Israeli settlers “feel that everything belongs to them,” Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the Latin patriarch of Jerusalem, told NBC News. TAYBEH, West Bank — The gleaming white ruins of Taybeh’s fifth-century Church of St. George Al Khidr stand as a testament to just how long the faith has endured in the occupied West Bank’s last majority-Christian town. But after […]

The thorough drubbing Iran received during the “12-Day War” has imparted no humility or penitence to the radical regime. By Wednesday, Iranian lawmakers had reverted to factory settings, chanting “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” as they approved a bill suspending cooperation with U.N. nuclear inspectors. This irrational ferocity bears no relationship to the magnitude of […]