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Tag Archives: Gaza
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
Posted in Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Col. Richard Kemp, Gaza, Hamas, UNHRC, United Nations, United Nations Human Rights Council
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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
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
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
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East, Politics
Tagged Gaza, Hamas, Jonathan Tobin, United Nations, United Nations Human Rights Council
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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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Tagged Gaza, Operation Protective Edge, United Nations
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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
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East
Tagged Gaza, Hamas, Herzliya Conference, Hizballah, Iran, Lebanon, Maj.- Gen. Amos Gilad, Syria, Yaakov Lappin
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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
Posted in Islam, Israel & Middle East
Tagged civilians, Dabla, Gaza, IDF, Willy Stern
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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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Tagged Gaza, Hamas, Palestinian Authority, West Bank
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Amnesty International: Hamas committed war crimes against Gaza civilians
REUTERS May 27, 2015 Amnesty International said in a report on Wednesday that Islamist Hamas committed war crimes against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip during last year’s war with Israel. A ceasefire last August ended 50 days of fighting between … Continue reading