Afghanistan
Analysis: The Taliban's 'momentum' has not been broken - Thomas Joscelyn & Bill Roggio (The Long War Journal)
Canada
Canada closes embassy in Iran - Rob Gillies (AP)
Egypt
Closed: Last Synagogue in Egypt - Shiraz Maher (Gatestone Institute)
Egyptian Sinai checkpoint attacked for 34th time - (Egypt Independent/IMRA)
Analysis: The Taliban's 'momentum' has not been broken - Thomas Joscelyn & Bill Roggio (The Long War Journal)
Canada
Canada closes embassy in Iran - Rob Gillies (AP)
Egypt
Closed: Last Synagogue in Egypt - Shiraz Maher (Gatestone Institute)
Egyptian Sinai checkpoint attacked for 34th time - (Egypt Independent/IMRA)
Israel
Nuclear Weapons from Saddam to Iran: The Surprising Lessons for Israel from Captured Iraqi Documents - Dore Gold (Israel Hayom)
Latin America
Hizbullah in Latin America - Implications for U.S. Homeland Security (U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security)
Trouble on the Triple Frontier, The Lawless Border Where Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay Meet - Christine Folch (Foreign Affairs
Iran, Hizbullah Establish Training Base in Nicaragua - Philip Podolsky (Times of Israel)
Trouble on the Triple Frontier, The Lawless Border Where Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay Meet - Christine Folch (Foreign Affairs
Iran, Hizbullah Establish Training Base in Nicaragua - Philip Podolsky (Times of Israel)
Chavez Campaign Takes on Anti-Semitic Overtones - (El Mundo, El Universal, La Nacion, World Crunch)
Palestinians
Palestinians
Hamas Pursuing Salafists from "Street to Street" in Gaza - Kifah Zaboun(Asharq Al-Awsat-UK)
Israel Made Me Set Myself on Fire, Part 2 - Simon Plosker (Honest Reporting) This week men set themselves on fire in the Gaza and the West Bank to
protest economic inequality. I'm not sure if this item should be posted under UK or PA: So while the victim’s own family blamed Palestinian infighting, The Guardian blamed Israel.
West Bank Economic Protests Build Steam - Avi Issacharoff
Palestinians are calling for the scalp of Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, who should be a hero for rooting out corruption. Fayyad has managed to generate nothing short of miracles in the West Bank. After years of anarchy and chaos, peace has been restored to the streets of Palestinian cities. Armed militants have disappeared. The newly rehabilitated security forces are now operating with efficiency. Businessmen owning monopolistic companies in the PA were forced to compete for contracts; corrupt officers and clerks have been removed from public service. (Ha'aretz)
Palestinians are calling for the scalp of Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, who should be a hero for rooting out corruption. Fayyad has managed to generate nothing short of miracles in the West Bank. After years of anarchy and chaos, peace has been restored to the streets of Palestinian cities. Armed militants have disappeared. The newly rehabilitated security forces are now operating with efficiency. Businessmen owning monopolistic companies in the PA were forced to compete for contracts; corrupt officers and clerks have been removed from public service. (Ha'aretz)
Syria
Assad's Massacre Strategy - Hassan Hassan (Foreign Policy)
Syria's Eerie Parallel to 1980s Afghanistan - David Ignatius (Washington Post)
United States
Report: U.S. Won't Back Israeli Strike
If Iran Doesn't Attack American Assets in Gulf - Shimon Shiffer (Ynet News)
3 Things You Need to Willfully Overlook Before Reading This New York Times Op-Ed - Pesach
Bensen (Honest Reporting)
Radical Imam May be Out at Northeastern (IPT News)
Radical Imam May be Out at Northeastern (IPT News)
