Did
you know there were US forces in Jordan? Two responses in the
Atlantic to the Atlantic's interview with President Obama below,
suggest this is a good thing. How many “boots on the ground” are
there?
Europe
France:
Jihad Infecting Army, Police –
Yves Mamou (Gatestone
Institute)
EU
Uses Aid Money to Build on Disputed West Bank Land -
Jake Wallis Simons (Daily Mail-UK) The EU is using taxpayers' money
to build unauthorized settlements and roads for Palestinians on
Israeli parts of the West Bank. More than 1,000 EU-funded Palestinian
homes have been erected in the Israeli Area C without permits in more
than 40 locations around the West Bank.
Iran
Iran
to Send Commandos, Snipers to Iraq, Syria (Fars-Iran)
Iraq
The
Iranian Penetration of Iraqi Kurdistan
– Lazar Berman
(JCPA)
Jordan
U.S.
Forces in Jordan Attack ISIS in Syria -
Andrew
Tilghman
(Military Times)
North
Korea
The
North Korean Connection -
Yaakov Lappin (Jerusalem
Post) Hamas
attack tunnels in Gaza, Hizbullah's Scud D missile stockpiles, and
the Iranian Fordow nuclear facility dug into a mountain, would not
exist in their current form without North Korea's assistance,
Partners
for Peace?
Israel
Cancels Weekly Visit from Gaza to Pray at Al-Aqsa after Palestinians
Fail to Return Home
(Ma'an
News-PA)
Palestinian
Red Crescent hosts Fatah terror-honoring event
-
Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik
(PMW)
Why
It Doesn't Matter What Israel Does -
Jonathan S. Tobin (Commentary)
This
past week Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu offered to pull back
military operations from Ramallah and Jericho in the West Bank as a
gesture of good will. Yet the Palestinians were not interested. There
is now a consensus that stretches across party lines in Israel about
the lack of a peace partner.
Journalist
Group Defends ‘Incitement to Murder’
- Daniel
Pomerantz (Honest Reporting)
Russia
Russia's
Withdrawal Is Another Facade -
Anna Borshchevskaya (Washington
Institute for Near East Policy)
Saudi
Arabia
Saudi
Prince Turki Al-Faisal: Mr. Obama, We Are Not "Free Riders"
(Arab
News-Saudi Arabia)
Syria
Islamic
State Claims Killing Russian Soldiers at Palmyra
–
Caleb Weiss (The
Long War Journal)
Islamic
State Loses 22 Percent of Territory -
Columb Strack (IHS Jane's-UK)
USA
U.S.
Foreign Policy - Realist or Isolationist? -
Josef Joffe (Atlantic)
The
Obama Doctrine Revisited -
Tamara Cofman Wittes (Atlantic)
Access
the 2016 Digital Terrorism and Hate Report here
(Simon Wiesenthal Center)
Apple's
Other Jihadi Encryption Problem
-
Steven Stalinsky and R. Sosnow (MEMRI)