Video: The Brewing Conflict along the Red Sea - Dore Gold (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Of all the nations that are positioning themselves in the Horn of Africa, like Iran, the U.S., Turkey, France, the United Arab Emirates, and Russia, careful attention should be given to the presence of China in Djibouti where China has constructed one of its first naval bases at the gateway to the Middle East.
Lebanon Issues Gas Exploration Tender for Israeli Territory - Lisa Barrington and Dan Williams (Reuters) Lebanon has issued a tender for offshore oil and gas exploration in an area claimed by Israel. Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Wednesday, "...this is very, very challenging and provocative conduct."
IDF: Lebanon Has Become One Large Iranian Missile Factory - Anna Ahronheim (Jerusalem Post)
PA TV to kids: "Follow the example" of arch-terrorist Abu Jihad, he is "a symbol" - Nan Jacques Zilberdik and Itamar Marcus (PMW) A new children's program on PA TV called From My Country teaches children that arch-terrorist Abu Jihad, who the PA has bragged was responsible for the murder of at least 125 Israelis, is a role model to be followed.
Macron Warns Turkey Against ‘Invasion’ of Syria (Al Arabiya)
Behind Turkey's Military Incursion into Syria - Zvi Bar'el (Ha'aretz) The heads of the Arab tribes living in the three autonomous Kurdish districts of northern Syria, say they will stand "shoulder to shoulder with the Kurds against the Turkish enemy." The Democratic Federation of Northern Syria, established in 2014, wrote a constitution that granted equal rights to every ethnic and religious group, and also to women. It seeks to establish a secular, liberal, democratic federation that will in the future be part of Syria. Turkey claims it is acting to prevent the establishment of an independent Kurdish state along the Syrian-Turkish border. But according to the strategy and ideology that unites most Syrian Kurds, they have no intention of establishing an independent Kurdish state that might threaten Turkey. They seem to have successfully persuaded the U.S. of this, as well as Russia and Syria.
Turkey Is Threatening the Only Competent Pro-Western Militia in Syria - Michael J. Totten (World Affairs Journal) The West is having a hard time processing the fact that Turkey is increasingly hostile. It started when Ankara denied the use of its territory, including Incirlik Air Base, during the war against Saddam Hussein. Later, Erdogan helped Iran transfer weapons to Hizbullah in Lebanon and implicitly sided with ISIS in Syria because he didn't want an independent Kurdish region to rise up in Syria as it had in Iraq. Now he's threatening to destroy the only competent Western-friendly militia in all of Syria.
Guardian Article on Terror in Cities Omits Israel - Adam Levick (UK Media Watch)
BBC News Kicks Israel in the Face - Pesach Benson (Honest Reporting)
Google Partners with Anti-Semitic Islamists - Steven Emerson (IPT News)
Don't Ignore Kushner's Quiet Mideast Gains - Ahmed Charai (National Interest)
