In a speech today before the United Nations General Assembly (embedded below), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu identified the greatest threat to the world as “militant Islam” and argued that the threat Israel faces from Hamas is the same that the rest of the region and the world faces from...

The State Department on Friday harshly condemned a speech given earlier that day by Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas, during which Abbas told the United Nations General Assembly that Israel’s summer Operation Protective Edge against Hamas constituted a “genocidal crime,” that the Israelis had committed a “series of absolute war...

On the eve of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the United Nations General assembly focusing on the Iranian threat, The Wall Street Journal described Washington as failing to maintain its position regarding Tehran’s nuclear program. An in-house opinion piece (via Google) from the WSJ suggested “Tehran holds firm while the...

After a controversial career in politics, Shimon Peres reinvented himself as Israel’s president–and redefined the presidency. Now he has done the same with being an ex-president–and you have to admire the way he has begun his latest phase with a video launched this week showing a rather different face of the...

The sudden release of 49 Turkish diplomats held by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) since June has raised suggestions that Ankara may be secretly collaborating with ISIS to oppose Syria’s Kurdish population. Writing in the British Independent on September 21, veteran columnist Patrick Cockburn said: Mystery surrounds the...

The Irish soldiers stationed on the Golan Heights, meant to be the main security element of the United Nations force there, had to leave a key weapon behind in Ireland, leaving it much harder for them to defend their international colleagues from the threat of al-Qaeda. The story was reported...