Iran
Iran's New Palestinian Terror Group: Al-Sabireen
- Khaled Abu Toameh (Gatestone Institute)
Iran starts taking nuclear centrifuges offline -
Bozorgmehr Sharafedin and Linda Sieg (Reuters)
Khamenei Orders Blocking of Imports
from U.S. (Press TV-Iran)
Israel at the UN
Western Wall Rabbi Condemns UNESCO
for Declaring Forefathers' Tombs as Islamic Sites - Jeremy Sharon (Jerusalem
Post)
Israel Accepted to UN Committee on
Peaceful Uses of Outer Space - Danielle Ziri (Jerusalem Post)
Lebanon
Lebanon,
Quiet Metaphor of the Middle East on the Brink – Francesca Paci (La Stampa/World
Crunch)
Partners for Peace?
Where's the Coverage? Palestinian
Leader: All of Israel is 'Occupation' (CAMERA) The latest untold
story: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas appeared to reject the
legitimacy of Israel in any borders in a speech to the U.N. Human Rights
Council in Geneva. Abbas made clear that he views the Jewish state’s existence
as illegitimate. But most media did not report this latest example of a
Palestinian leader denying Israel’s right to existence.
Palestinian
football tournament named after murderer who stabbed 2 to death last month -
Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik (PMW) Terrorist Muhannad Halabi
murdered two Israeli civilians and wounded the wife and infant of one of
them, in a stabbing attack in the Old City of Jerusalem in October. Now, the
Yasser Arafat Youth Center in Jenin has named a football tournament after
the murderer.
Pakistan
A Path to the Sea: China’s Pakistan Plan - Claude Rakisits (World Affairs Journal) ..the
jewel in the crown for China is the development of Gwadar, which would give
Beijing a firm and reliable long-term beachhead in the Indian Ocean and close
to the Persian Gulf, effectively making it a two-ocean power.... This steadily
developing bilateral relationship has been intensified by the effective end of
major Western, and in particular American, military presence in Afghanistan at
the end of 2014.
Is this really common
place in Pakistan?
Christian Kidnapped Before Wedding and Forcibly
Converted (The Clarion Project)
Russia
Islamic State on Recruitment Spree
in Russia - Arsen Mollayev and Vladimir Isachenkov (AP-Military Times)
Is this a model for US-Russia relations in the region?
Is this a model for US-Russia relations in the region?
Russia-Israel Coordination
Mechanism on Syria Is Not Working -
Yossi Melman (Jerusalem Post) When Prime Minister Netanyahu
met with President Putin in Moscow a few weeks ago they set up a coordination
mechanism to avoid military clashes between their forces. But in practice this
mechanism does not exist. Senior sources say that Russia updates Israel after
the fact or provides worthless information. That was the case with the most
recent Russian attacks on the Golan Heights in Syria.
Syria
Month of Russian Air Strikes on
Syria Kill Nearly 600 (Reuters) Russian air strikes on Syria have killed 410
fighters from various insurgent groups and 185 civilians since Moscow started
its aerial campaign a month ago, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said
Thursday.
