A meeting of top Israeli political leaders on Thursday, called in order to chart Jerusalem’s response to a Wednesday announcement by Palestinian leaders that the rival Fatah and Hamas factions had agreed to a deal that would see the formation of a unity government with members from both groups, concluded...

The latest announcement of a reconciliation deal between Fatah and Hamas is raising serious questions about the future of the peace process. Indeed, Hamas leaders close to the negotiations reiterated Hamas’ rejectionist, pro-terror stance just before the deal was announced. The Hamas website interviewed the terror organization’s co-founder and senior leader Mahmoud al-Zahar,...

Israel suspended peace talks with the Palestinians yesterday in the wake of a unity deal between the Palestinian Authority and the Hamas terror organization that currently rules the Gaza Strip. We offer the following reminders as to the nature of the latter group. 1. Hamas Is an Internationally Recognized Terror Organization....

In celebration of Earth Day this week, daytime talk-show hostess Ellen DeGeneres gave away SodaStream machines to her studio audience. She is the latest high profile celebrity to promote the Israeli company. Honest Reporting observed: A-list celebrities continue to line up behind SodaStream, the fizzy water company that’s been the...

Reuters reported on Wednesday that the U.S. will be delivering ten Apache helicopters to Egypt, conveying a statement from the Pentagon explaining that the decision had already been passed along to Cairo by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel: US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel informed his Egyptian counterpart of the decision, which...

Efforts to extend the Middle East peace talks under the auspices of American Secretary of State John Kerry were undermined earlier this week when the Fatah faction headed by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas reached a unity agreement with the terrorist organization Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip. The deal prompted State Department spokeswoman...

Members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Wednesday called for an investigation into allegations that Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime had recently deployed chemical weapons against civilians and opposition elements, after members of the body received a closed-door briefing from a coordinator charged with removing portions of Assad’s vast...

Saudi Arabian prince Turki al-Faisal, a former intelligence chief and still a top figure in the country’s royal family, reportedly told a Bahraini security conference on Wednesday that Gulf states should cooperate on obtaining “nuclear know-how” in order to balance gains made by Iran, the latest in what has become...

State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki on Wednesday blasted the announcement, made earlier in the day by top Palestinian figures including Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas, that the rival Fatah and Hamas factions had settled on an agreement that would among other things lead to the establishment of a new...

In the wake of last week’s brazen meeting of top Al-Qaeda terrorists in Yemen, American forces acting together with Yemeni commandos raided a suspected Al-Qaeda hideout Sunday night. CNN reported: Yemeni commandos engaged suspected members of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the U.S. official said, who added that no Americans took...