A federal judge in Manhattan, George B. Daniels, ordered the Palestinian Authority (PA) to post a $10 million bond and pay $1 million more per month as it appeals a verdict that found it liable for a series of terrorist attacks in Israel that killed 33 people and injured over...

A sixth Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Brendan Boyle (D – Pa.) from the Philadelphia area, announced his opposition to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in an op-ed published Sunday in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Citing his experience as a member of the committee and its...

The nuclear agreement between Iran and the P5+1 powers, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), will provide Tehran with the means “to produce [enriched] uranium on an industrial scale” after fifteen years, according to an analysis of the deal published yesterday in The New York Times. This would...

A Syrian school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the human development agency devoted to Palestinian refugees, posted two cartoons encouraging the killing of Jews by cars on its Facebook page, blogger “Elder of Ziyon” reported yesterday. One cartoon featured a smiling Palestinian boy attacking a caricature of...

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani hailed the unveiling of a new ballistic missile, saying that Iran “will not ask for permission or abide by any resolution” to procure any weapons it needs, Reuters reported Saturday. Rouhani’s declaration challenges the terms of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231, which endorsed the Joint Comprehensive...

Ray Takeyh, a former State Department official and senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, called on President Barack Obama to negotiate a better nuclear deal with Iran which, unlike the current agreement, will be approved by a majority of Americans and their congressional lawmakers, in an op-ed published...

An increasing majority of Americans oppose the nuclear deal with Iran, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), according to a poll released yesterday by CNN. The poll further revealed that 60% of Americans disapprove of the way President Barack Obama has handled negotiations with Tehran. As Congress...

Hussein Sheikholeslam, a senior adviser to Iran’s Speaker of Parliament, told the Hamas-affiliated newspaper al-Resalah that Tehran “reject[s] the existence of any Israeli on this earth,” a position he says Iran relayed to the P5+1 powers during the nuclear negotiations, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. According to Sheikholeslam, Iran...

Rep. Ed Royce (R – Calif.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, criticized the side deal between the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Iran in a statement released yesterday. The deal authorizes Iran, rather than the IAEA, to collect evidence from its suspected nuclear research site at the Parchin military base. It is...

The Israel Defense Forces identified an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) – Qods Force general as being responsible for yesterday’s rocket attacks into northern Israel and, in retaliation, launched a series of raids against Syrian military targets, The Times of Israel reported today. According to a senior Israeli security official, Saeed...