Middle East

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-celebrates-use-of-rockets-supplied-to-hamas/ Iranian military leaders on Monday celebrated Hamas’ use of advanced long-range rockets that were supplied to the terror group by the Iranian regime. Iran’s role in arming Hamas militants with more sophisticated artillery capable of...

The United Nations has determined that Israel's military warned civilians before most attacks on the Gaza Strip. A UN report asserted that Israel's military notified families to evacuate their homes in the Gaza Strip. The...

Uzi Dayan on mount Sarbata with Jordan valley and Jordanian mountain range in background photo by Rhonda Spivak At the David Citadel Hotel during Prime Minister Harper's visit to Israel this past January, I bumped into...

www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/182781#.U7--qkDb7RY Foreign journalists on Thursday got a first-hand taste of what it's like for Israelis living under constant rocket fire by terrorists in Gaza, as rocket warning sirens sounded while the journalists were taking a...

http://www.danielpipes.org/14574/israel-hamas-war Politicians start wars optimistic about their prospects of gaining from combat, Geoffrey Blainey notes in his masterly study, The Causes of War ; otherwise, they would avoid fighting. Why, then, did Hamas just provoke a...

http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/pa-and-other-arab-reactions-to-the-gaza-crisis The most striking aspect of ongoing Arab reactions to the latest Hamas-Israeli clashes is an act of omission: the Palestinian Authority (PA) and President Mahmoud Abbas are not calling for Hamas to stop firing...

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=64293 Mahmoud Abbas: "stressing the new government’s commitment to the obligations of the Palestinian Authority and all previously signed agreements".) Today we are being bombarded by rockets whose very existence in the Gaza Strip represents...

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=64295 Suspects arrested in south Lebanon rocket attack The Daily Star (Lebanon) Jul. 11, 2014 | 07:00 AM (Last updated: July 11, 2014 | 04:44 PM) http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2014/Jul-11/263507-rocket-attack-from-lebanon-draws-israeli-fire.ashx#axzz379hOSMzJ MARI, Lebanon: Calm returned to south Lebanon Friday afternoon,...

Egyptian forces seize rockets being smuggled from Gaza to Sinai 20 Grad rockets and their launching bases were seized after a clash with militants in Rafah Ahram Online, Friday 11 Jul 2014http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/106003/Egypt/Politics-/Egyptian-forces-seize-rockets-being-smuggled-from-.aspx Egyptian security forces have...

http://pjmedia.com/spengler/2014/07/10/sunny-with-light-missile-cover-here-in-tel-aviv/ Sunny with light missile cover in Tel Aviv this morning. I awoke to muffled thuds in the distance, Iron Dome shooting down Syrian-made missiles launched from Gaza, according to news reports. I attended the...