Belgium
The Acute Jihadist Threat in Europe - Scott Stewart (Stratfor)
Egypt
Egypt's Fallen Police State Gives Way to Vigilante Justice - Mara Revkin and Yussef Auf (The Atlantic) The country's security vacuum is being filled by armed mobs who are implementing law and order on their own terms.
France
Al-Dura: a lethal narrative that just won’t die - Elihu Stone (Times of Israel)
If the French court, for either political or technical reasons, sides with state-owned France 2 against a bold and correct critic, they strike a blow not only against press responsibility, but the very fabric of the civil society they ought to play such a key role in preserving. Such an abject failure on the part of both the media and the courts to correct this penchant for mainstreaming the enemy’s lethal narratives makes the world a much more dangerous place.
Israel
Yet Another Edition of “It All Started When Israel Fired Back” - Pesach Benson (Honest Reporting)
Israel’s other air defense problem - Matti Friedman (Times of Israel)
Libya
Raping Women in the Name of Islam - Khaled Abu Toameh (Gatestone Institute) According to reports in the Arab media, the two British women of Pakistani origin traveling with their father were gang raped in accordance with a fatwa [Islamic religious decree] issued by Jordanian Salafi Sheikh Yasser Ajlouni. Ajlouni's fatwa allows the jihadis to have sexual intercourse with women who fall captive during war. That they were part of a human convoy headed to help Muslims in the Gaza Strip did not prevent Libya's jihadis from perpetrating their crime.
Palestinians
Salafi jihadists begin hunger strikes amid ongoing Hamas arrest campaign - David Barnett (Long War Journal)
Religious hate speech for children on PA TV - Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik (PMW)
Gaza Rocket Hit Sderot Preschool during Obama Visit - Neri Brenner (Ynet News) The rocket was only discovered Tuesday because the school, which usually houses three-year-olds, had been closed for Passover vacation.
PA Using Prisoner's Death from Cancer to Keep Up Populist Struggle Against Israel - Amos Harel (Ha'aretz)
Saudi Arabia
