With Lincoln Center Theater in New York City launching the play “Oslo” this summer, I thought this quote was fitting: "You understand that we plan to eliminate the State of Israel, and establish a purely Palestinian state. " — PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, January 30, 1996 (2.5 years after signing the Oslo Peace Accords).

Afghanistan

Ghani Presses Pakistan to Battle Taliban (Pakistan Observer) He claimed Taliban leaders finding shelter in Peshawar and Quetta were “slaves and enemies of Afghanistan who shed the blood of their countrymen” and he called on Pakistan to wipe them out.

Egypt

ISIL Expands Throughout Egypt (Middle East Newsline)

India

India activates eight laser walls along border with Pakistan (Dawn)

Iran

Iran Unleashes the Morality Police – Michael J. Totten (World Affairs) Iranian women are retaliating against all this nonsense by defiantly publishing photographs of themselves taking off their hijabs on websites like Facebook, but the regime is fighting back. 

Jordan Debate In Jordan On Syrian Refugees' Future In The Country – Z. Harel (MEMRI)

Partners for Peace?

The PA's Billion Dollar Fraud - Itamar Marcus (PMW)

Mixed Messages: Abbas and Palestinians on Israel 2014-16- David Pollack (Washington Institute)

Gaza Kids Put on Play about Stabbing, Killing Israelis (Times of Israel)

Media Miss Emergence of New Iranian-Funded Palestinian Terror Group (CAMERA) A new Iranian-backed Palestinian terrorist group has emerged—and by appearances, it may be expanding. Yet, many in the U.S. media have failed to take notice.

Turkey

Poetry in Erdogan's Turkey: Jihad in, Satire out- Uzay Bulut (Clarion Project)

Turkish PM Says Secularism Will Be in The New Constitution (Reuters)

Turkey's Fake War on Jihadis – Burak Bekdil (Gatestone Institute)

UK

UK Debuts Bunker-Buster Bombs Against Islamic State - Gareth Jennings (IHS Jane's Defence Weekly-UK)

USA

Where Have All the "Good Boys" Gone?: Effective Handling of Captured Terrorists - Patrick Dunleavy (IPT News) They don't call them "cons for nothing....becoming "jail wise" can make you less of a threat to the United States.

“Israel is a water super-power” - Seth M. Siegel, author of Let There Be Water. Learn more at http://www.sethmsiegel.com/

Germany

Where’s the Coverage? Twenty-Nine German Soldiers Join ISIS (CAMERA)

Iran

Iran's Nuclear Misslies in our Future – Peter Huessy (Gatestone Institute)

Iraq

Iraq Operation to Recapture Mosul Needs Plan for Aftermath – Viola Gienger (United States Institute for Peace)

Pakistan

Cables tie Pakistan to 2009 Hit on the CIA (McClatchyDC)

Partners for Peace?

All Palestinian Factions Justify Jerusalem Bus Bombing (MEMRI)

Netanyahu: "How Many Times Do I Have to Invite Abbas for Talks?" - Herb Keinon (Jerusalem Post)

The Internal Palestinian Fight for Jerusalem - Pinhas Inbari (Institute for Contemporary Affairs-Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) 

United States of America

Pollard Claptrap (Jerusalem Post)

Rise of the Anti-BDS Movement - Robert Fulford (National Post-Canada)

United Nations

UNESCO Resolution Ignores Jewish Ties to Temple Mount, Western Wall (JTA)

The Self-Destruction of UNESCO - Alan Baker (Jerusalem Post)

Brazil Sees Rising Threat from Islamic Militants (Reuters)

Egypt Relinquishes Control of Strategic Islands (to Saudi Arabia) – Eitan Goldstein (Ynet News) Implications for Israel-Egypt relations and Israeli shipping still unclear.

Egyptian navy to conduct joint military training in UAE (Ahram Online)

Palestinian Children in Bethlehem Wear Suicide Belts to Celebrate Fatah's Anniversary (CAMERA)

Palestinians Erasing Christian History – Khaled Abu Toameh (Gatestone Institute)

Deflating Stereotypes: New Study Debunks Link Between Mosque Attendance And Radicalization – Sarah E. Jones (Wall of Separation)

From Poet to Jihadi: The Story of a Somali American in Minnasota – Meira Svirsky (Clarion Project)

Foreign Policy Mag labels Hamas “Palestinian Resistance Group”- Simon Plosker (Honest Reporting) Hamas is a terrorist organization. Unfortunately, many media outlets have a hard time using this accurate terminology, preferring language such as “militant” or “extremist” to describe Hamas. Foreign Policy magazine, however, has lowered the bar even further...

ISIS has Hit List of Western Muslim Leaders (Clarion Project)

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA-oPt): Politicized Activities and Funding in the Arab-Israeli Conflict – NGO Monitor

As Syrian refugees are arriving in the US as part of the President's “surge operation.” which reduces the resettlement process from 2 years to 3 months, Elizabeth Rubin of the New York Times reminds us again of the current conditions of asylum seekers from Afghanistan and Iraq. People that risked their lives for Americans (mostly as translators) are being treated like crap.If you haven't already, please read: Locked Up for Seeking Asylum by Elizabeth Rubin in the New York Times and Forget the Syrian Refugees. America needs to bring its Afghan and Iraqi interpreters here first by Dane Bowker in The Washington Post

Europe

Bosnia: A New Sanctuary for Islamic State in the Middle of Europe - Walter Mayr (Der Spiegel-Germany)

Palestinian Terrorists Who Stabbed British Woman Each Receive 9,000 Pounds a Year with the Help of UK Aid - Nick Constable (Mail on Sunday-UK)

Teaching Palestinians to Hate - Ariel Bolstein (Israel Hayom) Since PA schools are largely funded by European donations, responsibility for teaching this hate and its consequences falls on European leaders.

Hamas

1,000 Palestinians Are Digging Tunnels in Gaza (Jerusalem Post)

Iran

The Iran Nuclear Deal Keeps Changing - Eli Lake (Bloomberg) While it's true that the Iranians have disposed of nuclear material, modified sites and allowed more monitoring, they also keep haggling over the terms. Now the U.S. is considering a rule change to allow some Iranian businesses to use offshore financial institutions to access U.S. dollars in currency trades. When the White House sold the deal to Congress, senior Treasury officials promised the nuclear agreement would not allow such dollar transactions, since it only lifted nuclear-related sanctions on Iran, but kept in place other sanctions to punish the country's support for terrorism, human rights abuses and its ballistic missile program.

Israel

Israelis Mock Anonymous' Hacking Campaign Against Israel – Jacob Steinblatt (Vocativ)

Latin America

ISIS-Hizbullah Rivalry in Latin America - Shimon Samuels and Ariel Gelblung (Jerusalem Post) During Hizbullah's 2006 war with Israel, the entire Wayuu indigenous tribe in Venezuela converted to Islam, adopted the Hizbullah name, and attempted to bomb the U.S. Embassy in Caracas. Dabiq, ISIS' website, has announced its mission to convert the native Mayas in Chiapas, Mexico, and in Guatemala. It also seeks to Islamicize other indigenous peoples including the Tainos in the Caribbean, the Wayuu in Ecuador, and the Guarani and Amazonian tribes in Brazil. In the lawless "Triple Frontier" region between Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina, looking from Paraguay toward Brazil one sees huge Shi'ite mosques on the horizon and ayatollahs in SUVs.

Syria

Syrian Rebel Gains Show Regime's Reliance on Foreign Forces - Hassan Hassan (National-Abu Dhabi) The Syrian regime continues to rely on those militias to conduct its war outside its heartlands. Iranian-backed militias also spearheaded the capture of Palmyra.

Moscow's Mercenaries in Syria - Mark Galeotti (War on the Rocks)

Hizbullah Building Major Military Base in Syria (Stratfor) ranking officers from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) treat the base as an Iranian asset.

United Nations

UN Censors Israeli Exhibit about Zionisim – Itamar Eichner (Ynet News.com) 

Make No Mistake, the World Is at War - Mike Strobel (Toronto Sun-Canada)

Belgium

From JTA: Belgium soldiers guarding Jewish institutions had no bullets for their guns. Belgium’s counterterrorism abilities are limited by a constitutional ban on ethnic profiling and other laws, including a ban on home searches between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. On Sunday, violence broke out at Place de la Bourse (link to Le Soir) when police dispursed a crowd chanting slogans against arabs in front of the stock exchange, some members of the group were seen making Nazi salutes, confronting ethnic minorities, and throwing flares.

North Korea

N. Korean Army Units Fighting for Syrian Regime – Mohamed Sheikh Yusuf (Anadolu Post)

Partners for Peace?

Senior Israeli, Palestinian Security Officials Meet in Jerusalem (Xinhua-China)

ISIS: Jihad in Palestine Does Not Take Precedence overJihad Elsewhere (MEMRI)

Hamas Sentences Two Palestinians for Spying for PA - Khaled Abu Toameh (Jerusalem Post)

Video Shows Anti-Israel Indoctrination of Palestinian School Children (Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center)

Where's the Coverage? Palestinian Offical Admits 'Torture Happens' (CAMERA) In a March 2016 interview with a German media outlet, Rami Hamdallah, the prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, acknowledged that “torture happens” in PA prisons. Yet, his admission apparently received no coverage by the mainstream U.S. news media.

Saudi Arabia

The Saudi Connection in the Belgium Attacks – Lincoln Clapper (Geopolitical Monitor)

Syria

Syrian Campaign Pays Off as Moscow Lands Military Contracts (Sputnik-Russia)

In Syria and Iraq, the Islamic State Is In Retreat on Multiple Fronts - Liz Sly (Washington Post) Plans for an operation to capture Raqqa, the de facto capital of the Islamic State's caliphate in Syria, are on hold because of tensions between Kurds and Arabs over who would participate and how to govern the city after it has been taken. Likewise, preparations for an offensive for Mosul, the biggest Iraqi city under Islamic State control, are being held up by disputes over who should take part and how to govern the city.

United States

See Clarion Project's Profile of Each Candidate's Position on Islamist Extremism

Also see: Brussels: What the US Presidential Candidates Had to Say

Yemen

Yemeni Authorities Jail Jewish Man over Airlifted Torah - Sandy Rashty (Jewish Chronicle-UK)

Al-Qaeda Has Surface-to-Air Missiles - Bill Law (Independent-UK)