Recently, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas offered a virtual case study on the incredibly complicated world of diplomacy: The same week he met with US Secretary of State John Kerry to discuss the peace process, he also praised dictator Hugo Chavez…
Recently media reports, including The Mideast Update, have covered the claims that Israel struck some type of military target in Syria in order to prevent the transfer of weapons to Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon. Israel apparently acted decisively on Syria.…
The recent Israeli elections left the political scene a bit complicated. The top party in the next Knesset (parliament) is center-right. The second largest party is center-left. The Right can barely form a government; the Left can’t at all. The…
As Israel works to set up a new government—first with elections and then with the process of forming a ruling coalition—the direction the country will take next remains very much in the balance. Millions of Israelis have calculated who they…
The world received an unexpected headline last week when Syrian President Bashar al-Assad decided to give a reportedly public speech in the capital of Damascus and presented his own peace plan for the bloody Syrian civil war. Assad, whose whereabouts…
Recently a warning was issued by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding the instability of governments in the Middle East, in which the political leader cited from Judaism’s Biblical reading for that week. It was from the beginning of the…