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Israel Takes Down Two Rockets Fired from Gaza

Israel says Hamas has fired more than 130 rockets into civilian areas since Monday night.

(TEL AVIV, Israel) - Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system intercepted two rockets over Tel Aviv fired from the Gaza Strip.

The interception over central Israel occurred on Tuesday evening, according to media reports. Color Red alert sirens had been heard throughout the Gush Dan area of central Israel, including Herzliya.

EU Sanctions Target Humanitarian Aid

Hindering Restoration of Global Heritage in Syria...

(DAMASCUS, Syria) - Today, a civilization that used to lead the world and for centuries was the beacon of learning, tolerance and trade, and that still protects our global cultural heritage, is damaged—and only the Syrian people can rebuild it for all of us. We need to help them.

Last month, half-heartedly and without unanimity among its 28 member states, the European Union levied yet more sanctions on Syrian officials.

Passed under pressure from the usual suspects (the US, France, Britain, and the international Zionist lobby), the EU measure targets 12 government ministers, none of whom wields or holds police authority of any type.

Three Israeli Suspects Admit to Killing 16-Year-Old Palestinian Boy

According to Palestinian Attorney General Muhammad Abd al-Ghani Uweili, who was quoted by Ma'an News Agency citing a preliminary autopsy report, the teenager was burned alive.

(JERUSALEM) - Three out of the six Israeli suspects in the murder of 16-year-old Palestinian Mohammed Abu Khdeir have confessed to the crime, police said Monday.

The teen's body was found in the Jerusalem Forest on Wednesday. The Israel Police had arrested six suspects over his death, it was revealed on Sunday after a gag order was partially lifted.

U.S. Wants Full Investigation into Youth Beating by Police

The Israeli Justice Ministry said in a statement that the police investigations department was looking into the incident.

(WASHINGTON, D.C. ) - The United States has called for speedy investigation of an incident in which it said a U.S. citizen of Palestinian descent appeared to have been badly beaten by Israeli paramilitary police.

The family of 15-year-old Tariq Khdeir, from Tampa, Florida, who was visiting family in east Jerusalem, say he was the target of the punches.

US; World Leaders Voice Outraged over Palestinian Teens Murder

Israeli leaders also condemned the killing, pledging a full investigation.

(JERUSALEM) - The U.S. and United Nations have condemned the abduction and murder of a Palestinian teenager in Israel, which sparked fierce clashes in East Jerusalem.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called it "sickening" while the UN demanded justice over the "despicable act".

Israel Attacks Hamas Targets After Missing Teens Found Dead

The United States has joined world leaders in condemning the murders.

(TEL AVIV, Israel ) - Israeli naval boats have struck alleged training facilities of Hamas militants in northern Gaza after the bodies of three abducted teenagers were found.

The attacks followed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's vow that "Hamas will pay" for the slayings in the West Bank. The bodies of Eyal Yifrah, 19, Gilad Shaar, 16, and Naftali Frankel, 16, were found in a field north of the city of Hebron.

Israeli Aircraft Strike Six Targets in the Gaza Strip

Three people were injured in the attack on the Israeli factory, a paint manufacturing plant in the southern town of Sderot.

(GAZA ) - Israeli aircraft attacked at least six militant targets in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, hours after rockets fired from the Palestinian territory set a factory in Israel on fire, Israeli and Palestinian officials said.

Palestinian medics said two people were wounded in air strikes on eight sites. Israeli officials said only six sites were bombed.

Timid US Presbyterians Punish American Companies, shun BDS and Let Israel off the Hook

One more group who thinks negotiations under military occupation will deliver peace.

(LONDON) - Pro-Palestinian campaigners are cock-a-hoop over the Presbyterian Church USA's vote to divest from Caterpillar Inc, Hewlett-Packard and Motorola Solutions.

Hailed as amazing, brave and miraculous in some quarters, it was actually a very close-run thing: 310 to 303 against, with no abstentions. Excuse me if I don't join the celebrations.

Israeli Officials: We Will Not Stop Till We Find Abducted Teens

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pinned the blame for the attack again on Hamas.

(JERUSALEM) - Israeli officials tried to reassure the public that authorities were doing everything in their power to retrieve the three missing Israeli teens presumed to be abducted a week ago in the West Bank.

With the search for Naftali Frankel, Gil-Ad Shaar and Eyal Yifrach ending its seventh day, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told soldiers on Thursday at the military Judea command headquarters in the West Bank that Israel knows more about the kidnapping than it did several days ago.

Proxy Wars

Today we have a new crop of Messianic warriors who have taken on the mission in the name of western democracy.

(LONDON) - The Messianic warriors are at work again. Their mission is not to spread the word of God, though that is their cover, but to serve their own God; the God of Mammon, greed and avarice.

This is not new. It’s been an ongoing process since the advent of the Industrial Revolution when the British ruled the world and the English firmly believed that God was an Anglo Saxon. It was the Empire on which the sun never set or, as some said, the blood never dried.’