Thursday, July 14, 2016

Western Foreign Policy Backfires

July 14, 2016

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A final footnote on Gadhafi

by Pete Hoekstra  •  July 12, 2016  •  Washington Examiner FacebookTwitter
The report from the House Benghazi Committee discloses a previously unknown but incredibly instructive footnote to the story of the Obama administration's disastrous foreign policy toward Libya's Moammar Gadhafi.

The Case for Kurdish Statehood

by Noah Beck  •  July 11, 2016  •  Special to IPT News FacebookTwitter
Why has the West been so supportive of Palestinian nationalism, yet so reluctant to support the Kurds, the largest nation in the world without a state?
The Kurds have been instrumental in fighting the Islamic State (ISIS); have generously accepted millions of refugees fleeing ISIS to the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG); and embrace Western values such as gender equality, religious freedom, and human rights.

Israel Tries Area-Based Response to Palestinian Terror Wave

by Yaakov Lappin  •  July 8, 2016  •  Special to IPT News FacebookTwitter
New Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman had the briefest of honeymoon periods after taking up his position at the end of May.
Within a couple of weeks of his appointment, a new surge in Palestinian terrorist attacks began targeting Israeli civilians, placing Liberman, and the defense establishment he heads, under a new test.

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Killing for a Cause: Sharia Law & Civilization Jihad

State Department sent taxpayer money to group that attempted to oust Israel's Netanyahu


The IPT Blog

·         Pro-ISIS Hackers Post Purported Dallas Police Information
In the wake of Thursday night's shooting death of five police officers during a Black Lives Matter protest, pro-ISIS hackers posted thousands of what it says are Dallas Police Department records on their Telegram social media channel.
·         Ex-ISNA President Drops Lawsuit Against Canadian Terrorism Expert David Harris
Former ISNA President Ingrid Mattson has dropped her own defamation lawsuit against Canadian counterterrorism expert David Harris after over a year of legal proceedings supported by the Lawfare Project.

Also in the News

The Boeing Sale to Iran Runs Into Turbulence

by EMANUELE OTTOLENGHI and MARK DUBOWITZ  •  July 12, 2016  •  The Wall Street Journal FacebookTwitter
No wonder the House moved last week to try to block Boeing's tentative agreement to sell 80 passenger jets to Iran's government-owned airline, Iran Air. Congress is rightly concerned about what could be a $25 billion deal with an Iranian aviation industry that has been complicit in Iran's weapons proliferation and support for terrorism.

Truth Catches the Iran Deal

by Bret Stephens  •  July 11, 2016  •  The Wall Street Journal FacebookTwitter
What diplomats call the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action—known to the rest of us as the Disastrous Iran Deal—was agreed in Vienna a year ago this week. Now comes a status update, courtesy of our friends at the Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, or BfV.

Obama Admin Brushes Off Intel Iran Is Buying Nuke, Missile Materials

by Adam Kredo  •  July 11, 2016  •  The Washington Free Beacon FacebookTwitter
The Obama administration is brushing aside new German intelligence reports indicating that Iran has accelerated its efforts to procure key nuclear materials, despite promises to end this behavior as part of last summer's nuclear accord, according to comments by a U.S. official provided to theFree Beacon.

ISIS Comes to Gaza

by Khaled Abu Toameh  •  July 11, 2016  •  Gatestone Institute FacebookTwitter
Hamas denies it up and down. Nonetheless, there are growing signs that the Islamist movement, which is based in the Gaza Strip, is continuing to cooperate with other jihadi terror groups that are affiliated with Islamic State (ISIS), especially those that have been operating in the Egyptian peninsula of Sinai in recent years.

Sue the Bastards

by DAVID ADESNIK  •  July 18, 2016  •  The Weekly Standard FacebookTwitter
In 1996, Hamas gunmen shot to death David Boim, a 17-year-old American citizen waiting for a bus in the West Bank. At the behest of Boim's parents, attorney Nathan Lewin filed suit against charitable organizations in the United States who solicited funds for Hamas. The unorthodox decision to seek damages from Hamas's financial backers led defense attorneys to demand that the court sanction Lewin and his co-counsel for bringing a frivolous suit.

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