The Al-Nusra Front (Jabhat al-Nusra) is an Al-Qaeda Salafist-jihadi network, prominent in the rebel...

http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/en/article/20573 Al-Qaeda Entrenchment in Syria 1. During the Syrian civil war two branches of Al-Qaeda established themselves among the rebel organizations fighting to overthrow the regime of Bashar Assad. The most prominent is the Al-Nusra...

December 28, 2010: The Jordan Valley

Motzei Shabbat (After Shabbat) From multiple sources I am picking up considerable concern regarding the broad implications -- diplomatic and security -- with regard to any relinquishment by Israel of full control of the Jordan...

Hizbullah Sets Up Thousands Of Bases

Officials said Hizbullah has set up weapons caches in at least 200 communities in southern Lebanon. They said Hizbullah was storing rockets and missiles in thousands of apartment buildings in an effort to evade...

How UNRWA Perpetuates the Palestinian Crisis (REVIEW)

http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/05/21/how-unrwa-perpetuates-the-palestinian-crisis-review/ UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, was created in 1949 after the Arabs rejected the 1947 UN Partition Plan for Palestine, and five Arab armies...

No Separating Palestinian Corruption From Terror

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/06/26/no-separating-palestinian-corruption-from-terror-fatah-hamas-kidnapping/ As the second week of the search for the three Israeli teenagers abducted by Hamas terrorists comes to an end, the announcement of the names of two prime suspects in the kidnapping is all...

Confronting the Islamic threat to the West

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/5046/confronting_the_islamic_threat_to_the_west Good Western boys, turned Islamic fighters A greater effort must be made to control the threat of Islamic terrorism. Indifference to the threat, let alone acquiescence, is not an option for Western survival. An official...

Turkish-Hamas Relations: Between Strategic Calculations and Ideological A!nity

Introduction While the deterioration in Israel-Turkey relations over the past decade is rooted in many factors, perhaps what exemplifies this deterioration most is the closeness forged between the Justice and Development Partyled government and Hamas....

Purim Paradoxes…writes Michael Kuttner

Jewish communities worldwide have this week been celebrating the Festival of Purim which commemorates the deliverance of Persian Jews from genocidal intentions. The stark relevance between then and today is so obvious that only those...
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Controversial ‘New Israel Fund’ Received More Than $1 Million From US State Department

The controversial New Israel Fund and its social change and political lobbying organization – known as SHATIL – have received more than $1 million from the State Department under a program designed to create...

Israeli speaker highlights fear in border city Sderot

If you were given 15 seconds to seek shelter from an approaching rocket, what would you do? For Israelis living in Sderot, a city near the Hamas-controlled Gaza strip, this question is not a hypothetical...