Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) declared over the weekend that “Congress is monitoring… to make sure the Iranian economy continues to decline” and that pressure on the Islamic republic had to be maintained, amid widening efforts in both the House and Senate to reassert a Congressional voice in Washington’s diplomacy with Iran. In a...

Former President Jimmy Carter raised eyebrows and questions  this week when he distanced himself  — but using a suspiciously bizarre choice of words —  from efforts to mount a boycott against the Jewish state. In an interview with the AP reprinted at the Ynet news site, Carter promoted a meeting of...

The Arab League conference opened in Kuwait with rifts among its members expected to be a major focus of the annual meeting. Egypt’s Foreign Minister, Nabil Fahmi, alluded to these divisions when he acknowledged that he would not meet with his Qatari counterpart due to the “deep issues” dividing the...

Recent days have been marked by an upswing in violent incidents in the West Bank, and the timing raising concerns that the Palestinian Authority (PA)  has once again chosen to couple its rejectionism at the negotiating table with a threat of violence. The incidents included a Bethlehem firebomb thrown at the...

Both the White House and the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) blasted the decision of the government of Saudi Arabia Monday to deny an entry visa to Michael Wilner, the Washington bureau chief of the Jerusalem Post, during the visit of President Obama to Riyadh this week. Wilner, an American...

A speech last Friday by Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – in which the Shiite cleric questioned the existence of the Holocaust and committed to never recognizing the Jewish state – continued to draw commentary and analysis over the weekend and into Monday, with Brookings Institute Senior Fellow Suzanne...

Reuters yesterday conveyed statements from Secretary of State John Kerry expressing his “hope” that the Ukraine crisis, which has pitted Washington against Russia, would not impact the international effort to degrade Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal, a context in which the Obama administration had gambled heavily on extensive cooperation from the Kremlin. “I...

Turkish officials over the weekend and on Monday deepened their efforts to cut the country off from Twitter, despite being met with quite literally global ridicule last week for trying and conspicuously failing to stifle public use of the popular microblogging service. “Fortunately, the people of this world, including Turkey, are strong, and democracy...

One of the reasons that Prime Minister Netanyahu flew out to California earlier this month was to sign a number of agreements with Gov. Jerry Brown. One area of cooperation between the two was for Israel to provide guidance to the Golden State to fight its drought “with water conservation...

The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is launching a new round of anti-Israel activity, with as many as 5 new resolutions in the works this coming week. In conjunction with the UN’s year of solidarity with the Palestinian people, the Council, which has only one resolution pending this session addressing...