Israeli sources who spoke to The Tower today described a “Cold War” being fought in the media between Egyptian authorities and Hamas, as Hamas announced that it was suing [Arabic] an Egyptian news outlet over a report linking the group to a Sinai Peninsula attack that killed 16 Egyptian soldiers. Hamas...

Palestinian news agency Ma’an reported this evening that President Barack Obama will shorten his visit to the Palestinian Authority territories to just four hours, and may skip Ramallah, where the Palestinian Authority government is headquartered, entirely. Instead Obama will visit Bethlehem, according to an anonymous Palestinian government source who spoke...

All sides are maneuvering in anticipation of President Obama’s upcoming visit to Israel, where he will seek to improve the mood between the White House, Ramallah’s Muqata, and the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem. Expect a lot of symbolic gestures without perhaps too much substance. The Syrian and Iranian portfolios,...

Turkey has appointed former Ramallah Consul General Sakir Ozkan Torunlar ambassador to the “State of Palestine,” the latest in a long line of diplomatic gambits which have put Ankara at odds with Israel. The announcement comes days after Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called Zionism a “crime against humanity”...

Hamas is complaining over a February arrest sweep in the West Bank, conducted by the Palestinian Authority, that netted 66 of the Iran-backed terror group’s operatives. Those detained included 32 who had once been held in Israeli prisons. An additional 38 Hamas members and supporters had been summoned for interrogation....

Britain’s consul-general based in East Jerusalem Sir Vincent Fean was forced to flee a West Bank university Tuesday as an angry mob of students became violent, lunging at the diplomat, swarming him and attacking his vehicle, preventing him from delivering a scheduled address on campus. Although Fean appeared to escape uninjured, The Associated Press reports...