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…
It’s not often that dozens of rocket attacks and Israeli military strikes in response aren’t the only headlines that matter in the Middle East. But right now, they’re not even the only headlines that count in Israel or Gaza. More…
Things aren’t looking good for Middle East peace. Forget the sputtering peace talks, it turns out that half of the Palestinian leadership still won’t stop fighting until they have it all. Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas, the rulers…
From great promise to persona non grata. That’s how dramatic the blow to Hamas’ relationship with Egypt has been. The previous Egyptian government, led by a former member of the Muslim Brotherhood, had been making limited overtures to Hamas—with more…
There’s something rotten in the Strip of Gaza, and it’s about to get even worse. If you’re a terrorist there, anyway. In a crazy change of circumstances and politics, the Hamas organization is now on its heels and there just…