The first step in fighting violent extremism is to “amplify the voices of peace and tolerance,” President Barack Obama said Thursday while appearing at the three-day Summit to Counter Violent Extremism. Obama outlined a three-part strategy for combating extremism: first discrediting the ideologies behind the extremism by appealing to forces of moderation, and then addressing the economic...

Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon met with Indian Prime Minister Narendrea Modi today in New Delhi in what The Times of Israel described as marking “the end of an era when defense deals between the allies had to be kept hush-hush.” Ya’alon’s visit, the highest-level official visit since the countries established...

Administration officials have denied reports that it has been withholding information about the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran from their Israeli counterparts, The New York Times reported yesterday. For its part, the Obama administration has been issuing strong denials that it is holding anything back. Alistair C. Baskey, a spokesman...

A plurality of Americans are in favor of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressing Congress next month on the dangers presented by a nuclear Iran, Bloomberg View’s Josh Rogin reported Tuesday. Citing the results of a recent poll, Rogin writes: How do Americans feel about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...

After chiding members of Congress for planning to boycott next month’s scheduled speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu before Congress, an editorial published Saturday in The New York Daily News urged politicians to “put global security and solidarity ahead of petty, partisan one-upmanship.” In the words of the editorial:...

The current proposal for the number of centrifuges Iran could keep under a final nuclear deal would not give the West enough to react in case Iran chose to develop a nuclear bomb, according to an analysis written this past Thursday by Dr. Dore Gold, Israel’s former ambassador to the...