Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has again called for the destruction of Israel. His remarks, made this week at the annual World Conference of Ulama and Islamic Awakening, were printed on Ahmadinejad’s official website and conveyed via Iranian state media: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Zionism and the Zionist regime will vanish...

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett on Wednesday announced that his firm Berkshire Hathaway had paid $2 billion for 20 percent of the stocks of Israeli toolmaker Iscar, years after purchasing the initial 80 percent in what at the time was Buffett’s largest buy outside of the United States. The company manufactures...

Hezbollah is tightening its grip on southern Lebanon, with Lebanese armed forces withdrawing from the area and U.N. peacekeepers finding themselves paralyzed and humiliated: UNIFIL patrols are finding paths blocked and former temporary observation points suddenly out of bounds in what is being interpreted as Hezbollah seeking to flex its...

A new report from a Palestinian human rights group is threatening to deepen a controversy over anti-Israel media bias that has already generated sustained criticism of major news organizations and NGO’s. Early during Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defense in November pictures emerged documenting the death of Gaza-based BBC journalist Jihad...

An Egyptian newspaper has published accusations linking Hamas to a spate of violence in Egypt stretching back to the country’s Arab Spring revolution. The allegations come from former interior minister Mansour al-Essawy. Essawy served in the Hosni Mubarak government which was overthrown during that revolution. So while he has a...

Hamas’s recent campaign to be removed from the European Union’s terror list is unlikely to succeed given its stance toward Israel, according to statements provided to The Tower by France’s ambassador to Israel Christophe Bigot. Bigot told The Tower that “France’s position on Hamas is clear.” The Iran-backed terror group...

The Palestinian Authority (PA) will defy U.S. calls and pursue a unilateral diplomatic strategy unless Israel meets a series of preconditions by June 3rd, The Tower has been told. The Palestinian campaign would among other things see the PA seeking membership in a number of U.N. organs. U.S. Secretary of...

Today’s events in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip portend the start of what may be a hot summer on Israel’s Palestinian front – and perhaps several other ones. In the West Bank a Palestinian terrorist stabbed to death 32-year-old Evyatar Borovsky. He was the first Israeli victim of...

The Israeli Air Force carried out an air strike in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday against a terrorist who was affiliated with a range of jihadi groups, and who had been involved in an April 17 rocket attack from the Sinai Peninsula on the Israeli city of Eilat. Hithem Ziad...

Qatar and Turkey are playing key roles in boosting hard line Islamic groups across the Middle East. Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E., and Jordan are trying to support groups which are relatively more moderate. The Obama administration is, as a result, finding its regional posture being… complicated: The regional divisions, described...