Hizbullah Rotates Thousands In Syria

The Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah has rotated thousands of fighters in Syria, a report said. The Washington Institute for Near East Policy asserted that Hizbullah was rotating 5,000 fighters to defend the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad. In a...
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Anatomy of a Bad Iran Deal: A Preliminary Assessment

The lead editorial of the Washington Post on February 5, 2015, expressed the growing concern in elite circles with the contours of the emerging nuclear accord between Iran and the P5+1 (the U.S., Russia,...
While Iran negotiates an agreement with the West on its nuclear program, it holds naval exercises near the Straits of Hormuz, sinking a mock-up of the USS Nimitz, an American aircraft carrier. (AFP Photo/Fars News/Hamed Jafarnejad)

A Bad Agreement with Iran Will Undermine Middle East Stability

The signing of an agreement that affords Iran a threshold capability to produce nuclear weapons will probably mean the continuation of Iran’s conquest of strategic locations in the Arab domain. Iran already holds sway...
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Not Present: List of Lawmakers Skipping Netanyahu’s Speech

Dozens of lawmakers, almost all Democrats, will miss Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday. In separate statements, many of the lawmakers are accusing House Speaker John Boehner...
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How France Became an Iran Hawk

As a March 31 deadline looms in the negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, the United States and France, two strong allies, have found themselves increasingly at odds, at times quite publicly. While the White House has...

Why the Palestinian treasury is empty – 4 questions

The Palestinian Economy Minister has resigned. The economy itself is reaching yet another crisis point, ostensibly because Israel has withheld nearly US$ 0.5 billion in excise taxes that it collected on behalf of Ramallah. Read...

Disconnecting

At the beginning of June the CEO of French mobile provider, Orange, stated in Cairo that if he could get out of his company’s mobile business in Israel he would do so as quickly...

Hamas member accuses UN, UNRWA of conspiring against Palestinians

Sheikh Marwan Abu Ras says refugee relief agency ‘is the thing our people hate the most. A Hamas-affiliated sheikh in the Gaza Strip accused the United Nations of conspiring to increase the hardships of the...

What Netanyahu Meant to Say, and Why It’s So Important

Experienced debaters know that when the facts are strongly in your favor be sure not to overstate them in any fashion. If one does, the debate will quickly focus on the one point of...

The same fight

The terror attacks perpetrated by Islamic State in Paris on Friday night spurred a huge wave of solidarity from around the world. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel stands united with France in...