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alestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas is livid over the decision by the government earlier Sunday to assign about 4,000 dunams (988 acres) of land in Judea and Samaria as state land. Most of the land involved is in the Gush Etzion region. The decision opens the possibility of further construction in the region. The decision is one of Israel's responses to the kidnapping and murder of Israeli teens Eyal Yifrah, Naftali Frenkel, and Gilad Sha'ar. The three were kidnapped in Gush Etzion and their bodies were found several weeks later in a field near Hevron. Speaking Sunday evening, Abbas spokesperson...

“Just imagine if these were your children, or any children you know,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said on the floor of the Senate Thursday, making the case for the three abducted teens in Israel. “Just imagine if your child was kidnapped for 14 days –and you don’t know where they are, or even whether they’re still alive.” The three teens, Naftali Frankel, Gilad Sha’ar and Eyal Yifrah, ages 16 through 19, were taken from a bus stop after school June 12 in the West Bank near the city of Hebron. Frankel holds dual U.S-Israeli citizenship. “These are teenagers who were...