Islamist is, Islamist does. In the West, they no longer are as careful to hide their true intentions and beliefs. “Hizb ut-Tahrir is an international Islamist movement seeking to unite Muslims under one Islamic caliphate. Hizb ut-Tahrir members have been linked to violent acts in multiple countries. The group itself has been…
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Biden Plans To Provide Israel With Billions In Arms
Just in. I anticipate that that arms sales and military aid to Israel will increase under the Trump presidency. — RdM BBC New, Getty Image BBC News — The US Department of State has notified Congress of a planned $8bn (£6.4bn) arms sale to Israel, an American official has confirmed…
Germany and France Sends Foreign Ministers to Meet Syria’s Islamist al Sharaa and HTS leaders.
The flowery words and the diplomacy might all become regrettable for France, Germany and the West. As I’ve been saying, the West should be proceeding ahead with extreme caution with the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and Sharaa– unless France and Germany are weighing out Sharaa and the HTS in person…
PA suspends Al Jazeera in West Bank
Knowing there were al Jazeera journalists who were proactively working with and for Hamas, including al Jazeera journalists holding hostages, doesn’t help al Jazeera’s case with the PA and Fatah. Fatah and Hamas are old enemies. People conveniently forget or don’t realize what happened before and after The Battle of Gaza…
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About Sharaa of HTS in Syria…
About Ahmed al-Sharaa (formerly known as al Golani/al Jolani), leader of the HTS in Syria, because his military forces have members who are evidently more fundamentalist Islamists than he is, there is a chance that HTS will fragment because Sharaa isn’t Islamist enough. I would not be surprised if there…