. blacklist of "grave
violators of children's rights," that includes terrorist groups like
the Islamic State group and Boko Haram, this according to a new report by
the
NGO Monitor watchdog group.
January 8, 2018 • Ynetnews.com
The
Shin Bet and the Israel Police have arrested two 19-year-old Bedouin
women suspected of planning to carry out terror attacks on behalf of the
Islamic State (ISIS), it was cleared for publication on Monday.
January 7, 2018 • Jewish
Telegraphic Agency
Israel's
Strategic Affairs Ministry has placed the left-wing, California-based
Jewish Voice for Peace and five other U.S. groups on a BDS
blacklist.
January 6, 2018 • Associated
Press
Norway's
justice minister said Saturday that an Iraqi-born cleric suspected of
enticing recruits to fight in Iraq and Syria will be extradited if a
court in Italy convicts him. The Muslim cleric, Najmaddin Faraj Ahmad, is
scheduled to go on trial in Italy Wednesday without him being physically
present ... . Ahmad is known as Mullah Krekar in Norway,
where he has lived since 1991.
January 5, 2018 • USA Today
A
handwritten statement given to the FBI by the wife of Pulse nightclub
gunman Omar Mateen says she saw him prepare for the deadly attack for
months and knew that the LGBT nightclub was his target.
January 5, 2018 • National
Post
A
wannabe spy for CSIS, Star Wars gamer, son of a federal court judge, and
briefly husband to Zaynab Khadr; the man held hostage in Afghanistan for
five years, is now a captive in a Canadian jail facing criminal charges
January 4, 2018 • Foundation
for Defense of Democracies
Turkish
banker Mehmet Hakan Atilla was found guilty in a Manhattan courtroom for
a range of financial crimes. His dramatic trial revealed that tens of
billions in dollars and gold moved from Turkey to Iran through a complex
network of businesses, banks, and front companies.
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