Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is willing to release 40 Palestinian prisoners convicted of terrorism against civilians, Israeli media reported Thursday quoting U.S. officials. The move – which would not be conditioned on any reciprocal Palestinian steps – is reportedly intended to convey Israel’s seriousness about returning to peace talks....

The most popular Israeli on Facebook is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has nearly half a million “likes.” But the runner-up is not Israeli President Shimon Peres, though Peres’s recent social media campaign to promote global peace did win broad acclaim and even prestigious awards. And it’s not supermodel Bar...

Argentinian officials that seem aimed at facilitating Iranian infiltration of South America and hampering efforts to expose the terrorist activities of Tehran and its proxies throughout the continent. On the hampering side, the administration of Argentinian President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner has been blocking requests for Argentinean prosecutor general Alberto Nisman to...

Britain is placing increased pressure on its European Union partners to formally blacklist parts of Hezbollah as a terror organization: A British drive to blacklist the militant Lebanese movement’s armed wing was discussed twice by a special EU group last month, but British diplomats failed to win over a number of skeptical...

CNN this morning posted to the top of its international online front page a report highlighting incidents in Alexandria, Egypt during which pro-Morsi Muslim Brotherhood forces attacked and then threw their teenage victims from building rooftops. The grisly footage is embedded below. CNN contextualized the video on its site with...

A recent meeting in Ramallah between Israeli and Palestinian officials has been blasted by several Palestinian factions for promoting “normalization” between Israel and the Palestinians. Among those leveling the criticisms are members of the Fatah faction to which Western-backed Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas belongs. The rhetoric of the rejection will likely...

Middle East analysts have traditionally outlined at least four broad categories of internal structural problems plaguing efforts to establish and stabilize a viable Palestinian state. The Western-backed Palestinian Authority government (PA) which controls the West Bank lacks sovereignty over even the Palestinian-controlled territories that they explicitly reserve for a future...

Concert goers in Israel are having a good summer. Early June saw the arrival of Deep Purple. A few weeks later the Pet Shop Boys arrived. Two weeks after that Alicia Keys took the stage. Meanwhile Israel’s late summer and fall line-ups are rumored to include Rihanna, Psy, and The...

A self-described 18 year old “Arabic speaking Christian” and “proud Israeli” has taken to the pages of Israel’s highest-selling newspaper to describe her commitment to joining the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), and to blast Israeli-Arab parliamentarians for representing “no one but themselves.” Earlier this week 18-year-old Raghda Jeraisi penned a...

Egyptian television during Ramadan has long leaned toward the anti-Semitic, but this year’s sampling is virulent even by the country’s usual standards. Set to broadcast during the season is the Egyptian television series “Khaybar”. The title is a reference to a Jewish oasis that in the 7th century was conquered...