Monthly Archives: August 2014

Iran’s Threats to “Arm the West Bank” Must Be Taken Seriously

http://jcpa.org/irans-threats-must-be-taken-seriously/ Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) announced on August 24 that it had shot down an Israeli reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) over its uranium enrichment facilities in Natanz (Esfahan Province). The Guards Corps...

[Close but no cigar]An Nahar: American project for Security Council resolution to make Gaza...

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=64765 [Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: "any process to resolve the situation in Gaza in a permanent and meaningful manner must ultimately lead to the establishment of the Gaza Strip as an area free of any armed...

Weekly Commentary: Double cross at the UN? Security Council Resolution Indefinitely Postponed

Here's the timeline: Immediately before and at the time that the ceasefire was announced, Israelis were talking about a United Nations Security Council Resolution being issued this week, with the help of the United States, that would include...

The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the Military Wing of Fatah, Is Officially Returning to Armed...

The official reestablishment of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades should serve as a red light regarding the validity of a future undertaking by Mahmoud Abbas to act against terror in the context of a political...

Hamas’ Psychological Military Strategies against Israel

http://jcpa.org/article/hamas-psychological-military-strategies-israel/ Institute for Contemporary Affairs  Founded jointly with the Wechsler Family Foundation Vol. 14, No. 26    August 7, 2014 Hamas, a Palestinian Islamist resistance organization, openly states that it is committed to Israel’s elimination. While militarily limited, Hamas...

The IHH, the jihadist Turkish organization that played a major role in the Mavi...

http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/en/article/20703 A press conference in Istanbul where it was announced that an international coalition was planning another flotilla to the Gaza Strip. Third from the left is the Turkish representative, Durmush Aydin, the IHH's vice...

NO CALL FOR DISARMING THE TERRORISTS NOW Secretary of State John Kerry Statement on...

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=64739 Consider the contrast: "All terrorist groups in Gaza must disarm" Council of the European Union 15.8.2014 The following statement by Secretary of State John Kerry has NOTHING CLOSE TO THE EU call. Mr. Kerry talks of reconstruction but "peace...

Observation: Crucial to focus on the UN Security Council Resolution in Coming Days

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=64737 There is most certainly a lot that can be written about what has transpired in the last over fifty days and its ramifications - military, diplomatic and of course political, but I fear that this firestorm...

Saleh al-Arouri, Turkey-based senior Hamas operative who handles military-terrorist networks in Judea and Samaria,...

http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/en/article/20706  Saleh Muhammad Suleiman al-Arouri (Imemc.org, July 20, 2014). Overview 1.   Saleh Muhammad Suleiman al-Arouri is a senior Hamas operative based in Turkey. On August 20 2014, he told the participants of the fourth conference of the World Union...

Examination of the names of Palestinians killed in Operation Protective Edge – Part Three*

http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/en/article/20704 Child or adult terrorist? Ibrahim Jamal Nasr, Fatah / Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terrorist operative (youtube.com). On the Palestinian Health Ministry’s lists he appears as a boy of 13, but he is actually 26. The findings...