Egypt's Lukewarm Response To Climate Change - Maha T. Khalil (Mada Masr/WorldCrunch)
Egypt Withdraws from U.S.-Led "Arab NATO" - Stephen Kalin (Reuters) Egypt has pulled out of the U.S. effort to forge an "Arab NATO" to contain Iran, said sources familiar with the decision. A meeting of the participants in the proposed Middle East Security Alliance (MESA) is to be held Sunday in Riyadh, the Saudi capital. MESA participants include the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and Jordan.
Egypt Withdraws from U.S.-Led "Arab NATO" - Stephen Kalin (Reuters) Egypt has pulled out of the U.S. effort to forge an "Arab NATO" to contain Iran, said sources familiar with the decision. A meeting of the participants in the proposed Middle East Security Alliance (MESA) is to be held Sunday in Riyadh, the Saudi capital. MESA participants include the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and Jordan.
Police Raids across Germany Target Hamas-Linked Charities (Deutsche Welle-Germany)
Why Netanyahu Keeps Winning - Aaron Kliegman (Washington Free Beacon) Netanyahu's views on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are mainstream because Israelis see how the Palestinian leadership repeatedly spit on, if not try to cut off or blow up, their government's outstretched hand.
In Libya, One of Putin’s Many Bets Is in Play - Leonid Bershidsky (Bloomberg) Putin’s generals and diplomats have built a new relationship – with Haftar, who commands the strongest military force in Libya and contains most of the country’s oil and gas.
From Gaza classrooms to the DNC, Palestinian female terrorists are all the rage - Emily Benedek (Times of Israel) Two-time PFLP hijacker Leila Khaled isn’t just lionized in the Arab world — she’s regularly invited to speak in Europe. Now the American hard left is picking up her ideology
Vice News Reporter’s False Claim: “270 Children Killed in Gaza” - Emanuel Miller (Honest Reporting) A Vice News Tonight report aired on television by HBO on April 3 spread a clearly false claim smearing the IDF and the State of Israel.
Palestinian Police Arrest Hundreds of People Every Week at West Bank-Jordan Checkpoint - Elder of Ziyon (Algemeiner) Last week, 184 Palestinians were detained by the PA. The week before, 223 were arrested by the PA, and 252 in the preceding week. Are those arrested criminals? Political dissidents? No one seems to care. Because only Israeli arrests of Palestinians are worth reporting by the media.
Picketing Cape Town's Jewish Groups in the Name of Palestinians - Armin Rosen (Tablet) The Council of South African Trade Unions picketed the Cape Town offices of the Jewish Board of Deputies as part of the country's annual Israel Apartheid Week festivities. Why target the board, whose mission is to "promote the safety and welfare of South African Jewry"? Malvern De Bruyn, a COSATU activist, explained: "There's no embassy in Cape Town. That's why we came to the board of deputies." In the absence of an Israeli target, COSATU chose the most visible and convenient Jewish one.
How U.S. F-35 Technology Would Be Compromised If Turkey Had the Russian S-400 Anti-Aircraft System (Air Force Times)
In NY Times Israel Coverage, Anything Goes - Tamar Stenthal (CAMERA)
Israeli Election: A Vote of No Confidence in the Media - Simon Plosker (Honest Reporting)
