Israel’s Sucker’s Game on the Gaza Border
There was a depressing familiarity both to Hamas’s suicide protest operation along Gaza’s border with Israel this week and to Israel’s response to it.
Mexican Cartels Attempt to Crash US Border
Yesterday, Mexican drug cartels sent 2.25 million Mexicans: men, women, and children, to face off across from US National Guard troops along their common border.
NATO’s Turkey Challenge
In an inarticulate but important statement, then-National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster said in a December 2017 closed-door session that the Islamist threat has been “myopically” treated in the past: “We didn’t pay enough attention how [Islamist ideology] is being advanced through charities, madrassas and other social organizations.”
Erdogan’s Shadow Army
In the collapsed and fragmented space that comprises much of today’s Middle East, the key to success increasingly lies in the ability to combine political strategy with military muscle, under a single banner, and in a single structure. Examples abound.
World’s Silence on Syria is a License to Kill
As the butcher of Damascus keeps massacring his own people, the international condemnations are directed at Israel, which has to deal with Palestinians waving the Nazi flag and screaming ‘death to the Jews.’ Meanwhile, ‘human rights organizations’ are cooperating with this great deception.
No Time to Go Wobbly on Syria
Indeed, the price America will pay for “losing” the already-lost Turkey will be far lower than the price the US will pay for abandoning its Kurdish allies.
Our Fair Weathered Saudi Friend
For now, we have a Saudi ally in the young crown prince. So long as no one in Israel loses his head, and no one in Saudi Arabia exploits the alliance to chop off Muhammad’s head.
The Sultan’s Pleasure: Turkey Expands its Operations in Syria and Iraq
A larger-scale Turkish assault into Dohuk and Nineveh provinces to carve out an enclave between the Kurdish areas in Iraq and Syria is not an impossibility.
Netanyahu to Erdogan: “This is How They Commemorate April Fool’s Day in Ankara”
Netanyahu tweeted a response to the criticism by the President of Turkey concerning Israel’s response to mass riots on its southern border. In this exchange, Netanyahu gave far better than he received.
Turkish Leader Claims Muslim Victory Over Europe, Cites Trump’s ‘Alliance’ With Jews as Obstacle
‘Europe will be Muslim,’ said Member of Parliament, Alparslan Kavaklıoğlu. ‘We will be effective there, Allah willing. I am sure of that.’
