Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday rejected the possibility that diplomatic initiatives publicly fronted by Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif would include broader rapprochement between Tehran and the West. “There are no benefits in having relations or negotiations with the United States, except in certain specific cases,” Khamenei...

Prof. William Schabas, who has been tabbed by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to investigate war crimes that may have been committed during the recent hostilities between Israel and Hamas, tried to deflect charges that he is biased against Israel in an interview yesterday with Israel’s Channel 2....

Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth late on Monday published extensive details of what is reportedly an all-but-complete agreement – stipulating steps to be taken by Israel, Hamas, Egypt, and the Palestinian Authority (PA) – aimed at bringing an end to the current round of fighting between Hamas and Jerusalem. “Hamas cannot say that it...

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) today appointed a commission to investigate the commission of war crimes during Operation Protective Edge. Many of the commission’s members have a history of flagrantly anti-Israel statements. According to the UN’s announcement: In a statement released this afternoon, the Council’s President, Ambassador Baudelaire Ndong...

Israel envisions a demilitarized Gaza where Palestinian civilians receive humanitarian aid and supplies, but Hamas is cut off from getting resupplied with materials or money, according to Justice Minister Tzipi Livni. Livni headed the Israeli peace negotiations with the Palestinians, but has been a mainstream supporter of Operation Protective Edge. She presented...

Writing Friday in The Wall Street Journal, Claudia Rosett, a journalist in residence with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, takes United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to task for decrying the “suffering” in Gaza when it is one of his organization’s agencies, United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is...