United Nations official Richard Falk – who has among other things blamed America and Israel for the Boston Marathon terror attack, posted anti-Semitic cartoons on his blog, and suggested that America was complicit in Al Qaeda’s attack on the World Trade Center in 2001 – is responding to a round of recent...

Human rights activists seeking to highlight the lack of genuine democracy in Iran have launched a project to allow Iranians to express their electoral preferences in an unofficial, online election that will take place alongside this Friday’s presidential election.  Chaired by renowned Russian chess player and human rights advocate Garry Kasparov,...

Today and tomorrow, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and several of his ministers will hold joint sessions with the Polish Premier Donald Tusk and his ministers in Warsaw. The special event is a symbolic gesture to show the Polish government and people’s support and solidarity with the people with Israel....

The head of Mossad, Tamir Pardo, earlier this week met secretly with his Turkish counterpart, according to a report published in the Turkish daily Hurriyet. The meeting between Pardo and Hakan Fidan, the head of MIT, the Turkish intelligence agency, took place Monday in Ankara according to the report. The...

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey slammed Iran yesterday as “a threat to U.S. national security,” emphasizing that the Islamic republic is “certainly preserving and building on [its] options” for creating a nuclear weapon.  “Iran is a threat to US national security in many ways, not simply...

Analysts are warning that Hezbollah’s sustained involvement in Syria on behalf of the Bashar al-Assad regime risks pulling Lebanon into a sectarian civil war similar to the country’s devastating 15-year conflict. It is sectarianism, Shi’ism, but not Lebanonism. In the moment of truth the Hezbollah chose sect and religion over state,...

Hamas officials are scrambling to shore up ties with Iran, which have been strained by the role that Iran and its Lebanese terror proxy Hezbollah have been playing in bolstering the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria: “I cannot say the relationship with Iran was severed, but it was affected,” Salah...

Two candidates in Iran’s upcoming June 14th election have dropped out of the race. The field is now down to six candidates, all of them hard-liners closely linked to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei. Former parliament speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel and Mohammad Reza Aref will no longer contend to replace Mahmoud...

Photos and video are emerging from Turkey this evening after police again attempted to disperse protesters who had assembled as part of ongoing anti-government demonstrations that began several weeks ago. Police fired volleys of tears gas and turned water cannons against those who had assembled. Bloomberg and Associated Press reports...

Google is set to buy Waze, the wildly popular Israeli maps mobile application, Israel’s Globes business paper reported over the weekend. The $1.3 billion deal would be the largest ever for a smartphone app. The latest reports indicate that a deal is imminent. The deal is expected to be announced...