The New War Against Africa’s Christians, By Bernard-Henri Lévy (WSJ)
Dec. 20, 2019 Fulani raiders ‘are Islamic extremists of a new stripe, more or less linked with Boko Haram,’ but present throughout Nigeria. A slow-motion war is under way in Africa’s most populous country. It’s a massacre of Christians, massive in scale and horrific in brutality. And the world has hardly noticed. A Nigerian Pentecostal […]
Read More →Palestinian government institution DENOUNCES equal rights for women and abortion (EoZ)
Dec. 20, 2019 The Supreme Fatwa Council, the decision making body of the Palestinian Fatwa House which was created by Yasir Arafat as an official Palestinian institution in 1994, has announced that it does not accept the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). The Council said that it cannot accept any […]
Read More →In Europe, Israel needs a bottom-up approach to diplomacy, by Evelyn Gordon (JNS)
Dec. 11, 2019 Most people don’t care that much about Israeli-Palestinian issues, so small groups of committed activists can exert a disproportionate influence on policy. For years, I considered Europe a lost cause from Israel’s perspective and decried the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s Euro-centric focus, arguing that it should instead devote more effort to places like Africa, Asia […]
Read More →U.S. Says Iranian Forces May Have Killed more than 1,000 Protesters – Carol Morello and Missy Ryan (Washington Post via Daily Alert)
Dec. 6, 2019 U.S. Says Iranian Forces May Have Killed more than 1,000 Protesters – Carol Morello and Missy Ryan Brian Hook, the U.S. special representative for Iran, said Thursday, “As the truth is trickling out of Iran, it appears the regime could have murdered over 1,000 Iranian citizens since the protests began,” including at least […]
Read More →Erdogan Has Remade Turkey – Michael Rubin (American Interest via Daily Alert)
Dec. 5, 2019 Erdogan Has Remade Turkey – Michael Rubin (American Interest) Since his party came to dominate Turkish politics in 2002, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has transformed Turkey from a reliable Western partner to a regional adversary. U.S. officials comfort themselves in the belief that Turkey will revert to its previous character after Erdogan dies or […]
Read More →The United States and the Iranian Policy of Escalation – Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser (JCPA via Daily Alert)
Dec. 5, 2019 The United States and the Iranian Policy of Escalation – Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi KuperwasserIran’s interest is to avoid any escalation into a full-scale war, in which the U.S. would enjoy a clear advantage, but to push the brinksmanship to the point where it appeared that Iran retained the option of full-scale war. […]
Read More →How to Survive in the Middle East – Nave Dromi (JNS via Daily Alert)
Nov. 29, 2019 How to Survive in the Middle East – Nave DromiAlmost a million Jews had lived in the Middle East and North Africa before being expelled by Arab leaders and forced to flee around the middle of the 20th century. On Nov. 30, we will remember their ethnic cleansing on the Day of Commemoration […]
Read More →‘Mr. Erdogan has settled your bill’, by Jonathan Spyer (J. Post)
NOV. 29, 2019 Behind the Lines: Turkey already has the will and the raw materials. This knowledge is the factor it currently lacks. Click here for article on Turkey’s possible desire for nuclear weapons
Read More →Iran Supresses Popular Protests – Iran Desk (JCPA via Daily Alert)
Nov. 26, 2019 Iran Supresses Popular Protests – Iran Desk (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) The protests against the Iranian regime have not subsided. Radio Farda published the names of 138 dead and reported on the arrest of at least 4,800 civilians in 18 provinces. With the partial resumption of Internet connection, hundreds of civilians sent […]
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