The recent revelation that Turkey’s intelligence chief Hakan Fidan burned ten Iranians working with Israel’s Mossad inside Iran had quickly generated predictions that Western intelligence agencies would begin limiting their cooperation with Ankara. The ten had been working with Jerusalem to discover details of Iran’s nuclear program – widely considered...

Controversy swirled this weekend and into Monday regarding the positions of major pro-Israel groups toward efforts by the Obama administration to delay the imposition of new sanctions against Iran, with the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) issuing a rare on the record statement Saturday night: “AIPAC continues to support...

Secretary of State John Kerry sought this weekend and today to downplay spiking tensions between Washington and its traditional Arab allies, traveling to Egypt and Saudi Arabia to address sharp and increasingly public differences with those countries on a range of issues including the political situation in Egypt, the U.S’s...

Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon warned over the weekend that Hamas was arming itself and seeking to conduct what the Israeli official called “a renewal of violence”: “Hamas sees it as a way to lay infrastructure for terror attacks. We consider Hamas, which is engaged in digging and controls Gaza,...

Tens of thousands of anti-American Iranian protesters marched today on the former U.S. embassy in Iran, part of what the Associated Press described as “Tehran’s largest anti-U.S. rally in years.” Reports noted pervasive chants of “death to America,” and called attention to a speech by Saeed Jalili, a senior adviser...

New details are emerging about the extent of violent Islamist activity in the Egyptian-controlled Sinai Peninsula, which reports citing German intelligence last June had already identified as the world’s main jihadist training ground. Pitched battles in the territory – including preemptive strikes described by Arabic language media – have expanded...

Palestinian officials over the weekend denied a report, published late last week in the New York Times and elsewhere, saying that Palestinian peace negotiators had tendered their resignations due to the construction of Israeli homes in territory beyond Israel’s 1948 armistice lines. The New York Times report had cited “an...

Hamas has for the better part of a decade been regularly blasted for manufacturing humanitarian crises by shutting down the single power plant in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. In 2008 the terror group plunged Gaza into darkness and claimed that Israel was preventing sufficient fuel from reaching the territory. Israeli...

Analysts have been issuing increasingly pointed warning that Hamas is seeking to stage large-scale attacks in an effort to restore the terror group’s crumbling credibility, the result of a series of failed diplomatic gambles that saw the Palestinian faction align itself with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood and Turkey. Cairo’s post-Brotherhood government...

Analysts have been warning for months that the Obama administration’s posture toward Egypt’s army-backed interim government – Washington has among other things frozen the delivery of some kinds of military assistance, including Apache helicopters of the type used by Egypt’s military in ongoing anti-terror campaigns – was risking a pivot...