A significant step towards bringing the main Palestinian political factions together for the first time since 2007 was announced on Sunday: 3,000 Palestinian policemen from the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority will merge into the security forces in Hamas-controlled Gaza, according to…
For roughly one week, Egypt was set to receive renewed US military financial aid for counterterrorism. But one US senator has put his foot down and held up the $650 million worth of aid over Egypt’s human rights concerns, and…
As the deadline to extend talks between Israel and the Palestinians hit on Tuesday, one Palestinian organization literally walked away from the idea of trying to reach peace with Israel. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, or PFLP,…
It’s a sad irony that there are those who deny the Holocaust happened before and yet burn with such hatred of Jews they threaten yet another Holocaust. Past leadership of Iran made this linkage very clear—literally denying the Nazi program…
It was a subtle move last week, the US agreeing to send less than a dozen Apache attack helicopters to Egypt. Less subtle, but still quiet, was the American dismay at the alliance between the so-called “moderate” Palestinians in the…
Israel-Palestinian peace talks are already on ice, but they’ll be in a deep freeze if the Palestinians bring the Hamas terror group back into their government as currently planned. What’s more, American support for the Palestinians could be frozen then…