Middle East

http://www.jewishmediaresources.com/1708/parashas-masei-5774 Glad not to be Prime Minister Netanyahu I am convinced that Israel had no choice but to undertake a major ground operation into the Gaza Strip, and that the time has never been so propitious...

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...

The Israeli military has been attacking commanders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the current conflict. Military sources said the operations were based on information from Military Intelligence and the Israel Security Agency. "At the...

The Washington Institute for Near East Policy asserted that Hamas and its Palestinian militia allies improved rocket, ground attacks as well as command and control in the latest war with Israel, In a report,...

The Israeli military said Hamas took over Al Wafa Hospital in Gaza City as its operational headquarters. The military said Hamas and Islamic Jihad commanders were directing operations and firing at Israel Army units...

Shimon Peres leaves the presidency of Israel, after promising the world an era of peace in the Middle East. Peres reiterated his belief in peace at his final visit at the White House in June,...

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/07/22/israel-the-faa-and-international-isolation/ For years, peace processors and pundits have threatened that to stop its “growing international isolation,” Israel must make “painful concessions” and withdraw from territory. The “growing isolation” was always a myth. Israel’s trade with...

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/07/why-israel-is-losing-the-american-media-war.html In many ways, the story of this month's eruption of violence in Israel and Palestine has been depressingly familiar. But in one interesting way it has been a little bit different from the beginning:...

http://www.haaretz.com/the-little-match-girl-1.189081 Describing herself as a good mother who speaks with her two children at least once a day - even though both are university students who left home some time ago, one to study in...

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...