The little match girl

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...

Hamas’s Attack Tunnels: Analysis and Initial Implications

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...

Palestinian Suffering Used to Demonize Israel

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...

Izzedin Kassam Sparked Gaza War

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...

UN Schools Serve Rocket Storage

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...

Tunnel Vision – writes Michael Kuttner

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...

Hamas got rich as Gaza was plunged into poverty

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%...

A Former US President Had A Special Insight Into The Evil Of Hamas

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'...

The corruption at the head 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,...

Max Steinberg, L.A. native and IDF volunteer, killed in Gaza

http://www.jewishjournal.com/los_angeles/article/max_steinberg_l.a._native_and_idf_volunteer_killed_in_gaza