United States diplomats are blasting a vote in the United Nations General Assembly in which the UNGA voted to upgrade the Palestinian status at the United Nations to that of a non-member observer state. U.S. Secretary of State Clinton criticized the resolution – which passed with 138 votes in favor,...

Protests in Egypt directed at the country’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked President have already injured over 500 people and show no signs of abating, as efforts by the country’s Islamist-dominated constitutional assembly to dampen popular outrage by passing a draft constitution have thus far failed. The current round of unrest began last...

Protests in Egypt directed at the country’s Muslim Brotherhood-linked President have already injured over 500 people and show no signs of abating, as efforts by the country’s Islamist-dominated constitutional assembly to dampen popular outrage by passing a draft constitution have thus far failed. The current round of unrest began last...

Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan announced on Wednesday that he plans to visit Gaza next week. The move comes as foreign policy analysts and journalists are pointing to the negative effect that Erdogan’s “bombast” toward Israel has had on Ankara’s prestige and influence. Erdogan’s criticism of Israel’s Operation Pillar of...

News is slowly leaking out of Iran regarding the brutal anti-Semitic murder and mutilation of a Jewish woman in the Iranian city of Isfhahan. The Times of Israel reports that 57 year old Tuba N. was murdered by Muslim neighbors who, as part of a multi-year campaign to harass her...

Residents in the Gaza Strip have posted large billboards highlighting close ties between Iran and that territory’s ruling Hamas terror group. The billboards thank Tehran for assisting Palestinian terror groups in battling Israelis, and the Associate Press​ commented that the posters’ “prominent location, at busy intersections and next to a...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed earlier today the Palestinian bid for non-member state status at the United Nations, emphasizing that while Israeli seeks to live in peace alongside a Palestinian state, the diplomatic gambit set for tonight “doesn’t advance peace, it pushes it backwards.” The Palestinian move, which is...

U.S. Officials: Resolution Endangers “Prospects of a Durable Peace” U.S. officials are slamming a vote by the United Nations General Assembly to upgrade the Palestinian status at the United Nations to that of a non-member observer state. U.S. Secretary of State Clinton criticized the resolution – which passed with 138 votes in...

Fresh rioting has erupted in Cairo in the aftermath of a power grab by Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. The Muslim Brotherhood-linked President has according to CNN “show[n] no signs of backing down” from a constitutional decree that gave him vast powers and insulated his actions from judicial review. The protests...

The United Nations General Assembly is expected to vote this Thursday on a motion to grant the Palestinians recognition as a non-member observer state. The motion, which carries no binding force as far as actually establishing a state of Palestine but does open up options for the Palestinians to sue...