Monthly Archives: July 2014

Israel's intelligence community has assessed that Hamas was preparing to rebuild its operational and sleeper network in the West Bank. Israel Government sources said the intelligence community has issued an assessment that Hamas wanted to...

The Israeli military has announced ground operations in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. The military said it sent a range of ground forces into the Gaza Strip on late July 17. The operation was ordered by...

To grasp the complexities of the Israel- Gaza war, you must take into account that UNRWA the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, remains responsible for the well being of 75% of Gaza's population,...

Palestinian sources said the militias were working to establish a force that would protect residents of 11 UNRWA Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. They said the joint force would be overseen by a unified...

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/106301/Egypt/Politics-/What-is-Egypt-ultimately-facing-with-the-Israeli-w.aspx From left to right: Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, Khaled Meshal, top Hamas leader (C) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (Photo: Reuters) It is not so much that Egypt worries about the fate of Hamas...

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=64346 IDF - 23:47. 15.7.2014 IDF: Messages are being conveyed to the residents of the northern Gaza Strip, requesting them to evacuate their homes for they own safety and stressing the IDF's efforts to avoid harming...

http://www.meforum.org/4750/the-myth-of-palestinian-centrality The "Palestinian cause" has been at the forefront of discourse on the Middle East for nearly a century. It has long formed the primary common concern of pan-Arab solidarity and its most effective...

http://jcpa.org/article/iran-the-regional-power-behind-the-hamas-war-effort/#sthash.BCfPFQpk.dpuf Vol. 14, No. 23 July 15, 2014 Iran is an arsonist, inflaming the conflicts in the Middle East. Since the 2012 “Pillar of Defense Operation,” Iran has heavily invested in improving the quantity and quality...

http://www.meforum.org/4752/hamas-wants-to-die It's like the old joke: Why do Jewish men die before their wives? Because they want to. Civilizations for the most part die because they no longer want to live. That is the nub...

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=64336 Many different officials and others are now pitching the idea that demilitarization of the Gaza Strip should follow after a cease fire goes into effect (if and when it does). Unfortunately, if there is one...