Understanding Jihad

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on August 24, 2011 in Gaza City, Gaza. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will formally submit the application for Palestinian statehood to the 66th United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 20th. The Palestinians and the Israelis are taking part in global diplomatic lobbying to win support for their differing positions on statehood. The Palestinian bid arises from two decades of on-and-off peace talks that have failed to produce a deal. The ultimate goal of the Palestinian Authority is to end Israeli occupation and to establish a sovereign and independent state on the 1967 borders with Jerusalem as its capital.

Stop the spread of Islamic State

State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared himself the caliph of all Muslims worldwide. Establishing a caliphate makes it possible to realize the classic Muslim objective of turning the entire world over to Islam, which, according to Muslim law, can only happen when there is a caliph to preside over it. This goal requires, first and foremost, a war between Islamic ...

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Europe’s Israel obsession

http://gty.im/454444516 What’s the deal with European parliaments? Why are they not dealing with the ongoing exodus of some 10 million Syrians fleeing their homes, or the millions of Africans who are suffering from malnutrition and starvation, or the persecution of the Christians and the Yazidis in Muslim countries, or the chaos in Libya and Iraq, or the military coup in ...

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Iran does not play by the West’s rules

http://gty.im/453480314    In light of recent reports that Iran and world powers are approaching an agreement on Iran’s nuclear program, it would be wise to ask what the consequences are of an Iranian threshold or nuclear capable state. Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, who previously served as strategic affairs minister, listed a few: 1. A changing of the world order by ...

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Pakistan: A growing nuclear concern

In November 2008, a series of horrific attacks against civilian targets struck India. Some 173 people were killed and 300 were wounded. Ten Pakistani terrorists carried out the attacks and one of them was captured alive. In his interrogation, the terrorist admitted he and his partners had been instructed to kill tourists and Jews, while avoiding harming Muslims. Among the ...

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Time to revise rules of war

http://gty.im/175779076 The release of the Israeli report into last summer’s Operation Protective Edge, as well as the impending release of the U.N. Human Rights Council’s report, once again shifts our focus to the issue of warfare ethics. The U.S. has blatantly accused Israel of firing on UNRWA schools in the Gaza Strip, even after the U.N. has conceded those locations ...

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El-Sissi on shaky ground

The spokesperson for the Islamic State group, Abu Mohammad al-Adnani, called for jihad and martyrdom during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which began two weeks ago, and threatened to annihilate the “infidels.” Indeed, members of Islamic State’s Sinai province answered the call and carried out a coordinated and lethal attack on multiple Egyptian army and police outposts. Of course, ...

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ISIS’s Goal: World Domination

Counter-terrorism expert Dr. Ephraim Herrera explains what makes ISIS unique – and why the coming weeks could be crucial. Islamic State has seen a spike in activity around Israel over the past several weeks, with activity not only heating up on the Golan Heights border with Syria, but in Egypt and along Israel’s border with the Sinai Peninsula as well. ...

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The Iran deal and moral contemptibility

The regime of the ayatollahs is dark, totalitarian and a serial human rights offender. Iran is considered one of the 10 countries most oppressive to freedom of the press. There is also no freedom of religion; women are forced to wear headscarves regardless of their religion. Opposition to the government is suppressed. The non-Shiite minorities are woefully discriminated against. From ...

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Syrian quagmire getting deeper

Syria is a made-up country whose borders were fabricated as part of the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement between the United Kingdom and France, in which they set their spheres of influence in the Middle East ahead of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Since the 1970s, Syria has been under the control of the Alawite minority — ...

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