The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reported Tuesday that leading members of the the House Foreign Affairs Committee are questioning the Obama administration’s apparent decision to cooperate with the Palestinian unity government that was agreed to last week between the ruling Fatah party and the Gaza-based terrorist group Hamas. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) and...

On Monday, a spokesman for Hamas called upon members of the terrorist organization to carry out terror attacks in the West Bank. The Times of Israel reported: “We call on the men of resistance in the West Bank, primarily the Al-Qassam Brigades, to fulfill their duty in protecting the prisoners...

Lebanon’s former head of General Security Jamil al-Sayyed, who spent four years in jail because of his alleged role in the killing of former Lebanese premier Rafik Hariri, has launched a campaign to end the power-sharing arrangement between Shi’ites, Sunnis and Druze. This would effectively pave the way for Hezbollah...

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman left the country Tuesday for a ten-day mission to Africa. According the Foreign Ministry, Liberman’s trip will be in part to promote economic cooperation—he is traveling with representatives of “some 50 companies.” Liberman’s itinerary will include Rwanda, the Ivory Coast, Ghana, Ethiopia and Kenya. In Kenya, FM...

In the June 2014 issue of The Tower Magazine, Editorial Assistant Aiden Pink wrote The Anti-Zionism of J Street. J Street is an organization that boasts of being “pro-Israel and pro-peace,” and has garnered much controversy since its founding in 2008. Recently, it was overwhelmingly defeated in its effort to be included...

Agence France-Presse (AFP) revealed on Tuesday that Iran and Germany will hold talks over Iran’s nuclear program outside the structure of ongoing P5+1 negotiations: German officials will visit Tehran on Sunday for talks on Iran’s nuclear drive, top Iranian negotiator and deputy foreign minister Abbas Araqchi said on Tuesday. The...

The Iraqi city of Mosul fell on Tuesday to fighters from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) – a jihadist group once affiliated with Al Qaeda that was subsequently disavowed for among other things being too radical and brutal – with American-trained Iraqi security forces abandoning their...

The Lebanese parliament on Monday failed for a sixth time in a row to elect a new president – parties linked to Hezbollah’s March 8 movement again boycotted the session and denied the body a necessary quorum: Lebanese parliamentarians failed on Monday in their sixth attempt to elect a new...

Top foreign policy leaders from the House of Representatives set down clear red lines on Tuesday against providing Iran with any additional financial relief – not as an extension of the current interim Joint Plan of Action (JPA), let alone as the result of a comprehensive nuclear agreement – in...

A month after the breakdown of peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian leadership after the latter signed a deal with Hamas, a poll was published today suggesting more than 50 percent of Palestinians are against a return to the negotiating table. The Palestinian Center for Public Opinion survey indicated that 56.3% were against...