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“Shortly after midnight on Friday, the Israel Defense Forces appeared to give the impression that a ground offensive was underway, sending Hamas operatives into tunnels and the direct path of a massive wave of Israeli airstrikes”

JNS An IDF ruse turned Hamas’s tunnels into death traps by Yaakov Lappin May 14, 2021 Shortly after midnight, the Israel Defense Spokesperson Unit sent a vague message: “IDF air and ground troops are currently attacking in the Gaza Strip. … Continue reading

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The Sheikh Jarrah story at the center of this “cycle of violence,” what the media isn’t telling you

NATIONAL REVIEW The Truth about the Sheikh Jarrah Eviction by Erielle Davidson May 12, 2021 The east Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah has become the latest flashpoint in the Arab–Israeli conflict, sparking the very tension that Hamas seeks to exploit … Continue reading

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“With Tehran’s fingerprints on Hamas rockets, countries in the region know they may be next. So why is Biden so keen for a rapprochement with Iran?”

TIME OF ISRAEL The Arab street is quiet – and the reason is Iran by Andrew D. Lappin May 13, 2021 Ramez al-Halabi, a Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) official, in a television broadcast from Iraq on May 7th, brazenly disclosed … Continue reading

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Tel Aviv: Iron Dome filmed intercepting barrage of rockets over Israel

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Trevor Noah: You have no idea what you’re talking about, but that won’t stop you from lecturing us

TIMES OF ISRAEL An open letter to Trevor Noah by David Harris May 14, 2021 I just watched your 10-minute monologue on the Israeli-Hamas conflict for your popular television program “The Daily Show” (May 11). Frankly, it wasn’t easy viewing. … Continue reading

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Rabbi Vernon Kurtz: “Just when we thought life was getting back to normal here things changed very quickly”

KOL BETH EL WEEKLY Rabbi Kurtz Report From Israel May 2021 …Two requests: Don’t let the media or the general public get away with equivalency arguments. Israel is using surgical strikes to attempt to destroy the Hamas and Islamic Jihad … Continue reading

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“Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel and a “you can’t murder Jews” extremist, explained that from his point of view it was Hamas that was being unreasonable”

BABYLON BEE Tensions Rise In Middle East As One Side Wants To Kill Jews And The Other Side Are Jews Who Don’t Want To Die And Neither Will Compromise May 12, 2021 Israel has tried to get along with Palestine … Continue reading

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“After 75 years of making excuses and denying the plain fact that antisemitism is the root and the branch of the Arab conflict with Israel, Israelis of all walks of life and across the political spectrum need to accept that it is true”

ISRAEL HAYOM (by agreement with JNS) Facing the real cause of the long Arab war by Caroline B. Glick May 14, 2021 In his book From Ambivalence to Betrayal: The Left, the Jews, and Israel, the late historian Robert Wistrich … Continue reading

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“Lod is burning,” says an Israeli police official as a mob hurled rocks and firebombs, and replaced Israeli flags in the city with Palestinian ones

JERUSALEM POST Northern Israel struck in latest midnight barrage of Gaza rockets by Anna Ahronheim, Sarah Ben-Nun, Tzvi Joffre May 13, 2021 After several hours of quiet, rocket fire resumed early Thursday, and sirens were heard in Ashkelon and the … Continue reading

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Patrick Kingsley is a 32-year-old British-born journalist, educated at Eton and Cambridge in English Literature, now #NYT Jerusalem bureau chief; as usual, NYT headlines position Israel as the aggressor, Palestinians as the victims or reactors.

ARUTZ SHEVA The New York Times Strikes Israel Again by Phyllis Chesler May 11, 2021 …Just in the last four days, [NYT Jerusalem bureau chief] Kingsley has written more than 3,000 words about Israel, most of them biased, misinformed, and as … Continue reading

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