In the days following PA President Mahmoud Abbas’ stunning declaration that he would turn to the UN, violating the premise of peace talks by unilaterally signing 15 treaties normally reserved for states (and most of which his Palestinian Authority is flagrantly violating), it has emerged just how overarching his rejectionist...

Muhammad Al-Daya, a longtime bodyguard of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, told an interviewer on BBC Arabic last week that his boss’s condemnations of terror were insincere and issued only in response to pressure. The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) translated a segment of the interview dealing with Arafat’s...

Al Arabiya on Wednesday conveyed statements from Kuwait’s foreign minister suggesting that the bulk of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) was close to healing a rift with GCC member Qatar, which had been deepening in recent months and even years as Qatar allied itself with actors that the Gulf countries...

Speaking Tuesday, the United Nation’s High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, flatly declared that war crimes and atrocities committed by the regime of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad far outweigh” what have been sometimes been treated as parallel actions by opposition elements: High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said both sides’...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday instructed high-level government officials to limit cooperation with Palestinian counterparts to security concerns and peace negotiations, a move that an Israeli government official told Reuters was in response to “the Palestinians’ grave violation of their commitments in the framework of the peace talks”: Israeli government...

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday ruled out concessions on what he described as Iran’s “nuclear achievements,” the latest in a line of repeated and explicit statements from top Iranian officials ruling out moves that Western analysts and the Obama administration consider minimal conditions necessary to verifiably put the Islamic...

In a desperate attempt to introduce an anti-Israel divestment resolution in Cornell University’s Student Assembly, the Ivy League university’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapter added the agenda item at the last minute on Tuesday for a meeting later today, when many Jewish students will have already left the college...

Spain’s Civil Guard, its national police force, announced  on Monday the arrest of four men for attempting to export “dual use” technology to Iran. According to CNN, the suspects, three Spaniards and one Iranian, were charged with “suspicion of contraband in dual-use material, belonging to a criminal organization and money...

Iran “did not inform” the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of all the details it was obligated to under the non-proliferation treaty (NPT) that Iran is a signatory to, bragged a former head of the country’s Atomic Energy Organization in an interview last month. The interview was translated this week....

Iranian officials continued through the weekend and on Tuesday to lash out against a recent European Parliament (EP) resolution that criticized Iran over its human rights record, with Tehran’s top diplomat threatening to ban EP delegations and Iranian lawmakers crafting a range of responses and resolutions. The EP’s resolution, passed...