An unsigned editorial in The New York Times Saturday, placed the blame of the lack of a nuclear deal squarely on Iran. The criticism is especially notable as the Times has been a very strong supporter of a nuclear deal with Iran. The editors of Times pull no punches in...

The Times of Israel on Wednesday cited a range of developments indicating that Hamas was at risk of a downward popularity spiral after having failed to secure any substantial gains from this summer’s war with Israel. Veteran journalist Arab affairs journalist Avi Issacharoff assessed that the terror group had emerged from Operation Protective...

Hisham Melhem, the Washington bureau chief of Al-Arabiya, wrote an article for this week’s Politico magazine explaining the political dysfunction in the Arab world.  At the outset Melhem laments that “[t]he Arab world today is more violent, unstable, fragmented and driven by extremism—the extremism of the rulers and those in opposition—than at...

Pollution monitoring app BreezoMeter recently won the Startup Open contest in Israel and joined the list of the World’s Top 50 Most Promising Startups, also known as the GEW50. The BreezoMeter app was invented to make air pollution visible and get people to demand cleaner air. Using real time big data analysis, the...

Based on “highly reliable information,” Israel’s Intelligence Minister, Yuval Steinitz charged today that Iran used its Parchin military base to test detonators for nuclear weapons. Reuters reports: A statement from Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz, issued a day before Iranian President Hassan Rouhani – the architect of Tehran’s diplomacy with the...

The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday used the government-controlled Fars News Agency to signal opposition to a proposed deal with the P5+1 that would see Tehran gaining wide-ranging sanctions relief in exchange for removing the “plumbing” between its tens of thousands of centrifuges, a few days after the contours of...

According to a report Saturday in the Los Angeles Times, under some conditions the latest reported P5+1 “face-saving” offer to Iran to unplug but not dismantle their centrifuges could be “restored in days.” Experts said the idea of disconnecting centrifuges, in various forms, has been present in Western talks with...

After a controversial career in politics, Shimon Peres reinvented himself as Israel’s president–and redefined the presidency. Now he has done the same with being an ex-president–and you have to admire the way he has begun his latest phase with a video launched this week showing a rather different face of the...

The growing friction between Fatah and Hamas over reconstruction funds in Gaza led to Hamas officers robbing a bank, it was reported Saturday. The journalist Khaled Abu Toameh recounted the incident on the website of the Gatestone Institute. Both Hamas and Fatah are desperate for cash and are ready to do everything to enrich...

The New York Times revealed this weekend that the United States was “open” to an agreement with Iran that would allow the Islamic Republic to unplug the “plumbing” on its uranium enrichment infrastructure in exchange for wide-ranging sanctions relief, functionally reversing what had long been the West’s insistence that the...