The results of a poll released Tuesday by Pew Research showed continued strong support for Israel among Americans of all political denominations as Operation Protective Edge began. The press release accompanying the poll was titled As Mideast Violence Continues, a Wide Partisan Gap in Israel-Palestinian Sympathies. As violence between Israel and Hamas shows...

Norwegian Foreign Minister Borge Brende experienced what Israelis living in the country’s south go through every day when he had to flee to a bomb shelter because of Gazan rocket fire earlier today. Foreign Minister Brende had traveled to Ashkelon, 12 miles north of Gaza, when rockets fell directly on the city. At...

Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday told reporters in Vienna that “very real gaps” remain between Iran and the P5+1 global powers as the parties work to reach an agreement on Tehran’s nuclear program ahead of the July 20 expiry of the interim Joint Plan of Action (JPA): Kerry,...

An Egypt-sponsored ceasefire aimed at deescalating hostilities between Israel and Hamas failed to take hold on Tuesday, with the Israelis unilaterally suspending military action against the Hamas-dominated Gaza Strip at the designated 9:00 a.m. start time, but with Palestinian fighters subsequently exploiting the lull to launch roughly 50 rockets at...

A Washington Post editorial published today, entitled Hamas is Playing Dangerous Games with the Lives of Gazans, accused Hamas of rejecting yesterday’s ceasefire proposal in order to invite world pressure on Israel to meet Hamas’ demands. Why would Hamas insist on continuing the fight when it is faring so poorly? The only plausible answer...

Tony Blair says Israel’s acceptance of the Egyptian proposed ceasefire in Gaza was only part of a larger plan to stop the shooting and produce a long-term solution to stabilize the Gaza Strip. Those efforts were torpedoed by the Iran-backed Hamas, which rejected the ceasefire instead of entering into negotiations...

New technology developed by researchers at Tel Aviv University is being hyped to transform the way in which patients with mental illnesses are monitored and treated by clinicians. The Israeli researchers have developed a new smartphone-based system that detects changes in patients’ behavioral patterns, and then transmits them to professionals...

The eighth day of Operation Protective Edge is over. Not a joke: Syrian news says "Syria’s cabinet condemns Israel’s massacres in Gaza.” Kinda thing we see daily @UN_HRC. pic.twitter.com/prL0sWUWrd — Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) July 15, 2014 The Jerusalem Post reported yesterday: The IDF has destroyed around a third of Hamas’s...

Ynet reported on Tuesday about the wealth accumulated by the leaders of Hamas, in contrast to the poverty suffered by most residents of Gaza. The Ynet article focuses first on Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. Someone who has benefitted financially is the former Hamas prime minister in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh. Before 2006 and...

A group of international notables issued a statement Tuesday condemning Hamas’s terror war against Israel and supporting Israel’s right to defend itself, and demanding that “policy makers, international institutions, the UN, and the European Union” do the same. The statement came from the Friends of Israel Initiative, founded and headed...