Friday, August 18, 2017

It's unlikely there will be an Update next Friday because of my travel schedule.

The Fight of His Life - Brian Castner (Esquire) Afghan Army Captain Noorullah Aminyar


Iran-Backed Cyber-Espionage Group Uncovered - Mohammed Alkhereiji (Arab Weekly-UPI)

Arab League echoes PA lies and libels - Itamar Marcus (PMW) 
Hamas Is Restoring Its Alliance with Iran
 - Lt. Col. (ret.) Jonathan D. Halevi (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs)

Russia Foils ISIS Bomb Plot, Discovers Moscow Explosives Lab - Jack Moore (Newsweek) Russia estimates that 2,500 Russian nationals have joined ISIS in Iraq and Syria since 2015. 

Barcelona Suspect Ranted Online Against Israel - Joshua Taylor (Mirror-UK)

Kurds Fear Western Sellout after They Defeat ISIS in Raqqa - Fabrice Balanche (Washington Institute for Near East Policy    When the U.S. ended its support for Syrian rebels earlier this summer, it demonstrated bad faith to its purported allies. The PYD and Arab proxies will now be reluctant to wholeheartedly support any U.S. strategy in eastern Syria without serious long-term guarantees.

Turkish Education: Jihad In, Evolution Out - Burak Bekdil (Gatestone Institute)

UNRWA Closes Hamas Tunnel under Gaza Schools - Tovah Lazaroff (Jerusalem Post) UNRWA announced Monday that it had sealed a Hamas tunnel it found two months ago built under two of its schools in the Maghazi refugee camp in Gaza. 

Alternative Facts under NY Times Editor Matt Seaton  (CAMERA) Under New York Times editor Matt Seaton, the paper has published false claims that Eilat was an Egyptian port, Mahmoud Abbas accepts a Jewish state, Israel has built no Arab cities, and no Palestinian faction supports a one-state solution.

'If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention,'  Heather Heyer