Over 200 mortars fired
at Israel from Gaza on Saturday, by Monday a truce or cease-fire. Flaming kites
continue to be launched from Gaza and 11 new fires were ignited in Israel on
Thursday.
While Israel targeted terrorist
infrastructure, (in response to an IDF officer being wounded by a
grenade during a Gaza border riot and with
incendiary devises continuing to cause havoc) the response of Hamas and other Palestinian
terror groups was to indiscriminately launch over 200 mortars and rockets at
Israeli towns and villages in the border region. Four residents of
Sderot were injured and tens of thousands of Israeli civilians were forced to
hunker down in bomb shelters and reinforced safe rooms over the weekend. (Honest
Reporting)
Jihadists Are Trying to Take Over
the Sahel (Economist-UK) As the American and other allied
troops who helped crush IS are quietly heading home, a form of IS' brutal
ideology is taking root in and around the Sahel, the arid, sparsely populated
belt of land that runs along the southern fringe of the Sahara desert. Last
year the jihadists in Africa killed some 10,000 people, mostly
civilians. That compares with about 2,000 civilian deaths in Iraq and
Syria. Jihadists connected to al-Qaeda and IS have attacked
Western embassies, hotels and oil facilities in the Sahel.
Analysis: America’s Gulf allies still sponsor hate
preachers - Andrew Weinberg (FDD's Long War
Journal) America’s Gulf allies
-- Qatar, Dubai, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait -- still sponsor hate preachers during
Ramadan.
Argentina Freezes Assets of
Hizbullah Fundraising Network (JTA) Argentina has frozen the assets of the
Barakat Clan - a criminal organization linked to Hizbullah operating near the
border with Brazil and Paraguay. The Financial Information Unit of
Argentina said Friday the Barakat Clan is involved in smuggling, falsifying of
money and documents, extortion, drug trafficking, arms trafficking, money
laundering and terrorist financing.
Talk Show Producer (in New Zealand)
Tweets Hooey and Why It Matters - Pesacg Benson (Honest Reporting)
Hizbullah and Shi'ite Militias
Integrated into Syrian Army (Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center) At
least two Iraqi-Shi'ite forces - the Dhu al-Fiqar Brigade and the Abu Fadl
al-Abbas Brigade - are part of the campaign currently waged by the Syrian army
in south Syria.
Saudi Journalist: We Must Advance
Peace with Israel (MEMRI) In
several recent reports, MEMRI has noted an increasing number
of Saudi intellectuals, journalists, and commentators expressing public support
for Israel and calling for peace and normalization with it.
Are the Saudis Playing a Double
Game with Israel? - Dr. Edy Cohen (BESA
Center for Strategic Studies-Bar-Ilan University) The Saudis are
playing a double game. Behind the scenes, they send the Israelis the message
that Tehran is a common enemy and goad it to fight Iran and Hizbullah. At home,
they say the enemy is first and foremost the State of Israel, followed by Iran.
These statements penetrate deep into the Arab consciousness and increase their
existing hatred towards Jews and Israel.
Swiss Observer Expelled from Israel
for Slapping Jewish Boy in Hebron - Alexander
Fulbright (Times of Israel) See also: European Monitor Filmed Puncturing
Tires of Israeli Vehicle in Hebron - Yotam
Berger (Ha'aretz)
British media pummel Israel with
some of the most biased headlines since 2014 - Adam Levick (UK Media Watch)
U.S. Report Finds Only 20,000
Palestinian Refugees - Ariel
Kahana (Israel Hayom) Sources who have seen a State
Department report compiled during the Obama administration on Palestinians who
became refugees during the 1948 War of Independence say the report indicates
that only 20,000 of the 700,000 Arab refugees are still alive and displaced
from their homes. Members of Congress are demanding the State Department make
the report public. UNRWA, the UN agency which provides assistance to Palestinian
refugees and their descendants, asserts that there are 5.1 million Palestinian
refugees worldwide.
UPDATE from JTA
The State Department said on Thursday it is working with Iraq to extend the stay of a trove of Jewish artifacts from the country, after a bipartisan group of senators introduced a resolution recommending that the items not be returned as planned in September.
UPDATE from JTA
The State Department said on Thursday it is working with Iraq to extend the stay of a trove of Jewish artifacts from the country, after a bipartisan group of senators introduced a resolution recommending that the items not be returned as planned in September.
