Middle East

Last week, while visiting communities struck by Gaza missiles throughout southern Israel, it was easy to discern the all pervasive anger that Israeli citizens - from all walks of life - vented against the...

Israel, less than a week after its missile war, plans to renew massive cash transfers to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. The Israel Law Center said the government has approved the imminent transfer of $13.5 million...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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'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...