Palestinians Ignore Peace Talks: Nine-Year-Old Girl Shot in Terror Attack

Magen David Adom paramedics were giving the girl first aid as IDF forces began combing the area. She was then evacuated to Shaarei Tzedek hospital with what was initially described as “a serious injury to her upper body.” She was reportedly conscious. Yoni Hacohen, a paramedic, told Arutz Sheva that she had been hit by a bullet that went […]

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Obama Keeps World War II Memorial Closed Despite Outcry from Veterans

The government shutdown means the closure of all national parks and memorials, right? Not necessarily, according to the House Natural Resources Committee. The Obama administration is selectively choosing which monuments to keep open and which to block off (click to see the map). Despite the public outcry and pleas from the American Legion (watch video), […]

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Behind the Scenes with Margaret Thatcher

It has been almost 23 years since Lady Margaret Thatcher left 10 Downing Street and more than 10 years since she retired from politics completely. What is it about this leader that keeps her in the headlines and sparks both debate and praise throughout the world? According to Robin Harris, maybe it’s because “she simply […]

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World’s First “Trillionaire” Offers to Pay Down U.S. National Debt

KLTV.com-Tyler, Longview, Jacksonville, Texas | ETX News A restaurant manager from Tyler, Texas, briefly became the world’s first trillionaire earlier this week—until his $4 trillion bank balance was found to be an online glitch. In an interview with KLTV, Reggie Theus said he would have used $3 trillion of his windfall to pay down the […]

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Iran Learns the Language of the West

October 2, 2013 10:41 by Simon Plosker This opinion piece by HR Managing Editor Simon Plosker is republished from The Algemeiner. A recent Washington Post / ABC News opinion poll found that an overwhelming 79 percent of Americans expressed their support for a U.S.-Russian plan to disarm Syria of its chemical weapons. This, despite 68 percent of those […]

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Believe Khamene’i and Assad? Not Me

by Daniel Pipes September 28, 2013 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner Has anyone else noted the similarity in today’s top two Middle East news headlines – the telephone call between the Iranian and American presidents and the passage of U.N. Security Council Resoluton 2118 that calls for the “expeditious destruction” of Syrian chemical […]

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Israel Warned Kenya Before Nairobi Attack

Israel was among those who warned Kenya’s government of the high risk of an attack before the deadly assault on a Nairobi mall by Islamist terrorists, security sources have told the AFP news agency. Cabinet ministers and Kenya’s army chief had received information warning of a plan to carry out a major attack, the officials […]

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Gaza under fire

Egypt Has Plan to Strike Gaza

If attacks on Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai Peninsula continue, Egypt may carry out airstrikes in Gaza, senior Egyptian officers have warned. Egyptian officers told the Bethlehem-based Maan news that Egyptian planes had entered Gaza airspace to study potential targets in Rafah and Khan Younis, near the southern border. They said the military would also […]

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