Reuters reported last week that Israeli Energy Minister Silvan Shalom will attend the Jan. 20-22 World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi, the latest in what is becoming a steady stream of evidence signaling warming ties between Jerusalem and traditional U.S. allies in the Arab world. Energy Minister Silvan Shalom is set to attend the Jan. 20-22...

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New House legislation proposed by the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee would make $400 million in annual U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) contingent upon the President certifying that the PA among other things “no longer engages in a pattern of incitement against the United States or Israel.” Rep....

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Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman last week summoned ambassadors from European powers to rebuke them for what he described as “one-sided” policies against the Jewish state, potentially renewing long-simmering controversies over the E.U.’s efforts to balance even-handed diplomacy in the Middle East with what even European leaders acknowledge is a diplomatic double-standard applied to Israel. Israeli Prime...

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A now-familiar pattern of judiciary action followed by anti-judiciary purges – which has in recent weeks marked the open political warfare being waged by rival Islamist camps inside Turkey – expanded this week as police forces raided the headquarters of the Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH), a group with close...

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A recent speech by Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas – in which the Palestinian leader declared that “there will be no peace” unless several contentious Palestinian demands were fully met, and several Israeli red lines were definitively crossed – has triggered concerns that the current Palestinian leadership may be...

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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was laid to rest yesterday in a funeral attended by what the Washington Post described as “Israel’s political and military establishment, joined by Vice President Biden and former British prime minister Tony Blair,” with those attending lauding the decorated Israeli war hero and statesman for his...

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Efforts to achieve reconciliation between the two largest Palestinian factions, which had been accelerating in recent days, may again be at risk of faltering. Hamas had made a series of goodwill gestures toward its Fatah rivals in recent days, and Fatah officials had announced that they would be traveling to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip for reconciliation talks....

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Israel Hayom Friday published an interview with Israeli General Tamir Yadai, the commander of the Israeli military’s West Bank forces, in which the general confirms that Hamas’s terror attempts have increased in tempo and that the group’s campaign is being “directed from Gaza via Turkey.” “Between April and July, we really saw...

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Ariel Sharon – the 11th prime minister of Israel, and a man who dominated the Jewish state’s political scene first as a pertinacious force from the right and eventually as a heterodox diplomat who oversaw broad Israeli territorial concessions – died today, eight years after slipping into a coma in...

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Anti-Israel academics advocating boycotts of the Jewish state are increasingly at risk of becoming punchlines, with prominent commentators and scholars from across the ideological spectrum accusing backers of the so-called boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement not just of hypocrisy but also of incoherence and absurdity. The American Studies Association (ASA)...

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