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Last week, Townhall exposed how Qatar is spending billions of dollars to indoctrinate students at Western colleges and universities while also funding Islamic terrorism across the globe.In addition to fomenting anti-Western, pro-Hamas sentiment on college campuses and funding terrorism, Qatar also wages an information war in the media and online. By using outlets like Al Jazeera and The New York Times, as well as Facebook parent company Meta, Qatar seeks to manipulate algorithms and influence our political process.Qatar and JournalismQatar started Al Jazeera, the Muslim world's biggest outlet, in 1996 with a $150 million grant from the Qatari Emir. Based...

A former Israeli spymaster has branded the country's leaders unfit to tackle the Iranian nuclear program and "messianic" in the strongest criticism from a security veteran of threats to launch a preemptive war. Other veterans have come out against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak. But the censure from Yuval Diskin, who retired as head of the Shin Bet domestic intelligence service last year, was especially strong and unusual in using the language of religious fervor that Israelis associate with Islamist foes. "I have no faith in the prime minister, nor in the defense minister," Diskin said...

Last Update: 10/02/2005 01:01 Yuval Diskin named new Shin Bet chief By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is expected to officially announce on Thursday the appointment of Yuval Diskin as the next Shin Bet security service chief. Diskin will take over the reins from current Shin Bet chief Avi Dichter in May. Security and political sources said Wednesday night that the prime minister's bureau informed Diskin of Sharon's decision by telephone. [...] Diskin is considered an excellent operations man and very charismatic. As deputy Shin Bet chief, he coordinated preparations for the targeted killing of wanted Palestinians...