National Journal on Thursday published analysis detailing how terror activities being facilitated by the Turkish government – Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and other top officials have provided “protection and access” to terrorist members from a range of groups, including Hamas and Al Qaeda – have now reached a point where they “threaten future cooperation...

The Jerusalem Post reported on Thursday that the Dutch pension fund ABP has publicly rejected calls to disassociate from Israeli banks. Dutch pension fund ABP, one of the largest pension funds in the world, announced on Wednesday that after looking into the matter it sees no reason to end its...

A string of recent developments and revelations in the Middle East has refocused attention on the degree to which a long-time national security priority of the United States – ensuring that Israel maintains its so-called Qualitative Military Edge (QME) in the region – is being eroded. The Israel Institute for...

Secretary of State John Kerry this week condemned the use of so-called barrel bombs by Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime, blasting Damascus for the repeated use of the shrapnel packed IEDs against Syrian civilians. The attacks, in which the bombs are dropped out of helicopters, have in recent days generated a wave...

Top Iranian officials this week reemphasized Tehran’s stance – articulated recently by among others President Hassan Rouhani, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, and former top nuclear negotiator Hossein Mousavian – that the Islamic republic refuses to dismantle even minimal elements of its nuclear infrastructure in the context of a comprehensive nuclear agreement between the...

Iran’s foreign ministry this week “categorically denied” widely-broadcast reports which had Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif hinting to German TV that Tehran might be willing to recognize Israel should the Jewish state secure a peace agreement with Palestinians. A foreign ministry official declared instead that Zarif had been misquoted and the top Iranian diplomatic...

Beirut-based news site NOW Lebanon yesterday conveyed reports from Al-Hayat indicating that Hezbollah has rejected a proposed new government. “The solution proposed to give the Finance Ministry to the Amal Movement, the Foreign Ministry to the Free Patriotic Movement, and the Interior and Defense ministries to the March 14 coalition was rejected...

Analysts charting out 2014 had already predicted last November that the coming year will be a breakout one for Israeli IPO’s. The country has long benefited from an upward innovation spiral, where human capital attracts the attention of major corporations and those corporations provide the infrastructure for Israeli workers to...

The chief of Israel’s Shin Bet security agency on Tuesday downplayed predictions that stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks would lead to an escalation of terrorism against Israeli civilians. “The amount of terror attacks is also a result of internal problems in the Palestinian street,” Cohen said in the meeting, which was closed to press....

Dr. Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, recently gave a speech to PressTV – the full transcript and video are here – in which he evaluated the effects of the recently implemented Joint Plan of Action (JPA) and the likely contours of a comprehensive nuclear agreement...