Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New York Monday evening, marking the first time in more than a decade that prime ministers of the two countries met. The Times of Israel reports: […] India is also one of Israel’s most important trade partners in the...

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...

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...

The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday used the government-controlled Fars News Agency to signal opposition to a proposed deal with the P5+1 that would see Tehran gaining wide-ranging sanctions relief in exchange for removing the “plumbing” between its tens of thousands of centrifuges, a few days after the contours of...

The Senate late Thursday unanimously passed bipartisan legislation establishing Israel as a “major strategic partner” of the United States, putting into motion expanded cooperation across areas as diverse as security, energy, and trade. The bill had been authored by Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo) and had gained 81...

Western powers on Thursday criticized Iran for its ongoing refusal to provide the UN’s nuclear watchdog (IAEA) with the cooperation that the agency requires to fully investigate the so-called “possible military dimensions” (PMDs) of Tehran’s atomic program, statements that the BBC conveyed alongside an assessment from officials that ‘a breakthrough in...