Israel Redefines Victory in the New Middle East
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3520/israel-redefines-victory
Israel is redefining its concept of military victory in a Middle East dominated by terrorist organizations turned quasi-state actors.
Once, decisive, unmistakable victories, accompanied by conquests of territory that had been used to stage attacks...
Hamastine: A Present from the U.N. to Khaled Mashaal
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3513/hamas-palestine-un
In a field near the Islamic University -- where PhD theses are written on topics such as "The role of the Muslim mother in preparing her sons to be shaheeds of the resistance"...
What Wingate Wrought
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/what-wingate-wrought_690836.html?nopager=1
Everyone still remembers T. E. Lawrence, if only because of David Lean’s magnificent movieLawrence of Arabia and Lawrence’s own literary masterpiece,Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Yet far fewer remember Lawrence’s distant cousin, the British Army officer...
The Moral Imperative to Refuse an Immoral or Illegal Military Order in Israel
The statement of “Jewish Home” political leader Naftali Bennet about his refusal to carry out orders to demolidh Jewish or Arab communities must be placed in proper perspecrtive.
Israelis one of the few nations which...
The Moral Imperative to Refuse an Immoral or Illegal Military Order in Israel
The statement of “Jewish Home” political leader Naftali Bennet about his refusal to carry out orders to demolidh Jewish or Arab communities must be placed in proper perspecrtive.
Israelis one of the few nations which...
The Useful Myth that Obama Now Likes Israel
http://rubinreports.blogspot.co.il/2012/12/the-useful-myth-that-obama-now-likes.html
Reality, especially in 2012, is very hard to face. So many hopes dashed; so many bad things happening. So people can be forgiven for taking refuge in wishful thinking. Sometimes, not telling the truth...
Hamas Builds Underground Launchers
The Hamas regime has built bunkers to store and launch medium-range rockets toward Israel.
A leading Israeli defense consultant asserted that Hamas and Islamic Jihad adopted methods of the Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah. The consultant, Uzi Rubin,...
Converging Toward Hamas
http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/3764/converging-toward-hamas
There are many points of disagreement between Fatah and Hamas; so many that they fought an ugly civil war in 2007, leaving Hamas in control of Gaza and Fatah in control of the West...
Close but no cigar: Human Rights Watch mentions launching weapons from civilian areas in...
http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=59521
Here is what the top Palestinian NGO once wrote:
"Palestinian Centre for Human Rights...Warns of the dangers caused by continued manufacturing or storage of explosive devices by Palestinian resistance groups in civilian-populated areas, which threaten...
Gaza: Palestinian Rockets Unlawfully Targeted Israeli Civilians
http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/12/24/gaza-palestinian-rockets-unlawfully-targeted-israeli-civilians
(Jerusalem) - Palestinian armed groups in Gaza violated the laws of war during the November 2012 fighting by launching hundreds of rockets toward population centers in Israel.
About 1,500 rockets were fired at Israel between...