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December 20, 2020

Israel PM Netanyahu gets coronavirus vaccination: 'I believe in this vaccine'

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was vaccinated against the coronavirus on live television Saturday, becoming the first Israeli and one of the world's leaders to be inoculated.

December 15, 2020

Israel successfully tests sea-based missile defense system

Israel’s defense ministry reported Tuesday that it has successfully tested for the first time a wide range of sea-based aerial defense systems. The tests took place in the past few weeks, with targets fired from sea-borne launchers, imitating various range missiles and drones.

December 14, 2020

Iranian president directly accuses Israel of killing nuclear scientist

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on Monday claimed that Israel was behind the killing of a scientist who founded the Islamic Republic’s military nuclear program in the 2000s in an effort to start a war in the last days of President Trump's administration.

December 11, 2020

Mitchell Bard: Stopping Iran from getting nukes requires military force — here’s what Biden can do

Preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons will be one of the top foreign policy and national security challenges facing Joe Biden when he becomes president. Realistically, diplomacy and empty threats won’t accomplish this vital task.

December 10, 2020

Morocco normalizing ties with Israel, 4th country to do so under Trump's Arab peace plan

Morocco will normalize relations with Israel, making it the fourth country to do so in recent days under a U.S.-brokered deal.

December 8, 2020

Warnock walks back comments comparing Israel to apartheid South Africa

The Rev. Raphael Warnock, one of two Democratic challengers whose runoff elections in Georgia next month will shape control of the Senate during the early Biden administration, distanced himself from pas remarks criticizing Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians in stark terms.

December 7, 2020

Michael Goodwin: Biden's Iran delusions – Trump policies offer option to failed nuclear deal

The assassination of Iran’s top nuclear scientist counts as a rare piece of good news from the mad mullahs’ gulag.

December 6, 2020

Brennan: 'No problems' with Durham probe going into 2021, claims he did not rely on Steele dossier

Former CIA Director John Brennan told "Fox News Sunday" that he does not see anything wrong with Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham continuing his investigation of the Russia probe into 2021, while insisting that he never improperly relied on the unverified dossier compiled by ex-British spy Christopher Steele.

December 4, 2020

UN accused by Israeli group of flouting international law by funding construction in Israeli-controlled areas

The United Nations is being accused of funding illegal infrastructure projects for Palestinians in an area where Israel exercises exclusive functional control as envisioned by current peace agreements.

December 3, 2020

James Carafano: US shouldn’t reenter Iran nuclear deal — Iran sponsors terrorism and seeks nuclear weapons

Unfortunately, many on the left still want to return to the Obama administration’s failed “love the hate out of them” approach to Iran, a terror-sponsoring state that aspires to become a nuclear power.