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Hamas reveals new terror tunnels in underground video report [VIDEO]

JERUSALEM POST by Noam Amir/Maariv Hashavua June 28, 2015 By publishing a video from within the terror tunnels on Iranian television, Hamas has continued pushing their own brand of psychological warfare against the Israeli people.  A year after the beginning … Continue reading

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The U.N.’s Gaza Report Is Flawed and Dangerous

NEW YORK TIMES by Colonel Richard Kemp June 25, 2015 As a British officer who had more than his share of fighting in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Balkans, it pains me greatly to see words and actions from the United … Continue reading

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Blockade-busting flotilla sets sail for Gaza

TIMES OF ISRAEL by Stuart Winer June 25, 2015 A small flotilla of boats sailed on Thursday for the Gaza Strip with the intention of delivering a cargo of humanitarian supplies and thereby breaking Israel’s naval blockade of the Hamas-controlled … Continue reading

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Operation Hannibal

POLITICO by Dan Ephron July / August 2015 Here’s how Israel deals with hostages. The results aren’t pretty. On the morning of August 1, 2014, during the broadest Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip in years, a squad of Hamas … Continue reading

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UN Gaza War Report Leaves No Room for Israeli Self-Defense

COMMENTARY by Jonathan Tobin June 22, 2015 After months of anticipation, the report by the United Nations Human Rights Council about last summer’s Gaza war is out today and its contents are no surprise. While the UNHRC acknowledged that Hamas’s … Continue reading

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Israel shifts to offense ahead of UN report on Gaza war

TIMES OF ISRAEL by Mitch Ginsburg June 15, 2015 The Israeli examination of Operation Protective Edge is thorough and often persuasive but also carries traces of advocacy There are, as some have noted, two ways to look at the Israeli-Palestinian … Continue reading

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Israel Hopes to Use Current Lull to Prepare for Radical Islamic Storm

INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT by Yaakov Lappin June 12, 2015 If you ask defense officials in Israel today for a short-term security forecast, chances are good that you will hear an optimistic outlook and an expectation of relative quiet and stability. Yet a … Continue reading

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Int’l Legal Experts Slam IDF – For Over-Warning Gazans

ARUTZ SHEVA by Ari Yashar June 9, 2015 Experts from US, Germany warn IDF ‘legal zeal’ sets dangerous precedent tying hands of democracies fighting terror. The IDF went to extraordinary lengths last summer to prevent civilian casualties while fighting Hamas … Continue reading

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No Mr President, you don’t fully understand our fears

TIMES OF ISRAEL by David Horovitz June 3, 2015 Don’t just blame Israelis for seeing danger where you see possibility, as you did in your latest TV interview. Work to give us a tangible basis upon which to rebuild our … Continue reading

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One Year Later, A Unity Government without Palestinian Unity

FDD BRIEF by Grant Rumley June 2, 2015 The political reconciliation struck between the two dominant Palestinian factions on the eve of last summer’s 50-day war turns a year old on Tuesday. Then, as now, reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas … Continue reading

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