Left: Call for aid to Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis on the ISIS forum. Photo: Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis operative who blew himself up in the security directorate building in the southern Sinai Peninsula on October 7, 2013. The inscription reads: “Together … [Read more...] about ISIS’s Public Support for Egyptian Jihadis
Archives for 2014
Israel’s Nuclear Weapons, 2014*
Abstract Although the Israeli government neither confirms nor denies that it possesses nuclear weapons, it is generally accepted by friend and foe alike that Israel is a nuclear-armed state—and has been so for nearly half a century. The basis for … [Read more...] about Israel’s Nuclear Weapons, 2014*
The Chinese Riddle*
A servile media has again misrepresented the important if unproductive Asian tour of President Barack Hussein Obama, most importantly the promised engagement with China which failed to materialize. The ballyhooed U.S.-China climate change agreement, … [Read more...] about The Chinese Riddle*
Weekly Briefing, November 10-15, 2014
Left: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan shakes hands with attendants of the First Latin American Muslim Religious Leaders Summit in Istanbul, where he announced that Muslims discovered the Americas before Columbus. Turkey Reaches Out to Latin … [Read more...] about Weekly Briefing, November 10-15, 2014
The next Flotilla to Gaza may well include Latin Americans
Since the fall of the Morsi government, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s efforts have doubled to elevate his stature in the Muslim world and turn Turkey into the new center for the International Brotherhood (al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun). While … [Read more...] about The next Flotilla to Gaza may well include Latin Americans
The Israeli Answer to Shoulder-Launched Missiles*
The System and Its Modus Operandi The process of equipping the aircraft used by the Israeli airlines with systems that protect them from shoulder launched missiles is on track. Following a successful ground test earlier this year, in addition to … [Read more...] about The Israeli Answer to Shoulder-Launched Missiles*
Meet Hamas’s Popular Army’s First Battalion
Hamas has presented the first battalion of the Popular Army, to serve as an auxiliary force for the operatives of Hamas’s military wing in confrontations with Israel Palestinian youths in the Hamas Popular Army holding M-16 rifles and a Hamas flag … [Read more...] about Meet Hamas’s Popular Army’s First Battalion
Palestinian Vehicular Terrorism in Jerusalem*
Left: The “Run over Organization” - “Hit the gas at 199 [km/h] for Al-Aqsa” Urges Palestinians to use their cars to kill Jews. The “Run over Organization”, or Da’es in Arabic, is play on words for the Arabic acronym of ISIS - Da’esh [Facebook, … [Read more...] about Palestinian Vehicular Terrorism in Jerusalem*
The Persian Thread*
It's time for Paul Hollander to write a sequel to his marvelously insightful and humorous (after a fashion) 1981 "Political Pilgrims." For those kiddies for whom all this, and the environment in which it was written, is ancient history, may I remind … [Read more...] about The Persian Thread*
Weekly Briefing, November 2-8, 2014
Transportation Terrorism – Part I - Rachel Ehrenfeld - The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood that the enemy’s not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that … [Read more...] about Weekly Briefing, November 2-8, 2014