By: Ted Belman, Israpundit— The bombing of a pro-Kurdish rally in Ankara highlights the ‘dangerous cocktail’ brewing in Turkey which killed 98 Kurds US Shifts to Helping Kurds in Syria LONDON (CBS) — U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter says the America’s failed program to train Syrian rebels will be replaced with a more ‘strategic approach.’ The…
By: Ben Caspit, ALMONITOR— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu embarked Sept. 21 for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. In an unusual, perhaps even unprecedented move, Netanyahu took Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eizenkot as well as military intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Herzl Halevi with him. In general, Israeli prime ministers…
By Nissan Tzur, Israel National News— Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met with the head of Hamas’s political bureau, Khaled Meshaal, in Doha, Qatar on Monday morning. The atmosphere at the meeting was warm and the two leaders embraced each other warmly as soon as they met. Meshaal congratulated Lavrov on his arrival in the…
By JOEL B. POLLAK, BREITBART— Russia announced Monday that it will sell Iran advanced S-300 surface-to-air missiles. The decision, which ends an embargo dating back to 2010, shows that President Barack Obama is rapidly losing control of the international consensus on Iran. It also sets Israel a deadline to attack Iran–since Israel has treated the S-300…
BY STAN GOODENOUGH, JERUSALEM WATCHMEN— Russia’s annexation of the Crimea is a done deal – a fait accompli. Headlines about the land grab, described March 19 by NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh-Rasmussen as “the most serious security crisis since the end of the cold war,” are muted, barely there. They’ll soon be gone. Nor is Russia…
