Announcements of multi-million and even billion-dollar acquisitions of Israeli startups are becoming something of a routine, with Israel’s tech sector being driven in part by a unique environment conducive to civilian-military innovation in general by an internationally recognized environment that nurtures the development of human capital. The Israeli military’s official...

Last Wednesday, Hoover Institute fellow Fouad Ajami criticized how some diplomats and journalists have “… isolated the nuclear issue from the broader context of Iran’s behavior in the region.” On the same day Washington Institute fellow Matthew Levitt described three decades of Iranian terrorism, including terrorism targeting American overseas and...

Syria’s almost three year war has become a regional conflict in which Hezbollah is providing the elite fighters that the Bashar al-Assad regime requires to battle in Syria’s most violent areas, according to statements made yesterday by IDF Northern Corps commander Maj.-Gen. Noam Tibon. The Iran-backed Lebanese terror group has brushed aside repeated calls...

Deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said Thursday that Washington would not offer sanctions relief to Iran in the absence of “concrete steps” to address international concerns over its nuclear program, which roughly half a dozen United Nations Security Council resolutions have called for dismantling. “We are not contemplating anything that removes...

A Hamas terror cell was in the advanced stages of a plot to explosives-laden unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) at Israel before Palestinian Authority (PA) officials uncovered and broke up the cell, according to PA officials who spoke to The Times of Israel. During intensive activities near Hebron, in which PA...

After weeks of reports that participation was falling at Brotherhood-driven demonstrations, Islamist supporters of Egypt’s former Muslim Brotherhood-linked president Mohammed Morsi are promising to hold rallies explicitly targeting Israel and Egyptian-Israeli cooperation. “Sinai is witnessing continuous attacks on the homes of local people by coup troops who are trying to establish a buffer...

Leaked accounts of Iran’s nuclear offer indicate that the Islamic regime may be looking to accept more intrusive inspections in exchange for Western acceptance of ongoing Iranian enrichment activity. Analysis stretching back months, including testimony presented to Congress, has highlighted how such an arrangement – under which Iran would bolster...

The United Nation’s special rapporteur on human rights in Iran has told the U.N. General Assembly that there have been no fundamental improvements in Iran’s human rights situation despite token but welcome gestures undertaken since the election of Iranian president Hassan Rouhani. Ahmed Shaheed, the UN special rapporteur on human...

UPDATE (7:58pm ET): The media outlet linked below is a Kuwaiti outlet citing Egyptian sources originally quoted by an Egyptian outlet, not the original Egyptian outlet itself. It also appears to be a partial reprint of a similar English-language article published in the World Tribune. Thanks to David Kenner, Foreign...

Washington Post associate editor David Ignatius expressed surprise yesterday at what he described as “the White House’s inability to convey [to Saudi Arabia]… desired reassurances” regarding U.S. policy in the Middle East, declaring that the Obama administration’s “lack of communication with the Saudis and other Arab allies is mystifying.” He...