Middle East

http://besacenter.org/uncategorized/palestinian-suffering-used-demonize-israel/ Executive Summary: As long as Palestinians continue to serve as lightning rod against Jews, their supposed victimization reaffirming the latter’s millenarian demonization, Israel will never be allowed to defend itself. No sooner had Israel launched...

Hamas' military wing sparked the war between Israel and the Gaza Strip, a report said. A leading U.S. think tank asserted that the Izzedin Kassam Brigades took the decision to escalate rocket and other attacks...

The United Nations has acknowledged that its facilities in the Gaza Strip were storing Palestinian missiles and rocket. The UN Relief and Works Agency has reported at least two incidents in which its schools were...

http://www.jwire.com.au/featured-articles/tunnel-vision-writes-michael-kuttner/44526#more-44526 For quite some years now a vast network of tunnels has been constructed from Gaza to the Israel side of the border as well as from Gaza to Egyptian territory. These underground facilities are not...

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4543634,00.html While the fighting is only expected to worsen the distress of the residents of Gaza, the Strip's economic outlook for the Strip was never good. The unemployment rate in Gaza stood at approximately 40%...

http://www.businessinsider.com/a-former-us-president-had-a-special-insight-into-the-evil-of-hamas-2014-7 Hamas' armed wing spokesman (C) speaks during a news conference in Gaza City on July 3, 2014. Five observations about the Gaza conflict, including praise for an ex-president's insight into the particular nature of Hamas'...

http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-the-corrution-at-the-head-of-hamas-1000956048 1.8 million people live in the Gaza Strip, most of them refugees. They endure an unemployment rate that reaches 40%, shameful poverty, rock bottom wages, and, to top it all, an apparently corrupt regime,...

To grasp the complexities of the Israel- Gaza war, you must take into account that UNRWA the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, remains responsible for the well being of 75% of Gaza's population,...

The Israeli military has announced ground operations in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. The military said it sent a range of ground forces into the Gaza Strip on late July 17. The operation was ordered by...

Israel's intelligence community has assessed that Hamas was preparing to rebuild its operational and sleeper network in the West Bank. Israel Government sources said the intelligence community has issued an assessment that Hamas wanted to...