Palestinian officials on Friday threatened to suspend negotiations with Israel after Jerusalem declined to release 26 Palestinian prisoners in the coming days. The scenario, which would also see Palestinian officials resume waging diplomatic warfare against Israel in international forums, would risk permanently derailing a U.S.-backed peace initiative. The Friday statements were...

Ars Technica on Thursday reported on an “administrative measure” implemented by Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) shutting down access to YouTube, which the tech-oriented outlet noted was done in an attempt “to stem a flood of leaked audio recordings of government officials before elections...

Al-Monitor on Thursday reported that top House lawmakers are in the early stages of drafting terror-related sanctions – the outlet described any legislation as “a work in progress” – that would target Hezbollah and its Iranian sponsors due to the group’s global terror activities and its fighting on behalf of the Bashar al-Assad...

National Journal on Wednesday conveyed details of what the outlet described as an “explosive” hearing held that day by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which saw senators from both parties “eviscerate” Obama administration officials over what Sen. Bob Corker described as a “delusional” understanding of the Syrian conflict. Corker leveled the characterization at Tom...

One of America’s elite universities became the focus of attention today as photos emerged showing students apparently engaging in support for international terrorism during the past year. The two students, identified as Fadi AbuNe’meh and Taka Yamaguchi, were apparently leading activists with the campus chapter of J Street U, an...

“Killing sprees” in Iran and Iraq were responsible for a global rise in capital punishment in 2013, according to a new Amnesty International report described Thursday by a range of outlets. At least 778 executions were known to have been carried out globally in 2013, 538 of them in Iran...

Israel’s enemies – led by Hezbollah and Hamas – will possess precision guided missiles within five years, according to the country’s former prime minister, Ehud Barak. “We will continue to see many more missiles, a lot more accuracy, and within five years the missile will reach a maximum level of...

Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas told the Arab League on Tuesday that he rejects “even holding a discussion” over Israel’s long-standing requirement that any comprehensive peace deal must see the Palestinians acknowledging Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people, according to a transcript of his speech conveyed in a longer analysis published...

As Richard Falk, the controversial and widely criticized special rapporteur on the situation of the Palestinians is preparing to step down in few weeks, the United Nations Human Rights Council has decided to ignore the recommendation of its vetting committee and appoint someone with a stronger anti-Israel pedigree. According to...

The New York Times reported Thursday that Turkey suspended YouTube “after an audio recording was uploaded to the platform in which the foreign minister and senior military and intelligence officials could be heard discussing the security situation in Syria.” A Turkish court on Wednesday overturned a government ban on Twitter, the latest...