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Israel Says Hamas Curbed Gaza Protests After Egyptian Warning

Israel Says Hamas Curbed Gaza Protests After Egyptian Warning

Gaza’s dominant Islamist Hamas movement denied that it was under pressure from neighboring Egypt to scale back the six-week-old demonstrations, and said they would continue.… Read More ›

The Palestinians’ self-made Nakba

The Palestinians’ self-made Nakba

Op-ed: Palestine’s Arabs went through an expulsion, just like tens of millions around the world, including Jews. But the Palestinians are the only ones who… Read More ›

Netanyahu credits army’s ‘determination’ for drop in Gaza clashes

Netanyahu credits army’s ‘determination’ for drop in Gaza clashes

PM says Israel will continue to ‘defend itself as necessary,’ tells Guatemalan president ‘muchas gracias’ for embassy opening   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday… Read More ›

Comment: Israel’s ‘Hasbara’ Plight

Comment: Israel’s ‘Hasbara’ Plight

Hamas’s victory Monday in connecting the opening of the US Embassy with the violence in Gaza will likely be temporary, just as the residue of… Read More ›

What does Israel want to achieve in Gaza?

What does Israel want to achieve in Gaza?

Op-ed: The defense establishment keeps asking, directly and indirectly, what is the government’s immediate goal and strategic goal? We know what the government doesn’t want,… Read More ›

State Department: Hamas using embassy move as excuse for violence

State Department: Hamas using embassy move as excuse for violence

Washington says protests along the Gaza border are ‘nothing new,’ being fueled by terrorist group in an ‘irresponsible choice’   Hamas, the terrorist organization that… Read More ›

Jonathan Pollard and a Jerusalem Embassy: Parallels in History?

Jonathan Pollard and a Jerusalem Embassy: Parallels in History?

Pollard’s freedom came after protests, hunger strikes, letters, and appeals, and few have looked back since he was released. In the best-case scenario, this, will… Read More ›

Erdan calls to resume targeted killings of Hamas leaders

Erdan calls to resume targeted killings of Hamas leaders

‘We need to go back to targeted killings, and Hamas leaders need to go back to hiding underground and fearing for their lives,’ the public… Read More ›

Justice minister plays down prospect of war crimes charges over Gaza deaths

Justice minister plays down prospect of war crimes charges over Gaza deaths

Shaked says IDF troops acting ‘in accordance with open-fire orders’; Liberman: Israelis celebrated life after Eurovision win, Palestinians glorify death   Israel is unconcerned about… Read More ›

Fears of more deaths in Gaza as Israel’s actions condemned

Fears of more deaths in Gaza as Israel’s actions condemned

Gaza – Another day of protests is expected at the Gaza border Tuesday as international condemnation poured in over Israel’s use of force against unarmed… Read More ›

Before and After: Images Show Israeli Strike on Iranian Base

Before and After: Images Show Israeli Strike on Iranian Base

Satellite mages show complete destruction of one structure, abandonment of another   New satellite images of Damascus International Airport near the Syrian capital showed extensive… Read More ›

Government allocates NIS 2.5 billion to bolster Jerusalem

Government allocates NIS 2.5 billion to bolster Jerusalem

NIS 50 million budget approved for plan to regulate all east Jerusalem land in the next seven years, while ministers oppose proposal to sanction government… Read More ›

Israel demands UN condemn Hamas’s use of children, civilians as human shields

Israel demands UN condemn Hamas’s use of children, civilians as human shields

Danny Danon writes to Security Council warning terror group is in breach of international law; vows ‘Israel will take all necessary steps to ensure safety… Read More ›

IDF Destroys Terror Tunnel in Latest Air Strike

IDF Destroys Terror Tunnel in Latest Air Strike

The tunnel was the ninth to be destroyed by the IDF in a year.   The Israel Air Force on Saturday evening destroyed a Hamas… Read More ›

Palestinian set fire to gas pipes at Kerem Shalom cossing

Palestinian set fire to gas pipes at Kerem Shalom cossing

For the second time in recent days, Palestinian rioters destroy infrastructure and equipment meant to benefit them during violent clashes on the Gaza border. Hundreds… Read More ›

Eurovision winner Barzilai jubilant: ‘How great we got to change Israel’s image’

Eurovision winner Barzilai jubilant: ‘How great we got to change Israel’s image’

‘I’m proud and honored to bring this magical event to Israel next year,’ says singer, as thousands take to the streets to celebrate back home… Read More ›

Damascus – Monitor: 42 Killed By Israeli Strikes In Syria This Week

Damascus – Monitor: 42 Killed By Israeli Strikes In Syria This Week

  Damascus – A wave of Israeli strikes on suspected military positions in Syria this week killed 42 people, including at least 19 Iranians, a… Read More ›

Putin Stops Neither Iran, Nor Israel, In Syria

Putin Stops Neither Iran, Nor Israel, In Syria

So far the Russians have stayed out of the way and enabled Israel to act as it sees fit – and that is neither a… Read More ›

A slippery slope to autocracy and fascism

A slippery slope to autocracy and fascism

Op-ed: Reading Madeleine Albright’s New York Times op-ed about democracy fading away in the Trump era, one can’t help but be amazed by the similarity… Read More ›

Analysis: The world is nervously watching as the gloves come off between Iran and Israel

Analysis: The world is nervously watching as the gloves come off between Iran and Israel

Israel says that it’s done with strikes on Iran — for now. France fears an escalation. Iran has its finger on the trigger. But, really,… Read More ›