Monthly Archives: June 2014

Btselem Watch : A new opportunity for news coverage

The anti-Israeli delegitimization campaign has proven effective, providing ammunition for hostile legal warfare - intended to restrict Israel's right to self defense & deny its character nature as a Jewish state. The most influential efforts...

Kurdish Advances

http://www.meforum.org/4733/iraq-kurds-isis-isil The stunning collapse of the Iraqi army in Mosul, and the rapid advance of the fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) through Tikrit and toward Baghdad has created a new...

What does the fall of Mosul mean?

http://www.meforum.org/4734/fall-of-mosul Daniel Pipes, president of the Middle East Forum and a former official in the U.S. departments of State and Defense, briefed the Middle East Forum in a conference call on June 16, 2014. The implications...

Iran Sponsored ISIL Founder, Sheltered Him from U.S.

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-sponsored-isil-founder-sheltered-him-from-u-s/ Iran long provided shelter and protection to the founder and former commander of al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), the predecessor to Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS), which rose to...

After success in Iraq and Syria, ISIL will find it tougher to crack Jordan

http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/comment/after-success-in-iraq-and-syria-isil-will-find-it-tougher-to-crack-jordan Lost in the flurry of rambling threats to Iraq’s Shiite community during its surprise military blitz last week, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) issued an even bolder statement: a call...

Jordan Braces For ISIL

Jordan has bolstered security measures amid the threat of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant from neighboring Iraq and Syria. Officials said the military and intelligence community have been on alert for infiltration by...

ISIS: A Risk Assessment

http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=7116 Recent events in Iraq are liable to give new impetus to the ideas and the path that ISIS represents, which are shared by many terrorist organizations operating in the Middle East and beyond. Its...

ISIS: Iran’s Instrument for Regional Hegemony?

http://jcpa.org/article/isis-irans-instrument-regional-hegemony/ Vol. 14, No. 21 June 20, 2014 Immediately after ISIS emerged in Syria, sources in the Syrian opposition said, “We are familiar with the commanders of ISIS. Once they belonged to Assad’s intelligence, and now...

PA Switches Insurgency Funding

The Palestinian Authority plans to switch its source of funding to convicted killers of Israelis and Americans. The PA has drafted plans to transfer a ministry to the Palestine Liberation Organization. The plans called for...

Let’s face it, our neighbors are not like us

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4531308,00.html Let's get straight to the point in simple language which we all understand: We Israelis are simply suckers. In elegant and "politically correct" language this may be called "tolerant democracy," but these words don't...