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)