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June 26, 2020
Al-Quds: Iranian Poster & Hidden Messages
Every year, on the last Friday of the Muslim month of Ramadan, worshipers around the world mark “Al-Quds Day.” This year. Ramadan began on April 23rd and ended on May 23rd. Al Quds Day this year was on May 22nd. Al-Quds is the name in Arabic for Jerusalem. The word is taken from the Hebrew word for holy which is…

July 13, 2019
Belly Dancing In Baghdad
Iran wants to gain control of the area from Iran to the Mediterranean Sea. The way they are attempting to do that is through flooding the area with militants and missiles. Controlling Iraq is critical to that end.

August 6, 2018
Arab Persian Power Struggle
Arab Persian Power Struggle Two major historic struggles have played a central role in shaping the Muslim world and the Middle East. One axis is the struggle between Arab civilization and the Persian civilization. The other axis is the rivalry between Sunnis and Shi’ites in Islam. In the year 651 CE, a significant event took place in the Middle East; the four-hundred…

August 6, 2018
Sunni Shi’ite Power Struggle
Sunnis & Shi’ites Two major historic struggles have played a central role in shaping the Muslim world and the Middle East. One axis is the struggle between Sunnis and Shi’ites in Islam. The other axis is the rivalry between two large regional civilizations: The Arab civilization and the Persian civilization. There are about 1.6 billion Muslims in the world. About…

September 5, 2017
Sunnis & Shi’ites
Two major historic struggles have played a central role in shaping the Muslim world and the Middle East. One axis is the struggle between Sunnis and Shi’ites in Islam. The other axis is the rivalry between two large regional civilizations: The Arab civilization and the Persian civilization. There are about 1.6 billion Muslims in the world. About 90 percent are Sunni…


August 17, 2017
Taking the Kidnapper Hostage: The Battle Over the Sovereignty of Lebanon
Click Here To Download a PDF of this Intelligence Report August 17, 2017 INTELLIGENCE REPORT Taking the Kidnapper Hostage: The Battle Over the Sovereignty of Lebanon Information: On Tuesday, July 25, 2017, United States President, Donald Trump, held a joint Press Conference with Lebanese Prime Minister, Sa’ad Uddin Al Hariri. During that press conference, President Trump talked at length…

August 9, 2017
Extended Intelligence Report – July 2017 Temple Mount Compound Crisis: Regional Perspectives
Click here for a PDF of this Intelligence Report On July 16, 2017 I wrote an Intelligence Bulletin – The Attack on The Temple Mount Compound: Regional Reactions. This is an extended Intelligence Report on the issue. *** Intelligence Report *** August 8, 2017 July 2017 Crisis over Temple Mt. Compound: Regional Perspectives Information: On Friday July 14,…

August 9, 2017
What is Militant Sunni Islam?
Click Here For PDF of this post – “What Is Militant Sunni Islam?” What is Militant Sunni Islam? Contemporary Sunni militant Islam is rooted in the two main representatives of political Islam – the Muslim Brotherhood Movement and the ultra-conservative Salafi ideology. Since its early days, the Muslim Brotherhood had – in addition to its educational, social and…

August 9, 2017
What is Political Islam?
Click Here For PDF of this post – “What Is Political Islam?” What is Political Islam? The term “political Islam” refers to movements and parties in the Muslim world that have the following things in common: Their ultimate goal is to create a global Islamic cultural, political, and religious entity known as Khalafa / Caliphate in which no other…

July 17, 2017
Game of Pawns: The Middle East 2017 – Avi Melamed North American Fall Lecture Tour
ANNOUNCING MY NEW LECTURE TOUR SEPTEMBER 27- NOVEMBER 25, 2017 Game of Pawns ~ The Middle East 2017 A smoking volcano erupted into the Arab Awakening – and the aftershocks, including the War in Syria, the widening Sunni-Shi’ite rift, and the escalating Arab-Persian power struggle have brought about a tectonic plate movement that is shaping a new Middle…

July 16, 2017
Terror Attack at the Temple Mount Compound: Regional Reactions
- Egypt
- Israel
- Israel and the Muslim world
- Israeli Arabs
- Jordan
- Lebanon
- Militant Islam
- Palestinians
- Radical Islam
- Saudi Arabia
- Turkey
Immediate Intelligence Bulletin July 16th, 2017 Terror attack at the Temple Mount Compound: Regional Reactions (** This is an immediate Bulletin. I will publish a more detailed Intelligence Report over the next few days **) Information: On Friday July 14, 2017, three Israeli-Arabs opened fire on Israeli Border Patrol Police securing the Temple Mount Compound in Jerusalem, called Al-Haram…

June 17, 2017
Tasting the Bitter Pill of Reality: Hamas’ New Political Pact
June 17th, 2017 Tasting the Bitter Pill of Reality: Hamas’ New Political Pact Information In August 2014 I published an article entitled “Operation Protective Edge: Exiting to a New Space” in which I analyzed the ramifications of the summer of 2014 war between Hamas and Israel. In that piece I wrote ”…As a result, Hamas enters a long process where…

March 14, 2017
A Prediction Materialized: Iranian Proxy Vows to “Fight to Liberate the Golan Heights”
- Intelligence Bulletin
- Iran
- Iraq
- Israel
- Lebanon
- Militant Islam
- Palestinians
- Radical Islam
- Russia
- Syria
- Turkey
- Yemen
Inside the Middle East – Intelligence Perspectives Intelligence Bulletin March 14, 2017 A Prediction Materialized: Iranian Proxy Vows to “Fight to liberate the Golan Heights” Information: In my January 2017 article “A Growing Whirlpool of Violence: The Middle East Legacy of Barack Obama “ I made the following prediction regarding the growing direct and indirect Iranian…
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