Saudi Arabia has suspended most of the aid it sends to its southern neighbor, Yemen, in response to the hold the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels have over the capital city of Sanaa, according to a Reuters report yesterday. Yemen, which is battling an al Qaeda insurgency, a southern secessionist movement, endemic corruption and...

President Barack Obama has selected former Pentagon official Ashton Carter to serve as his next Secretary of Defense, according to reports. Carter, who served as Deputy Secretary of Defense—the Pentagon’s second-highest position—from 2011-2013 and as Assistant Secretary of Defense under Bill Clinton, is perceived to be particularly strong on nuclear non-proliferation issues, which may have implications...

The symbolic vote today in France’s National Assembly supporting Palestinian statehood is “a grave error” according to French-Jewish lawmaker Meyer Habib. Habib, who represents French citizen in eight Mediterranean countries including Israel, also said that the vote “will remove France from any position in which it can participate in any...

In an account published yesterday in The Atlantic, former reporter for the Associated Press (AP) Matti Friedman explains how bias develops and influences international reporting from Israel. Friedman identifies both news agencies and NGO’s as effectively complicit in advancing the Hamas media strategy in particular and anti-Israel narrative bias more broadly. He notes:...

Israeli Minister of Economy Naftali Bennett has launched the flagship “Water City” project in China, which will help open the Chinese market to Israeli water companies as well as advance bilateral relations. The city of Shougang in the Shandong province was chosen as the focus of Israel’s water-related activities in...

Recent commentary in Gulf-based Arab media expresses concern that the nuclear negotiations between the West and Iran will weaken the standing of the Arab states. The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) published a sampling of reaction across the region on Sunday. MEMRI summarized some of the themes it detected...