Renewing the “Jordanian Option” for the West Bank
Could Amman play a constructive role between Israel and the Palestinians?
February 7, 2017
Islamic State’s Remote-Control Terrorists
The myth of the “lone wolf.”
Lone-wolf terrorists, we are often told, constitute the new face of Islamist terror. These young men read about the activities of Islamic State (IS) on the Internet, perhaps pick up a few bomb-making tips from IS publications, and are then inspired to carry out massacres. However, writes Rukmini Callimachi, this story doesn’t describe how IS generally operates. Instead, its “cyberplanners” carefully recruit potential attackers via social media and then give them long-distance coaching, training, and instructions as to how to plan and execute attacks. One such cyberplanner, a Sudanese citizen known as Abu Issa al-Amriki, had his hand in numerous plots before he was killed in Syria by an American airstrike last April:
February 7, 2017
The Amona Evacuation and the Future of Zionism
To build the land, or not to build it.
Islamic State’s Remote-Control Terrorists
The myth of the “lone wolf.”
The Remnants of Mosul’s Jewish History
Only ruins remain of Jonah’s tomb.
After Ten Years, Excavations Resume at Masada
The original archaeologists deliberately left some work for future generations.