Can you believe it, US at war over 16 yrs and still no draft!

220 Airstrikes on Palestinians; World Yawns - Khaled Abu Toameh (Gatestone Institute) While all eyes are set on the weekly demonstrations organized by Hamas and other Palestinian factions along the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel, as part of the so-called March of Return, a Palestinian refugee camp near Damascus is facing a wide-scale military offensive and ethnic cleansing by the Syrian army and its allies. The war crimes committed against the Palestinians in Yarmouk camp have so far failed to prompt an ounce of outrage.... The international community seems to differentiate between a Palestinian shot by an Israeli soldier and a Palestinian shot by a Syrian soldier.

Taliban announces onset of ‘Al Khandaq Jihadi operations’ - Bill Roggio (Long War Journal) US forces in Afghanistan are the primary target of operations. In a follow-up article, this author says: (US) State’s repetitive call for the Taliban to make peace demonstrates an unthinkable fundamental misunderstanding of the Taliban and its goals some 16 years after the US first entered Afghanistan.

Headline Fail: Sanitizing a Hamas Terrorist - Simon Plosker (Honest Reporting)

Internal Hamas Rift Blocks Deal to End Gaza Border Marches - Daniel Siryoti (Israel Hayom) A senior Egyptian intelligence official said Sinwar was furious with Haniyeh and accused him of coordinating Hamas policy with Tehran rather than with the group's own leadership. 

The Need to Tackle Iran's Reactionary Ideology in Africa - Heshmat Alavi (Al Arabiya)

Iran's Khamenei Urges Muslim Nations to Unite Against U.S. (Reuters)

How Netanyahu turned victory into all-around defeat in African migrant crisis - David Horovitz (Times of Israel)

Classified U.S. Report Says Palestinian Refugees Number 30,000 - Adam Kredo (Washington Free Beacon)

New York Times Corrects Calling Palestinian Payments to Terrorists "Far-Right Conspiracy" - Ira Stoll (Algemeiner)

Russians Buy Kurdistan's Oil Pipelines to Turkey - Dmitry Zhdannikov (Reuters)

Report: U.S. Bolsters Military Presence in Syria - David Enders (The National-Abu Dhabi)

Britain's New Navy Base in Bahrain Marks Return to East of Suez - Con Coughlin (The National-Abu Dhabi)

Hizbullah Operations in Columbia Revealed (Ynet News)  Hizbullah's presence and activities have been confirmed by the Columbian police after a three-year investigation carried out jointly with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, the Spanish language news website Infobae reported.  Hizbullah is involved in drug dealing, selling and exporting stolen vehicles, and money laundering, alongside recruiting locals for future terror-related activities.  Supporters are recruited at local mosques and community centers and they are sent to Lebanon with "scholarships."

This just goes to show how seriously we should take the Simon Wiesenthal Center warning on Yom Hashoah. A new study released on Yom Hashoah found that 22% of millennials said they haven’t heard of the Holocaust and that two-thirds didn’t know what Auschwitz was.

PA Holocaust abuse: Photo of concentration camp victims misrepresented as Arab victims of Jews - Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik (PMW) Just days before Israel's Holocaust Memorial Day, Palestinian Authority Holocaust abuse and exploitation has reached a new low. PA TV misappropriated a photo showing hundreds of dead bodies at the Nazi concentration camp at Nordhausen, originally a subcamp of Buchenwald, presenting them as Arabs killed by Jews on April 9, 1948 in the Arab village of Deir Yassin.

Hamas Practices Breaching Gaza Security Fence and Abducting IDF Soldiers (Israel Hayom)

Hamas Attacks Israel - and the World Condemns Israel - Larry Haas (The Hiill)

What the New York Times Isn't Telling You about Israel's Gaza "Blockade" - Ira Stoll (Algemeiner)  Some Times accounts mention Egypt's participation in the "blockade," while others omit it.  Yet in one week in March 2018, 2,728 trucks entered Gaza from Israel carrying 74,202 tons of supplies. In addition, Israel supplies electricity to Gaza via ten power lines. And Israel supplies water to Gaza via two pipelines. Some "blockade."

Report: Syrian Military Moving to Russian Bases   (AFP-i24News)

Syria to chair UN disarmament forum on chemical & nuclear weapons; watchdog calls on US & EU to walk out (UN Watch)

Where’s the Coverage? Syria Violates Demilitarized Buffer Zone with Israel (CAMERA)

Yemeni Rebels Target Saudi Oil Industry - Jeremy Binnie (IHS Jane's Defence Weekly)

Since I have been asked what's happening with Hamas at the Gaza/Israel border, I've included lots of links on that subject this week.

U.S. Fines Norwegian NGO $2M for Supporting Palestinian Terror Groups - Ray Downs (UPI)
Norwegian NGO Provided Material Support to Iran, Hamas (U.S. Department of Justice)

Myths and Facts: Gaza’s Deadly 'Protests'  - Daniel Pomerantz (Honest Reporting)

Hamas Uses Human Shields and the Washington Post - Sean Durns (Daily Caller)

BBC journalist asks: What's wrong with Hamas?(BBC Watch)

Gaza Reality Check: Terrorist-Run Territories Produce Terrorism - Charles Bybelezer (Media Line-Jerusalem Post) Hamas' purpose was to see much more bloodshed and to inflame the whole area....The question of whether Israel acted correctly must be viewed in this context.  

Just in case anybody forgot what Hamas’s ‘March of Return’ is really all about - David Horovitz (Times of Israel) Gaza's terrorist rulers make no secret of their agenda. They are out to destroy Israel. Suicide bombers, rockets, and tunnels have failed. So now it's mass marches on the border  

Israel Warns of Ecological Damage as Gazans Prepare to Burn Thousands of Tires at Border - Tovah Lazaroff (Jerusalem Post) Palestinians plan to engulf the Gaza border with smoke and flames from thousands of burning tires on Friday, according to a Gaza source. Videos on social media show hundreds of tires that have already been gathered.

from the Atlantic Israel had warned Gaza residents against protesting, and said Hamas, the militant group that governs Gaza, was “cynically” sending women and children “to the security fence and endangering their lives.”

Qatar Has Stopped Supporting Infrastructure Projects in Gaza (Asharq Al-Awsat-UK)