There will be no Friday updates in September.  I expect to resume putting these together in October.

Europe
European nations: Don't do business in settlements - Itamar Eichnek (Ynet/Honest Reporting)  At least five European nations warn companies, businessmen that activity beyond Green Line is in violation of the law, Israeli ambassadors report.  

Iraq

JIMENA addresses a very important issue:  On October 11th, 2013 the National Archives in Washington D.C. will open an exhibition titled, "Discovery and Recovery" that displays 24 restored Jewish objects taken by American forces from Sadaam Hussein's secret police headquarters in Iraq in 2003. These objects are part of a larger trove of over 2,700 Jewish books and documents that have been in the custody of the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington DC. According to an agreement between the US and Iraqi governments, the archive is slated to be returned to Iraq upon the completion of the exhibition.

Israel

Israel Wary of Jabhat Al Nusra in Syria - Amir Rapaport (Israel Defense)  IDF sources say 90 different rebel groups are currently active in Syria. 10 maintain active forces in the Golan Heights area, not far from the Israeli border.

Where's the Coverage? Israel Surrounded by Threats (CAMERA)

Netanyahu: Syria Has Become Iran's Testing Ground (Prime Minister's Office) 
Lebanon
Death toll in Lebanon bombings rises to 47; al-Qaeda blames Hezbollah  - AP and Michal Shmulovich (Times of Israel)

Netherlands

Netherlands Seeks to Block Dutch Involvement in Jerusalem Sewage Treatment Plant - Barak Ravid (Ha'aretz)

Palestinians
Video: Border Police Come Under Attack in West Bank, Three Palestinians Killed - Yaakov Lappin, Khaled Abu Toameh, and Tovah Lazaroff (Jerusalem Post)
What Human Rights Watch's Homepage Features - David Bernstein (Volokh Conspiracy)

The Palestinian Authority's "Israeli Affairs Committee"  - Khaled Abu Toameh (Gatestone Institute)

Qatar

U.S. couple charged in Qatar with murder of 8-year-old daughter - Mustapha Ajbaili (Al Arabiya) 

Russia

Russia to send anti-submarine ship, missile cruiser to Mediterranean  (The Daily Star)

Saudi Arabia

Saudi-Syria Tension Reaches New Heights As U.S. Prepares For Attack In Syria (MEMRI) Saudi Arabia's active support of the Syrian uprising has been ongoing for the past two years.

Syria

Syrian Electronic Army (MEMRI) Defectors from inside the SEA say that the group moved from Damascus to Dubai, although some pro-regime volunteers remain inside Syria.  It is hosted in Syria....Though there is no explicit known connection between the SEA and the Syrian regime, the regime is believed to be behind the SEA's activities and has recognized its legitimacy.

On Syrian TV, Threats To Annihilate U.S. Forces And Israel With Chemical Weapons, By Swedish-Algerian Journalist Abu Zakariya  (MEMRI) 

United States of America

Stigmatizing Their Critics - An IPT Video Report Panel Discussion Focuses on Islamist Intimidation  (IPT News)

Questioning continues over administration's case for Syrian intervention - Bill Roggio and Lisa Lundquist (Long War Journal)Bombing Syria: What's the Goal? - Robert Satloff (Politico)
Obama's Bluff - George Friedman (Stratfor)

Egypt

Egyptian Petition Drive Started to Reject U.S. Aid, Scrap Peace Treaty with Israel (Egypt Independent)

Europe

European Jihadists: The Continuation of a Historical Trend (Stratfor)

Iran

Iran Says It Has 18,000 Nuclear Centrifuges (AFP)

Israel

Israel Helping the Bedouin Move into the 21st Century - Doron Almog  (i24 News)  The Israeli government has decided to allocate $2.6 billion to resolve land disputes and promote economic development within the Bedouin sector. The plan includes building thousands of new housing units, expanding and developing existing settlements and establishing new Bedouin settlements. The guiding principle is to push for a dramatic improvement in Bedouin quality of life without harming tradition. 

Israeli Scientific Breakthrough Could Ease Droughts and Famines - Anav Silverman  (Algemeiner)

Lebanon

Israel to UN: Hizbullah Is Using Civilian Homes in South Lebanon to Hide Rocket Launchers - Yaakov Lappin (Jerusalem Post)

Libya

Ansar al Sharia in Libya criticizes Muslim Brotherhood - Bill Roggio (Long War Journal)  Ansar al Sharia in Libya released a statement that criticized the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt for participating in the democratic process, and for failing to implement sharia, or Islamic law. 

Palestinians

Palestinians Accuse Peace Negotiators of Treason - Khaled Abu Toameh (Gatestone Institute) Many Palestinians and Arabs have seized the opportunity to ridicule Erekat and accuse the PA leadership of treason. When Abbas agreed to resume the peace talks with Israel, he went against the recommendation of the PLO leadership. Now several Palestinian factions are in the process of forming a "national alliance," the main goal of which is to thwart any deal between Israel and the PA.

Palestinian Kids Taught to Hate Israel in UN-Funded Camps, Clip Shows - Lazar Berman (Times of Israel)

World Mum on PA Incitement But Slams Israel on Construction- Herb Keinon  (Jerusalem Post)

Syria

Following Reports On Chemical Attack In Syria, Articles In Arab Press Blame International Community, U.S. For The Massacre (MEMRI)

Turkey

Power Struggle Splits Turkish Ruling Party - Hasnain Kazim and Maximilian Popp (Der Spiegel-Germany)

U.S. Condemns Erdogan's Comments on Israel, Egypt(Reuters) 

United States of America

PBS Doubles Down on Anti-Israel Films (CAMERA) On POV, of the fifteen new films being broadcast in the 2013 season, two of them, over 13 per cent, are anti-Israel.

AQAP

Al-Qaeda's Emerging Leader: Nasir Al-Wuhayshi – An Advocate Of Lone Wolf And WMD Attacks On Planes, Buses And Subways In Western Countries (MEMRI)

Wuhayshi imparted lessons of AQAP operations in Yemen to AQIM - Bill Roggio (Long War Journal)  

Egypt

Dissenting Voices Emerge within Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood (MEMRI) 

Egypt Cracks Down on Jihadi Sandbox in Sinai - Christa Case Bryant  (Christian Science Monitor)  Daniel Nisman of the Israel-based security consultancy firm Max Security Solutions says there are about 1,500 jihadists in Sinai, broken down into 15 to 20 cells with varying ideologies, some of which are in line with al-Qaeda. 

Muslim Brotherhood Burns Churches, Scapegoats Christians Following Crackdown - John Rossomando (Investigative Project on Terrorism) 

Iran

Iran's New Defense Minister: Behind the 1983 Attack on the U.S. Marine Corps Barracks in Beirut - Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Dr. Shimon Shapira (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs)

Israel

Who Is Being Released? (AP-Washington Post)

New Zealand

Al-Qaeda-Trained Terrorists in New Zealand, Prime Minister Says - J. Dana Stuster (Foreign Policy)

Palestinians

PA Plans to Build Housing in Jerusalem's Western Wall Plaza - Itamar Marcus (Palestinian Media Watch)     A documentary broadcast twice on PA TV declared that the PA plans to destroy the Western Wall Plaza, Judaism's holiest place of prayer, and build residential homes there instead.

PA Speaks of "Temporary" Peace Deal - Geoffrey Alderman (Jewish Chronicle-UK)  Senior PA spokesmen Nabil Abu Rudeineh and Yasir Abed Rabbo declared separately on July 21 that any deal reached with Israel would only bind the Palestinians temporarily.     The government of Mahmoud Abbas will not sign a final, all-encompassing peace treaty. The very most they might agree to is a hudna - a truce, a tactical device to allow them to regroup and rearm.

Fatah Celebrates Murder - Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberik (Palestinian Media Watch)  One of Fatah's official Facebook pages displays a series of facts about Fatah terror attacks including:  "Did you know? The first operation against an Israeli target outside...Arab territory was the Munich operation" [when 11 Israeli athletes were murdered at the 1972 Olympic Games].

Hamas Says It Won't Be Bound by Peace Negotiations - Elhanan Miller (Times of Israel)

United States

U.S. to Admit 2,000 Syrian Refugees - John Hudson and Noah Shachtman (Foreign Policy)

The most shocking thing this week -- Fiamma Nirenstein's column on Pakistan. What do you think?

Egypt

Egypt's Morsi Fell When He Ran Out of Money - David P. Goldman (PJMedia)

Recognize Muslim Brotherhood for the Hate Group It Is - Marvin Hier and Abraham Cooper (The Hill)

Egypt Blockades Gaza Where Are the Flotillas?  -  Khaled Abu Toameh (Gatestone Institute)

India

Al-Qaida's growing closeness to LeT, JeM worries security establishment - Indrani Bagchi (Times of India)

Lebanon

Lebanese President Criticizes Hizbullah, Rockets Land near Presidential Compound (AP-Fox News)

Hizbullah Threatens the Lebanese President- Abdulrahman al-Rashed (Al Arabiya)

Pakistan

Pakistan: Giving Away Babies on Television - Fiamma Nirenstein (Gatestone Institute)

Palestinians

Denying Israel's existence is worth $100 -   Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik (PMW) Palestinian Media Watch has shown that the PA as policy denies Israel's existence and its right to exist, and official PA TV also follows this policy.

Turkey

Scientists Sentenced in Turkish Conspiracy Trials - Alison Abbott (Nature)

United States of America

With Embassy Closures, the U.S. Errs on the Side of Caution (Stratfor)

Fact-Checking at the New York Times- Adam Kredo (Washington Free Beacon)

CNN’s Zakaria Predictably Promotes Palestinian Journalist’s Propaganda (CAMERA)

Can We Say Goodbye To A Pakistani Spy?  (IPT News)

Egypt

Egyptian Columnist: The U.S. Is The Standard-Bearer For Neo-Nazism (MEMRI)

'Al-Hayat' Columnist To The Egyptians: Stop Blaming the U.S. – And Start Taking Responsibility For Your Country's Problems (MEMRI)

Iran

Iranian Presence in the Western Hemisphere - Matthew Levitt (Washington Institute for Near East Policy)  Iran not only continues to expand its presence and bilateral relationships with countries like Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, but also maintains a network of intelligence agents specifically tasked with sponsoring and executing terrorist attacks in the Western Hemisphere.

Wishing for an Iranian Moderate - Clifford D. May (Israel Hayom)

Israel

Pre-Oslo Prisoners and Their Crimes - (CAMERA) The Israeli-Palestinian peace process is again in the news and, specifically, the complex issue of prisoner release has been getting a lot of coverage. In coverage of the ongoing negotiations, as journalists now report on the prisoner issue, those wishing to understand why it presents so sensitive a debate in Israel must know who these prisoners are and what crimes they committed. They are not political prisoners, as some have described them.  They are criminals, murderers and terrorists with blood on their hands.

How Entertainers Are Bullied Into Not Performing In Israel -  Abraham Cooper & Harold Brackman (Forbes)

Eric Burdon rocks Israel — no misunderstanding - David Horovitz (The Times of Israel)

Palestinians

Photojournalist Stages News for Profit and Ideology  - Pesach Benson (Honest Reporting) see Fadi Arouri Crosses the Line. Note: Arouri works for Xinhua and has a free lance relationship with Reuters. His photography has appeared in AP, Apollo Images, Maan News, and Al-Ayyam.

PLO Faction Rejects Mideast Peace Talks (AFP-Ynet News)The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a major faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization, has rejected new peace talks with Israel, calling it a unilateral move by Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas which did not have the backing of the PLO as a whole. 

Palestinian Analysts: Peace Talks "Doomed" - Shatha Yaish (AFP)

United States of America

Ashrawi on CNN: So Predictable – Anti-Israel Vitriol and Distortions - (CAMERA) Amanpour failed to challenge any of Ashrawi’s distortions and falsehoods.

Egypt MB Protests Underscore Hypocrisy of America's Islamists - John Rossomando (IPT News)

United States Presses Israel to Release Murderers but won’t release Pollard - Alan M. Dershowitz - (The Jerusalem Post)