Lebanon
Israel
Military Searches for Hizbullah Tunnels along Border with Lebanon -
Jack Moore (International Business Times-UK)
Lebanese Forces Chief Geagea Backs Anti-IS Coalition, Slams Hizbullah for Criticizing it (Naharnet)
Iran
Pentagon:
Iran Fielding Anti-Ship Ballistic Missiles -
Jeremy Binnie, London and Daniel Wasserbly (IHS
Jane's Defence Weekly)
Libya
Sudan
and Qatar deny accusations of supporting Libya Dawn
(Libya Herald)
Palestinians
The
UN: Clueless or Complicit in Gaza? -
Claudia Rosett (National
Review)
Palestinian:
Donors Wary of Funding Hamas-Run Gaza -
Mohammed Daraghmeh (AP)
Gazans
Rush to Enjoy Life after Ruinous War -
Hamza
Hendawi (AP)
Gaza
Landlords Refusing to Rent to Hamas -
Khaled
Abu Toameh (Jerusalem
Post)
Fatah
Song Promotes Terror
-Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdek (PMW)
Mahmoud
Abbas'
Fatah party continues to call for launching rockets at Israel.
Hamas
Leader: Gazans Most Affected by Fighting Were Most Committed to
Resistance -
Asmaa
al-Ghoul
(Al-Monitor)... an
essential part of the capabilities of the resistance was from Iranian
aid in the recent war and the war that preceded it.
Saudi
Arabia
The
"Al-Aqsa Is in Danger" Libel -
Nadav Shragai (Jerusalem
Center for Public Affairs)
Saudi
Arabia to Host Training Camps for Moderate Syrian Rebels (Reuters)
South
Asia to the Far East
Growing
Support For The Islamic State (IS) From South Asia To The Far East;
Four New Jihadist Groups Planning Islamic Caliphate Comprising
Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, And Southern Philippines -
Tufail Ahmad (MEMRI)
Responses
to Terrorism: Europe v. India - Vijeta Uniyal
(Gatestone Institute)
Syria
I
included this because I read the Journal and somehow missed this
article. Maybe you did too.
ISIS's
Cruelty Toward Women Gets Scant Attention -
Haleh Esfandiari (Wall
Street Journal)
ISIS fighters are "rewarded" by being allowed to have
their way with captured women. To the men of ISIS, women are an
inferior race, to be enjoyed for sex and be discarded, or to be sold
off as slaves. From ISIS-captured territory in Syria, we saw a
photograph of a line of women, covered from head to toe and tied to
one another by a rope, as they were being led to a makeshift slave
market. Little girls were married off to men many times their age.
Although Islam requires that marriages be based on consent, consent
does not appear to exist in the lexicon of ISIS fighters. Why are
there are no demonstrations in Western and Muslim societies against
this barbaric onslaught on women and girls?
See
also: Islamic
State of Rape
(Foreign
Policy)
End
of an Era: UN Peacekeepers Stop Pretending to Keep Peace -
Seth Mandel(Commentary)
Israeli
Troops Saved Irish Peacekeepers on Syria Border -
Jim Cusack and John Drennan (Sunday Independent-Ireland)
Al-Qaeda's
Syrian Cell Bigger Threat to U.S. than ISIS? -
Ken Dilanian and Eileen Sullivan (AP)
New
Reality for Israelis on Golan Heights: Islamists Now Control the
Other Side -
Joel Greenberg
(McClatchy)
'Moderate'
Syrian Revolutionaries Front continues to support al Qaeda
–
Lisa Lundquist (Long
War Journal)
Turkey
Turkey
Sends Back 830 European Jihadists -
Fevzi Kizilkoyun (Hurriyet-Turkey)
Turkey
‘welcomes’ Egypt Muslim Brotherhood figures who leave Qatar
(Al
Arabiya News)
United
States
On Thursday, September 11, President Obama finally announced that the U.S. has a strategy. I urge you to read Justin Logan's commentary in USA Today. In it, he makes the case that “we can't fix other countries' political pathologies at an acceptable cost.” (Look at Iraq and Libya). The U.S. “response to the Foley and Sotloff killings should be simple: punishment.” What do you think?
Fact Sheet: Strategy to Counter the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) (White House)
Report:
U.S.-Israeli Misunderstanding Led to Breakdown of Gaza
Truce(Jerusalem
Post)
According
to the report, the Americans mistakenly led Israel to believe that
Hamas accepted an unconditional 72-hour cease-fire when in fact the
Palestinian Islamist group never gave its consent to refrain from
attacking Israeli troops on the ground in Gaza.
Sotloff,
failed by US, was sold for $25k-$50k, family says
– Spencer Ho (Times of Israel) Spokesman
claims location of Israeli-US journalist was given by ‘moderate’
rebels at Turkey-Syria border to IS; accuses Obama administration of
using hostages as ‘pawns’
Islamic
State Attracts Female Jihadis from U.S. -
Alistair Bell (Reuters)
In
addition, law enforcement officials say they learned of 15-20 men
with connections to the Minnesota Somali community fighting for
extremist groups in Syria.
Yemen
Pro-Iranian
Houthis Advancing in Yemen -
Arafat Madabish (Asharq Al-Awsat-UK)