Friday, March 23, 2012


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Please check out this event in New York and on the web: Ahmed Rashid – Pakistan on the Brink (Asia Society) Tune in to AsiaSociety.org/Live March 26 , 2012 6:30pm - 8:30pm E.T. for a free live video webcast. Viewers are encouraged to submit questions.

Afghanistan
Afghanistan and the Long War - George Friedman (Stratfor)

Egypt

Europe
EU Foreign Minister Denies Linking Toulouse Attack to Gaza - Barak Ravid and Jonathan Lis (Ha'aretz) 

Israel
Blood Libel 2.0 - Joy Hymans (Times of Israel)

Japan

Libya
Saudi Wahhabism Expands into Libya- Jacques Neriah (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs

PA/Hamas/Fatah/Islamic Jihad/Popular Resistance Committees 
Abbas honors terrorists - Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik (PMW)
Hamas No Longer the Major Player in Gaza - Khaled Abu Toameh (Jerusalem Post)
-Islamic Jihad and the Popular Resistance Committees, the two groups who were behind the rocket and mortar attacks on Israel, have proven that Hamas is no longer the major player in Gaza. Hamas will now have to live with the fact that these two groups pose a challenge to its control over Gaza.
-On a number of occasions in the past, Hamas security forces did not hesitate to detain members of Islamic Jihad and the PRC who violated previous truces with Israel. Now, for the first time, Hamas refrained from taking action against the armed groups.
Syria
Syrian Rebellion Is Growing (Der Spiegel-Germany

United States of America
Iran, Hizbullah and the Threat to the Homeland (House Committee on Homeland Security)