Palestinian terrorists launched rockets at Israel on Sunday, marking a violation of the mostly stable ceasefire that has taken hold since Israel completed its Operation Pillar of Defense last November, which saw Jerusalem substantially degrade the advanced weaponry and military leadership of the Palestinian Hamas faction. The rocket launched was...

This weekend’s Palestinian rocket fire into Israel, after which Israel responded with airstrikes, can be traced to the war raging in Syria and, by extension, to Iran. The attack broke forty days of relative quiet. While Palestinians in Gaza have fired several rockets against Israel since Israel’s Operation Pillar of...

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met with Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah today, and apparently prevailed upon Hamdallah to retract a resignation that he had angrily tendered yesterday. Hamdallah, it turns out, was surprised to learn that he has no real power: “Hamdallah discovered that the Palestinian Authority president wants...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has been under pressure to return to negotiations with Israel, after Israeli leaders again reiterated their willingness to return to peace talks without preconditions. Yesterday Abbas told EU foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton that he too is committed to the peace process: During a meeting with...

Palestinian prime minister Rami Hamdallah this morning submitted his resignation to Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas. The story was first reported in Arabic media. Hamdallah issued an announcement via his official Twitter feed. The feed itself starkly illustrates his short tenure, which lasted some two weeks: Reuters conveyed a government...

Speaking at the fifth annual President’s Conference in Jerusalem, Quartet Representative Tony Blair ran through multiple scenarios under which Iran could be pressured economically and militarily, with varying degrees of success, regarding the opacity of its nuclear program. The former British Prime Minister declared that, of all the scenarios, an...