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JERUSALEM — A Hamas leader said Thursday that if his militant group came to power in a future Palestinian state, it would not abide by any previous Palestinian peace deals with Israel.

Moussa Abu Marzouk, the Islamic militant group’s number two figure, said any potential deal between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, even if ratified in a Palestinian referendum, would be considered only as a temporary truce.

“We will not recognize Israel as a state,” he told the Jewish Daily Forward, a Jewish-American newspaper in an interview published Thursday. It was the first such interview by a senior Hamas leader to a Jewish publication. Israeli newspapers reported it on Friday.

Hamas Leader to Jewish Paper: No Peace With Israel.

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U.S. officials say they see Iran’s hand in the increasingly brutal crackdown on opposition strongholds in Syria, including evidence of Iranian military and intelligence support for government troops accused of mass executions and other atrocities in the past week.

Three U.S. officials with access to intelligence reports from the region described a spike in Iran­ian-supplied arms and other aid for Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad at a time when the regime is mounting an unprecedented offensive to crush resistance in the key city of Homs.

via U.S. officials: Iran is stepping up lethal aid to Syria – The Washington Post.

Is Censorship the New Pluralism?

Pat Buchanan might have seen the end of the line coming at MSNBC when last month

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network president Phil Griffin commented on his latest book, “Suicide of a Superpower,” by saying, “I don’t think the ideas that (Buchanan) put forth are appropriate for the national dialogue, much less on MSNBC.”

When Buchanan was let go last week after 10 years as a commentator on the network, no one was surprised.

I don’t agree with some of Buchanan’s ideas, especially regarding Jews, his questioning of whether World War II had to happen or whether the United States should be involved militarily in the Middle East, but he has every right to his ideas, as we all have the right to our own. It’s called free speech.  read more

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Iranian manifesto: ‘Kill all Jews, annihilate Israel’ | Times 247

The Iranian government, through a website proxy, has laid out the legal and

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religious justification for the destruction of Israel and the slaughter of its people.

 

 

via Iranian manifesto: \’Kill all Jews, annihilate Israel\’ | Times 247.

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Israeli Facilities in U.S., Worldwide on High Alert Against Iran

Israeli Facilities in U.S., Worldwide on High Alert Against Iran

“We predict that the threat on our sites around the world will increase … on both our guarded sites and ‘soft’ sites,” read a letter by the head of security for the Consul General for the Mid-Atlantic States, ABC News reported. Guarded sites are government facilities like embassies and consulates; “soft sites” are Jewish synagogues, schools and community centers.

via Israeli Facilities in U.S., Worldwide on High Alert Against Iran.

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