“Literally the entire national security team recommended unanimously
handling Mubarak differently than we did,” Gates said. “And the
president took the advice of three junior backbenchers in terms of how
to treat Mubarak.” Obama was so avid to support the Muslim Brotherhood
in Egypt, he went against the advice of his national security team. The
Egyptian people complained that he was supporting terrorism. And they
were right. 
“Gates: Obama Went Against ‘Entire National Security Team’ on Egypt Coup,” by Aaron Kliegman, Washington Free Beacon, March 17, 2016:Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told Fox News that President Barack Obama ignored the advice of his “entire national security team” during the...
According to The Hill, Republican
senators are planning to introduce a bill to sanction Iran for its
support of terrorist activities throughout the Middle East and its human
rights abuses in the coming days.1) impose new sanctions against Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Mahan Air, an Iranian airline that has assisted the IRGC and IRGC-Qods force in spreading terrorism and militancy throughout the Middle East;The bill co-sponsors include Sens. Ted Cruz, John Cornyn, Rob Portman, Pat Roberts, Ben Sasse, Tom Cotton , Jerry Moran, Johnny Isakson, Marco Rubio, Dan Coats, Cory Gardner, Kelly Ayotte, and Lisa Murkowski.
2) codify the current prohibition against Iran’s direct and indirect access to the U.S. financial system, while also streamlining and strengthening the stringent requirements for the president to remove Iran or any other country from the state sponsors of terrorism list;
3) impose new sanctions against Iran for human rights abuses.
Israel faces threats from every direction. First,
citizens watched Hamas rockets fly over their heads. Now, they are
concerned about being stabbed by Palestinian terrorists. Israelis
are even more on edge after the White House's nuclear agreement with
Iran, which many argue will make it easier for Iran to develop a nuclear
bomb. This sensitive environment has urged a few legislators to
introduce a bipartisan effort to ensure our Middle East ally has at
least some tools at their disposal to thwart future attacks. Reps. Elise
Stefanik (R-NY), Tom MacArthur (R-NJ), and Donald Norcross (D-NJ) have
presented the "U.S.-Israel Security 5 Cooperation Act" that
would allow our Defense Department to cooperate with Israel to develop
energy capabilities to detect and defeat ballistic missiles and other
impending threats.“We must make vital investments in missile defense and further expand our partnership with Israel in this field which has made great strides in recent years, and will offer the U.S. and Israel a less expensive and highly capable defense system," said MacArthur. "As our closest ally in a highly unstable part of the world, Israel faces countless threats and challenges to her very existence, including the ballistic missile testing conducted by Iran last week which included the insult “Israel should be wiped off the earth” written in Hebrew on one of the missiles. It is abundantly clear that there is no time to waste in helping to improve the defense of both the US and Israel.”
UPDATE 1- Some new details have emerged about the events of Friday:
