Daily Archives: January 31, 2015
North African Fighters in the Syrian and Iraqi Conflict: The Reality and Implications
Institute for Contemporary Affairs
Founded jointly with the Wechsler Family Foundation
Vol. 15, No. 1 January 13, 2015
Syria and Iraq have become the epicenter of the global jihad. Thousands of jihadists originating from...
‘Lone soldiers’ from Kansas City serve in Israel’s army
It started as a vacation: Israel.
Jake Fichman had never been there. Though Jewish, the former Barstow School and Park University graduate from south Kansas City concedes that, other than being bar mitzvahed and attending...
Hizbullah Rotates Thousands In Syria
The Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah has rotated thousands
of fighters in Syria, a report said.
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy asserted that Hizbullah
was rotating 5,000 fighters to defend the regime of Syrian President Bashar
Assad. In a...
The ideological roots of media bias against Israel
On 26 January 2015 the former AP reporter Matti Friedman delivered the keynote speech at BICOM’s annual dinner in London. Expanding on a widely-noted argument first set out in Tablet and The Atlantic, Friedman...