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by John Rossomando • December
28, 2017 • IPT News  
Commentators
far and wide make it sound as if President Trump's decision to formally
recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital is the death knell of the
Palestinian-Israeli peace process. In the process, they perpetuate their
continual blindness to the fact the Palestinian Authority (PA), headed by
President Mahmoud Abbas, considers Israel proper part of the disputed
territories and wishes Israel's destruction.
by Abigail R. Esman • December
26, 2017 • Special to IPT News
On
Nov. 2, 2004, Dutch filmmaker and writer Theo van Gogh left his home and
set off to work, riding his bicycle as he did most days through the quiet
streets of Amsterdam.
Minutes
later, 26-year-old Mohammed Bouyeri, a Dutch-
Moroccan Muslim angered by van Gogh's writings and films
about radical Islam, fired eight shots at the filmmaker.
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December 28, 2017 • Vanity
Fair
The
digital battlefield is the least understood component of our
ever-changing, 16-year war on terror—and, perhaps, the most dangerous.
December 28, 2017 • Times
of Israel
'Dramatic
understandings' were agreed at the White House on December 12, and deal
signed by the two countries' national security chiefs, Channel 10 says.
December 28, 2017 • The
Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center
A
comprehensive study was recently issued on PA schoolbooks' attitude to
the Jews, Israel and peace... . According to the findings of the study,
PA schoolbooks' attitude to the Jews, Israel and peace is based on three
fundamentals: de-legitimization, demonization and
indoctrination to violent struggle. There is no call
for peace or coexistence with neighboring Israel.
December 27, 2017 • Haaretz
An
air force helicopter was blown to pieces in a by-the-book military
operation that could have seen two senior ministers killed. This was the
latest in a string of attacks that could force Egypt – and Israel – to
respond.
December 27, 2017 • Deutsche
Welle
Germany's
domestic security agency has identified a terror network made up of
Islamist women. Female extremists are becoming increasingly common, as
they aim to fill the gap left by their detained husbands.
December 27, 2017 • Newsweek
Hundreds
of Islamic State militant group (ISIS) fighters from Britain are hiding
in Turkey, according to Syrian Kurdish intelligence, adding to fears of
an increased threat of extremist attacks on European soil.
December 27, 2017 • Times
of Israel
Iran's
parliament voted Wednesday to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of
Palestine, according to state-run media. The vote, which passed 207-0 in
the 290-member Majlis, requires Tehran to recognize Jerusalem as
"the everlasting capital of Palestine."
December 27, 2017 • Tablet
Magazine
A
week after Josh Meyer's Politico expose,"The Secret Backstory
Of How Obama Let Hezbollah Off the Hook," former Obama officials are
still berating Meyer for his 13,000-word article detailing how the Obama
administration killed a nearly decade-long DEA effort to stem a global Hezbollah cocaine-smuggling-and-organized-
crime ring to help secure its nuclear deal with Iran.
December 27, 2017 • Pennlive.com
Friday's
shoot-out in Harrisburg that ended with the death of gunman Ahmed
El-Mofty was so harrowing even his deputies were wearing bullet-proof
vests, Dauphin County Coroner Graham Hetrick said Wednesday.
December 27, 2017 • The
Jerusalem Post
U.S.
Ambassador to Israel David Friedman recently requested that the State
Department cease using the word "occupation" to describe
Israel's control of the West Bank, according to a report on Israeli
broadcasting channel Kan. The State Department reportedly refused the
request.
December 27, 2017 • Dailymail.com
Ten
people have been hospitalised with injuries after an explosion ripped
through a supermarket in the Russian city of St Petersburg on Wednesday
evening. The explosion
occurred at the Perekrestok market in northwest St Petersburg.
December 26, 2017 • MEMRI
On
December 25, 2017, the Islamic State (ISIS) branch in Somalia released
its first official video entitled "Hunt Them, Oh Monotheists."
The eight-minute video in Arabic, Somali, and English, with subtitles in
Arabic, was released on Telegram through official ISIS channels.
December 26, 2017 • Council
on Foreign Relations
President
Trump delivered a new "National Security Strategy of the United
States of America" last week, and it elicited a mountain of comment.
I thought I'd wait a week to let the dust settle, and then add my own.
December 25, 2017 • Legalinsurrection.com
The
Tamimis have exploited Ahed for the cameras for almost a decade and are
not the peace-loving victims portrayed in the media. The Tamimis of Nabi
Saleh have been working hard to incite a "third intifada" for
many years.
December 25, 2017 • Reuters
Syrian
army forces backed by Iranian-backed militias pushed deeper into the last
rebel-held enclave near a strategic border area with Israel and Lebanon
in a new expansion of Tehran's influence in the war-torn country.
December 24, 2017 • Egypt
Today
Egypt
has handed to the United Kingdom a new document that proves the Muslim
Brotherhood's implication in the terrorist attacks that took place in
London.
December 24, 2017 • Foxnews.com
Federal
authorities say a Pakistani-born woman accused in a bitcoin scheme to
help the Islamic State group got a visa allowing her into United States
because of her family ties.
December 23, 2017 • Ynetnews.com
Denmark's
Foreign Ministry announced on Friday that it was halting financial aid to
several Palestinian NGOs over ties with terror groups. In addition,
Copenhagen set stricter conditions for Palestinian NGOs' eligibility for
aid in the future to ensure the money is used for the right purposes,
rather than go to terror groups or the BDS Movement.
December 22, 2017 • The
Hill
The
retiring head of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) warned ahead
of his exit Friday about extremists' ability to acquire lethal weapons in
the U.S.
December 22, 2017 • Foxnews.com
Now
that they've helped vanquish the Islamic State from much of Iraq, a
battle-hardened militia with close ties to Iran may be training its
sights on the remaining U.S.-led coalition troops scattered across the
country.
December 22, 2017 • Reuters
A
New York jury in the trial of a Turkish banker accused of helping Iran
evade U.S. sanctions showed signs of division on Friday as it ended its
third day of deliberations without reaching a verdict.
December 21, 2017 • Buzzfeed
News
Muslim
preacher Nouman Ali Khan has been accused of manipulating his female
followers into sham marriages and paying them off to keep his empire
unscathed. One woman opens up to BuzzFeed News about the "spiritual
abuse,"
which Khan has denied.
December 21, 2017 • The
Washington Times
Islamic
State terrorists have doubled in numbers across Yemen during the last
year, the Pentagon said Wednesday, notwithstanding successful efforts to
diminish their presence in Iraq and Syria.
December 21, 2017 • Jewish
News Service
Due
to the wars in Syria and Iraq as well as other conflicts in Asia and
Africa, Germany took in more than 1 million migrants in 2015 and 2016,
fundamentally reshaping the
country.
December 21, 2017 • The
Hill
The
recent video image of Akayed Ullah, the accused New York bomber, facing
federal terrorism charges from a hospital bed, is a visual metaphor on
the confusion of how the U.S. addresses Islamism and Islam — at once both
cautious and swift.
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