Middle Orient

The regime has shaped the field of candidates in the June 18 presidential election to favor the preferred choice of Iran’s Supreme Leader. The front-runner in the campaign, Judiciary chairman Ibrahim Raisi, is also Supreme Leader Ali Khamene’i’s choice to succeed him. The exclusion of most moderate and reformist candidates …

The murderous founding of the state of Israel at the cost of Arab and Jewish lives was brought about by the torching of Palestine into permanent civil war precipitated by an illegal and sham incendiary partition resolution forced through a incomplete incipient UN by American pressure and threats.[1] The resolution …

In spite of the Iranian regime’s claims that it holds democratic presidential elections, the system is fundamentally an authoritarian one disguised as a democracy. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in February boasted about the regime’s political system and the people’s important role in influencing and shaping the political establishment. He said: …

Members of Elvin Hunter Bgorn Williams’ mosque in the US city of Seattle alerted federal agents to his activities. An American man has been charged with attempting to join the Islamic State (IS) in Egypt. Elvin Hunter Bgorn Williams of Seattle was arrested on Friday before a flight to Amsterdam …

Turkish crime boss Sedat Peker speaks out about arms shipment to radical rebels in Syria in his latest barrage of allegations against figures close to the government. Fresh allegations by a fugitive Turkish mobster have rekindled controversy in Turkey over arms shipments to Syria and murky cross-border trade, allegedly involving …

Jewish Agency head Isaac Herzog was chosen Israel’s new president only hours before Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid announced the composition of a new government. At the height of one of the most tense and uncertain days in the history of Israel’s Knesset, Isaac Herzog was chosen yesterday as the …

“For decades, Israel wisely cultivated relations with both Democrats and Republicans…Bibi broke that tradition and threw his lot in with the Republicans” In 2001, when he was out of office and in what he thought was a private setting, Benjamin Netanyahu boasted, “I know what America is. America is a …

Barnea, 56, is the replacement for former Mossad director Yossi Cohen. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held his first working meeting with new Mossad Director David Barnea on Thursday. In December, Netanyahu put Barnea, who is 56, married and has four kids, forth as his nominee to replace Yossi Cohen, but …

The IDF intelligence officer died during the recent war between Israel and Hamas. His family has rejected claims that he took his own life. An intelligence officer who died in prison two weeks ago “was not charged with espionage or treason and had not been in contact with or used …

Behind the scenes of targeting Hamas terror targets Operation Guardian of the Walls lasted 11 days, but it was one of the most intense wars between Israel’s military and Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists in the Gaza Strip. By many measures, this round was the most intense escalation since …