Shift in Tone: New Canadian Government Warns Israel against Settlements, Palestinians against Unilateral Statehood Bids - Lee Berthiaume (National Post-Canada)
Egyptian troops in Saudi Arabia for joint military exercise: Egyptian Armed Forces – Aswat Masriya (Egypt Independent)
Why India Is Getting Closer to Israel - Harsha Kakar (The Statesman-India)
Ayatollah Khamenei Publishes Holocaust Denial Video for International Holocaust Remembrance Day (MEMRI)
Illegal Settlements, EU-Style - Nadav Shragai (Israel Hayom) Over the past 20 years, illegal Palestinian construction has slowly closed the corridor between Jerusalem and Maaleh Adumim, an Israeli city of 40,000. The European Union funnels millions of dollars into the area, essentially funding hundreds of Palestinian housing units built in defiance of Israeli sovereignty over Area C, which under the 1993 Oslo Accords was left under full Israeli civil and security control.
Intelligence Agencies Eye Latin American Penetration by Iran-Backed Hizbullah (Asharq Al-Awsat-UK) Mexican intelligence, in cooperation with Canadian intelligence services, has recently revealed activities by Lebanese Hizbullah under Iranian support in Latin America: in Venezuela, Mexico, Nicaragua, Chile, Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador, and the border zone between Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil. Mexican authorities recently arrested a Lebanese Hizbullah operative at the U.S. border who was caught with fake identification papers and drugs. The detainee confessed to being associated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and that he was on a mission to collect data on foes of the Iranian government. He said the mission of the "Abbas al-Musawi unit" and the "Imad Mughniyah unit" is to scout out any threats on Iran in a score of countries across the world and prepare for striking them.
Ex-Libyan Intelligence Official: ISIS Has Gaddafi-Era Chemical Weapons (MEMRI) A former Libyan intelligence official, Ahmad Qadhaf al-Dam, told Egyptian Dream2 TV on Jan. 18 that ISIS and other terrorist groups had gotten hold of the chemical weapons that had remained in Libya, "hidden in bases with which nobody was familiar, deep in the desert....These weapons were smuggled out of Libya, as the world knows. I believe that the weapons that reached Syria originated in Libya."
Palestinians: Western Media's Ignorance and Bias - Khaled Abu Toameh (Gatestone Institute)
Russians let Hizballah near Syria-Israel Border – (Debka File) A large Hizballah force entered the southern Syrian town of Daraa, a critically dangerous event for Israel’s security. The way to the town, which lies near the Jordanian border and across from the Israeli Golan, was opened before Hizballah by none other than Russian forces. This was a blatant violation of President Vladimir Putin’s commitments to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Jordanian King Abdullah not to permit Iranian and Iran-backed forces, such as Hizballah and Iraqi and Afghani Shiite militias, reach their borders in consequence of Russia’s military intervention in the Syria war.
Russia's FSB Reportedly Screens Refugees Entering Finland - Elisabeth Braw (World Affairs Journal)
Turkey'sAll-Out War on Kurds and Media - Uzay Bulut (Gatestone Institute)
Why Is "Black Lives Matter" Hostile to Israel? - David Bernstein (Washington Post)
