Witness to Terror: Watching the World Trade Center Implode and Listening to Security Sources...
The terror at the Twin Towers caught me in Lower Manhattan, where I was giving briefings on how the PLO, the seemingly legitmated peace partner with Israel, had incorporated the Hamas and Islamic Jihad...
Rewarding Moments: Prizeworthy vs. Praiseworthy
http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/06/26/rewarding-moments-prizeworthy-vs-praiseworthy/
President Barack Obama addresses Shimon Peres after honoring the Israeli leader with the Medal of Freedom June 13.
Photo: White House.
Awards and prizes appear to be the ultimate credential, from the Oscar to the Grammy....
The End of the Beginning in Syria: The Obstacles to Reaching a Negotiated Settlement
http://www.inss.org.il/publications.php?cat=21&incat=&read=6845
Following the recent downing of a Turkish reconnaissance jet by Syrian anti-aircraft, the international community, this time through NATO, is once again debating what course of action should be taken with respect to Syria....
PIPES: Stay out of Syria
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/aug/20/stay-out-of-syria/
Bashar Assad ’s wretched presence in the presidential palace of Damascus may, contrary to Western assumptions, do more good than harm. His murderous, terroristic and pro-Tehran regime is nonideological and relatively secular; it staves...
Brussels’s Hezbollah Blinders
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443866404577563151864043044.html
When terrorists struck in Bulgaria last month, killing five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian bus driver, Jerusalem immediately accused Hezbollah and its Iranian paymasters of the crime. Tehran and Hezbollah, as always, denied it....
ABBAS REITERATES SUPPORT FOR THE ARMED STRUGGLE
(video footage available from the Center for Near East Policy Research. policyresearchi@yahoo.com )
"Our rifles, all our rifles are aimed at The Occupation," declared Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas today (January 11) in a major...
France To Israel: Fly Over Lebanon And We’ll Shoot
Israel Defense Minister Amir Peretz reported to an Israeli Knesset committee that there is a new threat to Israeli jets operating in Lebanese airspace.
Peretz said that the commanders of the French forces that deployed...
What’s Wrong with Going into Syria
http://frontpagemag.com/2013/robert-spencer/whats-wrong-with-going-into-syria/
American military intervention in Syria is likely to begin this week, and one thing we know amid the general confusion is that the objective is not to oust Bashar Assad: White House spokesman Jay...
Raw Intelligence Report: A View from Syria
http://www.stratfor.com/print/192641
Editor’s Note:People are scared. An understatement, no doubt, but my friends - both foreign and Syrian - are worried about the developments. Almost all of my foreign friends are leaving and many have moved...
What Does an “Islamic Caliphate in Iraq Mean?
http://jcpa.org/article/initial-implications-declaration-islamic-caliphate-iraq-syria/
Vol. 14, No. 22 July 1, 2014
The newly declared “Islamic State” is trying to reinforce its battlefield achievements in Syria and Iraq by creating a new Sunni Muslim religious entity to overturn the prevailing...