In Where the Shadiest Players Find a Home, published in the September 2014 issue of The Tower Magazine, Jonathan Schanzer outlines several of the dubious ties Turkey has established under the leadership (first as prime minister, now as president) of Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Schanzer observes that “Turkey’s support for Hamas remains strong,” and the...

Dr. Kamal Al-Labwani, considered one of the most prominent members of the Syrian opposition movement, was in Israel recently to visit the Syrian casualties hospitalized in the Ziv Medical Center near Safed (Tsfat). A Syrian doctor and artist, sometimes called “the Syrian Nelson Mandela,” Al-Labwani came to Israel to thank...

Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) today published the translation of an article from the official Palestinian Authority paper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida praising the treatment Palestinian workers receive from Israeli employers. The paper reported that “[w]henever Palestinian workers have the opportunity to work for Israeli employers, they are quick to quit their jobs with their Palestinian employers.”...

In an interview on Friday with the Foreign Policy Association, Foundation for Defense of Democracies executive director Mark Dubowitz explained that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and the hardliners of the regime have identical goals, with both seeking “the achievement of nuclear weapons capacity” for Iran. In response to a question...

Amer Abu Aysha and Marwan Kawasme, the suspects in the kidnapping and killing of Israeli teens Eyal Yifrach, Gil-ad Shaar, and Naftali Fraenkel, were killed early this morning in a firefight with Israeli security forces in Hebron. The Times of Israel reports: The operation was carried out by the Shin...

Israel successfully shot down a Syrian jet fighter after it flew into Israeli territory early on September 23. Israel has repeatedly made clear it will only intervene in the Syrian civil war if Israeli sovereignty is challenged. The Israel Defense Forces initial report of the incident was posted to its...

On Sunday, Paul Alster reported via The Times of Israel that the United Nations will present the Palestinian Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC) with the Equator Prize this week, despite UAWC’s ties to the terrorist group Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). Alster briefly outlined the PFLP’s history of terror, which...

Bloomberg News reported this afternoon that the Arab Bank, the biggest lender in Jordan and one of the largest in the Middle East, has been found liable for helping “Hamas militants carry out a wave of violence in Israel that killed and wounded hundreds of Americans.” The Amman-based lender did business...

Kitty might be the purrfect pet but according to a new Technion-Israel Institute of Technology study, she could also hold the clue to new anti-HIV drugs. The feline virus FIV that causes the disease in cats looks a lot like HIV. Both FIV and HIV rely on a protein called...

In an op-ed published in The Washington Post on Friday, foreign policy experts Dennis Ross, Eric Edelman, and Ray Tayekh argued that “the theocratic Iranian regime and its attempt to upend the regional order remains the United States’ most consequential long-term challenge in the Middle East.” The op-ed notes that after 9/11,...