Dr. Anat Berko, an internationally recognized expert on terrorism who specializes in studying the motivations of suicide terrorists, was elected to the 20th Knesset yesterday. Berko, who agreed to join the Likud party in December, is also a former lieutenant colonel in the IDF. The Jerusalem Post gave a brief biography...

The Palestinian Authority responded to the electoral victory of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday by threatening to continue diplomatic warfare against Israel. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reports: “It is clear that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will form the next government, and for that, we say clearly that we will go...

As part of its ongoing policy of expanding its influence in the region, Iran is now trying to strengthen its ties with branches of the Muslim Brotherhood throughout the Middle East. According to analysts in the Arab world, this was the purpose (Arabic link) of the latest trip by Ali...

An investigation into the Associated Press’s news coverage of last summer’s war between Israel and Hamas found that an AP report published last month analyzing the death toll in Gaza was “botched in just about every imaginable way.” In an article for The New York Observer published Tuesday, journalists Richard Behar and Gary Weiss found that the news organization...

A public opinion poll (Arabic link) conducted recently found that nearly half of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip believe that Hamas movement is the main party responsible for the endless split between Gaza and the West Bank. The poll was conducted by the Jerusalem Media and Communication Centre in the...

The terrorist organization Hamas misused international law during Operation Protective Edge last summer “to undermine Israel’s perceived moral standing and international support,” according to a report commissioned by the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) and released this week. The report (.pdf), which was written by a task force headed by five retired American generals,...