Daily Archives: June 13, 2013
Israel Prepares For Assad Victory
http://www.menewsline.com/
Israel has begun preparing for the prospect of a victory by Syrian President Bashar Assad over Sunni rebels.
The government of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has been briefed of the likelihood of an Assad victory...
Iran elections 2013: Does the president even matter?
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/perspective/analysis/2013/06/11/Iran-elections-2013-Does-the-president-even-matter-.html
As Iran’s elections draw near, the six candidates are upping the ante, participating in televised debates and nationwide tours in a bid to win the vote and secure their place as the country’s next...
Understanding the Turkish Demonstrations
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3756/turkish-demonstrations
Turkey, although nominally part of the West, is in most ways culturally closer to the Middle East. Turks live with pent-up grievances -- as do we all -- but with virtually no way to...
How to Understand Islamism: Read What its Leaders Really Say
http://www.gloria-center.org/2013/06/how-to-understand-islamism-read-what-its-leaders-really-say/
To read Yusuf al-Qaradawi’s 1984 book, Islamic Education and Hasan al-Bana, is to get an Islamic education. Nobody should be allowed to talk about Islam or political Islamism without having read this or similar...
The West’s New Syrian War
http://www.gloria-center.org/2013/06/the-wests-new-syrian-war/
One day people will ask how the United States and several European countries became involved in mass killings, genocide, corruption, arms smuggling, and the creation of another anti-Western and regionally destabilizing government. Even if...
News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (June 5 “” 11, 2013)
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/en/article/20526
This past week the quiet along Israel's southern border continued. In Judea and Samaria violent confrontations and friction continued, peaking on June 7 (Naksa Day), which passed, however, without exceptional incident. There were marches...
Ayman al-Sharawneh, a terrorist released in the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange deal, was deported...
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/en/article/20525
Overview
1. Ayman al-Sharawneh is a Hamas operative from the Hebron region who was sentenced to 38 years in Israeli prison for several terrorist attacks, such as an IED bombing in Beersheba which injured 19...