The Al Aqsa Martyr’s Brigade, a terrorist group affiliated with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement, took credit for shots fired during violent demonstrations on Thursday night. Ha’aretz reports: Two people were killed during the clashes with Israeli forces that erupted when the thousands of demonstrators marching from Ramallah...
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Friday The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed titled The Moral Chasm Between Israel and Hamas (Google search terms) by James T. Conway, the retired 34th commandant of the Marine Corps. To illustrate his thesis that “Israel’s military exists to protect its civilian population and seeks to avoid harming noncombatants, while...
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The nineteenth day of Operation Protective Edge and the eighth day of the ground war have now concluded. Two more soldiers died. Cpt. Liad Lavi, 22 & Chief Warrant Officer Rami Chalon, 39, both injured in battle, died of their wounds today. May their memory be blessed. — IDF (@IDFSpokesperson)...
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The Israeli business website Globes reported yesterday that leaders of the terrorist organization Hamas are currently worth billions of dollars. The article, based on the research of Col. (res.) Dr. Moshe Elad, looks closely at Hamas leaders Moussa Abu Marzouk and Khaled Meshaal, the latter of whom lives in Qatar. Together with...
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In a powerful editorial today, The Washington Post called for the United States to ensure that Hamas is disarmed in any ceasefire deal, and that it must “reject Hamas’s agenda,” because “a full reopening of Gaza’s land and sea borders … would also allow Hamas to import more missiles and concrete for new...
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Wednesday, a U.S. federal judge ruled that North Korea and Iran were liable for damages caused by Hebollah rocket fire into Israel. According to The Sacramento Bee: The two countries are liable because they “provided material support and assistance to the Hezbollah terrorists who fired the rockets at Israel,” U.S. District...
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In an analysis Wednesday, David Horovitz, editor in chief of The Times of Israel, wrote that the focus of the IDF has changed from destroying Hamas’ rockets to destroying Hamas’ tunnels. Horovitz described how the IDF seeks out and destroys the tunnels, and risks inherent in those strategies. But those are defensive...
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The Times of Israel reported today that the IDF has targeted sections of the Al-Wafa rehabilitation hospital, “explaining that the medical facility was being used as a Hamas command center and utilized repeatedly by Islamist gunmen to launch attacks on Israeli forces.” In a statement the IDF explained that “the...
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The European Union (EU) on Tuesday issued what was widely taken as blistering criticism of Hamas – the Times of Israel described the statement as “taking a strikingly pro-Israel stance” while the left-leaning Ha’aretz settled for “dramatic” – with the bloc’s 28 foreign ministers demanding that the Palestinian terror group “immediately...
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The Jerusalem Post reported yesterday that the European Union has called for the disarmament of Hamas. The EU strongly condemns the indiscriminate firing of rockets into Israel by Hamas and militant groups in the Gaza Strip, directly harming civilians. These are criminal and unjustifiable acts. The EU calls on Hamas to immediately...
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