Daily Archives: July 2, 2013

President Barack Obama's new security envoy has been tackling security obstacles to the establishment of a Palestinian state. John Allen, the former U.S. commander in Afghanistan, has been supporting the shuttle by Secretary of State...

http://www.meforum.org/3433/arming-syria-rebels As the Syrian civil war grows nastier and nastier, there is a growing consensus among mainstream Western policy analysts that the United States can best combat the growth of jihadist groups battling Syrian president...

http://www.aawsat.net/2013/06/article55306998 When ideological extremism of any kind turns into an attack on freedoms and rights, and terrorism takes away all rights-intellectual or otherwise-and seeks to eliminate all previous gains and advances, it becomes a nightmare. In...

http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130624/DEFREG04/306240021/Interview-Joseph-Weiss?odyssey=nav|head Joseph “Yossi” Weiss swept into the top job at Israel’s largest aerospace and defense company a year ago July 1 on the tailwind of his successful fight to reclaim a critical communications satellite (ComSat)...

http://www.idfblog.com/2013/06/26/how-hezbollah-funds-terror-illicit-drugs-and-money-laundering/ To mark this year’s International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, the IDF Blog examines how Hezbollah supports many of its terror activities - through illicit drug sales across the globe. Today, the United...

http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/irans-foreign-legion-the-role-of-iraqi-shiite-militias-in-syria As the war in Syria drags on, external actors may play an increasingly important role in tipping the balance through material support and sponsorship of individual armed units. One of the most significant international...

http://www.meforum.org/3543/shias-arab-spring The U.S.-sponsored "Arab Spring" continues to expose itself as a Sunni supremacist takeover. While the indicators are many-from the al-Qaeda Benghazi consulate attack to the ongoing persecution of Christian minorities-attacks on Shia Muslims are...

http://www.rationalistjudaism.com/2013/04/the-lion-hunter-of-zion.html (Cross-posted at The Times of Israel ) In his youth, King David proved his heroism by slaying a lion. He went on to put his life on the line for the Jewish People and become...

http://www.meforum.org/3542/sex-jihad News emerged a few weeks ago in Arabic media that yet another fatwa had called on practicing Muslim women to travel to Syria and offer their sexual services to the jihadis fighting to overthrow...