Foreign policy analysis suggesting that Hezbollah has morphed from being an Iranian proxy into being a Lebanese national movement has not held up well in recent months. There are the overarching dynamics that situate the group within intra-Iranian politics and put them on one side of the regional Sunni-Shiite divide....

Officials from the U.S. and Israel are streaming back and forth between the two countries, as President Barack Obama solidifies his second-term team and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu forms the coalition for what will be his third term. A meeting between Israeli President Shimon Peres and a bipartisan Congressional delegation...

Egypt is sending a security delegation to Israel this week to discuss a range of security issues including the ongoing implementation of the Egyptian-brokered truce between Israel and Hamas that ended last November’s Operation Pillar of Defense. The Israeli campaign came after weeks of escalatory rocket and missile fire by Hamas-led...

Turkish officials are evaluating what if any diplomatic damage will result from new evidence of past anti-Semitic remarks by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Samuel Westrop of the Institute for Middle Eastern Democracy just published a series of old comments documented by Western and Turkish sources and going back...

Turkey’s diplomatic campaigns against Israel are negatively affecting NATO’s operational capabilities, according to Israeli Deputy National Security Chief Eran Lerman. Turkish officials have blocked Israeli participation in a range of international cooperative programs, including counterterrorism forums and forums dedicated to promoting renewable energy. By limiting Israeli participation in NATO exercises...

President Barack Obama may speak at Bar-Ilan University during his visit next month, Hebrew-language Israeli media is reporting. The location would be significant in that the university – just outside Tel Aviv in Ramat Gan – was the venue for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s landmark 2009 address in which...