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“Hamas and Israel remain bitter enemies, but neither wants an all-out war, and so both sought to prevent a day’s escalation from turning into something far more devastating” [VIDEO]

TIMES OF ISRAEL The curious common interest behind the rapid Gaza-Israel flare-up and flare-down by Avi Issacharoff May 30, 2018 With the tailing off of the Gaza conflict, and the end to the barrages into Israel and the IDF’s counterstrikes, … Continue reading

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“Israel is pointing a finger at Iran for being behind the most serious escalation on it’s southern front in four years” [VIDEO]

JERUSALEM POST Iran is the culprit behind Tuesday’s Gaza rocket barrage, Israel says by Anna Ahronheim May 30, 2018 …Less than a month after Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps fired 32 rockets toward Israel’s northern Golan Heights, the Iranian-funded Islamic Jihad … Continue reading

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New State Solution calls for “the creation of a state for the Palestinian people in Gaza and a coastal section of the northern Sinai Peninsula”

ALGEMEINER The New State Solution: Turning Gaza Into an Opportunity for Regional Peace by Amir Avivi May 27, 2018 …Yet Gaza also constitutes the richest opportunity to end the Israel-Palestinian conflict. With the right policies, Gaza can become nothing less … Continue reading

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“It doesn’t look good on CNN, but Israel has to protect its citizens”

WASHINGTON POST Stop demonizing Israel for defending itself by Ron Dermer May 18, 2018 Hand it to Hamas. As this week’s events in Gaza showed, the terrorist organization committed to Israel’s destruction can still manipulate the media into demonizing Israel for the legitimate actions it … Continue reading

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Diaspora Jews and the media are getting it wrong on Gaza (again)

NEW YORK TIMES Falling for Hamas’s Split-Screen Fallacy by Matti Friedman May 16, 2018 …Most Western viewers experienced these events through a visual storytelling tool: a split screen [the Embassy opening and the Gaza riots]…The attempts to breach the Gaza … Continue reading

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Michelle Goldberg in the NYTimes: “It is hard to know where to begin to unpack her lies and deceptions, but let’s try a few”

AMERICAN THINKER The Grotesque Spectacle of Michelle Goldberg Throwing Up Her Hate by Richard Baehr May 17, 2018 …Hamas made  clear what its intentions were, though [Michelle] Goldberg seems to have missed it:  “We will tear down the fence, and tear … Continue reading

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Bret Stephens: “How do so many so-called progressives now find themselves in objective sympathy with the murderers, misogynists and homophobes of #Hamas”

NEW YORK TIMES Gaza’s Miseries Have Palestinian Authors by Bret Stephens May 16, 2018 For the third time in two weeks, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have set fire to the Kerem Shalom border crossing, through which they get medicine, fuel … Continue reading

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Diaspora Jews on Gaza: Stop telling us how ashamed you are

TIMES OF ISRAEL What I hear when I hear Diaspora Jews on Gaza by Hen Mazzig May 15, 2018 …As a Jew I am ashamed of myself today. I understand that I have no military or security experience, but is … Continue reading

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“While Israel is hardly perfect, its response to the Great Return March is necessary and prudent” [VIDEOS]

NATIONAL REVIEW Israel Has the Right and Obligation to Defend Its Border with Deadly Force: Would you let people who want to kill you into your home? by David French May 15, 2018 One of the enduring mysteries of modern political … Continue reading

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“#Gaza riots are just a smokescreen for #Hamas’s true intention: the total rejection of a Jewish presence in all of Israel” [VIDEO]

THE TOWER Hamas-led “March of Return” Is Not for Independence, but for End of Israel by Julie Lenarz May 4, 2018 Hamas, the Islamist terrorist organization which exercises complete political and military control over the Gaza Strip, on March 30 … Continue reading

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