Terror groups in the Sinai Peninsula launched rockets into Israel Friday night, another worrying sign that the territory may be in the midst of a percipitous slide into anarchy and violence. The rockets caused some damage but no injuries. The Morsi government has overseen a dramatic deterioration in the security situation in...

Responding to months of rocket barrages by Hamas-led terror groups targeting more than a million Israeli civilians, the IDF today launched a widespread campaign targeting military infrastructure and operatives in the Gaza Strip. The campaign has been identified by Israeli military officials as “Operation Pillar Of Defense,” and began with a pin-point strike targeting...

West Bank: Media and political analysis of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s diplomatic gambit to achieve statehood via a United Nations declaration, rather than through negotiations with Israel, is increasingly revolving around the diplomatic consequences of Abbas’s open “defiance” of U.S. President Obama. The language, which was used yesterday by Reuters...

Gaza: Over 160 rockets and mortars have been fired at Israeli civilians since Saturday by Hamas-led Palestinian terrorist groups. The rocket escalation, which comes in parallel to other tactics and raises concerns that Hamas is trying to drag Israel into a diplomatically costly group war, drew condemnation from UN Secretary-General...

On a phone call with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, U.S. President Barack Obama reiterated his opposition to a planned diplomatic gambit by the Palestinian leader, under which the Palestinians would secure non-member statehood at the United Nations. What journalists are labeling Abbas’s open ‘defiance’ of Obama’s explicit appeals may...

The security situation on Israel’s southern border with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip deteriorated sharply over the weekend, with Palestinian terror groups led by Hamas launching more than one hundred rockets and mortars at Israeli civilians Saturday and into Monday. The attacks, which target more than one millions Israelis, are part of an...