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
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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
Gulf Countries Concerned Over Possible Fallout from Dimona*
Israel’s nuclear capabilities occupy the minds of many, not only Israel’s direct enemies but also the countries in the Persian Gulf, which are heavily invested in comprehensive studies designed to obtain any information on this issue. Their purpose … [Read more...] about Gulf Countries Concerned Over Possible Fallout from Dimona*
Jihadist Incitement in America
Samuel Huntington predicted the growing cultural and religious conflicts that we are witnessing daily. His dubiousness regarding the ability of the West to understand those challenges and reluctance to meet them has been disturbingly accurate. A … [Read more...] about Jihadist Incitement in America
Turkey- Syria: Muslim Brother Misirli’s Reckoning
With the outbreak of civil war in Syria the government of Bashar al-Assad claimed that Syrian members of the international Muslim Brotherhood (Ikhwan al-Muslimun) had taken up arms against the government. Having observed the meeting of Syrian Ikhwan … [Read more...] about Turkey- Syria: Muslim Brother Misirli’s Reckoning
But Will the Senate “Deliberate”?
Americans like to believe as a culture they excel at detail. It’s not true. The Japanese, the Germans, and sometimes the French, may well do so. But the American forte is to reduce the complexity of big ideas – whether in politics or industry – and … [Read more...] about But Will the Senate “Deliberate”?