Israel

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FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2014 file-pool photo, Secretary of State, John Kerry meets with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Villa Taverna in Rome. Kerry is ending 2014 much in the same way he started it: Frustrated in his efforts to push Israel and Palestinians toward peace. Facing a diplomatic showdown over Arab plans to force Israel from occupied Palestinian lands within three years, Kerry readied himself this week for a 72-hour trip to Jordan to craft a less explosive alternative. By Thursday, the crisis appeared to have been averted: Palestinian and Jordanian officials said they would not force their resolution to an immediate vote in the United Nations Security Council _ in part because the U.S. threatened to veto it. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File-Pool)

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Dr. Ben Carson, second from left, and Armstrong Williams, second from right, inspect secret tunnels used by Hamas terrorists to infiltrate from the Gaza Strip into Israel.

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Ben Carson poses with his wife Candy during their visit to Israel. (Photo from Armstrong Williams Productions)

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Ben Carson and Armstrong Williams plus a security detail during their eight-day journey to Israel (Photo from Armstrong Williams Productions)

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In this Oct. 5, 2014 file photo, a library official shows a Jewish manuscript smuggled into Israel from Damascus in a Mossad spy operation in the early 1990s, in Jerusalem. The manuscript is one of the earliest existing complete manuscripts of the Hebrew bible. Two decades after Israeli spies helped whisk eight ancient Hebrew bibles from Damascus to Jerusalem, Israel's national library asked an Israeli court Monday, Dec. 8, 2014 to grant it official custodianship over the manuscripts, a move that is liable to spark a bitter ownership battle over the some of the Syrian Jewish community's most important treasures. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)

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"It's a fact-finding mission," said Dr. Ben Carson, who told The Washington Times he looks forward to immersing himself in Israel's history as well as its current situation, "which is always different than what you read, so that will provide firsthand knowledge." (Associated Press)

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Lightning strikes down during a storm over the Mediterranean sea near a cargo ship off the coast near Michmoret, Israel, Monday, Nov. 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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Lady Gaga arrives at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Herzeliya near Tel Aviv, Israel, Friday, Sept. 12, 2014. She has arrived in Israel for a concert on Saturday, according to her website. Her first concert on this tour in the region was in Dubai on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Amir Meiri) ISRAEL OUT

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White House press secretary Josh Earnest was among those who joined in the diplomatic uproar over an anonymous "chicken[***] remark about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Associated Press)

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Illustration on concerted international efforts to demonize Israel by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the opening session of the Knesset, Israel's parliament, in Jerusalem, Monday, Oct. 27, 2014. Netanyahu told parliament Monday that “the French build in Paris, the English build in London and the Israelis build in Jerusalem.” The government is currently advancing construction plans to build about 1,000 housing units in east Jerusalem. The Palestinians seek east Jerusalem as their future capital and oppose any Israeli construction there. The international community, including the United States, does not recognize Israel's annexation of the eastern sector of Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agrees with President Obama that the Islamic State should be defeated but sees Iran as a much larger danger. (Associated Press)

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu listens as President Barack Obama speaks in the Oval Office of the White House Oct. 1, 2014. The two leaders have long had a prickly relationship. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) **FILE**

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The group Jews Against Genocide posted a video in which the activists are shown pouring fake blood over their heads at Israel's national Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel's High Court of Justice and the Knesset. (YouTube)

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Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, speaks during the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters, Monday, Sept. 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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FILE - In this Sunday, March 24, 2013 file photo, Catholic priests carry palm fronds at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, traditionally believed by many to be the site of the crucifixion and burial of Jesus Christ, in Jerusalem's Old City. 2014 was supposed to be a record-breaking year for tourist visits to Israel. But all that changed when this summer’s 50-day war between Israel and Hamas prompted jittery travelers to cancel trips en masse, leaving empty hotel rooms and barren tourist traps in their wake. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner, File)