Gaza

FILE - In this July 24, 2014, file photo, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, talks with the media on Capitol Hill in Washington. While much of the rest of the world watches the Gaza war in horror and scrambles for a cease-fire, U.S. lawmakers are pressing the Obama administration to take no action that puts pressure on Israel to halt its military operations. Boehner said Monday, July 28, the administration should "stand with Israel, not just as a broker or observer but as a strong partner." (AP Photo/File)

National Security

Lawmakers struggle to seal $225M Iron Dome package

BRADLEY KLAPPERDONNA CASSATA · July 29, 2014 8:50 pm

Secretary of State John Kerry, right, and Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin shake hands at the State Department in Washington, Tuesday, July 29, 2014, during a news conference. The United States says there's been "no shred of evidence" that Russia is willing to help end the violence and bloodshed between the Ukraine separatists backed by Moscow and the government in Kiev. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

National Security

Kerry shrugs off Israeli criticism

Matthew Lee · July 29, 2014 4:39 pm

Then-First Lady Hillary Clinton, left, hugs Yasser Arafat's wife Soha Arafat after Clinton pledged U.S. financial aid to refugee projects in Gaza on December 14, 1998. (AP Photo/Laurent Rebours)

Israel supporters: Beware of Hillary Clinton

Mona Charen · July 29, 2014 2:34 pm

It is understandable that today many people in many lands just want the fighting between the Israelis and the Palestinians to stop. (AP Photo)

Cease the cease-fires

Thomas Sowell · July 29, 2014 2:29 pm

Beltway Confidential

The Associated Press tweets that U.S. lawmakers ‘fall over each other’ to support Israel

Becket Adams · July 29, 2014 1:54 pm

In this picture released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, leads the Eid al-Fitr prayer at the Imam Khomeini grand mosque, in Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, July 29, 2014. (AP Photo/Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader)

Iran leader calls for arming Gaza to fight Israel

Washington Examiner · July 29, 2014 9:38 am

In this image taken from video an explosion hits the media complex that houses the offices of Hamas-run Al Aqsa television and radio in central Gaza City early on Tuesday, July 29, 2014. The building also houses offices of a number of Arab satellite television news channels. (AP Photo/APTN)

Be ready for ‘prolonged’ Gaza war, Netanyahu says

KARIN LAUBTIA GOLDENBERG · July 29, 2014 2:17 am

A Palestinian carries the body of a child at the morgue in Gaza City's Shifa hospital, in the northern Gaza Strip, Monday, July 28, 2014. An explosion killed 10 people, 9 of them children, at a park at Shati refugee camp, in northern Gaza Strip. Israeli and Palestinian authorities traded blame over the attack and fighting in the war raged on despite a major Muslim holiday. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Hamas, Israel trade blame for deaths of 9 children

IBRAHIM BARZAKYOUSUR ALHLOU · July 28, 2014 9:52 pm

Kristol Podcast: Obama vs. the Rule of Law

TWS Podcast · July 28, 2014 8:48 pm

An Iron Dome air defense system fires to intercept a rocket from Gaza Strip in the costal city of Ashkelon, Israel. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov, File)

How Harry Reid hopes to save funding for Israel from August gridlock

David M. Drucker · July 28, 2014 8:29 pm

Secretary of State John Kerry speaks at the State Department in Washington, Monday, July 28, 2014, during a news conference to announce the 2013 Annual Report on International Religious Freedom. The U.S. says millions of people were forced from their homes because of their religious beliefs last year. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

National Security

US fuming over Israeli criticism of Kerry

MATTHEW LEEJULIE PACE · July 28, 2014 7:29 pm

The U.N. Security Council convenes on the worsening situation in Gaza at United Nations headquarters, Monday, July 28, 2014. The U.N. Security Council called for "an immediate and unconditional humanitarian cease-fire" in the Gaza war between Israel and Hamas at an emergency meeting just after midnight Monday morning. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

UN chief reinforces call for Gaza cease-fire

Edith Lederer · July 28, 2014 4:26 pm