The Gaza Blockade: An Explainer BY PESACH BENSON (HonestReporting)
Feb. 26, 2019 Israel and Egypt have maintained a blockade of Gaza since Hamas seized control of the Strip in 2007. Often overlooked, forgotten or taken for granted in media coverage and public discussion is the reason for the blockade: the threat of Hamas weapons smuggling. Click here for full article
Read More →Hamas makes it clear it has no interest in peace with Israel, by Vivian Bercovici (National Post)
Oct. 16, 2018 Photos of these so-called ‘peaceful’ protests show an overwhelmingly young, male crowd, armed with Molotov cocktails, knives and grenades Click here for article
Read More →The Palestinians’ Three No’s: What They Mean by Bassam Tawil (Gatestone Inst.)
Sept. 26, 2018 When Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad talk about “paying a political price,” they are referring to demands that the Palestinian terrorist groups lay down their weapons, halt terrorist attacks on Israel, and abandon their dream of eliminating Israel. These are terms, of course, to which no Palestinian terrorist group could ever afford […]
Read More →TO THE BRINK OF WAR: HOW HAMAS AND ISRAEL GOT HERE by Seth J. Frantzman (J. Post)
Aug. 9, 2018 Hamas says it wants Israel to end the 10-year blockade of Gaza and to ease up restrictions on goods flowing to the strip. Click here for article
Read More →Israel Is Not Going to Hand a Gun to Hamas, the Murderer Next Door – David Horovitz (TOI via Daily Alert)
July 27, 2018 Israel Is Not Going to Hand a Gun to Hamas, the Murderer Next Door – David Horovitz (Times of Israel) Since Israel unilaterally withdrew from Gaza in 2005, Hamas has fired thousands of rockets indiscriminately into Israel, dug attack tunnels under the border, killed and wounded soldiers at the border fence, carried out […]
Read More →The anti-Zionist lexicon: What they really mean, by Fred Maroun (TOI via HonestReporting)
July 18, 2018 An insider’s anti-Zionist lexicon: The code to deciphering what decent, reasonable-sounding phrases really mean Anti-Zionists have developed a lexicon that is meant to make them sound decent and honest, but a translation into common English uncovers quite a different meaning. The following are common phrases that they use, followed by what they […]
Read More →On Israel, Gaza and international law by Ari Ingel via Arlene Kushner
From Arlene Kushner’s blog, July 6,2018 I want to recommend an excellent piece by Ari Ingel, “Israel, Gaza and international law”: https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Israel-Gaza-and-international-law-561656 It makes the case solidly for Israel with regard to international and the situation in Gaza. It clarifies that: [] Israel is not an occupier in Gaza. [] The blockade of Gaza does […]
Read More →Summaries of 2 articles about Gaza/Hamas/PA by Daily Alert
Jun. 1, 2018 Palestinian Authority Threatens to Cut Security Ties with Israel if Gaza Blockade Lifted The Palestinian Authority (PA) has threatened to sever security cooperation with Israel if the blockade on the Gaza Strip is lifted, according to the Palestine Information Center. The news site reported that the PA intelligence chief Majed Faraj sent […]
Read More →What the New York Times Isn’t Telling You about Israel’s Gaza “Blockade” – Ira Stoll (Algemeiner via Daily Alert)
Apr. 11, 2018 What the New York Times Isn’t Telling You about Israel’s Gaza “Blockade” – Ira Stoll (Algemeiner) Nearly every New York Times dispatch about the recent violent pre-planned riots in Gaza has used the word “blockade” to describe Israel’s treatment of the territory. Some Times accounts mention Egypt’s participation in the “blockade,” while others omit it. Webster’s dictionary defines a […]
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