Sunday, February 8, 2026

TURKEY supports the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas and has one of the world's largest armies. The Syrian city of Kobani, still controlled by Kurds, is currently encircled on three sides by al-Sharaa's army and affiliated militias, while the border with Turkey remains closed. President Trump has assembled Israel’s most bitter, lethal enemies in the Board of Peace. Their first meeting will be in our nation’s Capital, Thursday, February 19. As of now, Israel will not be attending. A top priority for the BoP is the “Gaza Peace Plan” for which the US is pressuring Israel to allow Turkish troops on its southern border. Turkey is already present in Syria, Israel’s northern border. Read more here, here, and here.
> *A New Axis Takes Shape*– The New York Times released satellite imagery of an Egyptian airbase reportedly being used to allow Turkey to launch strikes on targets in Sudan. Analysts warn that deepening military coordination between Ankara and Cairo could extend beyond Africa—potentially toward Israel. After years of confronting a Shiʿite-led axis, Israel now faces the prospect of a far broader – and potentially more dangerous – Sunni alignment. 
>Turkey and Egypt Finalize $350 Million Weapons Deal - The deal includes Egypt's purchase of Turkey's Tolga air defense system, designed to intercept drones and UAVs, and  the establishment of a factory in Egypt for producing 155mm artillery shells.https://egyptindependent.com/egypt-turkey-enter-new-era-of-military-cooperation-with-joint-production-of-hamza-drones
>Lawmakers, witnesses push back on Syria sanctions effort, urge Turkish-Israeli rapprochement -Some US lawmakers (both Democrats and Republicans) justify support  for Al-Julani and Turkey's spreading tentacles as a counter to Russian influence. Meanwhile,  Erdoğan has  accused Israel of being the "primary obstacle" to a stable Syria.
>Turkey and Saudi Arabia signed an agreement to invest $2 billion to build solar and wind projects in Turkey.
>With Saudi Arabia shifting and Turkey consolidating its power in Syria, the regional map is being redrawn leaving Israel to face complex new adversaries.  Ask Haviv Anything  

EGYPT
Article In Egyptian State Daily: Israel Is Controlled By A Group Of Jewish Terrorists No Better Than Al-Qaeda Or ISIS; The International Coalition Against Terrorism Must Fight It -Note Egypt's growing antiIsrael alignment with Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar. https://www.memri.org/reports/article-egyptian-state-daily-israel-controlled-group-jewish-terrorists-no-better-al-qaeda-or

MEDIA
Google partners with Al Jazeera to develop AI
White House taps Hamas-sympathetic Drop Site News in press corps rotation
https://jewishinsider.com/2026/02/drop-site-news-white-house-press-corps-new-media-seat/?utm_source=jis
New York Times Doesn’t Bother Telling You This Key Detail About Its Favorite Gaza Doctor -
A response to War on The Rocks -  the IDF has used every civilian harm mitigation procedure created in the last 20 years of counterterrorism and counterinsurgency campaigns and then invented many never used in the history of war https://x.com/SpencerGuard/status/2019124749293465750?s=20
How a Small-Town U.S. Magazine Published October 7 Atrocity Denial https://honestreporting.com/how-a-small-town-u-s-magazine-published-october-7-atrocity-denial/
The shameful disinformation over the Gaza death toll
The Silent Genocide of Syria's Minorities – Part 3: Diplomatic Treachery and Media Malpractice
US media casts Israel as villain while burying UNRWA terror ties
The Washington Post eliminated its entire Middle East team in cuts that included 30% of its staff.
Actress Sarah Maria Sander Loses Lead Role Because of Pro-Israel Video -Schauspielerin Sarah Maria Sander verliert Hauptrolle wegen Pro-Israel-Video,”   https://journalistenwatch.com/2026/01/29/schauspielerin-sarah-maria-sander-verliert-hauptrolle-wegen-pro-israel-video/#google_vignette

ON CAMPUS
WESPAC’s filing definitively demonstrates that the post-Oct 7th anti-Israel protest movement was not a spontaneous, volunteer grassroots phenomenon, as often claimed. https://ngo-monitor.org/reports/wespacs-irs-filing-funding-protests-antisemitic-ngos/

PALESTINIANS/GAZA/PA
US Treasury Exposes and Disrupts Hamas’s Covert Support Network
Beneath Gaza, Israel's war with Hamas has only begun
Researcher on Palestinian Authority television: "We all know" Palestinians risked their own kids' lives to collect Pay-for-Slay
PA's rewarding of terrorist prisoners and the families of injured and so-called Martyrs with high monthly salaries incentivizes terror. But even PMW could not imagine that Palestinian parents would intentionally bring their children to areas of conflict so that they would be injured, and expose them to possibly a worse fate, only to get that monthly PA salary. https://palwatch.org/page/41884
 
QATAR
Qatar's Global War on Israel

SAUDI ARABIA
Saudi Arabia is ramping up efforts to build out its renewable energy and green hydrogen industries to diversify away from fossil fuels, following a similar approach to the UAE.  Two years ago Saudi Arabia had no grid-scale batteries installed and now it ranks fifth globally for annual installed capacity https://www.ft.com/content/c8317604-f31e-4e10-b52e-9b3b248af403
Saudi Arabia Signed $3B Investment Deals With Syria
The USA and Saudi armed forces announced the completion of a joint drill as tensions grow against the Iranian axis. https://gulfnews.com/world/mena/why-the-us-is-staging-major-air-drills-near-iran-amid-a-military-buildup-as-tensions-soar-1.500423289

SYRIA
The Jihad Against Syria's Minorities: A Documentary Call to Act
Chevron has signed a preliminary agreement with Syria’s state-owned oil company 

UN
UN free speech envoy Irene Khan never visited regimes that persecute dissenters like China, Russia, Iran or Cuba. Instead, she just went to inspect...Germany. Her primary concern? They “restrict Palestinian advocacy.”  https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2026/02/germany-un-expert-warns-space-freedom-expression-shrinking-amidst-growing

CONFERENCES
This is how Qatar and others spread propaganda. Conferences, forums, media summits, academic events, galas — almost every one features some anti-Israel framing.

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