Daily Archives: October 17, 2014

Hamas-affiliated media report: the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades has begun establishing a “popular army”...

1.   The Hamas-affiliated media recently reported that the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades was planning to establish what it called a "popular army." According to the reports, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades was recruiting as...

Egypt’s foreign ministry ‘surprised’ by Carter Center decision to close Cairo offices

Egypt’s foreign ministry said Thursday it was “surprised” by the decision of the Carter Center to close its offices in Cairo. “The center's claims contradict the official letter of the center’s regional director in August...

Amir Rapaport: US-Israeli Relations: National Security Trauma (rely more heavily on Israeli-made products)

The full truth, revealed here for the first time, is much more severe: apparently, during Operation Protective Edge, the USA had completely stopped all connections with Israel's defense procurement delegation based in the USA....

Text: Kerry blames Israel for ISIL – shows clueless about real situation in region

Here's the latest argument by Mr. Kerry for why those damn Israelis are to blame for ISIL - and that Israel had better damn listen to the master's voice and agree to divide Jerusalem,...
The "reaching out to Muslims" team. Photo Credit: Conservativeinfidel.com

Kerry Says Lack of Israeli-PA Peace Fuels Islamic Terror Recruitment

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told Muslims Thursday night that the absence of peace between Israel and the Palestinian Authority is “a cause of recruitment and of street anger and agitation.” He told a...
Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon | Photo credit: Kobi Kalmanovitz

“Palestinians want to destroy the Jewish state”

No one wants to be in Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon's shoes. The man who sits at the top of Israel's defense pyramid, approves all operational plans and has intimate knowledge of all the threats...

The three-way Israeli-Palestinian impasse

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has reached its most dangerous impasse in many years with all three (yes, unfortunately there are three) of the main actors uncertain of what they can, or even want to, do...

Handling Hamas money just got a lot riskier for Middle East banks

As the dust settles on a landmark ruling against Jordan-based Arab Bank, found liable for knowingly processing transactions of Hamas members and thereby supporting its attacks on civilians, legal experts have just begun to...

Iran’s aggressive information campaign

The Islamic Republic of Iran is managing an aggressive information campaign capitalizing on President Obama’s war against the Islamic State group (ISIS). Recognizing that Obama’s priority of combatting ISIS and Sunni extremism has created...