Reuters reported last week that Israeli Energy Minister Silvan Shalom will attend the Jan. 20-22 World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi, the latest in what is becoming a steady stream of evidence signaling warming ties between Jerusalem and traditional U.S. allies in the Arab world. Energy Minister Silvan Shalom is set to attend the Jan. 20-22...

New House legislation proposed by the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee would make $400 million in annual U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) contingent upon the President certifying that the PA among other things “no longer engages in a pattern of incitement against the United States or Israel.” Rep....

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman last week summoned ambassadors from European powers to rebuke them for what he described as “one-sided” policies against the Jewish state, potentially renewing long-simmering controversies over the E.U.’s efforts to balance even-handed diplomacy in the Middle East with what even European leaders acknowledge is a diplomatic double-standard applied to Israel. Israeli Prime...

The White House last week released parts of the text detailing how the Joint Plan of Action (JPA) between the global P5+1 powers and Iran is to be implemented, after lawmakers and analysts spent the better part of a week expressing disbelief that the critical document would be withheld from public scrutiny...

Vowing to stand with Israel “through fire and water,” Prime Minister Stephen Harper today became the first Canadian premier to speak before the Israeli parliament. Amid successive standing ovations, as well as heckling from MKs Ahmad Tibi and Taleb Abu Arar of the Ra’am-Ta’al party, Harper laid out the central...

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) this week signaled that he will not permit the Senate to vote on bipartisan legislation – formally co-sponsored by 59 senators and reportedly supported by a veto-proof majority of 77 – that would impose sanctions on Iran should negotiations over the Islamic republic’s nuclear program fail. The Hill noted...

Former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri yesterday hailed the opening of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) at The Hague as the “first page of true justice” in response to the assassination of his father, former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, as the STL launched its first trial into Hariri’s February 2005...

Observers are expressing deepening concerns regarding efforts by Palestinian groups to destabilize Israel’s border with the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, amid months of foiled attempts by the Iran-backed faction to launch spectacular terror attacks that would bolster its precipitously sliding domestic and regional stature. As many as eight rockets were fired overnight from the Gaza Strip at...

The Daily Beast yesterday conveyed statements by Abbas Araqchi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister and its top nuclear negotiator, boasting that the concessions Iran has committed to making under the Joint Plan of Action (JPA) – and more specifically, its commitments regarding its stockpile of 20% uranium – can be reversed in one day. Iran...

A now-familiar pattern of judiciary action followed by anti-judiciary purges – which has in recent weeks marked the open political warfare being waged by rival Islamist camps inside Turkey – expanded this week as police forces raided the headquarters of the Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH), a group with close...