Revelations made regarding the details of a 2008 peace offer by then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas are calling into question the willingess of the PA – and of broader Palestinian society – to accept a peace deal with Israel. In details revealed on TheTower.org,...

Observers are calling attention to additional dimensions of a speech given Wednesday by Israeli Air Force Chief Amir Eshel. Eshel’s statements received wide attention for his evaluation that Russia would soon provide advanced S-300 anti-aircraft systems to Syria, undermining any future Western efforts to degrade the Bashar al-Assad regime. If...

Clashes between pro-Assad and anti-Assad forces in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli have left at least 16 dead since Sunday. The casualties include both combatants and non-combatants: Security sources identified Abed Sankari and Fawzi Hawshar as the latest fatalities from the overnight fighting, raising the death toll from the...

A Palestinian man tortured by Palestinian Authority (PA) security forces has lost the ability to speak, a Ramallah-based human-rights group has revealed. The Independent Commission for Human Rights documented 28 cases of torture in PA prisons in the West Bank last month alone. One prisoner, Mohamed Abdel Karim Dar of...

Israel will hold its seventh annual “Turning Point” civil defense drill next week. Israeli civilians face a unique security environment. When under missile attack by Iranian proxies in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip, the most time any Israeli civilian anywhere in the country has to reach a shelter is three...

“I am still waiting for a phone call from him,” former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert tells TheTower.org in an exclusive interview. Revealing never before heard details of talks with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Olmert was referring to the proposal for a peace agreement that he presented to Abbas...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Israel on Thursday for talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. It is his fourth visit to the country in as many months. Kerry was greeted warmly by Prime Minister Netanyahu: John, it’s a pleasure to welcome you in Jerusalem. You’re an old...

The U.S. Senate voted 99-0 yesterday on S.Res. 65, which emphasizes the global threat posed by a nuclear Iran, calls for tightening sanctions on Iran, and reaffirms U.S. support for Israel if the Jewish state takes action to defend itself against the Islamic republic. The text is here and takes...

Scandal threatens to engulf several prominent foreign correspondents and human rights workers who were revealed yesterday to be engaging in what the Washington Free Beacon described as “an anti-Israel hate-fest” on a private Facebook group. A post to the group, named the “Vulture Club,” sparked open contempt for a new...

Sari Essayah is no typical E.U. parliamentarian. The bespectacled Finn is a retired world-champion race walker, who inherited her distinctly non-Finnish family name from a Moroccan father. And while Essayah had little contact with her father growing up, something of the Middle East and North Africa appears to have stayed...