March, 2024

• 22 March

  Iran Update, March 21, 2024

  

  Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) and other Palestinian militias cooperating against Israel have likely established at least one cell in Jenin to target Israeli civilian areas outside of the West Bank. Israeli forces killed a Palestinian man from Jenin carrying a weapon and “ready-to-use explosive device” in Zeita, along the West …

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• 22 March

  On the Horizon: The Future of the Jihadi Movement

  

  Abstract: Following the 9/11 attack, the United States led the international community to fight jihadi terrorism. Over 20 years later, jihadi violence in the West is low, but the number of Sunni jihadi outfits around the world has increased. And while the central leaderships of both al-Qaida and the Islamic …

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• 22 March

  A More European NATO

  

  Defense Spending Alone Cannot Fix the Alliance’s Overdependence on the United States When NATO leaders meet at a summit in Washington this summer, the alliance’s 75th birthday should be cause for celebration. NATO is stronger than ever, having welcomed two new members, Finland and Sweden, within the past year. After …

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• 22 March

  Former top commander blames chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal on Biden’s delay in ordering full evacuation

  BLAMING BIDEN, ‘TOO SLOW AND TOO LATE’: The two generals have testified before, both in public hearings and in private classified briefings, about what went wrong in the summer of 2021 as they tried to execute a plan to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan that they had both strongly …

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• 22 March

  Al Jazeera should report, not inflame, the Gaza war

  

  The Qatar-owned channel Al Jazeera has unjustifiably become part of the Gaza war story. In January, two Al Jazeera reporters, Hamzah Dahdouh and Mustafa Thurayya, were killed in the war. On Monday, the Israeli military freed Al Jazeera correspondent in Gaza Ismail Al-Ghoul, hours after arresting him during its renewed …

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• 22 March

  Germany’s Murder of Europe

  

  Climate, of course, is a global issue: if Europe reduces its emissions to zero, while the rest of the world continues to increase them, the effect on the climate will be zero. As a result, the German plan will not save a single euro in terms of the damage caused …

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• 22 March

  Iran Update, March 20, 2024

  

  Kataib Hezbollah Secretary General Abu Hussein al Hamidawi said during a meeting with unspecified leaders in Iran’s so-called “Axis of Resistance” in Tehran on March 20 that the current pause in attacks on US forces does not mark the end of efforts to expel US forces from Iraq .[i] Hamidawi …

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• 22 March

  The EU’s Approach Towards Ukrainian & Russian Agricultural Imports Harms Polish Farmers

  

  It’s very likely that their protests will keep growing and could continue morphing into a new Solidarity movement that poses a serious challenge to the government. An estimated 70,000 protesters blockaded around 570 locations in Poland this week in the largest demonstrations thus far in support of their farmers, whose …

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• 22 March

  Biden Administration Seeking to Overthrow Israeli Government to Save Hamas

  

  One Israeli expert frequently consulted by American officials says, “I have been asked by a serious administration figure what it is that will force the Netanyahu coalition to collapse. They were interested in the mechanics, what can we demand which will collapse his coalition.” [O]ur intelligence apparatus is rotted through …

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• 22 March

  The Gaza War: The Real Problem

  

  With Friends Like Chuck Schumer, Who Needs Enemies? Rather than taking tangible steps towards peace, [Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud] Abbas has done nothing but bypass and evade bilateral negotiations with Israel, while taking extremely tangible steps toward terrorism – from rewarding terrorists, or the families of those who murder Jews, …

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