Friday, January 9, 2015

JE SUIS CHARLIEA lovely sentiment, but sentiment alone isn't enough to vanquish those that would kill children (most recently 130+ in Pakistan), kidnap and sell girls (in Nigeria and Syria), and commit terrorist acts. As Daniel Henninger pointed out this week, “...if more of the world's people are to be protected from … Islamic terror, then the political and intellectual status quo will have to be changed or reversed.”

Egypt
Egypt's Sisi: Islamic "Thinking" Is "Antagonizing the Entire World" - Raymond Ibrahim (Islam Translated) ”We are in need of a religious revolution....This umma is being torn, it is being destroyed, it is being lost - and it is being lost by our own hands."
Sisi First Egyptian President to Attend Coptic Christmas Mass (Al-Ahram-Egypt)
Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States United Against Islamic Terror- Zvi Mazel (Jerusalem Post) Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states are all desperate to ward off the combined threats of a nuclear Iran and Islamic State.

Iraq
Iran-Backed Militias Are Getting U.S. Weapons - Josh Rogin and Eli Lake (Bloomberg)

Lebanon
Hizbullah's Global Intelligence War with Israel's Mossad - Ana Maria Luca (NOW-Lebanon)

Partners for Peace?
Six Palestinian Factions Reject Palestinian UN Resolution (Xinhua-China) The Hamas movement, Islamic Jihad, and four left-wing PLO groups said "the draft resolution opens the road again for the absurd bilateral talks."
Party Time: Fatah's Founding Myth (CAMERA) “Moderate” Fatah scheduled rallies to celebrate the anniversary of Fatah's first armed mission against Israel.
Hamas, Palestinian Authority Step Up Human Rights Violations - Khaled Abu Toameh (Gatestone Institute)

Saudi Arabia

Syria
Islamic State uses US-made anti-tank missile near Damascus – Caleb Weiss (The Long War Journal)

Turkey
Turkey's Gov't-Aligned News Outlets Blame Victims in Paris Attack (The Clarion Project) Turkish and regional Islamist newspapers have blamed the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo ("Charlie Weekly") for the attacks against it.

United States