Truce does not equal peace … writes Michael Kuttner

http://www.kbrm.org.nz/Israel/Truce_does_not_equal_peace.html One of the problems we face these days is the inability to recognise reality even when it smacks us in the face. Very few people expect politicians, especially those who manage to get themselves elected...

Worse and Worser

The truth: There is no entirely satisfactory resolution to our war with Hamas (the war that is not called a war). Aside, of course, from that “ultimate” resolution in which we would fully retake Gaza...

Israel Searches Hizbullah Tunnels

Israel, amid the war with the Gaza Strip, has directed its attention to locating tunnels from Lebanon. The Israel Defense Ministry has overseen a program to locate tunnels constructed by the Iranian-sponsored Hizbullah. They said Hizbullah was believed...

Norway Embraces Islamist Tyranny

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2581/norway-islamist Anti-Semitism in Norway, where I have lived for twelve years, is over the top. I have never quite gotten used to it. Every now and then I hear or read something that reminds me...

Terrorism Trial of Mideast Bank Worries the Financial World

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/14/nyregion/anti-terrorism-trial-of-arab-bank-worries-financial-world.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Ar%2C{%222%22%3A%22RI%3A16%22&_r=1 Mark Sokolow, his wife, Rena Sokolow, and their daughter Jamie Sokolow Fenster were hurt in a 2002 bombing in Jerusalem. Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times It was a basic bank account at Arab Bank’s...

The battle of the Gaza tunnels

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4555677,00.html In July 2010, Yedioth Ahronoth planned to publish a comprehensive investigative report warning of a serious military problem, of which only a handful of experts were aware at the time: Hamas' terror tunnels. At the...

What Is to Be Done About Gaza?

http://besacenter.org/perspectives-papers/done-gaza-2/ EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Operation Protective Edge has not weakened or threatened Hamas enough to encourage them to accept a ceasefire. Israel has no choice but to continue to attack Hamas. Talks of reconquering Gaza are...

Winning a Lose/Lose War

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/383942/winning-loselose-war-victor-davis-hanson Once again neighboring enemies are warring in diametrically opposite ways. Hamas sees the death of its civilians as an advantage; Israel sees the death of its civilians as a disaster. Defensive missiles explode to save...

Hamas’s Attack Tunnels: Analysis and Initial Implications

http://jcpa.org/hamas-attack-tunnels/ Ismail Haniyeh, the Hamas prime minister, delivered a revealing speech on March 23, 2014, in which he stressed the strategic importance of the Hamas attack tunnels, which, he argued, have changed the balance of...

An Inversion of Morality

http://www.jewishmediaresources.com/1705/an-inversion-of-morality From day one of its existence, the sole raison d'etre of the Hamas quasi-state in Gaza has been to kill Jews, the more the merrier. Since taking over the Gaza Strip in 2007, Hamas has...