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By Barry Rubin
Why help put into power and then favor people who hate you, lie about you, and want to destroy you? What is the pay-off?
Mariam wanted her sons to die a glorious Jihad death, taking as many innocent lives as possible with him. If there was one thing Mariam was not, it was a mother.
The argument that democracy had made the Muslim world dysfunctional was always chancy.
By Daniel Pipes
Both Hamas and Fatah are playing the game of pretending to end violence.
As Obama visits the region, he would do well to take the following facts into consideration.
Hamas wants Palestinians civilians, especially babies, to be killed precisely so that they can display the kind of photographs that were shown around the world.
By Adam Levick
The damage done by the now iconic image of Misharawi clutching his slain child can not be ameliorated by even the clearest retractions.
Salafists are frequently refered to in relation to Islamist terror. It is a slippery descriptor that is sometimes used in contradictory ways.
Hamas is trying to re-work its image as a terrorist organization to convince the United States and the European Union remove it from the list of sponsors of terrorism. The campaign comes at the same time that pressure is growing on the EU to add Hizbullah to the list of terrorist organizations. The Egypt Independent […]
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Rather than applying consistent and professional standards to fact-finding, the claims of are often the products of instant speculation.
The UNRWA cancelled a marathon in Gaza because women would be banned from participating.
The terror unit's leader is still at large in Gaza.
Long live feminism in Gaza. Hamas believes women are so special that it allows men only in the annual Gaza marathon. UNRWA refused to “respect tradition” and cancels the annual race.
Gaza Arabs who risk being executed for helping Israel are in Hamas crosshairs again. Eight collaborators were brutally executed last November, Now, Hamas wants more.
The Hamas regime in Gaza has launched an all-out manhunt to round up collaborators with Israel, most of whom usually end up being executed. Hamas interior ministry official Mohammed Lafi said, "We monitor the tools and techniques used by the Israeli occupation to recruit collaborators and we are working to dismantle them," according to the […]
Israel supplies 125 megawatts of electricity to the Gaza Strip from the power station in Ashkelon that has come under repeated rocket fire over the past six years.
Barak praised Netanyahu for being a "courageous" advocate for peace.
The Gaza Strip is swarming with radical Islamist groups whose goal is to destroy Israel and the U.S. Most emerged after the Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005.
I believe it is because of Obama's upcoming visit. The Palestinians have been cooking up this idea of when and how to put on the pressure.
Hamas broke the sound of silence in Ashkelon Tuesday morning and attacked the industrial with a missile at 7 a.m., exactly when thousands of people began arriving to work.
John Kerry is off and flying to beat Hillary Clinton’s “Around the World 90 Times” gig with a nine-country tip in 11 days as he tries to fix the world. Israel is not on the list.
Today, it is clearer than ever that neither Hamas nor Fatah is interested in achieving unity -- each for its own reasons.
Palestinian Authority PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas reportedly is angry at Hamas for reportedly conducting indirect talks with Israel, but his ire may be an excuse to appease the Obama administration and stay clear of the terrorist organization. However, Abbas also wants something in return from the United States, mainly forcing Israel to accept PA demands […]
Hamas is getting it from all sides, even as, or perhaps because, they are reportedly secretly negotiating with Israel on the current cease-fire.
As far as many Western governments and journalists are concerned, physical assaults on Palestinian reporters in the Gaza Strip are fine as long as they are not perpetrated by Israel.
Egypt is flooding Gaza smuggling tunnels, choking off one of Hamas’ biggest sources for money and placing a virtual siege far more severe than Israel ever created.
The downfall of the Mubarak regime has been a great blessing for Hamas, which has since emerged as a major player in the Palestinian and regional arena.
My good colleague Kay is wrong about the early demise of conspiracy theories and blood libels against the Jews.
A general showed up to the checkpoint in full uniform driving a brand new, sparkling clean Mercedes.
How can anyone talk about the two-state solution when thousands of Palestinian children are being trained to use weapons and explosives to replace Israel with an Islamic state?
Hamas terrorists blew off the left arm of Captain Ziv Shilon in an October roadside bomb attack at the Gaza border. Shilon now is back in action after “a very long journey.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The trees will provide some shelter from gun fire for Israeli hikers and motorists on the roads outside Nachal Oz.
The Hamas government in Gaza has been banning Western-style clothing and haircuts, and in some case forcing women to wear Islamic headdress.
Now that the dust has settled in Gaza following Israel’s Pillar of Defense operation, it is easy yet again to feel sorry for the Palestinians. After all, as anyone already knows who clings desperately to The New York Times, the still-lingering images are so evidently palpable and painful. And the Arab suffering – the grievous suffering. Wasn't it disturbingly "one-sided" and “disproportionate”?
The IDF accidentally discovered a terror tunnel preventing a terror attack/kidnapping from Gaza.
Palestinians evil ambitions are not even constrained on the holiest site to Judaism.
The Palestinians and their advocates rationalize the use of children in jihad.
By Adam Levick
Fatah is celebrating its 48th anniversary, but the group was in fact founded in 1959 which was 54 years ago. So what 1965 event are they actually celebrating?
Looking backon Rabin's 1993 interview in Time Magazine.
The Palestinian youth sees what has happened in the Arab world and despite the suffering, has the feeling of "yes, we can," even if it requires blood.
By Barry Rubin
If you are really being so hurt by the existence and growth of settlements then make peace fast and get rid of them.
As if you needed proof that the new Egypt is an enemy lying in wait.
The facts tend to be less urgent for individuals with an ideological predisposition to kicking out at Israel at every opportunity.
By JoeSettler
You might recall the famous case of MK Azmi Bishara, not coincidentally, also from the Balad party.
May God forever bless us with these messy floors and children who never listen for the siren, never look where to hide.
By Amin Farouk
"Palestine," shouted Mashaal to his audience, was Arabic, Islamic, from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River; his audience chanted its support.
By Barry Rubin
The idea that Obama is now backing Israel is what American Jewish voters who supported him desperately need to believe.
By Adam Levick
Those who insist that the "settlements" represent the biggest obstacle to peace should be asked to explain why their theory doesn't match with the history.
Human Rights Watch attacked Israel for bombing a media installation. Perhaps they have forgotten the story of Palestinian journalist Ahlam Tamimi.
It is entirely possible for two parties to hate each other, but to agree they hate you more.
By Barry Rubin
The Washington Post is suggesting that greater military success for terrorism will lead to Middle East peace.
As one veteran Fatah member said at a rally last week, "In our hearts we are all Hamas."
In the arid, forsaken and violent area that we live in, if you beg for peace you get a kick in the behind and thrown out of the arena.
By Amin Farouk
Al-Jazeera TV is owned by Hamas supporter Emir of Qatar.
The chances that Gazan mortars and rockets are being withdrawn from service? Not so great.
What would I say to this news agency? This is my home - we have made the desert bloom, as we were promised.
When Abbas says that a Palestinian state within the pre-1967 lines would lead to a just and comprehensive peace in the Middle East, he is ignoring the fact that a large number of Palestinians think otherwise.
By Amin Farouk
The genie will be let out according to the strategic needs of Sunni Islam.
There is abundant and growing cause to deeply regret the extorted decision that led to October 2011's mass release of unrepentant killers and other terrorists from Israeli prisons.
Israeli forces confiscated files and computer hardware.
By Adam Levick
The photo caption claimed an air strike occurred during a rally on December 8th, but no Israeli strikes have occurred since November 21.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
According to Freeman, the rabbis and settlers are to blame for Israel's belligerent military actions.
A new perfume for sale in Gaza utilizes a fragrance which is “pleasant and attractive, like the missiles of the Palestinian resistance,” and is being named after a missile used in the most recent bout of attacks on Israeli civilians, M-75.
Hamas terror chief Khaled Mashaal openly arrived in Gaza on Friday, crossing through via Egypt. Mashaal was met by representatives of both Hamas and Fatah. Mashaal will be staying in Gaza for 3 days. In 1997, Netanyahu nearly succeeded in killing Mashaal in retaliation for all the Hamas suicide bombings, but the Mossad operation in […]
As an example of what the insightful commentator Melanie Phillips referred to as a “dialogue of the demented” in her book The World Turned Upside Down, Northeastern University’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), paralleling the moral incoherence of anti-Israel activists demonstrating elsewhere in American and European cities, sponsored a November 15 Boston rally in support of Gaza and, presumably, its genocidal thugocracy, Hamas.
What's happened the ceasefire went into effect.
By Lee Kaplan
The elimination of the buffer zone by the security fence will not only leave Israel more vulnerable to attacks by terrorists, but also invite "publicity stunts" by adversarial non-governmental organizations.
In contrast to rogue players, Israel uses force only because it has to.
By Daniel Pipes
By removing this layer of Israeli protection, an "exponential increase" in the Gaza arsenal predictably followed, culminating in the Fajr-5 missiles that reached Tel Aviv this month.
The picture isn't from Gaza. The blood wasn't from his brother. The Israelis weren't involved.
While Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal was on CNN, his Gaza-based Hamas colleagues were talking - in the Arabic language - about continuing the fight against Israel until the "liberation of all our lands, from the sea to the river."
After the Pillar of Defense cease-fire, many now understand what we understood after the Zo Artzeinu demonstrations: The Israeli crisis is not on the continuum between Right and Left. It is on the continuum between Israelis and their Jewish identity.
Sports only brings people together when stadiums aren't being used to launch rocket attacks against neighbors.
FIFA generously plans to rebuild the Gaza soccer stadium. The stadium was used as a Hamas launching pad to shoot Fajr-5 rockets at Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
A group of Nobel peace prize-winners, artists and activists are calling for a military boycott of Israel following the recent attempt by the Jewish state to protect its citizens in the south from rocket barrages from Gaza.
We doubt anyone outside of the Palestinian street really believes the stream of Hamas hyperbole that it emerged from Operation Pillar Of Defense in a better position than before. Of course, we have come to expect this sort of fantasy-based spin from much of the Arab world. Indeed, all reports prior to the cease-fire indicated that Hamas’s military capacity had been severely degraded and its ability to shoot rockets at Israel largely neutralized, at least for now. And Hamas lost some of its top military commanders.
As Israeli air strikes and naval shells bombarded Gaza last week, the world asked the question that perennially frustrates, confuses and enrages so many people across the planet: Why aren’t the Americans hating on Israel more?
The imposed cease-fire — and it was imposed, by Barack Obama and his ally Mohammed Morsi — is not a victory.
In Europe, Israel-bashing remains one of the favorite pastimes of the media.
By Anav Silverman, Tazpit News Agency
Anet Haskia is not the typical mom of a soldier serving in the Israel Defense Forces. A Muslim Arab, who grew up in a mixed Arab-Jewish city in the north, Haskia is breathing a little easier this week.
By Tzvi Fishman
Hamas's celebrations of victory are based on fantasy and lies, and their joy won’t last when we hit them ten times as hard the next time.
Three Palestinians crossed over into Israel from Gaza near the town of Netiv HaAsara. The town went on alert. The three were caught and brought in for interrogation. The alert was finally called off an hour after no additional signs of infiltrators were found. On Monday morning a terrorist entered the town of Sdei Avraham […]
YNET has published a report with the details of the terror attack this morning in Sdei Avraham. The terrorist from Gaza entered the home of Yael (39), where she was sleeping with her 4 children. The terrorist attacked Yael with a knife and iron rod, and she single handedly fought him off, saving the lives […]
On Monday evening at 7:20 PM a rocket was launched from Gaza. The rocket fell within Gaza.
Few believe we won't be going back in to Gaza in the future to stop the missiles at our cities, the Fajir 5 and its next generations.
The Farmers Union says that the recent doubling of tomato prices is due to rocket attacks from Gaza leading up to and during Operation Pillar of Defense.
By JTA
A Muslim imam in Gaza has issued a religious edict, or fatwa, that says it is a sin to violate the cease-fire between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
The sole purpose of this ceasefire is to allow Netanyahu to survive the coming election.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The feelings vary, but all agree that it’s a question of time before they will be called up again to defend Israel against the Gazan terrorists.
Israel is losing the diplomatic edge.
The Sunday Times reported that Israeli spy satellites detected an Iranian ship loaded with rockets. According to the report, intelligence experts estimated that the shipment was intended to reach Gaza through the Red Sea, Sudan and Egypt. The cargo was prepared for loading last week, at the time when Israel and the Hamas were negotiating […]
Al Arabiya reports that a large explosion destroyed part of an Egyptian intelligence building. The building is located in Rafah, near the Gaza border, in Egyptian controlled Sinai. There's no additional information available yet.
By Sheni Leumi
Linguistics for the next round of fighting.
If the targeting of innocent civilians by terrorist organizations is not wrong, then morality has no meaning.
Israel should continue to try and avoid civilian casualties as much as possible - but basically bomb Gaza into the stone age.
Today, the IDF announced that it had “accomplished its pre-determined objectives for Operation Pillar of Defense, and has inflicted severe damage to Hamas and its military capabilities.” It is embarrassing to read this statement.
By Meir Indor
The same government that caved to the media and the Schalit Task Force by releasing 1,027 terrorists from prison last year has caved yet again—this time despite the fact that Hamas violated red lines by shooting missiles at Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
IDF reports claim that Israel’s military inflicted serious damage on Hamas during the eight days of Operation Amud Anan – Pillar of Defense.
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