1) Khaled Abu Toameh explains ‘The Implications of Hamas’s Public Executions and the World’s Silence’.
“As Hamas drags Palestinians to the streets to face its firing squads, the international community appears to be looking the other way. Hamas, however, is not going after criminals, outlaws and suspected collaborators, as it claims. Instead, it is targeting those who dared to speak out against the terror group that brought death and destruction to the Gaza Strip after its October 7, 2023, invasion of Israel. Hamas is targeting Palestinian clans and individuals who dared to publicly challenge its atrocities against both Israelis and Palestinians.”
2) At WINEP, Neomi Neumann and Devorah Margolin discuss ‘“Deradicalization” in Gaza: The Problem, the Solution, and the Measures of Success’.
“President Trump’s twenty-point plan for ending the Gaza war begins by stating that the goal is to transform the Strip into “a deradicalized terror-free zone that does not pose a threat to its neighbors.” Yet the bulk of the proposal focuses on ceasefire terms and subsequent political, military, and economic arrangements between the parties. As it currently stands, the plan does not clearly define what “deradicalization” entails, nor does it offer a strategy for dismantling Hamas’s ideological and institutional influence after nearly two decades of rule. It also fails to address the social, educational, and cultural drivers of violent extremism in a substantive way.”
3) The ITIC provides ‘Documentary Evidence of Hamas-Al Jazeera Relations and Cooperation’.
“Hamas documents brought back from the Gaza Strip by IDF forces showed that the cooperation and media coordination between Hamas and Al Jazeera were neither random nor isolated but systematic, organized and continuous. They showed Hamas’ transfer of coverage guidelines and instructions to the network’s management to influence its editorial policy on issues related to the movement and established a secure phone line between the movement’s military emergency operations room and Al Jazeera.
The documents showed that many journalists who worked for Al Jazeera in the Gaza Strip were simultaneously operatives in Hamas’ military wing. Some of them accompanied the waves of infiltration into Israeli territory during the October 7, 2023 attack and massacre.”
4) At the INSS, Danny Citrinowicz analyses ‘The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting: Disseminating the Regime’s Ideology Worldwide’.
“Recent reports from the United Kingdom and Italy about the involvement of Iran’s PressTV television channel in sophisticated influence operations in those countries attest to the ongoing efforts of Iran’s state propaganda network—operated under the supervision of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting—to weaken Western nations and amplify the Iranian narrative within them.”
5) At the Alma Center, Yaakov Lappin reports on “Turkey’s Involvement in Syria’s Military Force Buildup”.
“The vacuum created following the fall of the Assad regime and the withdrawal of its allies, Russia and the Iranian-Shiite axis, from the Syrian arena, was exploited by Sunni Turkey, which quickly became the central player shaping the new Syrian army. Turkey is establishing itself as the main ally of the al-Sharaa regime, while acting to build the strength of its new army through professional training and by supplying weapons and military equipment, so that it can establish its control over the country.”
6) At the FDD, Ben Cohen and David May discuss the UN’s ‘Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People’.
“For the past half-century, the United Nations’ Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) has worked to delegitimize the State of Israel by amplifying Palestinian efforts to depict the Jewish state as a “colonial” and “apartheid” regime. The Palestinians are the only people to have a dedicated propaganda organ inside the United Nations, while Israel is the only UN member state to face such attacks, violating the commitment to “the principle of the sovereign equality of all its Members” in the Charter of the United Nations.”
