ISIS: A Risk Assessment
http://www.inss.org.il/index.aspx?id=4538&articleid=7116
Recent events in Iraq are liable to give new impetus to the ideas and the path that ISIS represents, which are shared by many terrorist organizations operating in the Middle East and beyond. Its...
Jordan Braces For ISIL
Jordan has bolstered security measures amid the threat of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant from neighboring Iraq and Syria.
Officials said the military and intelligence community have been on alert for infiltration by...
After success in Iraq and Syria, ISIL will find it tougher to crack Jordan
http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/comment/after-success-in-iraq-and-syria-isil-will-find-it-tougher-to-crack-jordan
Lost in the flurry of rambling threats to Iraq’s Shiite community during its surprise military blitz last week, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) issued an even bolder statement: a call...
Iran Sponsored ISIL Founder, Sheltered Him from U.S.
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...
What does the fall of Mosul mean?
http://www.meforum.org/4734/fall-of-mosul
Daniel Pipes, president of the Middle East Forum and a former official in the U.S. departments of State and Defense, briefed the Middle East Forum in a conference call on June 16, 2014.
The implications...
Kurdish Advances
http://www.meforum.org/4733/iraq-kurds-isis-isil
The stunning collapse of the Iraqi army in Mosul, and the rapid advance of the fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) through Tikrit and toward Baghdad has created a new...
UNRWA REFORM INITIATIVE: Address to Temple Emanuel in Cleveland on June 18, 2014
At a time when the Arab Israeli war continues into its seventh decade, the most persistent issue of that war remains the "right of return", the demand of Arab refugees to take back villages...
UN Elevates Syria: Business as Usual
http://blog.unwatch.org/index.php/2014/06/18/un-elevates-syria-business-as-usual/
Mr. President, what the Commission of Inquiry has just described is a living hell. Faced with continuing reports of Syria’s mass murder, torture, rape, and gassing of civilians by chemical weapons, how is the...
Second Front Opens in the Sunni-Shia War
http://www.meforum.org/4728/second-front-opens-in-the-sunni-shia-war
The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) organization swept into the city of Mosul in western Iraq last week. No one has any right to be surprised. ‬
ISIL has held a large...
READ THE HAMAS CHARTER
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Hamas Charter (1988) The Charter of Allah: The Platform of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas)
"In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate You are the best community that has been raised up for...