Senior officials in Blue and White hope that pre-indictment hearing on criminal cases involving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will make negotiations about a rotation for prime minister irrelevant.

Israel has an interest in seeing Hezbollah's image in Lebanon continue to erode and for pressure on the organization to increase. The time may have come for Israel to use the information at its disposal in order to remove the mask from the organization terrorizing Lebanon.

Human rights has always been the Egyptian regime's Achilles' heel. The Egyptian president will have to terminate draconian legislation based on Shariah law, spearhead judicial reforms, introduce transparency and fight corruption, or the streets will erupt.

The report “notes claims that the objectives, activities and effects of the Boycott Divestment Sanctions movement are fundamentally anti-Semitic," recommends that all UN member states adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's working definition of anti-Semitism. Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon: "Report reflects the organizational change toward Israel."

Residents report hearing explosions followed by sirens as rockets land around half a mile from US Embassy. No casualties reported in what is second such attack on Iraqi capital's fortified Green Zone since May.