Despite the promise from Palestinian Authority President Mahmnoud Abbas that the new government he created with Hamas would reject violence, some 56 rockets have been fired from Hamas’ Gaza stronghold in the two weeks since three Israeli teens were abducted. The latest barrage on Saturday night led to the destruction...

In an op-ed published Wednesday in the Wall Street Journal, Israeli Justice Minister Tzipi Livni, who was tapped last year by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to head peace talks for Jerusalem, and who during the most recent negotiations with the Palestinians was a key figure in laying the groundwork for Secretary...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu criticized on Monday the Palestinian Authority’s continued granting of substantial monthly salaries and grants upon the release of incarcerated terrorists. These monthly salaries range from $3,500 to $25,000. The terrorists’ salaries and grants are determined by the number of years that they spent in an Israeli prison for their...

A poll commissioned by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy that was released yesterday shows that “fewer than 30% of Palestinians now support a ‘two-state solution’: a West Bank/Gaza Palestinian state in lasting peace with Israel.” According to David Pollock of the Washington Institute, who wrote an analysis of the...

In the wake of increased rocket attacks from Gaza against Israel’s southern population centers, Hamas official Mahmoud al-Zahar announced an agreement with Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) on Tuesday night. The Jerusalem Post reports: “There will be no security for the Zionists over and under the land,” Zahar said in a...

Five rockets were fired at Israel from Gaza Tuesday evening. Two of the rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system before they could explode in populated areas. One of the rockets fell short and exploded in a Palestinian home in Gaza. The blast from that rocket killed...