Friday, February 16, 2018

Chinese Peacekeepers in Lebanon Clear Border Minefields (Xinhua-China) Of the 400 members of the Chinese military deployed as UNIFIL peacekeepers, 60 are tasked with clearing mines along the Israel-Lebanon border.

Iranian UAV a Copy of U.S. Stealth Drone - Judah Ari Gross (Times of Israel)  The Iranian drone shot down by Israel on Saturday appears to be a new stealth model whose design was stolen from an American RQ-170 Sentinel UAV captured by Iran in 2011, according to aviation analysts.

U.S. Hunts ISIS Remnants in Libya - Frederic Wehrey (Atlantic)

Partners for peace?
PA Denounces Visit by Arab Journalists to Israel - Khaled Abu Toameh  (Times of Israel) The Palestinian Authority on Thursday denounced a visit by Arab journalists to Israel and called to place them on a "blacklist." Last week, the Israel Foreign Ministry hosted a delegation of nine Arab journalists from Morocco, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, and Syria. The PA said the visit was aimed at "promoting normalization" between the Arabs and Israel, and called the visit an "inexcusable and unjustified disgrace." 
The Palestinian Textbook Problem - Yaakov Ahimeir (Israel Hayom)  books clearly "demonize the Jews and Israel, and encourage the violent struggle to liberate Palestine from the [Jordan] river to the [Mediterranean] sea. Palestinian textbooks have not become more moderate - quite the opposite, in fact. 

Assad Quietly Aids Syrian Kurds Against Turkey - Laila Bassam and Tom Perry (Reuters)

Intersectionality Is Making Teen Vogue’s Editors Stupid - Karen Bekker (CAMERA) CAMERA has written before about Teen Vogue's shift from fashion and beauty to political commentary, including pushing a one-sided Palestinian narrative to its teen readers. As it shifts to digital-only publication, it has continued this trend. 

Iran, Russia, and China's Central Role in the Venezuela Crisis - Joseph M. Humire (Gatestone Institute)

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