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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,475226,00.html As Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and other world leaders try to broker a cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas, one former member of the militant Islamic organization said there will never be lasting peace between the two groups.…
read morehttp://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD217309 On October 17, 2008, liberal Arab thinker Lafif Lakhdar posted an article on the reformist e-journal www.elaph.com, in which he characterized Hamas as another link in the chain of Palestinian rejectionism, i.e., in their tendency to refuse all suggestions…
read morehttp://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-halevi4-2009jan04,0,3919516.story Reporting from Jerusalem — The images from the fighting in Gaza are harrowing but ultimately deceptive. They portray a mighty invading army, one equipped with F-16 jets that have bombed a civilian population defended by a few thousand fighters…
read morehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/dec/30/gaza-hamas-palestinians-israel I have been a very outspoken critic of Israeli policies for many years. Nevertheless, those who, like Nir Rosen here, go into endless diatribes to ascribe sole responsibility to Israel for the current situation are hypocritical at worst and…
read morehttp://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24860529-15084,00.html Responsibility for the war in Gaza, and for the Palestinian fatalities there, was placed squarely on Hamas by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. “We called the leaders of Hamas and told them, ‘Please, do not end the truce’,” he…
read moreIntroduction Palestinian terrorists in Gaza continue to launch rocket and mortar attacks on Israeli civilians and, in response, Israel has re-imposed a number of controls at its border with Gaza. At times Israel has responded to the projectile and terrorist…
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http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/mesh/2009/01/israels-strike-on-gaza-a-primer/ The Israeli-Hamas ceasefire, signed on June 9, 2008, had long been a porous one. While Hamas, for the most part, until November 2008 did not fire its own rockets at Israel, it permitted other groups, such as the Iranian-supported…
read morehttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB123085925621747981.html#printMode Israel’s actions in Gaza are justified under international law, and Israel should be commended for its self-defense against terrorism. Article 51 of the United Nations Charter reserves to every nation the right to engage in self-defense against armed attacks.…
read morehttp://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/editorials/stories/DN-israel_30edi.State.Edition1.279cf92.html Nobody with a conscience can look at the images of destruction and human suffering on the streets of Gaza without flinching. The pictures of the civilian victims of Israeli air strikes – especially children – are heart-rending. But let’s…
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In despair: Cover image from the Daily telegraph, December 29 2008 Photo: AP http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/telegraph-view/4015994/Peace-in-Gaza-is-in-the-hands-of-Hamas.html The photograph on the front page of this newspaper yesterday captured the age-old tragedy of the Holy Land. At this time of year in particular, the…
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