In ISIS: Can the West Win Without a Ground Game?, published in the October 2014 issue of The Tower Magazine, Jonathan Spyer outlines the dilemmas facing policy makers who wish to, in the words of President Barack Obama, “degrade and ultimately destroy” the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)....

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Coordinated attacks on Egyptian army positions in the northern Sinai Peninsula killed at least 33 security personnel on Friday, prompting the country’s National Defense Council to declare a three month state of emergency in the area and triggering a broad counter-terrorism sweep that looks likely to extend into the medium-term....

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This past week, Turkish-Egyptian tensions took on a new, economic dimension. Egypt decided (Arabic link) to prevent the passage of Turkish trucks and ships through its territory to the Persian Gulf states, signaling an increase of friction between the two rival countries. The Egyptian government signed an agreement with Turkey in March...

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Yesterday, in reaction to Friday’s Sinai terror attack, Egypt closed its borders to “a high-ranking Hamas delegation” and cancelled a session of talks that was scheduled for today and aimed to establish a long-term ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. The Times of Israel reports: Sissi said on Saturday that “foreign...

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Arab media this weekend, especially in Egypt, claim Hamas was involved in the recent attack in the Sinai Peninsula that led to the deaths of more than 30 Egyptian soldiers. On Friday, October 24, a group of armed men launched a complex assault on a checkpoint in Sinai, which involved...

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The Muslim Brotherhood organization is supporting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), according to various Egyptian sources. These accusations have gained weight in recent days, after senior officials in the organization condemned a new book called Islamic State…The Knife Slaughtering Islam, which is due to be published in...

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Writing for Vanity Fair in an article published Tuesday, Adam Ciralsky offers a definitive account of the threats Israel faced this past summer; especially the threat of Hamas’ attack tunnels. The threat portrayed by Ciralsky was provided by Israeli intelligence officials, who put things together “through electronic intercepts, informants, interrogations...

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In On Many Campuses, Hate is Spelled is SJP, which was published in the October 2014 issue of The Tower Magazine, Daniel Mael traces the history of the campus group Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), and shows how neither justice nor peace are its goals. SJP is an outgrowth...

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An article published Monday in The New Republic by Lori Plotkin Boghardt of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy examines Qatar’s troubling ties with the Muslim Brotherhood and other radical Islamist movements, including Hamas and ISIS. Boghardt explains that Qatar, a small emirate on the Persian Gulf caught between its more...

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Omri Ceren writes in the lead article of the October 2014 issue of Commentary Magazine that, contrary to the claims of Hamas and several critics of Israel, the IDF defeated Hamas in this past summer’s Operation Protective Edge. Ceren is the managing director for press and strategy at The Israel Project, publisher of...

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