The Status of “Palestine” at the United Nations

http://www.inss.org.il/upload/%28FILE%291353822496.pdf Two Palestinian documents recently made public deserve attention: the Palestinian request for non-member state status at the United Nations General Assembly,1 and the speech made by President Abu Mazen on November 11, 2012 at...

Reporter admits Hamas fired Fajr-5 at Jerusalem from right outside Shifa Hospital UPDATED

http://israelmatzav.blogspot.co.il/2012/11/reporter-admits-hamas-fired-fajr-5-at.html I wasn't able to embed this clip, but it's worth clicking through to watch it here. It's a Canadian television interview with Phoebe Greenwood, a reporter for the London Daily Telegraph, who is in Gaza. At...

History of ceasefire accords with Hama

http://www.icjs-online.org/index.php?article=4287 Since the last day of Operation Cast Lead (January 18, 2009) until the 1st day of Operation Pillar of Defense, The Gaza Hamas regime launched 2,000 aerial attacks against Israel. That was the third...

The Long-Term Implications of the Israel-Hamas Clash

http://jcpa.org/article/the-long-term-implications-of-the-israel-hamas-clash/ Vol. 12, No. 26 21 November 2012 The current clash between Israel and Hamas did not begin with rocket fire but with ramped-up terror activity on the Israel-Gaza border. Hamas’ strategy has changed over the...

Hamas Can Replenish Arsenal — If Egypt Lets It

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/analysis-of-hamas-military-capability-after-six-day-conflict-with-israel-a-868353.html The arsenal of Hamas in the Gaza Strip has been under constant fire recently. For six days the Israeli air force -- which claims to be the best in the world -- has bombed...

Psychological Warfare in Pillar of Defense

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Controls/SendFriend.ashx?print=1&type=1&item=12472 The tentative ceasefire with Hamas is the beginning of the real war - the political one. This is a good time to assess the psychological dimension of the operation and prepare for the next...

Israel Expects Bigger Missile War

Israel's military has been quietly bracing for another missile war with the Gaza Strip. Military sources said this time the Hamas regime in the Gaza Strip could be joined by the Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah. They said...

The Children of Gaza’s Rocket War

Bomb shelter Almost half of Sderot’s preteens suffer from signs of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) according to a study that was published this November in the Journal of Adolescent Health. Based on a questionnaire answered...

A media strategy to help Israel in the Gaza war

Our agency will now use its two rooms and two computers at Beit Agron to organize a new media response network to encourage people to respond in real time to the denigration of Israel,...