Even before sweeping to power in Gaza in 2007, Hamas openly sought the "obliteration" of Israel as a matter of policy. Gaza, a narrow strip of land roughly twice the size of Washington D.C., has been sealed off since 2005 by both Israel and Egypt over fears of an attack, though smug...
Netanyahu and his deputies were committed to the idea that they could guarantee Israel’s security even as they squeezed Palestinians into ever smaller enclaves with receding hopes of anything approaching statehood. They certainly weren’t primed to consider a seri...
The United Kingdom of Israel remained in power through the rule of four different kings. At the end of King Solomon's rule, his son Rehoboam was set to ascend the throne. The ten tribes of Israel located in the north revolved led by Jeroboam resulting in the divided kingdom. ...
Italy is a good comparison for Gaza, sinceabout 1.1%of its pre-war population was killed in WW II. That took from 1940 to 1945 (Mussolini’s Italy entered the war in 1940 and he fell in 1943 but Allied dithering allowed the Nazi Germans to take over Italy until 1945). So Israel is ...
The upshot of this shift in focus and security resources was that by 2021, the report said, a staggering 1.4 million Palestinians were illegally infiltrating Israel per year, with some days hitting levels of 6,000 infiltrations over 24 hours. ...
A former Associated Press editor has backed Israel’s claim that Hamas did in fact have offices inside a Gaza building leveled by the IDF, citing intelligence that was allegedly passed on to him by a friend.
The October 7 Hamas massacre, the ensuing Israel-Gaza War, and a sharp rise in antisemitism across the US changed everything. Amid the tragedy and heartbreak, and the shock of realizing that “Never Again” had indeed occurred again, the American Jewish community underwent a profound transformat...
A review of the neutrality of the U.N. agency found Israel never expressed concern about anyone on the staff lists it received since 2011.
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