The Times of Israel reported Thursday that terror groups affiliated with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah movment have joined Hamas and other Islamist groups in firing rockets into Israel. Palestinian Affairs correspondent Elhanan Miller of the Times writes: The Nidal Al-Amody force of Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades claimed responsibility for...

A Wall Street Journal editorial published Tuesday called attention to what the outlet described as Iran’s critical “role in fueling Middle East terror,” a dynamic that the Journal read alongside an ongoing Israeli campaign – Operation Protective Edge – to halt weeks of escalatory rocket and missile fire from the...

Hamas on Wednesday claimed credit for a rocket barrage targeting Israel’s nuclear reactor in the city of Dimona, issuing a statement boasting that the terror group’s fighters had attempted to hit the reactor with long-range M75 rockets: Hamas claimed responsibility for the rockets, stating that it had been attempting to hit...

In an editorial published Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal commented on the findings of a report recently issued by a United Nations committee regarding the illegal Iranian arms shipment found on the Klos C, a ship that Israel intercepted in March. The weapons were found hidden under bags cement. The editorial (Google search  terms)...

In a TV interview, a Hamas spokesman called on Gaza residents to act as human shields. The terror organization also urged Palestinians to ignore Israel Defense Forces warnings of impending aerial strikes. These are just the latest examples in a string of flagrant breaches of international law as reported by The...

Condemnation of Israel’s Operation Protective Edge has come from the expected sources in the Middle East. Turkey was one of the first to roundly condemn Jerusalem, without expressing any sympathy for Israeli civilians forced to shelters because of Hamas rocket fire from Gaza. The Turkish Foreign Ministry issued a statement...

With the media spotlight focused on Hamas rockets from Gaza falling on Israeli cities and Israel’s military response, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was preparing late yesterday to sign a request to join the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will convene the Palestinian leadership at 3:30 P.M....

As the second day of Operation Protective Edge was winding down yesterday, the biggest news was that M-302 rockets, similar to the ones smuggled by Iran to Gaza in the past, struck Zichron Yaakov, just south of Haifa. An M-302 also hit the northern city of Hadera yesterday. Hamas also reportedly aimed rockets towards...

Over the past few weeks, Israelis have been shocked at the kidnappings and murders of three Jewish and one Arab youth, and the resumption of shelling from Gaza. But reactions aren’t limited to fear, sadness and anger. In typical Israeli fashion, people are thinking out of the box to help...

Turkey’s Hurriyet Daily News on Monday reported that security officials acting at the behest of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) had launched a wide-ranging sweep – the outlet described it as taking place across 30 provinces in Turkey – aimed at followers of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who...