Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised Sepp Blatter, president of FIFA, the governing body of international soccer, for opposing the Palestinian move to suspend Israel from the organization, The Times of Israel reported today. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday met with FIFA President Sepp Blatter, praising the soccer chief for opposing a Palestinian...

Jason Rezaian, the Tehran bureau chief for The Washington Post who has been imprisoned for ten months, will stand trial in Iran for espionage beginning next week, Sky News reported today. State television said the first session of the trial of 39-year-old Jason Rezaian will be held on Tuesday. Two other...

The United States should transfer Massive Ordnance Penetrators (MOP), otherwise known as “bunker busters,” to Israel, as well as planes that can launch them, in order to deter Iran’s nuclear program more effectively, U.S. Representatives Grace Meng (D – N.Y.) and Lee Zeldin (R – N.Y.) wrote in an op-ed in The New...

The recently suppressed unrest in the Kudish region of Iran, “is an indication not of the regime’s strength, but of its potential weakness,” Jonathan Spyer, director of the Rubin Center, wrote in a column for The Jerusalem Post on Friday. The suppression of any hint of Kurdish separatism has remained in...

Ynet reported Monday that a Hamas terrorist was killed when a tunnel collapsed in northern Gaza. Tunnels in northern Gaza are primarily designed to allow terrorists to infiltrate Israeli territory. The incident occurred amid growing concerns that Hamas is rebuilding its terror infrastructure, much of which was destroyed by Israel...

In an op-ed published today, Sen. Angus King (I – Maine) hailed the bipartisan effort in the Senate that led to the passage of the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015 earlier this month and wrote that a nuclear-armed Iran is a danger “to the United States and to the...

In an appearance on CNN Monday, Jonathan Schanzer, Vice President for Research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, praised the United States for its raids – like the successful raid that killed Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) financier Abu Sayyaf in Syria over the weekend – but...

A bill that would prohibit the Illinois state pension fund from investing in companies that boycott Israel unanimously passed the Illinois House of Representatives Monday by a vote of 102-0. The synopsis of the bill, SB1761, reads: Amends the Illinois Procurement Code. Prohibits a State agency from entering into a...

When UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon visited the sukkah of Israeli President Reuven Rivlin during the Jewish harvest holiday of Sukkot last October, he was treated to a demonstration of a machine the government has given to Bedouin families to convert organic waste into clean bio-gas for cooking, heating, and...

ISIS’s conquest on Sunday of the Iraqi city of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, was the result of choices made by the Iraqi government interested in preserving Shiite political power and maintaining ties with Iran, Jacob Siegel and Michael Pregent wrote today in The Daily Beast. “Ramadi is predominantly Sunni, and...