Though evangelical Christian support for Israel remains strong, anti-Israel activists are increasingly making inroads in the evangelical community. One of the premier events among anti-Israel evangelicals is the annual Christ at the Checkpoint Conference (CATC) in Bethlehem. Inaugurated in 2010 CATC is organized by Bethlehem Bible College, which was recently...

Samir Geagea, leader of the Lebanese Forces Party, has announced his candidacy for president of that strife-torn country. According to a newspaper report, he wants to treat all Lebanese equally and wants to strengthen the state but “not weaken Hezbollah.” The website Ya Libnan reports: Addressing his presidential program, the...

Late last month, Syrian rebels reported another chemical attack perpetrated by the government of Bashar al-Assad. Subsequently, a senior Israeli defense official told Israel Radio that Assad had again used chemical weapons, though this time they were “nonlethal agents were used to incapacitate opposition fighters.” This would be the first...

Twenty-five years after Israel launched its first reconnaissance satellite, the country sent Ofek 10 into space on April 9, with the promise that it can operate continuously, despite intense cloud cover and other harsh climatic conditions. Ofek 10 is an earth-observing remote-sensing satellite that employs synthetic aperture radar technology with...

Syria now has only 17 days left to hand over the remainder of its chemical weapons stockpile or it will be in violation of a United Nations deadline that had originally been set as an alternative to a U.S.-led attack on Syrian military infrastructure, per comments made today by the...

The status of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks remained unclear through much of Thursday, amid the publication of conflicting reports describing not just ongoing meetings but also regarding proposals to extend negotiations beyond the original April 29 deadline of a U.S.-backed peace push. Substantive final status negotiations have been offline since last...

Yesterday’s effort by Cornell Students for Justice in Palestine to pass a divestment resolution was defeated by a vote of 15-8-1 at a meeting of the Cornell Student Assembly . The resolution was an item of “new business” for the assembly and had it not been defeated, would have scheduled...

Reuters on Thursday conveyed details of a conversation between Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, in which Lew expressed concern over a Russian-Iranian oil-for-goods deal: “Secretary Lew reiterated our serious concerns regarding reports of a possible deal between Russia and Iran involving oil-for-goods,” a Treasury representative said in a...

The New York Times reported this week that Iran and the global P5+1 powers had concluded two days of talks but are still far from a final agreement: The lead negotiators, the Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, and Catherine Ashton, the top foreign policy official of the European Union, made the...

The House of Representatives today passed a bill denying admission to anyone “who has engaged in espionage activities against the United States, poses a threat to United States national security interests, or has engaged in a terrorist activity against the United States,” to serve as representatives to the United Nations. Though...