Whatever you blame for latest Gaza violence is right — and wrong
Dozens of people have been killed and more than 2,000 injured in protests in the Gaza Strip along the border fence with Israel. This is the largest number of fatalities suffered in one day since the...
View ArticlePavlich: Media gives Hamas exactly what they want
On Monday 40,000 Palestinians were directed by Hamas, the terrorist organization that has been ruling the Gaza Strip for more than a decade, to storm the Israeli border with knives, bombs, hatchets,...
View ArticleCurrent turmoil in Middle East producing one winner: Putin
Tensions between Israel and Iran have escalated, and this month, they spilled into a military exchange in Syria between the two countries. The final outcome of this escalation has yet to play itself...
View ArticleUS calls emergency UN Security Council meeting over strikes on Israel
The U.S. on Tuesday called for an emergency United Nations Security Council meeting to discuss the recent mortar and rocket fire directed at Israel from Gaza. The meeting is expected to take place on...
View ArticlePivots and pitfalls as President Trump eyes new Mideast peace push through Gaza
Gifting an Elton John CD to “Little Rocket Man,” pulling the plug on the Iran nuclear deal, slapping billions of dollars in tariffs on China, shaking up NATO’s status quo, downsizing the State...
View ArticleTo restore peace in Gaza, Israel and international community must step up
Being prime minister of Israel always has been a tough job, requiring risky decisions daily that affect the security of the Israeli people and the survival of the Jewish state. David Ben Gurion took a...
View ArticleCongress has the chance to combat terrorist use of human shields
Innocent civilian casualties are an inevitable legacy of any war. But the idea that armies would use civilians as human shields to protect armed combatants from the enemy’s bullets is considered by...
View ArticleCalifornia Dem hits Trump Jr. over claims of links to extremist groups
A California Democrat hit back at President Trump's eldest son on Thursday after Donald Trump Jr. accused the candidate of links to extremist groups through the Council on American-Islamic Relations...
View ArticleQatar’s architect of a new life for Gazans
The Gulf state of Qatar is often accused of providing the cement that the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas uses to build attack tunnels in the Gaza Strip against Israel. The Qatari businessman who runs...
View ArticleIsrael more concerned about threats from Hezbollah than Hamas, says Middle...
American Enterprise Institute research fellow Katherine Zimmerman said on Thursday that Israel is more concerned about threats from Hezbollah and the ongoing Syrian civil war than it is with Hamas....
View ArticleSyria, Gaza, Afghanistan: The endless wars
In mid-November, Israel and Hamas fought a 24-hour conflict in which Hamas fired 460 rockets at Israel and the Israeli air forces responded with 160 air strikes. At the same time, the U.S.-led...
View ArticleThe UN must do better to condemn terrorism
On Dec. 6, the United Nations failed to pass a resolution condemning Hamas’s terrorist activities. On Dec. 9, Hamas praised a terror attack that critically injured a pregnant woman Shira Ish-Ran and...
View ArticleIsrael launches warplanes, hits Gaza after rockets hit Tel Aviv
Israeli warplanes hitting about 100 military targets in Gaza in a bombing on Friday, according to Reuters. The targets included rocket and weapons facilities and a naval post belonging to Hamas, the...
View ArticleIsrael launches military strike on Hamas in Gaza after rocket fire
The Israel Defense Forces launched a military strike on Hamas Monday after an early morning rocket launched from the Gaza Strip destroyed a house and injured seven people near Tel Aviv."We have just...
View ArticleWe cannot allow the UN to use human rights as a weapon in Gaza
The United Nations Human Rights Council has received a report from a “Commission of Inquiry” on Israel’s behavior at the border with Gaza.The 252-page report alleges that 183 Gaza residents, massed...
View ArticleCultural obstacles are the real barriers to Israeli-Palestinian peace
“The attacks on civilians, breaking their arms, and beating them, constitute humiliation, disgrace, and injustice,” Nasser Al-Laham, the editor-in-chief of the Palestinian Authority’s Maan News Agency,...
View ArticleGaza, Israel, and the loss of American influence
Hamas fired approximately 600 rockets into Israel kicking off yet another round of fighting. Israel responded with more than 200 air strikes into Gaza. By early Sunday morning, three Israelis and nine...
View ArticleIsraeli-Palestinian conflict can end with the New State Solution
Israel recently absorbed another barrage of rockets from the Gaza Strip launched by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). These violent interludes have become an unacceptable new normal....
View ArticleInternational Youth Day: What Middle East youth want should matter to Americans
Today is International Youth Day, and tonight HBO premieres “Our Boys,” a 10-part series about the 2014 murder by Hamas militants of three Israeli teenagers and the revenge murder of a Palestinian...
View ArticleIsrael's Iran confrontation is pointing the way to the future of war
Iran is shipping sophisticated surface-to-air missiles, drones and other missiles to its allies across the Middle East. A seized shipment, revealed by U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) on Feb. 19,...
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