The Grand Bazaar, AMIA and Lockerbie

News coverage of the large and growing anti-regime protests in Iran this week has included warnings by Iran “experts” insisting that the vocal support the protesters are receiving on social media from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is counterproductive.
IDF Reinforces Armor and Tanks On Golan In Response to Syrian Escalation

The IDF reinforced the Golan on Sunday with armored units, tanks and artillery, in response to heavy fighting on the Syrian side of the border.
Terror Kites, Terror Tunnels, Suicide Bombings, Stabbings, Rock-throwing, Drive-by-Shootings, and Car-Rammings

Not only would this be a productive way to channel their nakba, but it would also dispel their necessity to channel Joseph Goebbels by continuing to propagate their “big lie.”
Israel Fires Patriot Missile At Drone Approaching Golan From Syria

The IDF fired a Patriot Missile at a Syrian Drone as it approached Israeli airspace.
US to Syrian Rebels: ‘You Are On Your Own’

As Russian-backed Assad regime troops prepare to initiate military operations to retake Southern Syria, the US told rebel forces that they would have to face this onslaught without foreign support.
Who Sanctions Russia? Not Germany

President Trump is taking flak for having introduced a subject to the G-7 meeting that our European friends wanted to keep under the table. Russia.
Human Rights: Other Views – Part III

Refugees and the Arab States
Mired in Delusions

Still trying to achieve impossible unity and swayed by Islamic interpretations of reality, the Arab world has made little progress since 1967.
Stay Out of Yemen

The United States is already militarily involved in Yemen, with special forces targeting al-Qaeda and Islamic State operatives who are then attacked by American drones.
The Israeli Right’s Campaign Against Israel

How can anyone complain about the Palestinian Authority, when Israel is single handedly thwarting the chance for a separation? Creating one state serves Hamas and the BDS movement, not the Zionist vision. That’s the problem that is making more and more Jews and friends despair.