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Trump's Golan bombshell

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center), U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (left) and U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman (right) visit the Golan Heights, March 11, 2019.

From Secret Talks to Demand for Recognition

Men in construction hats are seen aboard Chevron's Petronius oil platform, located 161 kilometers off the coast of New Orleans, Gulf of Mexico, June 3, 2008.

Path to Trump's Tweet Starts With Texan Entrepreneur

FILE Photo: U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands after Trump's address at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, May 23, 2017.

Trump's Bombshell Was Bound to Drop. Why Now?

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Trump, Netanyahu's Private Santa Claus

U.S. President Donald Trump (right) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hug after speaking at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, May 23, 2017.

Blessing for Netanyahu, Message to Russia

FILE PHOTO: Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chats with Israeli soldiers at a military outpost during a visit to Mount Hermon in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights in February 2015.

'Backing Israeli Control May Hurt Trump Peace Plan'

Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Donald Trump after the U.S. president's arrival at Ben-Gurion Airport, May 22, 2017.

Trump’s Tweet Brings U.S. to Syria Through the Back Door

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei welcomes Syrian President Bashar Assad in Tehran, Iran, February 25, 2019.

Syria Vows to Recover Golan Heights; Russia: Trump's Recognition Violates UN Resolutions

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Klaus von Stauffenberg (center) and his brother Berthold, with their spiritual and cultural mentor, Stefan George, who was also an inspiration to the Nazis.

The Secret Society That Inspired a Nazi Officer's Attempt to Kill Hitler

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Young Palestinian detainees under guard. Soldiers typically burst into the house in the middle of the night, seize the wanted youth and leave the family with a document stating where he’s being taken.

Israel jails hundreds of Palestinian boys a year. These are their stories

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An apologetic act against the occupation

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Trump once again proves he's Netanyahu's private Santa Claus

Klaus von Stauffenberg (center) and his brother Berthold, with their spiritual and cultural mentor, Stefan George, who was also an inspiration to the Nazis.

The secret society that inspired the plot on Hitler's life

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Michael Jackson with Wade Robson and his family.

'Leaving Neverland': How a Documentary Took Down Michael Jackson in the Post-truth Era

HBO's 'Leaving Neverland' doesn’t really occupy itself with Michael Jackson’s character, only with the damage he caused

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Then Representative-elect Ilhan Omar attends a press conference in the capitol, Washington D.C., November 30, 2018.

Keep It Up, Ilhan Omar

FILE Photo: A sloth sleeps while hanging from a tree.

Why Do We Need Sleep? Israeli Scientists Solve the Mystery

Jordan Peterson. Has a simple explanation for his extraordinary popularity: In a culture that sanctifies victimhood, he proposes that people confront life’s inevitable pain unflinchingly.

The Enlightment According to Jordan Peterson

Cyclone Numa

The Forecast: Stronger Hurricanes in the Mediterranean

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a conference on Peace and Security in the Middle East in Warsaw, Poland, February 14, 2019.

With Poland, Netanyahu Discovers the Limits of Playing With History

ILLUSTRATION: Amos Oz

Between Zionism and Hellenism: Amos Oz on Secular Judaism

“Creation of Adam” by Michelangelo at the Sistine Chapel in Rome (c. 1508-1512).

In the Bigynnyng: A Brief History of the English Bible

Benny Gantz outside his home in Rosh Ha'ayin during a protest by members of Israel's Druze community, January 14, 2019.

Benny Gantz, the General Coming to End the Netanyahu Era

Benny Morris and his wife Leah at their home in Srigim.

'Israel Will Decline, and Jews Will Be a Persecuted Minority. Those Who Can Will Flee to America'

An artist’s rendering of Oumuamua. “It waited in place, like a buoy in the ocean, until the ‘ship’ of the solar system ran into it.”

If True, This Could Be One of the Greatest Discoveries in Human History

Iraqi and foreign mercenary members of a private security company, stand on the rooftop of a house in Baghdad, 18 September, 2007.

Infamous Private Paramilitary Firm Blackwater Planning Comeback. First Stop: Syria

The Arous brochure for European tourists.

The Mossad Ran a Fake Diving Resort for Tourists in Sudan. This Is the Incredible Story Behind It

Top Secret Israeli Cyberattack Firm, Revealed

Discovery of a missing piece of Antikythera Mechanism on the Aegean sea floor

Missing Piece of World's Oldest Computer Found on Aegean Seabed

Consulate staff seen behind the entrance of the Saudi Arabia's Consulate in Istanbul. Oct. 17, 2018

The Grisly Hit-job on Khashoggi Is a Disaster for Israel

Donald Trump meets with Vladimir Putin at the G-20 Summit in Hamburg, July 7, 2017

Ex-Mossad Chief: Russia Ran Trump for President

Relief of throne-bearing soldiers in their native clothing at the tomb of Xerxes I, demonstrating the satrapies under his rule: List of soldiers under Xerxes' rule: Persian, Median, Elamite, Parthian, Arian, Bactrian, Sogdian, Choresmian, Zarangian, Arachosian, Sattagydian, Gandharan, Hindush, Sakahaumavarga, Sakatigraxauda, Babyloan, Assyrian, Arab, Egyptian, Armenia, Cappadocian, Lydian, Ionian, Saka, Skudrian, anotehr Ionian tribe, Libyan and Ethiopian

2,500-year-old Persian Military Base Found in Israel

An evangelical woman from the U.S. picking grapes in the West Bank. Free volunteers is just one of the ways Christians help settlers

Revealed: The Evangelical Money Flowing Into the West Bank

Herodion fortress

Ring of Roman Governor Who Crucified Jesus Found Near Bethlehem

A satellite image of Tehran.

Tehran Is Sinking, and It May Be Irreversible