The Jerusalem Post reported today that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas criticized Hamas for refusing to accept a ceasefire until this week, as well as for carrying out summary executions last week. He confirmed that Hamas targeted Fatah members in Gaza and condemned their public executions. “Kill spies within the...

The United Nations (UN) confirmed today that 43 member of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) in Syria have been detained. The Associated Press reports: An armed group detained 43 U.N. peacekeepers during fighting in Syria early Thursday and another 81 peacekeepers are trapped, the United Nations said. The peacekeepers were...

Earlier this week, the Jerusalem Post reported that Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi had harsh words for the countries of Turkey and Qatar. The Egyptian president told a group of newspaper editors that “Qatar, Turkey and the international organization of the Brotherhood are currently establishing many companies, newspapers and websites. They allocated hundreds of millions...

The Times of Israel reported today on a Friday sermon given by a Spanish imam which “prayed for God to ‘destroy the plundering Jews” and “not spare a single one of them.'” A video of the sermon (embedded below) was translated and transcribed by the Middle East Media Research Institute...

The Syrian air force targeted positions held by rebels, including Islamists from the al-Qaeda-affiliated al Nusra Front, close to the Israeli border on the Golan Heights on August 28. The attack followed the reported capture of the Syrian side of the Quneitra border crossing with Israel a day earlier. While...

On Monday, the IDF translated and published the contents of a Hamas bomb-making manual that it captured during Operation Protective Edge. The IDF blog quotes from the manual: The explosives manual recommends teaching civilians how to build and store bombs in their homes. According to the manual, the goal is...

The city of Los Angeles has signed a memorandum of understanding with the city of Eilat to create a joint task force on environmental and clean-technology initiatives. The sister cities hope to promote collaboration and advancement in technology investment, business development and research opportunities in clean technology, water resources, solar...

Today is the fifty-first day of Operation Protective Edge #Hamas celebrates "victory" with celebrations that leave 1 dead and dozens injured. Meanwhile, #Israel mourns every death on both sides — StandWithUs (@StandWithUs) August 27, 2014 In a speech today, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Operation Protective Edge a success. Herb...

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel released a statement yesterday announcing that seven Western nations would be sending arms to the Kurds to help them fight off the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Albania, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, Italy, France and the United Kingdom “have committed to helping provide Kurdish...

Emily Landau, a senior research fellow at Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies, warns in a paper published Wednesday that the P5+1, the six countries negotiation with Iran, risk “a bad nuclear deal” by failing to deal with two crucial issues. While most of the public discussion about the negotiations has focused...