Palestine

Hamas and Islamic Jihad rocket strikes have reached unprecedented ranges. They said rockets fired from the Gaza Strip have flown more than 100 kilometers, a 33 percent increase from the last mini-war in 2012. "Hamas...

http://www.jwire.com.au/featured-articles/disproportionate-chutzpa-writes-michael-kuttner/43979#more-43979 As predictable as day following night the reaction of the international community to Israel’s continuing search for the murderers of the three teenage students could have been anticipated. We were thus not disappointed or...

From: Dr. Aaron LernerSent: Wednesday, July 02, 2014 6:03 PMTo: c.gunness@unrwa.org Greetings, “We again call on the Israeli authorities to refrain from punishing individuals for offences they themselves have not personally committed.” What is the view of...

http://www.defensenews.com/article/20140625/DEFREG04/306250036/Israel-Tests-New-Counter-Abduction-Strategy-Ongoing-West-Bank-Op Israel is leveraging its ongoing West Bank operation against Hamas, the Islamic organization it blames for the June 12 abduction of three missing teens, to test a new strategy for deterring terrorist trade in...

http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/06/26/four-facts-that-everyone-should-know-about-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict/ A Haganah member and others during Israel's War of Independence. Photo: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Most Westerners, including many Jews, are unaware of four fundamental facts about the Jewish homeland of Israel that would...

http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/view/new-palestinian-poll-shows-hardline-views-but-some-pragmatism-too A reliable new West Bank/Gaza public opinion survey conducted on June 15-17 -- the only such poll since the current kidnapping crisis began -- shows that Palestinian popular attitudes have hardened considerably on long-term...

http://www.thenational.ae/thenationalconversation/comment/after-success-in-iraq-and-syria-isil-will-find-it-tougher-to-crack-jordan Lost in the flurry of rambling threats to Iraq’s Shiite community during its surprise military blitz last week, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) issued an even bolder statement: a call...

At a time when the Arab Israeli war continues into its seventh decade, the most persistent issue of that war remains the "right of return", the demand of Arab refugees to take back villages...

http://imra.org.il/story.php3?id=64019 "Cold-Blooded Murder" or a War on Terror?Lt. Col. (ret.) Jonathan D. HaleviJerusalem Issue Briefs Vol. 14, No. 18 June 9, 2014http://jcpa.org/article/cold-blooded-murder-or-a-war-on-terror/ -Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator, claims that all the Palestinian "victims" since the...

http://www.the-american-interest.com/articles/2014/06/02/taking-irans-anti-semitism-seriously/ Radical, theologically based hatred of Judaism, Zionism, and the state of Israel is part of the core ideological beliefs of the leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Yet U.S. policymakers all too rarely...