Iran dispatched a high-ranking military officer to Lebanon to lead a cleanup of Hezbollah after feared leaks to the West and Israel and mistakes made in Lebanon and Syria, according to the April 1 edition of The Daily Star Lebanon. The changes are a response to violations committed within party...

Last week American ratings agency, Standard and Poor’s issued its report on Israel’s economy. The ratings agency affirmed Israel’s highest ratings for both long term and short term obligations – A+ and A-1 respectively. The Times of Israel reports that Israel benefited from “prosperous and diverse economy.” The ratings agency also...

Just a day after Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah spoke of “coffins of Israeli soldiers,” the organization has thrown into disarray internal Lebanese talks about a national dialogue. The Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Manar TV said the reason for the party’s boycott of the Dialogue session was what it termed [Lebanese President Michel] Suleiman’s...

In what is being dubbed as the biggest corruption scandal in Israeli history, former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was convicted this week of bribery committed during his tenure as mayor of Jerusalem. Nine other defendants were convicted as well, including Olmert’s successor Uri Lupolianski, and three were acquitted in the...

On the day Israel offered yet more concessions for peace, the Palestine Liberation Organization further entrenched its position insisting any future Palestinian state be built on all the land captured by Israel during the 1967 Six-Day War. It stressed the Palestinian people “hanging on to their legitimate national rights, first...

Two former heads of Israel’s National Security Council (NSC) spoke out Thursday at the ongoing failure of peace negotiations to bring about any sense of compromise on the part of the Palestinians. Speaking at Bar Ilan University’s Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, former National Security Adviser Uzi Arad noted that...