Posts Tagged: israel
Gaza Is on Borrowed Time
JNS.org - It was hard to find anyone in Israel who believed that the ceasefire reached between Israel and Hamas on Wednesday would last very long. Conventional...
Why History Still Matters: The 1967 Six-Day War
Mention history, and it can trigger a roll of the eyes. Add the Middle East to the equation, and folks might start running for the hills,...
One Year Later, Egypt Still Won’t Send Electricity to Gaza
Palestine Today reports that electricity from Israel is no longer being set to Gaza (without mentioning that it was Hamas and Islamic Jihad rocket fire that caused the...
The UN’s Sordid Embrace of Antisemitism
The following is a speech delivered by Anne Bayefsky, Director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust and the President of Human...
Source: Israel, Russia Did Not Agree on Freedom of Action for Jewish State in Syria
A top Israeli government source denied over the weekend reports in the Arab media that Russia and Israel had reached agreement on freedom of action...
Gaza Border Heats Up Again With Mortar Fire, Infiltration Attempts, and Fire Sparked by Incendiary Kites
Israel’s Gaza border saw further escalation over the weekend, with mortars fired into southern Israel, two terrorist infiltration attempts, and a major fire sparked by...
War or Peace? The Choice Rests With Hamas
JNS.org -- This week’s mortar fire on southern Israel is the gravest security escalation on the Israel-Gaza border since “Operation Protective Edge” in the summer of 2014, though...
Palestinian ‘Academic’ to Israelis: ‘May You Rot in Hell Along With Your Jewish State’
This is from the Facebook page of Rima Najjar, an American-educated retired professor of English literature at Al-Quds University, now living in Bloomington, Indiana. Can't you feel the love? This...
Kindergarten Graduation in Gaza: Kids Stage Mock Attack, Including Hostage-Taking
JNS.org - At the graduation ceremony of the Al-Hoda kindergarten in Gaza, pre-schoolers carrying mock guns and rifles simulated Islamic Jihad militants storming an Israeli building...
‘Non-Violent’ Palestinian Rock-Throwers Murder Another Israeli
JNS.org - Another Israeli has been murdered, after having been struck in the head by what Haaretz described as a “heavy brick.” For years, major American news media outlets...
Despite Gaza Violence, Resilient Sderot ‘Flourishing,’ Southern Israel Resident Says
The southern Israeli town of Sderot remains remarkably resilient in the face of seemingly endless rocket attacks, a therapist who works with Sderot trauma patients...
As Gazans Attack Border Crossing, It’s Israel, Not Hamas, Coming to Their Aid
JNS.org - Despite Hamas’ repeated assault on the Kerem Shalom border crossing, the only lifeline that supplies basic goods to civilians in Gaza, Israel has been...
The False Hope of a Gaza Ceasefire
JNS.org - Reports out of the Gaza Strip just keep coming. News of the escalation along Israel’s border and concerns that Gaza’s economy is on the...
Hamas Launches Flotilla to Get More Civilians Killed
From the Middle East Monitor: The Gaza Strip will set off a flotilla of ships on Tuesday in a bid to break the 12-year-long Israeli blockade on the Palestinian...
