Israeli border police on Friday apprehended a man they believed was on his way to a suicide attack. The police, near the Tapuach Junction in Samaria, noticed a man, believed to be in his twenties wearing a heavy coat in 95 degree heat. Israel Hayom reports that initially the suspect refused to stop:...

State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki has flatly rejected reports published initially by Agence France Press (AFP) and reprinted in the Jerusalem Post, Al-Arabiya and other outlets according to which Washington had extended an invitation to the newly picked prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, Rami Hamdallah. In the earlier report, an unnamed Palestinian official...

English-language Arabic media outlets on Thursday conveyed reports that Saudi Arabia had officially implemented the Kingdom’s first financial sanctions against Hezbollah, months after the Saudis – along with allies inside the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) – had designated the Iran-backed terror group and committed to moving against its financial assets: The Saudi Interior Ministry withdrew...

Journalist Khaled Abu Toameh reported today that the Palestinian Authority regards the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement as inimical to their interests. In the West, BDS activists often present themselves as champions of the Palestinian cause. Ironically, many Palestinians don’t see them that way. Abu Toameh writes: For some PA...

In an interview last night with Gwen Ifill of PBS NewsHour, Secretary of State John Kerry said that Israel’s decision to wait “to see what happens with the Hamas reconciliation” was “appropriate.” Toward the end of the interview in which the Secretary addressed various foreign policy issues, Ifill asked him if...

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday officially asked sitting Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah to lead a planned government agreed to by the rival Fatah and Hamas factions, as analysts expressed deepening worries that the terms of the unity deal would lock in an unprecedented arrangement fundamentally altering the status of...

New figures published late Thursday indicate that Iran will bust through caps on crude exports set by the interim Joint Plan of Action (JPA) for the seventh month in a row – with the exported amounts in May, ostensibly limited to 1 million barrels per day (bpd), actually increasing over April’s output –...

A hacking campaign targeting American and Israeli has been exposed by a cybersecurity company on Thursday. The Washington Post reports that iSight Partners uncovered the scheme. Since at least 2011, the hackers have targeted current and former senior military officials, including a four-star admiral; current and former foreign policy officials who...

At least seven Israelis were injured yesterday in a series of attacks around Jerusalem during celebrations of Jerusalem Day, the forty-seventh anniversary of the city’s liberation from Jordanian occupation. The Times of Israel reported that an Egged bus was stoned as it traveled on Salah a-Din street in a largely...

Two weeks ago, two Palestinian teenagers were said to have been shot dead by Israeli soldiers in the Palestinian town of Beitunia. The Algemeiner today has cataloged a number of the questions that have emerged about the shootings. While there’s been little follow-up to the initial reports of the incidents in America’s mainstream...