Eizenkot reportedly traveled to Abu Dhabi ‎for meetings with Crown Prince ‎Mohammed bin Zayed that focused on potential Israeli arms sale to UAE.

A top Iranian official openly threatened the US again.

‘We will move forward with our neighbors who want peace, and many do,’ Netanyahu told the Knesset. 

In addition to joint economic and social-development matters, Israel sees Oman as an ally to combat the Iranian regional threat.

‘Occupation is nonsense. Empires have conquered and replaced entire populations, and no one is talking about it,’ Netanyahu stated.

BDS is upset by warming ties between Israel and some 20 percent of the world’s Arab and Muslim nations.

Do not underestimate the thirst in the Arab world today for Israel, Netanyahu said. ‘The first reason before anything else, is that we’re there in innovation.’

Netanyahu’s visit to Oman is the first Israeli official meeting at this level since 1996.

Who wants to learn the truth about the history of “Palestine?”

In a sign of warming ties between Israel and Arab states, the UAE ambassador shared a table with his Israeli counterpart at a pro-Israel event in Washington.

Israel has a simple choice: to defend itself militarily or to perish.

With content viewed more than 220 million times since the beginning of the year, Israel is using social media to change the way the Arab world perceives the Jewish state.

Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said that the Israelis will ‘taste bitter defeat’ and that ‘the bones of the Zionists will undoubtedly be crushed.’

The Arab world has lost interest in the Palestinian issue. Will the Western world follow suit? 

Arab critics noted Tamimi’s good fortune for living in Israel and her hypocrisy in light of real suffering in Syria.

Conflicting reports surfaced regarding a delegation from the United Arab Emirates that purportedly visited Israel recently to learn about the F-35 stealth fighter.

Why has the Arab and Muslim world stopped dead in its tracks, while Western countries make great strides of progress? Does it has anything to do with the way the Arab world approaches Jews and Israel?

An impromptu meeting between Netanyahu and Arab diplomats is indicative of the changes sweeping across the Middle East. 

Arab writers, seeking to become more like Israel, called on their countries to to develop their judicial systems and a democratic form of government, to stop repressing citizens and to invest in education.  

Bahrain, not Saudi Arabia, will be the first to break the embargo on Israel-Gulf relations, says an American rabbi who visited the country.

Netanyahu underscored the necessity for a powerful Israel to face the challenges in the region. 

‘The Palestinian side has perfected the art of evasion, obfuscation and procrastination, all the while working overtime to delegitimize and demonize Israel.’

A new UN report on Iran highlights ‘violation after violation of weapons transfers and ballistic missile activity’ by the country, Haley said, as ‘the Iranian regime’s behavior is growing worse.’

Iran’s terrorism, and not the unresolved Israeli-Palestinain conflict, is the cause instability in the Middle East, MK Barlev told NATO.

Israel and Saudi Arabia hold a common view on the Iranian threat to the region, and they have a common ally in the U.S.

Netanyahu reacted to the dramatic resignation of Lebanese PM Hariri, saying it was “a wake-up call to the international community to take action against the Iranian aggression.”

The Arab world is criticizing Hamas for cleaving to Iran and acting against it, serving as a ‘contractor’ implementing the Iranian agenda.  

Iran’s destabilizing regional threat is causing the interests of Arab countries and Israel to more closely align.

Iranian Major General Bagheri blamed Israel for “orchestrating a plot” to hold the Kurdish independence referendum in Iraq.

Israel is the best country for women in the Middle East, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap survey.

The prestigious American Interest, in its annual ranking of the World’s eight great powers, has added Israel to the list for the first time.

The hopes that the Arab Spring five years ago would lead to more opportunities for women have largely not panned out. However, there are women in all areas of life who have become leaders in their own way and are fighting for more freedom. Here are the stories of five women.

Dr. Entesar Al-Banna , a columnist for a Bahraini daily, wrote she was shocked that many young Arabs idolize Hitler- a phenomenon she says stems from the wave of violence afflicting the region and, as a result, people are looking to someone who challenged the rest of the world.

Patrick Clawson, director of research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said it was very peculiar the Iranians put the S-300 missile system at Fordo, a site they’ve long claimed would be impenetrable to attack.

Arab countries have long had covert relations with Israel and these relationships are now coming to light as shared concerns over Iran take precedence over real and perceived grievances.

While countries in the Middle East jail, persecute and even execute gay people, Israel respects all of its citizens regardless of race, religion or sex – and yet it is the only country so strongly vilified by the West for alleged human rights abuses.

British and French interests of 1916 created a host of problems over the next century. Today, Israel should worry about the different world views that have developed between itself and the West. But the new situation also presents Israel with opportunities.

While the region’s Arab and Muslim citizens have been fighting for years against corruption and for their human rights, little has ultimately changed in these realms, a new survey shows.

‘With 60 percent of the population below the age of 30, the Arab world is characterized by its vast youth population.’ A comprehensive poll of the trends among young Arabs in the Middle East also shows that a majority reject ISIS.

In a true sign of change in the Arab world, Kuwaiti media personality Yousuf ‘Abd Al-Karim Al-Zinkawi called on all Arab and Muslim states to recognize Israel, openly and without delay, and stop calling it “the Zionist Entity” or “the Israeli occupation,” terms which undermine Israel’s legitimacy.

A new, free and democratic Middle East? The region, excluding Israel, has a long way to go, experts say.

Not surprisingly, many Arabs prefer Israel, a stabilizing element in the Middle East, over Hezbollah, a terror spreading element that is destabilizing the region.

Another major international body representing Arab countries has admitted that Hezbollah is a regional and even global threat, and has declared the Iran-backed group a terror organization.

Tensions in the Middle East are expanding to Asia, with Pakistan, a nuclear power, standing beside Saudi Arabia against Iran.

Tensions in the Middle East remain high, as the battle lines are drawn between sectarian factions within Islam.

Tensions in the Middle East continue to rise as Sudan, United Arab Emirates and Bahrain joined Saudi Arabia in severing ties with Iran over its regional belligerence.

Is the Middle East on the path to a full-blown Sunni-Shiite confrontation? In what may be a precursor to a military conflict, Saudi Arabia cut off diplomatic ties after Iranians attacked its embassy over the Saudi execution of a Shiite cleric.

UWI's executive director reminds us of the true meaning of the holiday, which is to defend genuine freedom and to rely on no one but the Almighty for salvation.