In his observations about Secretary of State John Kerry’s visit to Saudi Arabia last week, columnist Tariq Al-Homayed of the London-based Saudi daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat charged that an agreement between the West and Iran over the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program that fails to end Iran’s occupation of other countries or stop its sponsorship...

Over the past two days, both U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki have admitted that the current nuclear deal being negotiated with Iran is “non-binding.” Speaking at a hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today, Kerry said that the deal is not “legally binding.” “We’ve been...

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...

A analysis for the Institute for National Security Studies published Tuesday argued that Iran’s claims of victimization are a “nuclear fairy tale,” part of a “a public campaign to persuade the media and public opinion” that it is being unfairly targeted by a “bullying hegemonic West.” In the analysis, Shimon Stein and Emily Landau...

A video released Tuesday by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) shows the killing of an Arab-Israeli recruit, who had left his home to join ISIS, for purportedly being a spy. The Times of Israel reports: In the video, Muhammad Said Ismail Musallam, 20, was seen kneeling in...

Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi, an Iranian cleric who has been identified in news reports as a hardliner, was elected Tuesday to head Iran’s Assembly of Experts, the body charged with selecting a new Supreme Leader upon the death of the current Ayatollah. Reuters reports: The surprise choice of Ayatollah Mohammad Yazdi...

What does an Israeli company developing a real-time crime-reporting system have in common with an Israeli company developing an obesity treatment? Each is paired with a Singaporean entity through the Singapore-Israel Industrial R&D Foundation (SIIRD). Since 1997, 140 joint Israeli-Singaporean industrial R&D projects have been supported and facilitated through this...

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,...

In an interview with Erin Burnett on CNN yesterday, David Hazony, editor of The Tower, said that the success of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before Congress last week shouldn’t be measured in electoral terms, but rather in diplomatic terms. By this measure, Hazony said, Netanyahu “made his case exceptionally well.” I’m...

The controversy that arose after 47 Republican senators sent a letter to the leadership of Iran on Monday—in which they pointed out that any agreement over Iran’s nuclear program that did not have congressional approval would only last as long as President Barack Obama’s White House tenure—has led to increased media coverage over the issue of Congress’...