Australia

Report: Hizbullah Has Sleeper Cells in Australia - John Lyons (The Australian)

Egypt

Egypt busts hundreds of smuggling tunnels, and a spy - Elhanan Miller (The Times of Israel)

Iraq

Iraqi Shiite Leader Urges Syria to Strike Back at Israel - Ilan Ben Zion (Times of Israel)  Iraqi Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr's political party, the Sadr Movement, holds 40 seats in Iraq's 325-seat parliament and is widely regarded as an Iranian client.  Professor Moshe Maoz of Hebrew University noted that "The Sunni world is rejoicing that Israel struck Syria." 

Israel

Test Yourself: How Much Do You Know about Jerusalem? (Jerusalem Center)

Palestinians

Top PA official: Israel ‘is our main enemy, resistance is still our agenda’- Elhanan Miller (The Times of Israel) Arab states should put their money where their mouth is to ‘liberate’ Jerusalem, says Jibril Rajoub, a signatory to the Geneva Initiative who had pledged he was Israel’s peace ‘partner’

Two senior Palestinian Authority officials praised the use of violence against Israel last week -  Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik (PMW)

Gaza Public Schools Are Once Again Teaching Hebrew - Christa Case Bryant (Christian Science Monitor) 

British Archives: Palestinians Are Responsible for Their Refugee Problem - Barry Rubin (PJMedia)

British Officials Predicted War - and Arab Defeat - in Palestine in 1948 - Richard Norton-Taylor (Guardian-UK) 

Qatar

Qatar's Duplicitous Game  - Paul Alster (IPT News)

Saudi Arabia

With Increase Of Sunni-Shi'ite Tension In Lebanon, Saudi Arabia Renews Involvement In Country  - E. B. Picali (MEMRI)

Syria

Palestinians in Syria Killed, Injured, Displaced - Media Yawn- Khaled Abu Toameh (Gatestone Institute) 

United States of America

For American Foreign Policy, No Good Options -  Robert D. Kaplan (Stratfor)

Stephen Hawking Reaffirms Support of Israel Boycott - Jonny Paul (Jerusalem Post) Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, director of Shurat HaDin-Israel Law Center, noted, "His whole computer-based communication system runs on a chip designed by Israel's Intel team." 

Phyllis Chesler "The New Anti-Semitisim: Reflections After a Decade on the Front Lines " - a video that goes to the heart of the BDS movement and is especially relevant based on Stephen Hawking's latest affirmation. For more from Dr. Chesler, click here.

This update may seem a little longer than usual because I've included more excerpts from the articles listed.

Australia
Australian Prime Minister Gillard Denounces BDS Movement - Christian Kerr (The Australian)

Opposing Radical Islamist Terrorism Is a Moral Duty - Colin Rubenstein (Sydney Morning Herald-Australia)

China

China offers to broker Netanyahu-Abbas meeting - (AP and Times of Israel) Both leaders set to travel to Beijing next week, days after Arab League endorses idea of minor land swaps for peace

Great Britain

Britain's Arabists - Samuel Westrop (Gatestone Institute) The British government provides £86 million every year to the Palestinian Authority. The Palestinian Authority pays the salaries of terrorists in Israeli jails, names football competitions after suicide bombers, and its government-controlled media promotes martyrdom and demonizes Jews.  While the British government is keen to whitewash its funding for the terror-supporting Palestinian Authority, it is even keener to demonstrate its opposition to any funding of Israeli scientific projects.

Israel

Israel Concerned about U.S. Drift toward Arab League Stance- Barak Ravid and Jack Khoury (Ha'aretz) While there were positive parts of the Arab League's announcement, such as the desire to renew the peace process, there were concerns of a drift in the American position, moving it toward the Arab position of "small" border shifts and minimal land swaps of identical size. 

Pakistan

"They Have My Address..." Interview With Accused Mumbai Mastermind - Edith Bouvier (LE TEMPS/Worldcrunch)

Since 2012, The United States has been offering $10 million to anyone who would provide information leading to the arrest of Hafiz Muhammad Saeed. The chances of him being brought to justice, however, would appear to be quite low. The 64-year-old is not even hiding. “I come and go as I wish. If the Americans want to come and get me, they have my address. My fate is in the hands of God, not in those of the United States.”

Palestinians

Fatah: Murderer of father of five is "The hero, the released prisoner"  -  Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik (PMW)  Fatah's Facebook page is celebrating the murder and glorifying the murderer. 
British TV Finds Boom, Not Bombs, in Gaza - Jennifer Lipman (Jewish Chronicle-UK) "Before I started researching, I thought the region was destitute - people living literally hand-to-mouth on aid." In fact, Sevi Rhodes of Channel Four found "a growing wealth gap," with new apartments being sold for up to $3 million to wealthy Palestinians with money from abroad or from jobs with the Hamas government. Rhodes said the experience confounded his expectations. "Most of these people live their lives with the same concerns as you and me...getting on the housing ladder, educating your children. People didn't even talk about Israel unless I brought it up."

Hamas Military Wing Securing Borders with Israel - Kifah Ziboun (Asharq Al-Awsat-UK) Fighters from the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, have replaced policemen on the borders of Gaza in an effort to prevent the firing of rockets at Israel. A number of Salafist groups hostile to Hamas recently fired several rockets at Israel.  The Al-Qassam Brigades have set up roadblocks and have begun searching cars and travelers in areas near the border. The brigade was also deployed in areas far from the border that were used in the past to fire rockets at Israel. The Hamas government has also been carrying out a campaign of arrests among Salafist jihadists. 
Fear and Fundamentalism as the "Modesty Police" Patrol Gaza- Phoebe Greenwood (Telegraph-UK) Police in Gaza arrested at least 41 men on charges of immodesty in April.

United States

Pro-Hizbullah, Pro-Hamas Stations Broadcasting in America - Charles C. Johnson (The Blaze) The Lawfare Project has found that two television stations - NileSat IPTV in New Jersey and ArabTV4ALL in California - are broadcasting transmissions from pro-Hamas (al-Aqsa) and pro-Hizbullah (al-Manar) television stations.   Al-Aqsa uses popular cartoon figures to indoctrinate children and incite them toward hatred and violence.

East Illinois AG Fights CAIR in Court, Lauds it in Public (IPT News)

US Ambassador: I don’t know if Pollard will die in prison   - Dan Brener  (Israel HaYom, translated by IMRA)

Recently, we were fortunate to hear Douglas Murray (the author, not the hockey player) and Khaled Abu Tomeh talk about their struggles to publish accurate stories. Please consider reading their columns.

Egypt

Senior Leader In Al-Gama'a Al-Islamiyya: Boston Bombing Contravenes Islam And Harms It (MEMRI)

India

Israel protests India's feting of journalist accused of aiding Iran in New Delhi car bombing - Barak Ravid (Haaretz)

Israel

Israel slams ‘sick, racist lies’ published by Pravda (Times of Israel) Russian paper claims ‘Tel Aviv regime’ injects Palestinian prisoners with viruses

Jordan

Jordan MP Expelled for Shaking Hand of Israeli President - Roi Kais (Ynet News)

Lebanon

Lebanese Parade Pro-Assad Syrian Citizen in His Underwear through Streets of Tripoli with Noose around His Neck - video (MEMRI)

Nepal

Nepal Police Arrest Iranian Outside Israeli Embassy in Kathmandu (Himalayan Times-Nepal)

Pakistan

Turkistan Islamic Party releases video of children in training - Bill Roggio (The Long War Journal) The video is similar to others released by allied jihadist groups such as the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan, the Islamic Jihad Group, and a jihadist alliance called the Fedayeen-i-Islam. All of these groups are known to run camps in North and South Waziristan that train children.  The Turkistan Islamic Party operates in China as well as Central and South Asia and is thought to have scores of fighters in Pakistan's tribal areas and in Afghanistan.

Palestinians

Abbas Honors Murderer -  Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik (PMW)  Glorifying terrorist murderers and paying prisoners high monthly salaries is official PA policy. 

On Hamas TV, Children Sing for "Martyrdom"  (MEMRI)

Spain

The Opening of a Spanish Consulate in Gaza - Alan Baker (Jerusalem Post)

United Kingdom

BBC Recognizes that the Mavi Marmara was not an “Aid Ship” (BBC Watch)

United Nations

UN official blames Boston terror on Israeli-US ties - Comments courtesy of Honest Reporting. Click headline for source.

U.S. Asks for UN Official's Resignation for Comments on Boston Blasts (Press Trust of India)

United States

Boston Bombers are Yet Another Wake-up Call for a National Strategy Against the Root Cause of Islamist Terror - (American Islamic Forum for Democracy)

Scary listening to the news this morning. How long does one have to live in America before being labeled a domestic terrorist? Commentators talking about 5000 sleeper cells in the US, jihad, Bakugans, and Chechens! Boston being told to shelter in place. For details on sheltering in place, click here and here.

Israel

Two Rockets Fired at Eilat - Ron Friedman
Two Grad rockets were fired at the southern Israeli city of Eilat Wednesday morning by Islamist terrorists in Sinai. One landed in a residential neighborhood and the other in an open area. (Times of Israel)

Jordan

Jordanian Parliament Demands Release of Shooter of Seven Israeli Schoolgirls - Roi Kais (Ynet News) 110 members of the Jordanian House of Representatives signed a petition demanding a pardon for a Jordanian soldier who shot and killed seven Israeli schoolgirls in 1997. Ahmad Musa Mustafa Daqamseh shot the girls during a school fieldtrip in Naharayim, near the Israel-Jordan border. Hussein Mjali, Jordan's former justice minister, previously referred to the imprisoned soldier as a "hero." 

North Korea

Palestinian Party in Pyongyang - Claudia Rosett (The Rosett Report)

Palestinians

On PA TV, 3 different kids recite same poem  promoting violence against Israel  - Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik (PMW)

Hamas Military Wing Damages  Gaza Heritage Site -  Abeer Ayyoub (Al-Monitor Palestine Pulse)

Sharp Rise in Hamas Attempts to Abduct IDF Soldiers - Yossi Yehoshua (Ynet News)

Palestinian ‘refugees’, hypocrisy and unity: just follow the money (CIF Watch)

Syria
Syria's Six Simultaneous Conflicts - Rami G. Khouri (Daily Star-Lebanon)

United States

Bigotry, The NYT and Israel (CAMERA)

Obama Supporters Criticize Administration's Muslim Brotherhood Policy - John Rossomando (IPT News)

History of the Muslim Brotherhood Penetration of the U.S. Government  - Clare M. Lopez (Gatestone Institute)

Who Is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Man at the Center of the Boston Manhunt? - Alexander Abad-Santos (Atlantic Wire)

Crowd Attacks Residence of Iranian Diplomat in Egypt (Press TV-Iran)
Egyptian Army Continues Crackdown on Gaza Tunnels - Zvi Bar'el (Ha'aretz)

Real Passports, Fake Drivers' Licenses - How Hizbullah Slowly Infiltrated Europe - Alexandre Levy  (Le Temps-Switzerland)
A Quiet Wave Of European Muslims Sets Out For War In Syria - Jean-Pierre Stroobants (Le Monde/Worldcrunch)

Where's the Coverage? Toddler Victim of Stone-Throwers Struggles for Life  - (CAMERA)

How does this make sense? PMW does not promote hate speech, but exposes it. YouTube blocks PMW video  that exposes PA TV hate speech to kids - Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik (PMW) YouTube accuses PMW of "spreading hatred" and threatens to close down PMW's YouTube account.   Then restores it. 
Facebook allows Palestinian promotion of hate speech but prevents PMW from exposing it.   - Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik (PMW) 

Who Funded the Palestinian "Blood Libel" NGO? (NGO Monitor)

YouTube has emerged as the leading website for online jihad (MEMRI)

WikiLeaks Reveals U.S. Relationship with Arafat - Lee Smith (Tablet)
Cardozo Law School's Honoring of Jimmy Carter Provides an Educational Moment - Alan M. Dershowitz (Gatestone Institute)
LA Times , Gaza Kitchen  Cooking Up Falsehoods - (CAMERA)  In an enthusiastic review of The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey, the LA Times' Carol J. Williams, together with the cookbook authors Laila Haddad and Maggie Schmitt, brew up false charges against Israel.

Belgium

The Acute Jihadist Threat in Europe - Scott Stewart (Stratfor)

Egypt

Egypt's Fallen Police State Gives Way to Vigilante Justice   - Mara Revkin and Yussef Auf (The Atlantic) The country's security vacuum is being filled by armed mobs who are implementing law and order on their own terms.

France

Al-Dura: a lethal narrative that just won’t die - Elihu Stone (Times of Israel)

If the French court, for either political or technical reasons, sides with state-owned France 2 against a bold and correct critic, they strike a blow not only against press responsibility, but the very fabric of the civil society they ought to play such a key role in preserving. Such an abject failure on the part of both the media and the courts to correct this penchant for mainstreaming the enemy’s lethal narratives makes the world a much more dangerous place.

Israel

Yet Another Edition of “It All Started When Israel Fired Back”  - Pesach Benson (Honest Reporting) 

Israel’s other air defense problem - Matti Friedman (Times of Israel)

Libya

Raping Women in the Name of Islam  - Khaled Abu Toameh (Gatestone Institute) According to reports in the Arab media, the two British women of Pakistani origin traveling with their father were gang raped in accordance with a fatwa [Islamic religious decree] issued by Jordanian Salafi Sheikh Yasser Ajlouni. Ajlouni's fatwa allows the jihadis to have sexual intercourse with women who fall captive during war. That they were part of a human convoy headed to help Muslims in the Gaza Strip did not prevent Libya's jihadis from perpetrating their crime.

Palestinians

Salafi jihadists begin hunger strikes amid ongoing Hamas arrest campaign - David Barnett (Long War Journal)

Religious hate speech for children on PA TV -  Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik (PMW)

Gaza Rocket Hit Sderot Preschool during Obama Visit - Neri Brenner (Ynet News) The rocket was only discovered Tuesday because the school, which usually houses three-year-olds, had been closed for Passover vacation. 

PA Using Prisoner's Death from Cancer to Keep Up Populist Struggle Against Israel - Amos Harel (Ha'aretz)

Saudi Arabia

Where's the Coverage? Saudi Arabia Beheads and Crucifies Man, The Latest Untold Story (CAMERA)