At a wide-ranging press conference Wednesday night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went on the offensive to describe Hamas as part of a network of Islamist terror groups, which include the Islamic State (IS), Hezbollah, and al-Qaeda. Netanyahu was making an
Why did the temporary ceasefire between Israel and Hamas suddenly break down on Tuesday, even before its expiration? Why would Hamas, in the middle of negotiations and without pretense of provocation, fire rocket barrages against Israel? According to Israel National News,
A Peace Index poll reported Tuesday in The Jerusalem Post found that a majority of Israeli Jews think Israel should continue to fight in Gaza until Hamas surrenders. The poll also revealed big divisions of opinion between Israeli Arabs and
A Fox News poll reveals that a solid majority of Americans reject President Barack Obama’s policies on Israel. 54% of respondents voiced disapproval of Obama’s policies on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, while only 30% approved. The poll was conducted August 10-12,
A new Wall Street Journal report reveals that President Barack Obama’s administration blocked a shipment of missiles to Israel in late July and tightened additional weapons shipment procedures to Israel, revealing increasing tensions between the two governments. The U.S. decision
Palestinian news service Ma’an reports that 10 new electric back-up generators have been imported from Israel and installed across the Gaza Strip in order to avert a humanitarian crisis in the coastal enclave. The Gaza Electricity Distribution Company said that
If Israeli attacks in Gaza have been “indiscriminate,” as the UN Human Rights Council says, why have they killed three times as many “civilian” men as women? Anthony Reuben, the head of Statistics for BBC News, points out ample reason to
Some journalists from international news outlets have reported being threatened or intimidated by Hamas while reporting from Gaza, reports The Jerusalem Post. In one example, Indian television station NDTV broadcast a report by Sreenivasan Jain on Tuesday showing rockets being
The Times of London rejected an ad featuring Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel speaking out against Hamas’ reported use of children as human shields. The ad sponsored by The Values Network, which was founded by one-time Oxford Rabbi Shmuley Boteach,
Hamas on Monday called on West Bank Arabs to conduct attacks on Israelis, urging them to start the “third intifada” that would begin with attacks on West Bank Jewish communities and eventually move into the rest of Israel, reports Israel National
Following the military ouster of the Islamist government in Cairo last year, Egypt has led an emerging coalition of Arab states — including Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — that has, through its silence, effectively lined up
Though glossed over in major media reporting on the Israel-Gaza confrontation, the Hamas conflict with the Jewish State remains deeply ideological. Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV broadcast a sermon Friday reaffirming the Hamas ideology that according to Islam, it is Muslim destiny
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan will be “glad” to return an award given to him in 2004 by a prominent American Jewish group, Turkey’s embassy in the US said Tuesday, amid a growing controversy over the premier’s anti-Israel remarks. According
Obama administration officials were fuming Monday over a torrent of Israeli criticism of Secretary of State John Kerry’s latest bid to secure a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, reports the Associated Press. In unusually harsh language, officials said the criticism
As Israel conducts its Operation Protective Edge to stop Hamas’ rocket and terror attacks from Gaza, another “Freedom Flotilla” is being organized in Turkey purportedly to bring humanitarian aid to the Hamas-controlled Palestinian coastal enclave–with the protection of the Turkish
The Jerusalem Post reports that Israel may be underestimating the extent of tunnel penetration on its southern border. The Post cited Steven Emerson, founder and executive director of the Washington-based Investigative Project on Terrorism, who says that US intelligence officials
An assortment of rabidly anti-Israel public figures, including seven Nobel Peace Prize winners, have called for an international arms embargo on Israel for its “war crimes and possible crimes against humanity” in Gaza. The statement came in a letter published
In response to rising anti-Semitic violence across Europe, the foreign ministers of Germany, France and Italy harshly condemned pro-Palestinian demonstrators, vowing to make use of “all legal measures” to maintain public order, reports the Jerusalem Post. In a joint statement
The Jerusalem Post on Monday reported sources in Khartoum claiming that Israeli forces struck a Sudanese weapons arsenal which held long-range missiles for Hamas. The UK-based newspaper Al-Arab reported that the Sudanese government would not confirm the incident, hoping to cover up
Amidst swirling rumors of an imminent Gaza ceasefire announcement, The Times of Israel reports that representatives of the Palestinian Authority headed by intelligence chief Majed Faraj and Egyptian representatives have met in Cairo to discuss possible amendments to an Egyptian
Demonstrators pelted the Israeli consulate in Istanbul with stones on Thursday in protest of Israel’s ground offensive on Gaza, Israeli news site Ynet reported. The protesters chanted, “Murderer Israel, get out of Palestine,” and smashed consulate windows with sticks and
Hamas is presenting Palestinians with a false picture of success in its ongoing rocket attacks against Israel, reports Palestinian Media Watch. On Hamas TV News, the host explained to viewers that the Israeli media “imposes blackouts on every place rockets fall,
A rocket fired from Gaza knocked out a power line in Israel that supplied electricity to 70,000 Gazans, according to the Israel Defense Forces Spokesman’s Office on Sunday night. The Jerusalem Post reports that the outage was caused by shrapnel
Clashes erupted in Paris on Sunday as thousands of people protested against Israel and in support of Hamas and residents in the Gaza Strip, reports The Times of Israel. Several thousand demonstrators marched through the streets of Paris behind a
Palestinian Authority President and Fatah head Mahmoud Abbas has called for an “immediate cessation” of Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip. But Abbas, considered a moderate by most world leaders, stopped short of calling for an end to the
