Homeland Security Portal
Terrorism
Incitement by the Palestinians’ Post-Attack PR Industry
In the current surge of attacks, the terrorist trail of incitement may not be apparent before the attack, but the terrorist trail of incitement after the attack certainly is. This post-attack trail serves as all-too-sufficient incitement for the next attack. Read More »
The Psychology of "Lone Wolf" Palestinian Arab Violence
The outbreak of violence by mostly young individual Palestinian Arabs has been attributed to a variety of explanations that range from nationalistic motives to more religious ones. Religious and nationalistic factors can both act as triggers for violence, and what is termed “incitement” appears to be an interactive process that combines a causative psychological igniting factor with pre-existing supportive cognitive fuel. Read More »
The True Face of the Palestinians’ Leader
There is a continued perception of Mahmoud Abbas as the “moderate” representative of the Palestinian cause. This stance represents a misunderstanding of Abbas’ position, which continues to encourage terror, but not terror through means of firearms. Such encouragement is responsible for the latest wave of terror in Israel. Read More »
How to Block the Ongoing Palestinian Terror Wave
The Palestinian terror wave is not letting up, and fighting it more effectively requires a close examination of its roots and its objectives. Read More »
Saving Gazans or Saving Gaza’s Terrorist Tunnels?
In light of Egypt’s anti-tunnel campaign on the Gazan border, the anti-Israel, violence-advocating International Solidarity Movement has issued a plea to Egypt to halt said campaign. The ISM claims that the campaign needlessly endangers innocent Palestinian lives. However, in recent years, these tunnels have become two-way conduits for weapons, with Hamas providing weapons to ISIS terrorists in the Sinai Peninsula. Read More »
The Palestinian Authority Will Find No Friend in ISIS
The threats against Israel by ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi constitute a change in the terror organization’s line. So far it has avoided such proclamations, and its official organs make almost no mention of the Palestine problem. However, such a change should be distressing to the PA, as the PA and the PLO want to establish a Palestinian state, and that goal totally contravenes ISIS’s ambition to destroy the existing states and create a sharia-based caliphate in their stead. Read More »
How Jihadists Link Paris and Jerusalem
Radical Islamic terrorism in Paris and Jerusalem has reignited the debate in the West over terrorist motivation. Read More »
Do Stabbing Attacks Constitute Terrorism?
Why did the Swedish leadership, while acknowledging the need to prevent individuals from carrying out acts of terror, nevertheless appear to have maintained such a blatant double-standard in denying that knife attacks by individuals against Israeli citizens could be acts of terror? Read More »
The “Spontaneous” Intifada Is Orchestrated by the Palestinian Leadership
The Palestinian leadership is attempting to portray the current intifada as a popular, spontaneous struggle that expresses the population's despair over the political situation. In reality, it is an intifada supported and directed by the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah . The green light for violent agitation and terror attacks has been given by the Palestinian leadership. The Palestinian leadership also guarantees a network of social and financial support to any Palestinian resident who is arrested, wounded or harmed in the course of anti-Israel terror activity. The Palestinian Authority, led by Mahmoud Abbas, wants to use the violence as a tool to achieve its political objectives, which include compelling Israel to withdraw from the West Bank and east Jerusalem. Read More »
Terror Is Terror Is Terror
If terror is to be fought and soundly defeated, the struggle must be waged against all the terror organizations and the states that support them. Iran has already headed the list of terror-supporting states for years. It is now awarded the status of a partner in trying to settle the Syrian crisis.The United States and the West continue to take an approach to terror that is unfocused, selective, and indulgent. They are no longer prepared to pay the price that is entailed in a resolute, hands-on struggle against terror. Read More »
Iran’s Fortunes Rising in a Middle East Vacuum
Iran is implementing a plan to expand its influence over the Middle Eastern region. As a primary sponsor of Hizbullah and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), the “long arm” of Iranian influence may be attempting to establish itself as a regional power player, in the wake of the U.S.’ declining prestige. Read More »
After the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, Is Hamas in Gaza Next in Line?
With the fall of the Muslim Brotherhood, Egyptian security forces take aim at the Palestinian offshoot of the Brotherhood, Hamas. A U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization, Hamas has recently lost many of its regional allies. With their supply routes in danger, Hamas leaders are scrambling for ways to stay alive. Read More »
The Fundamentals of Israel's Strategic Environment
There is a view that developments since the advent of the Arab Spring have completely altered the way Israel should look at its national security needs for many decades to come. However, while many of the essential facts of Israeli security remain the same, the changes in neighboring and hostile regimes, such as power vacuums being filled by terrorist organizations and additional weaponry being smuggled into conflict zones, result in a need for re-evaluation of Israeli strategy. Read More »
NGOs: “Global Conscience” or Powerful Political Actors?
Nearly forty thousand INGOs are active in the world today. Experts point to the possibility that some INGOs are being widely exploited by terrorist networks as easy points of infiltration into the civic space. Some are accused of not denouncing violence, or even of supporting terrorism. It must therefore be realized that INGOs can potentially facilitate international cooperation and the rule of law, but they can also obstruct them. Read More »
Egypt after Morsi: The Defeat of Political Islam?
The Muslim Brotherhood’s 80-year dream to take over Egypt ended in a fiasco, barely one year after one of its own was democratically elected to the office of President of Egypt. The Brotherhood’s loss sends a message that political Islam can be subdued by moderate and liberal forces, providing hope to those struggling against Jihadist and MB-associated groups. The new regime in Egypt allows Israel maintain the status quo with regards to the Egyptian/Israeli Peace Treaty. Read More »