Sayyaf Sharif Daoud, a captured Islamic State fighter who holds Israeli citizenship comes to Israel's defense, saying it “has not done 1% of what [Syrian President] Bashar al-Assad has done."
Officer tasked with civil rights says "there has never been a better time to be a Jewish student in higher education than the 21st century," but concedes that "everybody needs to open their eyes to the reality of the anti-Semitism that we’re seeing on American college campuses."
Despite Hezbollah's attempt to establish itself on the Syrian Golan and the pre-emptive attacks attributed to Israel, both sides are wary of escalating. Still, Iranian interests keep stoking the conflict.
Persian Gulf nations try to devise ways to protect vessels sailing through strategic Strait of Hormuz in wake for rising tensions in the area. US sees European maritime security effort in Gulf as "complementary"
"Mahmoud Abbas’s predecessor, Yasser Arafat, operated in a similar manner, appointing several deputies and preventing any of them from amassing too much power, even encouraging occasional rivalries between them," says Prof. Boaz Ganor, founder and executive director of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism in Herzliya.
