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
Partners
for Peace?
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
Syria
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
Yemen
