AusAID and UNRWA

http://www.jwire.com.au/news/waiting-for-ausaid/35511 A Jerusalem-based research organisation has written to AusAID’s office in Ramallah quoting passages in textbooks used in UNRWA funded Palestinian schools inciting strong anti-Israel sentiment. UNRWA is partially funded by AusAID who receive financial...

Arab Spring Prompts Arab-Israeli Christians to Reevaluate Israel

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/06/28/arab-spring-prompts-arab-israeli-christians-to-reevaluate-israel/ Today’s Israel Hayom has an important article about an Israeli Greek Orthodox priest that every Christian in the West should read. Father Gabriel Nadaf and his family are suffering harassment and even death threats...

The “Sex Jihad”

http://www.meforum.org/3542/sex-jihad News emerged a few weeks ago in Arabic media that yet another fatwa had called on practicing Muslim women to travel to Syria and offer their sexual services to the jihadis fighting to overthrow...

The Lion Hunter of Zion

http://www.rationalistjudaism.com/2013/04/the-lion-hunter-of-zion.html (Cross-posted at The Times of Israel ) In his youth, King David proved his heroism by slaying a lion. He went on to put his life on the line for the Jewish People and become...

Shias: The Arab Spring’s Latest Victims

http://www.meforum.org/3543/shias-arab-spring The U.S.-sponsored "Arab Spring" continues to expose itself as a Sunni supremacist takeover. While the indicators are many-from the al-Qaeda Benghazi consulate attack to the ongoing persecution of Christian minorities-attacks on Shia Muslims are...

Iran’s Foreign Legion: The Role of Iraqi Shiite Militias in Syria

http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/irans-foreign-legion-the-role-of-iraqi-shiite-militias-in-syria As the war in Syria drags on, external actors may play an increasingly important role in tipping the balance through material support and sponsorship of individual armed units. One of the most significant international...

How Hezbollah Funds Terror: Illicit Drugs and Money Laundering

http://www.idfblog.com/2013/06/26/how-hezbollah-funds-terror-illicit-drugs-and-money-laundering/ To mark this year’s International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, the IDF Blog examines how Hezbollah supports many of its terror activities - through illicit drug sales across the globe. Today, the United...

Interview: Joseph Weiss

http://www.defensenews.com/article/20130624/DEFREG04/306240021/Interview-Joseph-Weiss?odyssey=nav|head Joseph “Yossi” Weiss swept into the top job at Israel’s largest aerospace and defense company a year ago July 1 on the tailwind of his successful fight to reclaim a critical communications satellite (ComSat)...

Opinion: Women’s rights and the threat of Islamism

http://www.aawsat.net/2013/06/article55306998 When ideological extremism of any kind turns into an attack on freedoms and rights, and terrorism takes away all rights-intellectual or otherwise-and seeks to eliminate all previous gains and advances, it becomes a nightmare. In...