Shurat Hadin, the Israel Law Center, has targeted three more Palestinian officials for war crimes prosecutions in the International Criminal Court, The Times of Israel reported Monday. The three officials named in the complaints filed with the International Criminal Court (ICC) are “PA Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah, Abbas’s deputy; minister...

Turkey’s regime is trying to hide any evidence that holds Turkish leaders responsible for the support of terrorist groups, especially the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), Turkish media is reporting. Turkey officially denies all accusations that it supports activities of terrorists and allows them to pass through its territory to fight...

A news site belonging to Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) revealed a plan (Arabic link) by which Iran intends to gain control over Yemen. The plan lists three different tactics that the rebel Houthi Shiites in Yemen “have to take” in order to conquer the whole country. According to the Amarion website (Persian...

A Palestinian gambit that saw Ramallah apply or membership in the International Criminal Court was met with swift criticism from U.S. lawmakers, who threatened repercussions for the Palestinian Authority (PA) following President Mahmoud Abbas’ Wednesday announcement. The bid puts the PA in violation of U.S. legislation that conditions aid –...

Palestinian efforts to impose a final peace agreement upon Israel by appealing to international bodies constitutes a “fundamental breach” of the Oslo Accords, former Ambassador Alan Baker wrote in a ten-point analysis for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA) on Monday. Baker formerly served as legal adviser and deputy director-general of Israel’s Ministry...

In the lead article of the January 2015 issue of Commentary, Omri Ceren writes that despite assurances from the Obama administration that the nuclear negotiations with Iran would halt Iran’s progress towards a nuclear bomb, the Iranians have instead been “protected from new pressure and allowed to pursue their work toward obtaining...

Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani sharply attacked (Arabic link) official Iranian media outlets, accusing them of spreading lies and perpetuating anarchy throughout the Islamic Republic. Rafsanjani is now the chairman of the Iranian Expediency Discernment Council, an assembly which has an important advisory role to the Republic’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali...

Palestinian Authority security officers arrested (Arabic link) Bara Ayyash, the son of the deceased Hamas terrorist Yahya Ayyash, on Sunday evening. Bara’s mother claimed (Arabic link) her son has been arrested several times on suspicion of incitement against the Palestinian Authority on Facebook. Bara’s arrest took place a day before...

The American Historical Association, the largest society of historians and professors of history in the United States, voted down anti-Israel resolutions at their annual meeting yesterday. Inside Higher Ed reports: At their annual meeting here, members of the American Historical Association rejected — by a vote of 144 to 51 —...

Former American peace negotiator Dennis Ross argued in a New York Times op-ed today that it is time to hold the Palestinians accountable for their failure to make peace. At the beginning of his op-ed, Ross recalled a recent conversation he had with a European official sympathetic to the Palestinians. Ross told him that if...