British House Majority Tries to Trump Peace Talks

October 17, 2014 On Monday, England's House of Commons voted in favour of recognizing Palestine as a state alongside Israel. In a vote that gave Hamas a virtual pass, 274 parliamentarians voted in support of a nonbinding motion to compel the government "to recognize the State of Palestine as a contribution to securing a negotiated two-state solution." Twelve voted against the motion.

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Iran Orders Attack on Israel After Nuclear Facility Blast

October 13, 2014 Iran, which has repeatedly threatened to annihilate Israel, is behind the Hezbollah bombing on Tuesday of Israeli troops in Har Dov, the 100-square mile area where the Syrian, Lebanese and Israeli borders meet. The order came after a mysterious explosion shook Tehran's secretive Parchin military facility and killed two workers, according to the Kuwaiti Al-Rai newspaper.

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Netanyahu Affirms God’s Sovereinty at Bible Study

October 9, 2014 Carrying forward the tradition of Israel's first prime minister, David Ben Gurion, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opened his home this past Sunday, October 7, for his sixth official Bible study class attended by dozens of formal guests. The Shmuel Ben-Artzi Bible study, named for Netanyahu's father-in-law, brought the prime minister's family together with the parents of Naftali Fraenkel, Gilad Shaar and Eyal Yifrach—three Israeli teens Hamas abducted and murdered in June.

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Anti-Semites, Conspiracy Theorists Converge for Tehran Conference

October 7, 2014 Anglican vicar Stephen Sizer, who has a long record of anti-Israel activity, was in Tehran, Iran last week where he attended the New Horizon Conference, fraternizing with those who desire the destruction of the Jewish State. The personal adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Mohsen Ghomi opened the conference by boasting that the conference is “the biggest threat to Zionists.”

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Nations Up in Arms Over Additional Housing in Jerusalem Neighborhood

October 5, 2014 Israel's latest building project, to add 2,500 homes to the Givat Hamatos neighborhood of Jerusalem, was put in the pipeline for construction two years ago, but its final approval only came last week with an announcement from the Jerusalem municipality. The White House, however, sees the neighborhood growth in Jerusalem as a slap in the face of the peace process.

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Netanyahu Charges UN with Practicing a Double Standard

October 3, 2014 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the United Nations and the White House this week, charging the UN with double vision toward Hamas and Israel. On Tuesday, Netanyahu met in person with UN chief Ban Ki-moon emphasizing that the UN has a double standard when it comes to Israel. According to a statement released by the Prime Minister's Office, Netanyahu “declared that there was no justice in the fact that the standard applied to Israel was different than that applied to other countries.”

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Israel-Gaza Talks on Hold as Hamas and Fatah Strengthen Unity Government

September 30, 2014 Shortly after an Israeli delegation arrived in Cairo last week for indirect ceasefire talks with Hamas, the talks were adjourned until late October in deference to the Jewish and Muslim holidays. Talks couldn't go forward until rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah had come to an agreement, and that agreement was arrived at in Cairo a day after the talks with Israel were delayed, just in time for Abbas' address to the UNGA on Friday.

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Abbas Calls on UN to Set Deadline to End the “Occupation”

September 30, 2014 On Friday, in a venomous anti-Israel speech before the United Nations General Assembly, Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas proved that the Palestinian Authority is no partner for peace. Abbas seemed determined to kill any hopes of reviving negotiations in the near future when he angrily read from a prepared speech: “It is impossible and I repeat—it is impossible—to return to the cycle of negotiations that failed to deal with the substance of the matter and the fundamental question. The time has come to end this settlement occupation.”

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Father Gabriel Nadaf Calls on UNHRC to Stand with Israel

September 29, 2014 On Tuesday, Father Gabriel Nadaf, a Greek Orthodox priest and a leader of the minority Aramean Christian community in Israel, addressed the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), calling on the world to stand by Israel in its fight against Islamic terrorism. Nadaf told the UNHRC that Israel is the one country in the Middle East where Christians are not persecuted, but rather “affectionately granted freedom of expression, freedom of worship and security.”

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Israel Expresses Cautious Optimism About Coalition to Defeat Islamic State

September 12, 2014 Backed by a bipartisan American commitment, President Barack Obama announced on Wednesday evening his strategy to combat the Islamic State, calling the countries of the Middle East to the helm of the effort. "Israel fully supports President Obama's call for a united action against ISIS," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday, the anniversary of 9/11. "All civilized countries should stand together in the fight against radical terrorism that sweeps across the Middle East that sweeps across the world. And we are playing our part in this continued effort. Some of the things are known, some things are less known."

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