“Terrorism” is not the term the Turkish government prefers to use when it refers to the groups that it supports across the Middle East. But when terrorists affiliated with these groups staged attacks in France, a key ally, Turkey rushed to condemn them and tried to parlay its support for France into...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was welcomed to Turkey with a knight’s honor by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. When the two shook hands on the steps of Erdogan’s new luxurious and controversial palace in Ankara, they were surrounded by 16 guards dressed as knights in armor and carrying spears or...

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin delivered a eulogy today in Jerusalem for Yoav Hattab, Yohan Cohen, Francois-Michel Saada, and Philippe Braham, the four French Jews who were killed at a Paris kosher supermarket last Friday: Dear families, Yoav, Yohan, Philippe, Francois-Michel, this is not how we wanted to welcome you to Israel. This...

In the wake of last week’s terror attacks in Paris that left seventeen people dead, French authorities have decided on the largest “military force in France has … used in civilian protection” to date, The Washington Post reported today. The extraordinary measures marked the first time such a large military force in...

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has claimed that if the Jews leave France, France “will be judged a failure.” Valls made those remarks in an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic on Saturday. The choice was made by the French Revolution in 1789 to recognize Jews as full citizens,” Valls told me....

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday was among the fifty-six world leaders who joined an estimated 3.7 million people in the largest gathering in French history in a show of unity in the aftermath of last week’s terror attacks in Paris that left seventeen people dead. Bloomberg News reports: Thousands of...