Thirty-seven Gaza children who had traveled to the Erez border crossing for a trip into Israel were prohibited from entering by the terrorist organization Hamas. The New York Times reports: Israeli officials and organizers of the highly unusual weeklong peace-building visit said that it had been fully coordinated with the...

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R- S.C.) promised Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Saturday night that Congress would react strongly to any United Nations Security Council (UNSC) efforts to impose a peace settlement on Israel. Graham also referred to statements made by President Barack Obama saying that he agreed with the sentiment that “the...

Israeli security officers arrested two Palestinians suspected of throwing a firebomb that wounded an 11-year-old Israeli girl and her father. During questioning, both confessed to carrying out the attack, The Jerusalem Post reported. The two, one of them a 16-year-old, were arrested early Friday morning soon after the incident near Nablus...

As Fatah and Hamas fight over control of the rebuilding in Gaza, Israel is showing “flexibility” in allowing in raw materials to enter the Strip, Neri Zilber, a visiting scholar at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, reported in an article published Sunday in Politico. The Gazan population is growing...

The new Indian government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is considering a “tectonic” adjustment in its foreign policy by no longer voting for the Palestinians in the United Nations, The Hindu, a leading Indian newspaper, reported Monday. In what could amount to a tectonic shift in the country’s foreign policy, the Modi...

In an interview in The New York Times published today, former Israeli chief negotiator Tzipi Livni detailed how Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas undermined the American-sponsored peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians. Livni’s account, given to the Times‘s Roger Cohen, identified three specific episodes that led to the collapse of the talks. On March 17, in...