Iraq

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...

http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/12/29/christmas-with-britains-jews/ For many British Jews, Christmas is a special and even surreal experience. As Santa Claus tried to find his way amid gale-force winds and ice storms into the homes of England’s Christians (many without electricity),...

http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/analysis/dr-mordechai-kedar/sic-transit-gloria-mundi-thus-passes-the-glory-of-the-world/2012/09/23/0/?print In the past, the United States was the "glory of the world", mainly after it came to the aid of Europe in the Second World War, the victory over Germany and Japan in 1945,...

http://jcpa.org/irans-arms-supply-to-hizbullah-international-dimensions/ In an exceptional political signal, a senior Israeli official contacted Mark Landler of the New York Times and explained that the Israeli government was determined to continue to prevent the transfer of advanced weapons...

After 1948, when five Arab armies were defeated in their avowed “War of Extermination” against the greatly outnumbered nascent Jewish State, Jordan illegally occupied Judea and Samaria, the West Bank, and Egypt controlled Gaza....

"Voice of Palestine", the official Palestinian Authority Radio News Station, broke into its regular programming (10 a.m.) to announce that Israeli troops and Jewish extremists were invading Islamic holy places on the Temple Mount. Later...

Summary and Analysis In the aftermath of the visit of Colin Powell, both the Palestinian Authority and Israel agree on one thing: there has been an escalation of organized physical violence and verbal exhortation and...

LONDON (AP) Britain's Gulf War commander said today that air strikes alone would not be entirely effective against Iraq. Using "the rather blunt weapon of a single strike military force... has never worked in history,"...

This comes in the nature of an alert, focusing on two related issues of primary significance for the security of Israel, the US, and the western world. Those two issues are retaining a US presence...

Two religiously-identified new states emerged from the shards of the British empire in the aftermath of World War II. Israel, of course, was one; the other was Pakistan. They make an interesting, if little-compared pair....