Friday, May 22, 2015

Please note that there will be irregular updates this summer because of our travel schedule.

Can AFP Say "Egyptian Blockade"? (CAMERA) Though an Agence France Presse article twice mentions the "Israeli blockade" of Gaza, under which hundreds of trucks containing all kinds of products pass every week, not once does it contain the phrase "Egyptian blockade," despite the fact that for most of the last seven months nothing at all has passed through the Gaza-Egypt border crossing.

Khamenei: U.S. Is Enemy to Both Sunnis and Shias - David Daoud (Algemeiner) The U.S. is the enemy of both Shia and Sunni Muslims, as well as the world's main sponsor of terrorism, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday.
Iran Navy Fires at Singapore Ship in International Waters (The Clarion Project)


Pope Francis Didn't Call Mahmoud Abbas "an Angel of Peace" - Stephen Kruiser (PJ Media) A BBC reporter claimed that Pope Francis said, "you are an angel of peace," while presenting a gift to PA leader Mahmoud Abbas. However, the Vatican reporter for the Italian newspaper La Stampa wrote that Francis said: "May the angel of peace destroy the evil spirit of war. I thought of you: may you be an angel of peace."
Israel Intercepts 40 Diving Suits En Route to Gaza - Yaakov Lappin (Jerusalem Post)  Security sources assessed that the package was part of Hamas' attempts to build up its offensive naval strike force. 
The Lessons of the Syrian Chemical Weapons Discovery - Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs)

Attacks on Syrians in Turkey increasing – Semih Idiz (Al-Monitor)

Who Can Attack Turkish Ships? Burak Bekdil (Gatestone Institute)