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French President Told Israeli PM Netanyahu Not To Attend Paris Rally

French President Francois Hollande told his counterpart, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, not to attend the Paris rally in the wake of the jihadist attacks against Charlie Hebdo and the Jewish market last week, for fear that the Israeli PM’s presence might upset those troubled with his stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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NBC’s Mitchell Criticizes Obama ‘Stunning Absence’ at Paris Event

Monday on NBC’s “Today,” network correspondent and MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell criticized President Barack Obama’s “stunning absence,” at the Paris unity march Sunday. Partial transcript as follows: MITCHELL: Good morning, Savannah. That was a stunning absence. Just look at the pictures

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France’s Elite Anti-Israel Hatred Fueled Muslim Antisemitism

On Sunday, at the Grand Synagogue in Paris, some of the loudest applause at a memorial for four Jews killed by Islamic terrorists in a kosher supermarket came when one of the speakers reminded President François Hollande that there is no difference between “Death to the Jews!” and “Death to Israel!” For years, the French elite has pretended it can tolerate the latter without encouraging the former. That attitude is what allowed French antisemitism to flourish like an evil weed.

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In Pictures: France’s Three Weeks of Terror

In the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo shootings, hostage takings and a four-million strong ‘unity’ march, considering this latest Islamist outrage in isolation is a deceptively easy trap to fall into. In reality France has endured an intense three weeks of

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France Must Abandon Pell-Mell Accommodation of Islam

Prime Minister Manuel Valls has declared France is at war with radical Islam, but his government may have to take on Islam altogether. Certainly, it must abandon its pell-mell accommodation of immigrant cultures that threaten French civilization.

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Jake Tapper: I’m Ashamed by U.S. Leaders’ Absence in Paris

“Thank you,” said the man. I was standing outside of the offices of Charlie Hebdo covering the aftermath of the terrorist attacks for CNN. He was thanking me just for being here, just for covering the event and its aftermath, what Le Monde referred to as France’s September 11. And his appreciation was echoed by French citizen after French citizen.

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Pope Denounces Jihad as ‘Deviant Forms of Religion’

In his yearly address to the Vatican Diplomatic Corps on Monday, Pope Francis decried the breakdown of society “spawning violence and death.” Referencing the “tragic slayings which took place in Paris,” Francis blamed enslavement to “deviant forms of religion.” This fundamentalism, Francis said,

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Inside the Jihad Siege of the Paris Kosher Supermarket

A French Jew who had family members and friends inside the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket in Paris when it was stormed by Amedy Coulibaly, an Islamic jihadist who ultimately murdered at least four Jews for the cause of Islam, spoke to the families and some of the survivors and told me some shocking and terrible details about what happened during the attack – revealed here for the very first time.

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Boko Haram Threatens Cameroon in New Video

A man identifying himself as Abubakar Shekau, the man believed to lead the jihadist terror group Boko Haram, appears in a new video threatening to expand the group’s terrorist activities deeper into Cameroon, Nigeria’s neighbor. The video is filmed from afar at different angles, which does not allow experts to accurately identify the man.

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France Declares War on Radical Islam

This article was originally posted in the New York Times: PARIS — Prime Minister Manuel Valls declared Saturday that France was at war with radical Islam after the harrowing sieges that led to the deaths of three gunmen and four