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The Recreation of Israel, War, and Survival

By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 May 2024

This entry was posted in History, Iran and tagged 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War, Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni, Abdul Rahman Azzam, Adolf Hitler, Alec Kirkbride, Alfred Dreyfus, anti-Zionism, Antisemitism, Arab Higher Committee, Arab League, Arab Liberation Army, Arab-Israeli War, Armenian genocide, Army of Holy War, Army of Sacred War, Arthur Garrels, Ba’ath Party, Balfour Declaration, Bar Kokhba Revolt, Battle of Armageddon, Battle of Megiddo, Benny Morris, Bolsheviks, Bosnia, Britain, British Empire, Buddhism, caliphate, Chaim Weizmann, Christendom, Christianity, Committee of Union and Progress, Communism, Constantin Zureiq, Crusaders, CUP, Cybele, Czechoslovakia, David Ben-Gurion, Declaration of the Rights of Man, Deir Yassin massacre, Der Judenstaat, Djemal Pasha, Edmund Allenby, Egypt, Emperor Hadrian, Enlightenment, espionage, Fawzi al-Qawuqji, First World War, François Georges-Picot, France, French Revolution, Gaza Strip, genocide, Germany, Golda Meir, Great War, Greeks, H.H. Asquith, Hasan Salama, Hasan Salameh, Hassan Salama, Hassan Salameh, Herbert Asquith, Hindu nationalism, Hinduism, Hindutva, Holocaust, Holy Land, Holy War Army, Husayn bin Ali, Ibn Saud, IDF, India, Ioudaismos, Iraq, Iron Wall, Islamism, Israel, Israel Defence Forces, Israeli War of Independence, Jamal al-Husayni, Jaysh al-Jihad al-Muqadas, Jerusalem, Jewish Agency for Palestine, Jewish State, Jewish Temple, Jews, jihad, Jordan, Judaism, Kaiser, Konstantin Pobedonostsev, Land of Israel, League of Nations, Lebanon, Lydda, Maccabees, Mahmud al-Nuqrashi, Mandate Palestine, Mark Sykes, Mizrahi Jews, Mizrahim, Moshe Sharett, Muhammad Amin al-Husayni, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Nakba Day, Nazis, Nazism, Neturei Karta, New Historians, Nicholas II, Operation ASSAF, Operation HIRAM, Operation HOREV, Operation SHMONE, Operation UVDA, Operation YOAV, Ottoman Empire, Pakistan, Palestine, Palestine Liberation Organisation, Palestinian refugees, Palestinians, Passover, Peel Commission, Plan D, PLO, pogroms, Protestantism, Raj, Ramla, Rashid Ali al-Gaylani, religion, right of return, Roman Catholicism, Romans, Russian Civil War, Russian Empire, Russian Orthodox Church, Sacred Jihad Army, Sacred War Army, Saddam Hussein, Saudi Arabia, Second World War, secularism, Shukri al-Quwatli, Sir John Glubb, Soviet Union, Sykes-Picot Agreement, Sykes-Picot Treaty, Syria, Ten Days Battles, terrorist-revolutionaries, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Theodor Herzl, Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Tsar, Tsardom, Turkey, United Nations, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, United States, UNRWA, Vendée, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Vladimir Lenin, Wahhabism, Warren Austin, West Bank, Yasser Arafat, Yiddish, Yishuv, Yitzhak Gruenbaum, Zionism on May 16, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

Making Sense of the Islamic State Attack in Russia

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 26 March 2024

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This entry was posted in Islamic State Terrorist Attacks, Russia and tagged 1999 Moscow Apartment bombings, Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Alexei Navalny, apartment bombings, Austria, Crocus City Hall, Germany, Iran, ISIS, ISKP, Islamic State, Islamic State Khorasan Province, NATO, Russia, Syria, Tajikistan, Tajiks, Taliban, terrorism, Turkey, Vladimir Putin on March 26, 2024 by KyleWOrton.

The CIA: In Theory and In Practice

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 December 2023

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This entry was posted in History and tagged 9/11, Abd al-Rahman al-Qaduli, Abdurrahman al-Qaduli, Abu Ali al-Anbari, Abu Maysara al-Iraqi, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Abu Muhammad al-Furqan, Abu Muharib al-Muhaji, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Adolf Hitler, Adolf Tolkachev, Afghanistan, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, Ahmad Chalabi, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Ahmad Shah Masud, Ahmed Chalabi, al-Qaeda, Albania, Aldrich Ames, Anatoliy Golitsyn, Augusto Pinochet, Australia, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Bay of Pigs, Bill Browder, Bosnian jihad, Cambridge spies, Camp Chapman bombing, Canada, Central Intelligence Agency, Charles Dolan, Cheka, Chile, China, Christopher Steele, Church Committee, CIA, Cold War, Communism, counter-intelligence, Cuba, Cuban missile crisis, dangle, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, defectors, Dmitri Polyakov, Donald Maclean, Donald Trump, double agent, Dr. Wael al-Rawi, Duncan Chaplin Lee, Edward Lee Howard, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Fidel Castro, FISA, FISC, Five Eyes, Florentino Aspillaga Lombard, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Frank Church, Fusion GPS, George Blake, George Tenet, Glenn Simpson, GRU, Guatemala, Guy Burgess, Haqqani Network, Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, HUMINT, Igor Danchenko, Illegals, Intelligence, Inter-Services Intelligence, invasion of Iraq, IRA, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraqi National Congress, IRGC, Irish Republican Army, ISI, ISIS, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Israel, J. Edgar Hoover, Jacobo Arbenz, Jalal Talabani, James Jesus Angleton, Jihadi John, Jordan, Josip Broz Tito, KDP, KGB, Khalid al-Mihdhar, Kim Philby, Korean War, Kurdistan Democratic Party, Magnificent Five, Marshal Tito, Masud Barzani, MI5, MI6, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mohammed Emwazi, MOSSAD, Natalia Veselnitskaya, National Security Agency, NATO, Nawaf al-Hazmi, North Korea, Northern Alliance, NSA, nuclear weapons, Office of Strategic Services, Oleg Deripaska, Oleg Gordievsky, Oleg Penkovsky, Olga Galkina, Omar Bradley, Operation REDCAP, Operation ZAPATA, Osama bin Laden, OSS, Pakistan, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Pete Bagley, Philip Agee, Pike Commission, Prague Spring, Provisional Irish Republican Army, PUK, Pyotr Deriabin, Pyotr Popov, Rolando Cubela Secades, Ronald Pelton, Russia, Saddam Hussein, Salvador Allende, Secret Intelligence Service, Security Service, Shah, Sharif Ali bin Zeid, SIGINT, SIS, Soviet Union, spies, Steele Dossier, Syria, Taha Falaha, Taha Subhi Falaha, Tal’at Fu’ad Qasim, Taliban, Tennent Bagley, terrorism, Turkey, ULTRA secret, Usama bin Laden, Vasili Mitrokhin, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Vitaly Yurchenko, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky, Wael al-Ta’i, Wafiq Samaraii, weapons of mass destruction, Wild Bill Donovan, William Colby, William Donovan, William F. Buckley, Winston Churchill, WMD, Yugoslavia, Yuri Nosenko on December 31, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Islamic State Terrorism Returns to France and Belgium

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 5 November 2023

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This entry was posted in Islamic State Terrorist Attacks, Jihadi Output, Naba and tagged Abd al-Salam al-Muhajir, Abdesalem Lassoued, Abdul Salam al-Muhajir, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, al-Naba, Amaq News Agency, Antisemitism, Bataclan theatre, blasphemy, Britain, Brussels, caliphate, Charlie Hebdo, Chérif Chekatt, Chechnya, Christians, DGSI, Dominique Bernard, Europe, Gaza, HAMAS, Ibrahim Boudina, invasion of Iraq, Iran, IRGC, ISIS, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamism, Israel, Jews, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, lone wolves, media, Mehdi Nemmouche, Mohamed Mogouchkov, NATO, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Paris, PIJ, PKK, propaganda, radicalisation, Russia, Stephen Paddock, Sweden, Taha Falaha, terrorism, Turkey on November 5, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Iran Admits Responsibility for the 1983 Marine Barracks Bombing in Beirut

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 4 October 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Iran, Iran and Sunni jihadis and tagged Abd al-Salam Arif, Abolhassan Banisadr, Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, Ali Akbar Mohtashamipur, Ali Khamenei, Amal movement, Ansar Allah, Ansarallah, Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia, ASALA, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Ba'ath Party, Baader-Meinhof Gang, Ba’th Party, Bekaa Valley, Black September, Captive Nations, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Colonel Gaddafi, Communism, Cuba, drones, East Germany, fedayeen, Fidel Castro, Guardianship of the Jurist, Hafez al-Asad, Hafez al-Assad, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Hossein Dehghan, Houthis, Husayn al-Musawi, Huthis, Imad Mughniya, Imad Mughniyeh, Imam Musa al-Sadr, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, IRGC, IRNA, Islam, Islamic Government, Islamic Republic News Agency, Islamic Republic of Iran, Islamic Republic Party, Islamic Revolution, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Israel, Issa Tabatabai, Japanese Red Army, jihadism, KGB, Khobar Towers bombing, Kurdistan Workers' Party, Lebanon, Libya, Masoud Rajavi, Masud Rajavi, MEK, Mojahedeen-e-Khalq, Mojahedin-e-Khalq, Mostafa Chamran, Muammar al-Qaddafi, Muhammad Beheshti, Musa Sadr, Mustafa Badreddine, Operation DESERT STORM, Osama bin Laden, Palestine Liberation Organisation, People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran, PFLP, PKK, PLO, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Ruhollah Khomeini, Russia, Saddam Husayn, Saddam Hussein, Shah, Shi'a militias, South Yemen, Soviet Union, Special Groups, Syria, the Party of God, Tudeh, Turkey, Ukraine, Usama bin Laden, Vanished Imam, velayat-e faqih, VEVAK, White Revolution, wilayat al-faqih, Yasser Arafat, Yemen on October 4, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Remembering Korea: The First “Hot War” of the Cold War

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 20 September 2023

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Adolf Hitler, Albania, Alger Hiss, Anthony Blunt, Antisemitism, atrocities, Australia, Baltics, Berlin Blockade, Britain, Brown Scare, Cambodia, Cambridge Five, Cambridge spies, CCP, Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese Communist Party, Cold War, COMINTERN, Communism, Containment Doctrine, counter-intelligence, Czechoslovakia, Dean Acheson, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Doctrine of Containment, Donald Maclean, Doolittle Report, Douglas MacArthur, DPRK, Dwight Eisenhower, East Germany, Estonia, Ethel Rosenberg, Europe, FDR, Finland, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George Blake, Greece, Greek Civil War, Gulf of Tonkin Incident, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, Guy Burgess, Harry Dexter White, Harry Hopkins, Harry Truman, Hiroshima, Holocaust, Hungary, ideology, Intelligence, Iran, Iron Curtain, Japan, Jews, John Cairncross, Joseph McCarthy, Joseph Stalin, Jugoslavija, Julius Rosenberg, KGB, Kim Il Sung, Kim Philby, Klaus Fuchs, Korean War, Laos, Latvia, Laurence Duggan, Lee Beom-seok, Lithuania, Magnificent Five, MANHATTAN Project, Mao Zedong, Marshall Aid, Matthew Ridgway, McCarthyism, MGB, MI6, Nagasaki, National Security Agency, NATO, Nazis, NKVD, North Korea, NSA, Nuremberg Tribunal, Operation BARBAROSSA, Operation FIEND, Operation VALUABLE, Poland, Popular Front, Red Army, Red China, Republic of Korea, Second World War, Secret Intelligence Service, Shin Song-mo, SIS, South Korea, Soviet Union, Syngman Rhee, Turkey, United Nations, VALUABLE Project, VENONA, Vietnam, Vietnam War, Walton Walker, war crimes, William Weisband, Winston Churchill, Winter War, Workers’ Party of Korea, Yugoslavia on September 20, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Islamic State Introduces the Fifth “Caliph”

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 22 August 2023

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This entry was posted in Abu Hudhayfa al-Ansari Speeches, Jihadi Output and tagged Abbasids, Abu Abd al-Rahman al-Iraqi, Abu al-Hassan al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Abu al-Husayn al-Husayni al-Qurayshi, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Abu Hafs al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Abu Hafs al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, Abu Hamza al-Muhajir, Abu Hudaifa al-Ansari, Abu Hudhayfa al-Ansari, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashemi al-Qurayshi, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, Abu Muhammad al-Furqan, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, Abu Omar al-Muhajir, Abu Sulayman al-Shami, Abu Umar al-Baghdadi, Abu Umar al-Muhajir, Afghanistan, Africa, Afrin, Ahmad Abousamra, Ahmad al-Khalayleh, al-Furqan Media, Al-Injeel, Al-Injil, al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda in Iraq, al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Amir Muhammad al-Mawla, AQAP, assassination, Battle of Fallujah, Bible, blasphemy, Christianity, Christians, Dawud, deen, Deraa, din, Efrin, elections, Fallujah, Gospels, HAMAS, Hamid al-Zawi, Hassan al-Utaybi, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, Hazimis, Hazimiyya, Hebrew Prophets, HTS, human rights, Ibrahim al-Badri, Ioudaismos, Isa, ISIS, Islam, Islamic State, Islamism, Jabhat al-Nusra, Jamaat al-Tawhid wal-Jihad, Jesus, Jesus Christ, Jews, jihadism, Judaism, King David, MIT, Moses, Mother of the Book, mukhabarat, Musa, National Intelligence Organization, New Testament, Nour Karim al-Matni, Nur Karim al-Matni, Old Testament, Omar Hadid, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, Pentateuch, prisons, propaganda, Prophet Muhammad, Psalms, Qur’an, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Romans, Saudi Arabia, scripture, SNA, Syria, Syrian National Army, Taha Falaha, Tawrah, terrorism, Torah, Turkey, Umar Hadid, Umm al-Kitab, Usama bin Laden, Wael al-Ta’i, Zabur on August 22, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Did Russia Ever Start a Democratic Transition? Can It?

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 16 July 2023

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This entry was posted in History, Russia, Soviet Union and the Cold War and tagged absolute monarchy, Anglosphere, aristocracy, Atatürk, autocracy, black cash, Bolsheviks, Boris Yeltsin, Bulgaria, Captive Nations, Chechnya, Cheka, Cheka Day, Chekists, chinovnichestvo, Christianity, civil liberties, civil society, collectivisation, Communism, corruption, cyber-attacks, Czechoslovakia, dekulakisation, democracy, democratic transition, Dobrarmiya, Duma, East Germany, Ekaterina Schulmann, emancipation, espionage, Europe, far-Right terrorism, Federal Security Service, Felix Dzerzhinsky, Foreign Intelligence Service, FSB, Fundamental State Laws, Gennady Zyuganov, German Democratic Republic, Golden Horde, Homo Sovieticus, ideology, Imperialism, Joseph Stalin, Kievan Rus, liberalism, Mafia, Maria Snegovaya, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mongols, Mustafa Kemal, Narodniki, Narodniks, nationalism, Nichola II, nobility, October Manifesto, organised crime, Pereyaslav Agreement, Peter the Great, pluralism, Pyotr I, Red Army, religion, Right-wing extremism, Romania, Russia, Russian intelligentsia, Russian Orthodox Church, Russian terrorist-revolutionaries, Russian Whites, securocrats, serfdom, SIGINT, signals intelligence, siloviki, Socialist Commonwealth, Soviet Union, surveillance, SVR, Terror, terrorism, third wave of democratisation, Tsar, Turkey, Ukraine, Vladimir Lenin, Vladimir Putin, Volunteer Army, Yuri Kovalchuk on July 16, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

Jihadist “Forever Wars” Don’t End Because Western Troops Are Withdrawn

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 28 March 2023

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This entry was posted in History and tagged Afghanistan, al-Qaeda, al-Shabab, Authorization for Use of Military Force, Bashar al-Assad, Bilal al-Sudani, China, Donald Trump, Global War on Terror, GWOT, Hashd al-Shabi, Iran, Iraq, Iraqi Security Forces, IRGC, ISIS, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamism, Joe Biden, Kurdistan Workers’ Party, Matt Gaetz, military intervention, NATO, Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, PKK, realism, Republicans, Russia, scandal, SDF, Shi’a militias, Somalia, Suhayl Salim Abd al-Rahman, Syria, Syrian Democratic Forces, Taliban, Turkey, Usama bin Laden, War Powers Act, Yemen on March 28, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

What To Make of China “Brokering” the Saudi-Iran Deal

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By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 14 March 2023

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This entry was posted in Foreign Policy, Gulf States, Iran, Iran Deal and tagged Abqaiq attack, Abqaiq-Khurais attack, America, ARAMCO, Barack Obama, China, Donalt Trump, Egypt, hegemony, Hezbollah, Hizballah, Iran, Iranian Revolution, Iraq, IRGC, ISIS, Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Islamic State, Islamism, Lebanon, maximum pressure, political warfare, proxy war, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Shia militias, Soviet Union, subversion, Syria, terrorism, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United States, Yemen on March 14, 2023 by KyleWOrton.

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