Leaders of the Free Gaza Movement, a U.S.-based organization which has led “flotilla” efforts to break Israel’s blockade of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, used the group’s official social media outlets to blame “Zionists” for the Holocaust. The group, whose board of advisors includes human rights activists such as author...

The Syrian civil war also impacted the Syrian-Israeli border yesterday, as dozens of armed men congregated on the Syrian side of the cease-fire line on the Golan Heights. The provocation, which led Israel to promptly shut down a tourist site as a precaution, follows several mortar shells which were fired into...

Syria and Turkey exchanged fire yesterday, after Turkey shelled direct targets in response to a Syrian-fired mortar which killed five Turkish civilians. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused the Syrian regime of a “provocation” targeting Turkish “national security,” while Turkey’s deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc suggested Turkey would pursue...

Iranian Demonstrators took the streets in protest after the rial lost 40 percent of its value in one week, chanting that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was a “traitor” and forcing Iran’s main bazaar to close for the day. Ahmadinejad is identified with the Iranian regime’s nuclear program and with suspicions...

The post-Arab Spring Middle East is coalescing into new and potentially destabilizing camps, according to analysts commenting on Hamas’s move out of the Syrian-Iranian orbit and into that of Egypt. Syrian state television lashed out at Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, a former ally of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, after Mashaal attended...

Hamas is struggling to cope with evidence linking its security forces to tortures and summary executions, as reports spread that three Palestinians were recently executed on the basis of “confessions” given under coercion. The Iranian proxy, which controls the Gaza Strip, was criticized over the abuses by Human Rights Watch. Watchdog...

Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared that Iran will “never back down” from its nuclear program, while Mansour Haqiqatpour, deputy head of the parliament’s Foreign Policy and National Security Committee, threatened that Iran may enrich parts of its uranium stockpile to 60 percent. Haqiqatpour’s threat echoed an argument that Iran has been publicly...

An adviser to Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi has declared the entirety of Israel as “Occupied Arab Palestine.” Said Mohammed Saif Al-Dawla, an Arab nationalist and Morsi’s adviser for Arab affairs, “this will remain its name till the end of time, and this is a national principle as well as a historic...

The security situation along the Egyptian-Israeli border has reached a “crisis point” due to Egyptian inaction.Cairo’s unwillingness or inability to maintain control over the Sinai Peninsula, which Israel ceded to Egypt as part of the Camp David Accords in exchange for what has turned out to be an increasingly cold peace...

Two months of attacks on Aleppo by the Assad regime have left the historic Syrian city in ruins. Municipal services have been cut, leaving neighborhoods without electricity or drinking water, health centers closed, and police stations abandoned. Reports have consistently noted uncollected corpses left uncollected in the open. On Monday, a mortar...