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No peace in our time

Of all the idiocies uttered in reaction to Benjamin Netanyahu’s stunning election victory, none is more ubiquitous than the idea that peace prospects are...

Did Israel Weaken Hamas? Inbar in Middle East Quarterly

Did Israel Weaken Hamas? The 2014 Gaza War by Efraim Inbar http://www.meforum.org/5080/did-israel-weaken-hamas Following the abduction and murder of three Israeli teenagers in the West Bank and a...

Israeli Correspondent Offers In-Depth Analysis Of Election

UPDATE: At 10 PM local time tonight, the three major Israeli TV channels published their exit polls. Channel 1 and Channel 10 exit polls...

White House: It is wrong to encourage non-Arab Israelis to vote to offset foreign...

[Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: Let's get this straight: The Likud Party didn't encourage its members to try to interfere with Israeli Arabs as they...

Israel election: What Netanyahu’s victory means

“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." That Churchillian one-liner...

Israel and the Gaza strip: Why economic sanctions are not collective punishment

Executive Summary The economic measures that Israel uses against the Hamas proto-government in Gaza fall under legitimate uses of economic sanctions, and conform to the...
Hamas' new social media campaign hit a stumbling block when its #AskHamas hashtag on Twitter was appropriated by critics, who used it to mock the Palestinian group. Palestinian boys are pictured here holding Hamas flags in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip, Jan. 30, 2015. Reuters/Mohammed Salem

Ask Hamas? Palestinian Group’s Twitter Campaign To Challenge ‘Terror’ Label Backfires

Hamas launched a one-week social media campaign Thursday to improve its image and refute its designation as a terror organization. But the effort hit...
U.S. President Barack Obama talks with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani during a phone call in the Oval Office, September 2013. (Pete Souza / Courtesy Reuters)

Senate Committee Launches Investigation into Obama Effort to Oust Netanyahu

According to a FOX News report, a powerful U.S. Senate investigatory committee has launched a bipartisan probe into an American nonprofit’s funding of efforts...

Hamas Owns Netanyahu Electoral Destiny

Gaza,(Alresalah.ps)— Keeping the Israeli public in the dark in relation to losses and casualties of the Israeli army in the last Israeli offensive on...

Israeli speaker highlights fear in border city Sderot

If you were given 15 seconds to seek shelter from an approaching rocket, what would you do? For Israelis living in Sderot, a city near...