Relatives of Daniel Cantor Wultz and other victims of terror won a procedural victory last Friday in their lawsuits against the Bank of China. The lawsuits stem from terror attacks in Israel between the years of 2003 and 2008. Wultz, a high school student from Florida vacationing in Israel with...

Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Monday conveyed statements from Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warning Tehran’s neighbors that they would have to pay a “high price” for supporting forces throughout the region aligned against the Islamic republic: “Unfortunately, some regional countries do not take heed of the danger of Takfiri...

The Associated Press on Monday conveyed comments from the head of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog (IAEA) assessing that the pace being made in addressing the so-called possible military dimensions (PMDs) of Iran’s nuclear program – which stretch from the Iranian military’s involvement in mining uranium all the way to tests...

Lawmakers from both major parties and both chambers of Congress moved on Monday to condemn the formation of a new Palestinian unity government – agreed to in recent days by the rival Hamas and Fatah factions, and announced Monday morning by Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas – with Al...

Yesterday the Palestinian Authority announced the formation of a unity government together with the terrorist organization Hamas. Though State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki announced that the U.S. would “work with” the new regime, Israeli officials as well as an array of U.S. lawmakers are deeply skeptical that doing so would be...

Deepening concerns that Monday’s newly announced Palestinian unity government locks in a “Hezbollah model” for any future Palestinian state – a dynamic that has among other things proven terminal to Lebanese efforts to create robust political institutions – made their way into the day’s State Department briefing: QUESTION: The –...

Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) last week released U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Anne Patterson’s congressional testimony from April erroneously claiming that the Palestinian Authority’s funding of terrorists is because “they have to provide for the families.” On April 29, Patterson presented the administration’s Middle East and North Africa budget request for...

In a rare public display of Jerusalem’s  displeasure with the State Department, Israeli Ambassador to Washington Ron Dermer took to the Facebook social-media website to offer his views on the American decision to maintain ties with the new Palestinian government. The government was formed jointly by Hamas and Fatah. The...

Thirty-five thousand people marched in the fiftieth annual Celebrate Israel Parade in New York City yesterday. The Associated Press reported: Awash in white and blue — the colors of Israel’s flag — tens of thousands of onlookers cheered the celebration that also featured a model of an Israeli spacecraft. … The...

Analysis from U.S. and Israel-based experts emerged last week casting doubt on the robustness of existing and planned Iranian nuclear concessions, with observers evaluating the matter both in the context of negotiations and as it is likely to affect the calculations of Iran’s neighbors. Dr. Emily B. Landau, the head...