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Special Dispatch No. 7467 - From The MEMRI Archive – Reactions To U.S. Decision To Move Embassy To Jerusalem: From Acceptance And Support To Claims That The Decision Reflects Arab Impotence - 05/14/18

Image: Alarabiya.net, May 8, 2018 Over the past few months, MEMRI has reported on Arab and Palestinian responses to U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign promise to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem and to his December 6, 2017announcement that the embassy would be moved in May 2018. His announcements triggered many negative responses from Arab and Palestinian officials, bodies and journalists, from condemnation to calls for violence and a new intifada. 1 However, some commentators took a ...

Special Announcements No. 615 - The MEMRI Weekly: May 4-11, 2018 - 05/11/18

The following are links to reports from MEMRI's Special Dispatch Series and Inquiry and Analysis Series , as well as to transcripts from the MEMRI TV Project , released during the past week. MEMRI Reports Special Dispatch No. 7464 – Reports In Arab Media On Iranian Bases In Syria , May 10, 2018 Special Dispatch No. 7463 – Russian Reactions On Trump's Decision To Exit The Nuclear Deal , May 10, 2018 Special Dispatch No. 7462 – Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Egypt Welcome President Trump's ...

Special Dispatch No. 7462 - Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Egypt Welcome President Trump's Withdrawal From JCPOA - 05/09/18

U.S. President Donald Trump's May 8, 2018 announcement of the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA) and its reinstatement of the harsh sanctions against Iran won broad support from Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries. Saudi Arabia officially stated that it welcomed the announcement, calling it vital in light of the flaws inherent in the agreement and in light of Iran's taking advantage of it to develop its ballistic missile program and to support terror organizations in the ...

Special Dispatch No. 7451 - Syrian Threats Against The U.S. Presence In Syria Continue: U.S. Troops, Bases Are In Our Sights And Will Pay A Heavy Price - 05/02/18

In the past two months there have been increasing threats against the U.S. forces in Syria, emanating from the Syrian regime, its writers, and its supporters. 1 These threats escalated even further following the conflicting announcements made recently by the U.S. administration regarding the continued presence of its troops in Syria, 2 and following the April 14, 2018 American-French-British attack on Syrian sites and military bases connected to the regime's chemical weapons capabilities. In ...

Inquiry & Analysis Series No. 1392 - Iran Faces Strategic Decision – Whether To Respond To Israel's Operations Against Its Military Expansion In Syria, Which Could Lead To Iran-Israel War - 04/17/18

In light of Israel's recent military operations against Iran's military expansion in Syria, comprising strikes against strategic Iranian and Syrian targets such as Iran-controlled airfields, missile bases, and drone bases, Iran now faces a strategic question: whether to respond to these attacks, when doing so could lead to all-out conflict with Israel. Iran's long-term goal in Syria is to expand militarily and economically there, giving it control across the country – which will in turn enable ...

Yigal Carmon

Special Dispatch No. 7432 - Following The West's Attack On Syria, Sharp Dispute Breaks Out Between Egypt That Wants Assad To Remain, And Saudi Arabia That Now Wants Him Gone - 04/17/18

On April 14, 2018, about a week after the regime of Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad carried out a chemical attack on the town of Douma near Damascus that killed dozens, the U.S. , U.K. and France launched a joint military strike on regime bases and facilities associated with its chemical weapons capabilities. The attack threw into sharp focus the controversy between the two leaders of the Arab world, Egypt and Saudi Arabia – on the Syrian issue. 1 Even before the strike occurred, Saudi Arabia ...

Special Dispatch No. 7429 - Ibrahim Karagül, Editor-In-Chief Of AKP Mouthpiece 'Yeni Safak': Russia-Turkey-Iran Coalition Does Not Exist; Turkey Should Build A 'Shield From The Mediterranean To The Iranian Border' To Prepare For Upcoming New World Order War - 04/16/18

Yeni Safak , the mouthpiece for Turkey's ruling Adalet ve Kalkimna Partisi (Justice and Development Party) criticized AKP's own leader, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, for his policies in Syria and his government's support for the U.S.-Great Britain- France airstrike in Syria. On April 14, the Turkish Foreign Ministry stated that the operation carried out by Washington, London and Paris was "an appropriate response to the chemical attack which caused the deaths of many civilians in ...

Inquiry & Analysis Series No. 1387 - The Imminent Release Of Telegram's Cryptocurrency, ISIS's Encryption App Of Choice – An International Security Catastrophe In The Making - 03/30/18

Preface Nearly 17 years after the 9/11 attacks and the subsequent 9/11 Commission Report recommendations, a Telegram cryptocurrency will shatter all the lessons learned about terrorism financing, and will be used to fund terrorism worldwide. The recommendations stated: "Vigorous efforts to track terrorist financing must remain front and center in U.S. counterterrorism efforts. The government has recognized that information about terrorist money helps us to understand their networks, search them ...

Steven Stalinsky, Ph.D.

Special Dispatch No. 7402 - Syrian Regime: We Will Expel U.S. Forces From Syria By Means Of Popular Resistance - 03/28/18

As U.S. forces settle in east of the Euphrates River in eastern Syria, with the aid of the primarily Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the Syrian regime is issuing harsh warnings about the American presence in the country. Regime officials and regime-affiliated media are depicting the U.S. presence as an occupation similar to the now-defunct Islamic State (ISIS) occupation of Al-Raqqa and other areas of Syria, and are also threatening military hostilities against the U.S. forces. For ...

Special Dispatch No. 7395 - Gaza Strip Initiative, In Collaboration With Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, And Supporters Of Fatah's Muhammad Dahlan: Masses Will Throng To Border With Israel To Demand Right Of Return - 03/22/18

In recent weeks, there have been reports of an initiative launched by social activists in the Gaza Strip, in collaboration with Hamas and the Palestinian factions, for Palestinian refugees in all areas bordering on Israel, to march en masse towards the border, erect there "Return Encampments," "nonviolently breach" the border into Israeli territory, and demand to actualize the Palestinian right of return. The organizers of the initiative, dubbed "The Great Return March," have called it a ...

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