Vice President Joe Biden brought a politician’s charm to the 2013 AIPAC Policy Conference Monday, but also a clear message to Iran and to the international community regarding the U.S. commitment to preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. There were age jokes, generous smiles, several variations of “great to be here,” and...

Speaking yesterday to an estimated 13,000 delegates at AIPAC’s 2013 Policy Conference, U.S. Senator John Cornyn linked the bipartisan American consensus in favor of a strong U.S.-Israel relationship to common values shared between the two countries: Strong support for Israel on Capitol Hill reflects the strong support for Israel in...

Speaking yesterday at AIPAC’s 2013 Policy Conference, outgoing Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak emphasized that the Jewish state remains committed to halting Iran’s drive to acquire nuclear weapons capability. Noting that “we’ve stated this time and again, and we mean it,” Barak explained that “[a] nuclear Iran will be the...

In the aftermath of P5+1 talks that ended without progress but left Iran feeling upbeat, the head of the country’s Atomic Energy Organisation told Iranian media yesterday that Tehran will produce 3,000 advanced centrifuges for installation in its Natanz enrichment facility: Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) Fereidoon...

Iran is continuing to expand a military facility where it is widely suspected the regime conducted work relevant to developing nuclear warheads, including advanced detonation testing of triggers for nuclear weapons. New satellite photos published by the Daily Telegraph show renewed construction at the Parchin facility, which is on an Iranian military base:...

It was 1974 when a wave of attacks on Israeli civilians by a terrorist organization calling itself the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine rocked the people of Israel and shocked the world’s conscience. In the Israeli city of Ma’alot a three-person terrorist squad that had entered the country from Lebanon seized a...

Newly minted Secretary of State John Kerry is on his first trip abroad, and it’s a marathon.  According to the State Department’s “Travels With Secretary of State John Kerry,” after stops in the UK, German, France, Italy, and most recently Turkey, Kerry is planning to hopscotch across the Middle East, notably skipping Israel and Jordan,...

The U.S. has come down hard on Turkey for Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s statements earlier this week calling Zionism a crime against humanity. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Erdogan Friday evening and scolded him for the comments, made at a conference for the U.N. Alliance of Civilizations in...

A long-feared full-blown sectarian war in Syria and Lebanon is inching closer to becoming a reality, with Syrian opposition forces threatening to make a border area “a graveyard” for Hezbollah. The Shiite group and the largely Sunni Free Syrian Army (FSA) exchanged rhetorical and actual blows this week, in the...

Egyptian youths may be returning to the social media-tinged political protests that marked the early days of the Arab Spring. Students and other opposition groups have become increasingly disenchanted with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked president Mohamed Morsi, who has engaged in a series of power grabs and overseen an institutionalization of Islamic...