Monthly Archives: August 2020

Hizbullah Bears the Responsibility for the Beirut Disaster

Hizbullah controls the security of the port of Beirut and uses the port for storing weapons and its smuggling operations. The assessment in Lebanon is that the investigation of the explosion will be a whitewash....

Lebanon-What happened?

Part 1: Lebanon-What happened? Part I of this series will review the facts of what we know has happened and an analysis of the horrific catastrophe in Beirut on August 4 itself. Part II will...

Botched EU Research Falsely Claims Israeli Textbooks Promoting Tolerance Were Published by Palestinian Authority,...

A long-awaited report by the European Union (EU) into the problem of incitement in school textbooks published by the Palestinian Authority (PA) has been plagued by faulty research that falsely claimed Israeli textbooks promoting...

News of Terrorism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (July 29 – August 4, 2020)

This past week a rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory. It targeted the southern city of Sderot at a time when many residents were at a drive-in movie. The rocket...

Midsummer madness

Dictionary definition: “foolish or extravagant behaviour supposed to occur during the summer.” We are at the moment more or less in mid-summer and if the above definition is accurate then this week’s crop of foolish and...

UNRWA-USA tries to cash in on Beirut explosion

From a fundraising email from UNRWA-USA: On Tuesday, a massive explosion in Lebanon tragically destroyed or damaged nearly half the capital city of Beirut, left at least 137 dead, thousands injured, and reportedly 300,000 homeless. Before the...

Teaching hate

You can’t expect peace if you teach hate. Common sense, right? A lesson the world has taught over and over again, no? An apolitical lesson, moreover, in that it doesn’t matter who is doing the...

Beirut: Do not Embed Lethal Substances In the Midst of a Civilian Population

A clear statement should emanate from the lips of leaders and clerics throughout the world: The Lebanese government must never again embed substances capable of mass destruction in the midst of a civilian population. Current Lebanese...

Moldova-Flagged Ship Suspected of Carrying Beirut Blast Chemical

The Russian cargo ship Rhosus, which in September 2013 brought 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate to Lebanon, a cargo which is suspected to have triggered the deadly blasts that killed over 100 people in...

Spotlight on Global Jihad (July 30 – August 5, 2020)

Overview The wave of terrorist attacks called “raids of attrition” which began on July 22, 2020, ended on July 31. 2020. During its ten days more than 100 attacks were carried out (similar to the previous...