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Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 23, 2012 21 Comments
So let’s condemn Israel for defending itself against missile attacks from Gaza. Via JPost: More than 40,000 people have been killed in 20 months of conflict between Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces and those fighting for his overthrow, a violence monitoring group said on Friday....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 22, 2012 22 Comments
The Muslim Brotherhood President of Egypt already had brought the military to heel. Now he is discarding the judiciary: With a constitutional assembly on the brink of collapse and protesters battling the police in the streets here over the slow pace of change, President Mohamed Morsi issued...

Posted by Joel Engel on November 21, 2012 6 Comments
Every year, young Jews from all over the world show up in Israel and volunteer to join the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).  Called “lone soldiers,” they commit to the same enlistment mandated for most Israelis, male and female, and decades more of reserve duty.  As...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 21, 2012 14 Comments
Israel and Hamas, via Egypt and the U.S., have reached a “truce.”  Via AP: Israel and the Hamas militant group reached a cease-fire agreement Wednesday to end the fiercest round of fighting in nearly four years, promising to halt attacks on each other and ease...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 21, 2012 15 Comments
Some important developments. Two journalists have confirmed that Palestinians have fired a long-range rocket at Israel from next to Al Shifa hospital in Gaza.  Neither journalist, of course, made it the headline, it was just mentioned in passing.  The first was Jodi Rudgren of The New York...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 20, 2012 15 Comments
Israel reportedly has been under cyber attack by Anonymous, although the lethality of the attacks is questioned: Anonymous, the loose coalition of hackers waging war on Israeli Web sites, is the least of Israel’s cyber problems. Its campaign against Israel is a minor annoyance compared...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 20, 2012 24 Comments
Israel caught Hamas off guard.  While Hamas reasonably could have expected retaliation for stepped-up missile fire, it did not anticipate the nature of the retaliation — the assassination of the head of Hamas’ military wing and the bombing of numerous long-range missile depots. The lesson of...

Posted by Joel Engel on November 20, 2012 18 Comments
So says Paul Richter in the Los Angeles Times: The increasingly bloody conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip is threatening the Obama administration’s plans to reinvigorate its Middle East diplomacy, creating new obstacles across the region as the president prepares for his...

Posted by Joel Engel on November 18, 2012 22 Comments
I criticize the president frequently here. So let me now praise him for remarks he made today regarding Israel’s attacks on Hamas’ positions in Gaza.  Via the New York Times: Speaking on Sunday from Bangkok, President Obama condemned missile attacks by Palestinian fighters in Gaza...

Posted by Joel Engel on November 16, 2012 15 Comments
Outside of Google Docs, the word collaborator refers to someone who cooperates with an enemy in a time of war. Gazans in general and Hamas in particular consider themselves to be at war with Israel.  Via the New York Times: Masked gunmen in Gaza summarily...

Posted by Joel Engel on November 16, 2012 16 Comments
You can count on the New York Times for the latest in conventional wisdom’s preferred narrative.  But this attitude typically reaches its apotheosis when Times reporters do their best to be evenhanded about fighting in the Mideast. Israel and Hamas widened their deadly conflict over...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 15, 2012 24 Comments
You know Pallywood, the Palestinian industry devoted to manipulating the Western press through fake injuries and damage from Israelis. It’s back in Gaza, once again. Via Honest Reporting (h/t Right Scoop): Don’t think it’s just during war. This video shows how Palestinians push their children...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 14, 2012 29 Comments
With Israel on the cusp of a major conflict in Gaza and maybe beyond, pay a visit to and say a prayer for our blog friends in Israel, who are updating the events: Israel Matzav — also known as Carl in Jerusalem. Anne’s Opinions — also...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 14, 2012 16 Comments
In an Israeli airstrike, after almost non-stop rocket fire from Gaza into Israel. Via Times of Israel: The Israeli Air Force on Wednesday bombed a car in Gaza City, killing Ahmed Jaabari, the head of Hamas’s armed wing — the equivalent of an army’s chief...
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