Saturday, September 7, 2019

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Friday, August 30, 2019

On Monday, reports of heavy and potential violence against Israel on multiple fronts. Wall Street Journal and others report on "Shadow War" between Israel and Iran. See  Israel Has Become A Five-Front War - Shmuel Rosner (Jewish Journal) 


Palestinians: Why Allow Facts to Get in the Way? - Bassam Tawil (Gatestone Institute)




Positive News
Unprecedented Meeting in Mecca Rejects Extremism - Charles "Sam" Faddis (The Hill) 
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Friday, July 12, 2019




Iran's New Global Terrorist Network - Con Coughlin (Gatestone Institute)  New evidence has emerged that highlights the Iranian regime's attempts to establish a terrorist infrastructure in Africa. Iranian cells are said to be active in Sudan, Chad, Ghana, Niger, Gambia and the Central African Republic.
Revolutionary Guards Strategist Proposes Exporting "Sacred Defense" Culture to Iran Proxies - Yaghoub Fazeli (Al Arabiya)  Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq have today become Iraq's IRGC.   "Shiites of the world gathered under the command of commander Qasem Soleimani and created a Shiite NATO in Syria."  Abbasi added that 2,300 Iranians who were sent to fight alongside Bashar Assad's forces have been killed in Syria.

Israel Voices Frustration with Lebanon over Sea Border Talks (Reuters) Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz voiced frustration on Friday with Lebanon's failure to agree to U.S.-mediated talks on setting their maritime border, suggesting Iran-backed Hizbullah was applying pressure on Beirut.


Rethink U.S. Security Aid to the Lebanese Army - Richard Natonski and Thomas Trask  (The Hill) The U.S. has provided the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) with $1.7 billion since 2006, hoping substantial military aid would decrease Hizbullah's influence in Lebanon. In recent years, however, multiple factors indicate that ties between Hizbullah and the LAF are growing dangerously close. In southern Lebanon, the LAF has ignored its obligation to enforce UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which calls for the "disarmament of all armed groups in Lebanon" other than the LAF, and Hizbullah's military capacity has continued growing unchecked. Lebanese President Michel Aoun remains a loyal ally of Hizbullah and has repeatedly hailed Hizbullah's "major" and "essential" role in Lebanon's defense apparatus.

Foreign Powers Stoke Libya's Civil War - Col. (ret.) Dr. Jacques Neriah (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) According to Libyan sources, Turkey is operating a command and control center in Tripoli, with Turkish officers flying drones and assisting Tripoli's troops.  At the same time, Tripoli says French and Emirati forces were involved with Haftar's forces, while U.S. and Chinese weapons were delivered to his troops.  Haftar is supported by Egypt, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and France, and is facing a Turkish-Qatari-Jihadist coalition assisting the Tripoli government.


Britain, France Agree to Slight Troop Increase in Syria - Lara Seligman (Foreign Policy) "Overall we have been disappointed" in efforts to persuade U.S. allies to commit additional resources to the ongoing fight against the Islamic State terrorist group in Syria.  The marginal increase of UK and French troops likely won't completely fill the gap left when U.S. forces leave. The U.S. footprint in Syria is expected to drop from 2,000 troops to 400. A second source estimated that Britain and France each has 200 to 300 troops in the country. 

Hate wrapped in cotton candy at the PalExpo - David Collier (Times of Israel)

Do you listen to Boston Public Radiow WGBH? Please consider contacting WGBH and asking them to hold Charles Sennott accountable for attacks on Christian Zionists. Sennott promotes the false notion that the Christian population is “withering” in the Holy Land and omits it's flourishing in Israel. Additionally, he claims Christian Zionists are hindering the peace process or threatening Christians, not radical Islamists.

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Thursday, July 4, 2019


Europe's Missing Islamic State Fighters - Soeren Kern (Gatestone Institue) Hundreds of IS fighters are lost track of

The Farce of Iran's Breach of Limit on Enriched Uranium - A. Savyon and Yigal Carmon (MEMRI) While the U.S. protests Iran's minor breach of the 300 kg. limit on its stockpile of low-enriched uranium set in the 2015 nuclear deal, the location of 8.5 tons of Iranian-enriched uranium ostensibly shipped to Russia remains completely unknown. It could well be back in Iran.

Exclusive: Israel launched targeted strikes in Egypt's Sinai on Gaza-bound arms shipments (i24NEWS) Israel has struck a number of trucks in the Egyptian Sinai carrying weapons and missiles from Libya bound for Gaza terror groups

Nicaragua Arrests Four Men Tied to Islamic State - Ismael Lopez (Reuters)  Two Egyptians and two Iraqis with suspected ties to the Islamic State were captured on Tuesday by the Nicaraguan armed forces after entering the country illegally from Costa Rica, Nicaraguan police said.

For 3 years, the PA has paid family of murderer of a 13-year-old Israeli girl - Maurice Hirsch, Adv. and Nan Jacques Zilberdik (PMW) Three years ago today, a 17-year-old Palestinian terrorist murdered 13-year-old Hallel Yaffa Ariel while she slept in her bed. The terrorist was killed by Israeli security personnel at the scene. Mother of girl's murderer: "My son is a hero. He made me proud"

Coalition Forces in Syria Operating Against ISIS Sleeper Cells - Diana Stancy Correll (Military Times) The U.S.-led coalition countering ISIS aided 1,000 Syrian Democratic Force soldiers in clearing out ISIS from the Syrian village of Abu Naytl on June 18 after jihadi fighters intimidated community leaders and infiltrated the village. Coalition forces have conducted more than 50 operations against ISIS sleeper cells in Syria since the loss of the "caliphate" on March 23.


BOOM! Brave Miss Iraq Drops the Mic at UNHRC (UN Human Rights Council), Owns the Dictators (UN Watch) After Syria, Pakistan, Qatar & the PLO attacked Israel with accusations of “grave violations of human rights,” Miss Iraq Sarah Idan—recently designated as an Ambassador for Peace by UN Watch, which invited her to the United Nations—took the floor:
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Friday, June 28, 2019

Al Qaeda growing stronger under Taliban’s umbrella, UN finds - Thomas Joscelyn (Long War Journal) the Taliban is the “primary partner for all foreign terrorist groups operating in Afghanistan, with the exception of” the Islamic State’s Khorasan branch, which seeks to undermine the Taliban’s legitimacy

Tehran Sets Up Terror Cells in Africa- Con Coughlin (Telegraph-UK)



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Saturday, June 15, 2019

Did you know BBC has decided to stop using "terror" because "someone's terrorist is another's freedom fighter" - No judgments here https://www.bbc.co.uk/editorialguidelines/guidance/terrorism-language/guidance-full

ISIS Expands in Afghanistan, Threatening West (AP-Military Times) ISIS in Afghanistan received a major boost when the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan joined its ranks in 2015. Today it counts thousands of fighters, many from central Asia but also from Arab countries, Chechnya, India and Bangladesh, as well as ethnic Uighurs from China.

An Iranian Activist Wrote Dozens of Articles for Right-Wing Outlets. But is He a Real Person? Murtaza Hussain (The Intercept) Good to know, but I'm still confused by MEK's goals.
IAEA: Iran Has Accelerated Enrichment of Uranium - Sabine Siebold and Francois Murphy (Reuters)
Woman Admits Role in Smuggling Airplane Parts to Iran- William Westhoven (Morristown [NJ] Daily Record)

Arabs' Nightmare: Absorbing Palestinians - Khaled Abu Toameh (Gatestone Institute) While the author says "Arabs'" this article is about Lebanon. Like most Arab countries, Lebanon has long treated Palestinians as second-class citizens. It has been depriving them of basic rights, including citizenship, employment, heath care, education, social services and property ownership. The vast majority of the 450,000 Palestinians living in Lebanon do not have Lebanese citizenship.

UN chief urges implementation of arms embargo against Libya - Edith Lederer (Washington Post)

The Suppressed Plight of Palestinian Christians - Raymond Ibrahim (Gatestone)

Russian jets kill at least 25 in north-western Syria: rescuers (Reuters)

What I Learned at the D.C. Dyke Marc - Carly Pildis (Tablet Magazine)
Two items from Honest Reporting - worth reading the details
Newsweek Links Israel to Myanmar Ethnic Cleansing - Simon Plosker (Honest Reporting)  Maza’s article is a journalistic embarrassment that should never have been published by Newsweek.
Labour MP: Gaza Mother ‘Separated’ From Her Dead Babies - Emanuel Miller (Honest Reporting) With the reality for Palestinians in Israeli hospitals so complicated by regional geopolitics, Palestinian terrorism, and Israel’s attempts to secure its borders, there’s plenty of room to discuss the situation in a nuanced way. Unfortunately, in spreading a demonstrably false story, the British politician’s op-ed only serves to create more friction rather than helping the Palestinians she professes to want to help.
What’s In the New Draft National Defense Authorization Act - Annie Himes, Julia McKay and John T. Nelson (Just Security) Section 1215 of Chairman Smith’s mark also addresses ex gratia payments to civilians for damage, injury, or death incident to U.S. combat operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria,  and Yemen. These payments are condolences and do not admit legal wrongdoing. Section 1215 of the chairman’s mark allocates up to $5,000,000 for ex gratia payments through the end of 2020 and requires the Defense Secretary to submit a report to the congressional defense committees “upon each exercise of the authority in this subsection.” In the past, DoD has failed to make use of funding for condolence payments and has therefore concluded they are exempt from NDAA reporting requirements on such payments.
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Friday, June 7, 2019

...because facts matter

We learned about these sites from a CAMERA.org briefing on Sunday:
For Spanish updates see ReVista de Medio Oriente http://www.revistamo.org/
    Iran is doing what it can in this sphere - specifically funding HispanTV and working to normalize antisemitism.
For French updates see Info Equitable https://infoequitable.org/

The Fate of Palestinian Refugees in Syria and Lebanon - Pinhas Inbari  (Institute for Contemporary Affairs-Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) In Syria, the brutal civil war caused significant demographic changes that can be defined as the war crime of ethnic cleansing, as Sunnis, including Palestinians, have been driven out of the country. The large Yarmouk refugee camp adjacent to Damascus, known as the "capital of the camps," has ceased to exist.    
     A secret European initiative sought to transfer the refugees from Yarmouk to the Palestinian-controlled Jericho area in the West Bank. Mahmoud Abbas rejected the initiative, however, insisting that the right of return does not apply to territories in the Palestinian Authority but to Israel.


Iran Pays Gaza Families of Palestinians Killed in Clashes with Israel (Xinhua-China) Iran paid $651,000 to families of Palestinians in Gaza who were killed in the conflict with Israel.

Israel to ally with Arab neighbors around Red Sea in bid to save world’s corals - Melanie Lidman (Times of Israel) Swiss institute to manage partnership between Israel, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Eritrea, Djibouti and Sudan in largest regional project of its kind

Hamas Fails to Restore Quiet on Gaza Border (i24News-Ynet News) "terror balloons" have caused a dozen fires in Israel in the last two weeks.


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