Arab countries put pressure on the Palestinian Authority to discourage it from requesting recognition of independence from the United Nations Security Council, a Palestinian official revealed on October 19. Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas announced last month he would appeal to the U.N. General Assembly and then to the Security...

The Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv confirmed Sunday that it had recently treated the daughter of Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh. The Times of Israel reported: Avi Shushan, a spokesman for Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital, said the daughter of Ismail Haniyeh was hospitalized for “a number of days” this month. He...

Iranian leaders threatened “to turn Saudi Arabia into hell,” over the last few days in response to a decision by a Saudi court to sentence the Shi’ite cleric Sheikh Nimr Baqir al-Nimr to death. A day later Iran carried out a wave of arrests against Sunni clerics. The tit-for-tat exchange...

Following recent Hezbollah losses in the Syrian arena and near the Lebanese-Syrian border, there are reports of tensions and divisions inside the organization. The Saudi newspaper al-Youm reported (Arabic link) today that some of the organization’s combatants are threatening to neither fight for the organization nor return to their bases....

Israeli-made television formats are once again a hot ticket at MIPCOM, the annual entertainment and TV market held in Cannes every October. Turkey, Italy, Germany, France, Sweden and Spain have all signed deals for new original Israeli game shows and reality formats. Armoza has signed four deals for their new...

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday openly mocked boasts still being floated by top figures from the Palestinian Hamas faction – the most significant rival to his own Fatah faction – to the effect that the terror group had emerged victorious from its confrontations with Israel over the...

The student union at Goldsmiths College in London voted against commemorating the Holocaust this week by a margin of 60 to 1. Education officer Sarah El-Alfy urged students to vote against the proposal, rejecting it as “Eurocentric” and “colonialist”. One unnamed student added that, “The motion would force people to remember things they may...

On Thursday, senior Hamas official Moussa Abu Marzook announced that the group was poised to resume indirect ceasefire negotiations with Israel at the end of October. Marzook noted that while talks would likely touch on the topic of conducting a prisoner exchange for the remains of Israeli soldiers, it is...

On Wednesday, the Lebanese daily al-Akhbar, affiliated with the Shiite terrorist organization Hezbollah, reported that a senior Hamas official recently met with Hezbollah leaders in Lebanon. The Hamas official, serving as a representative on behalf of the Sunni terror group currently ruling the Gaza Strip, came for a private, off the...

Major outlets and wires focused Wednesday on the dynamics of talks between the P5+1 global powers and Iran – per Agence France-Presse (AFP), Secretary of State John Kerry met with his Iranian counterpart, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to further discuss the looming nuclear talks deadline: “We only have 40 days left to the...