This Is What Everyday Life in the Middle East Actually Looks Like - Sarah Buder (Afar)

Syrian Refugee Family In Argentina Returns To "Safer" Aleppo - Gonzalo Herman (Clarin/World Crunch)

Denmark to Allocate Another $8 Million to Radical Anti-Israel NGOs  (NGO Monitor)

50 Jerusalem Facts for the 50th Anniversary of Its Reunification - Eliana Rudee (JNS.org)

Israel Nabs Palestinian Ambulance Driver Who Blocked Israeli's Escape from Riot - Judah Ari Gross (Times of Israel)
Israel Approves Economic Measures to Benefit Palestinians - Barak Ravid (Ha'aretz) See also Israel: Goodwill Gestures to Palestinians Came at Trump's Request (Times of Israel)

Jordan Says Its Spies, Not Israel, Provided ISIS Bomb Intelligence - Ali Younes (Al Jazeera)

Construction of Wall around Palestinian Refugee Camp in Lebanon Nears Completion - Mohammed Zaatari (Daily Star-Lebanon)

Who should the world believe?   What Abbas told Trump today, or what Palestinian leaders tell their people regularly?  - Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik (PMW)

A month of PA terror glorification  exposes Abbas' great lie to Trump - Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik (PMW)

Red Cross Closes Office in Ramallah over Threats (Anadolu-Turkey)

Syria Has Effectively Ceased to Exist - Jonathan Spyer (Foreign Policy)

ISIS targets ‘dangerous women’ in Manchester attack  - Lauren Wolfe (Women Under Siege) Grande represents a society in which women can choose what they do, wear, and say. 

Air India's Tel Aviv Service Delayed by Denial of Overflight Rights - Ashwini Phadnis (The Hindu-India)   Air India has delayed the launch of its direct flights between New Delhi and Tel Aviv as Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Afghanistan have denied it overflight permission.

 

Dublin City Council Votes to Fly Palestinian Flag, Rejects Israeli Flag - Laura Lyne (Dublin Live-Ireland)

 

Gaza Is a State - Samuel Nurding interviews IDF Maj.-Gen. (ret.) Giora Eiland  (Fathom-BICOM)

Hamas Official Denies Softened Stance toward Israel (Reuters-VOA News)  "When people say that Hamas has accepted the 1967 borders, like others, it is an offense to us," he said.

Gaza Power Cuts Affect Sewage Treatment - Nasouh Nazzal (Gulf News-Dubai)     In April, the Palestinian Authority stopped paying Gaza's electricity bill. This means sewage treatment plants are receiving 3-4 hours of electricity a day, not enough to process Gaza's sewage.     Gaza municipalities are now dumping 70,000 cubic meters of untreated sewage into the Mediterranean daily and the pollution has started reaching Egypt and Israel. 

Video: Abbas, UNESCO, and the Test of Diplomacy - Dore Gold (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) In its latest resolution on Israel, UNESCO speaks about the Bilal Bin Rabah mosque in Bethlehem. Where did they get this? From the Palestinian Authority, which has taken Rachel's Tomb, a famous Jewish holy site, and converted it into an exclusively Islamic site. The irony is that in the documents of the Ottoman Empire, an imperial firman (decree) by the Ottoman Sultan describes Rachel's Tomb as a Jewish site. Moreover, Bilal Bin Rabah, the first muazzin of Islam, was buried in Damascus, not in Bethlehem, according to Islamic tradition. UNESCO is supposed to be responsible for maintaining educational truth, but it doesn't do so.

 

Despite Heavy Losses, ISIS Structures Remain Resilient - Hassan Hassan (The National-Abu Dhabi)

Tabqah, Syria liberated from the Islamic State - Thomas Joscelyn (Long War Journal)

Where’s the Coverage? Congress Acts to Thwart Palestinian-Pay-For-Terror (CAMERA) 

U.S. Should Help Egypt in Its War on Terror - David Schenker (Foreign Affairs)  Notwithstanding its 440,000-strong standing army and $1.3 billion in annual U.S. military assistance, over the past five years Egypt has been unable to contain - much less roll back - some 600-1,000 insurgents. During the same time, ISIS has killed 2,000 Egyptian soldiers and policemen in Sinai.

FYI - I was wondering what happened to Bret Stephens column in the Wall Street Journal - turns out with much brouhaha he's landed at the New York Times!

 

Erdogan opponents 'monitored' by embassy in Denmark: report (The Local)

IS affiliated militants slaughter woman, kidnap her family in Rafah (Egypt Independent) The incident is the third one to take place against a woman in North Sinai.

 

Iran Is Building Two Land Corridors to the Mediterranean - Ehud Yaari  (Foreign Affairs)  

U.S. Gesture (Under Obama) to Iran Undermined Its Own Counterproliferation Efforts - Josh Meyer (Politico) 

Jordanian Journalists: Hundreds Of Thousands Of Young Jordanians Support ISIS – And The Authorities Aren't Dealing With It  - Z. Harel (MEMRI)

Fatah and Hamas Agree, Israel Has No Right to Exist  - Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik  (Palestinian Media Watch)

Human Rights Watch Condemns Hamas Treatment of Two Israeli Civilians (Human Rights Watch) Two Israeli men with serious mental health conditions who crossed separately from Israel into Gaza in 2014 and 2015 have apparently been held by Hamas, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday.

Thousands of Palestinians Rally in Ramallah for Islamic Caliphate - Bassam Tawil  (Gatestone Institute)

 

Beheadings of Indian soldiers (by Pakistani army) prove Pakistan Army still the main destabilising force in South Asia - Rajeev Deshpandel (Times of India)

 

Qatar's Support for Terror - Jonathan Schanzer (New York Post)

 

Russia is Arming the Taliban- Michael J Totten (World Affairs Journal) The Russians say they are arming Al Qaeda’s ideological twins so that the Taliban can fight ISIS. It’s a dubious claim. Heavy Russian machine guns are showing up in Taliban hands far from ISIS positions. More important is that Russia isn’t even denying that it’s arming the Taliban.

Saudi women no longer need male guardian consents to receive services (Al Arabiya)

Chinese Jihadis' Rise in Syria Raises Concerns at Home - Bassem Mroue and Gerry Shih (AP-Washington Post)The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said there are about 5,000 Chinese fighters in Syria, but Li Wei, a Chinese terrorism expert, said the number was about 300, who brought with them about 700 family members.

Explainer: The 'Very Bad History' Of Safe Zones - Alan Crosby (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)

On (Israel) Independence Day, UNESCO okays resolution ignoring Jewish links to Jerusalem- Raphael Ahren and Alexander Fullbright (Times of Israel)

 

U.S. Battling ISIS Drones with Electronic Warfare Counter-Drone Capabilities - Mark Pomerleau (C4ISRNET )