Thirty-seven Gaza children who had traveled to the Erez border crossing for a trip into Israel were prohibited from entering by the terrorist organization Hamas. The New York Times reports: Israeli officials and organizers of the highly unusual weeklong peace-building visit said that it had been fully coordinated with the...

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As Fatah and Hamas fight over control of the rebuilding in Gaza, Israel is showing “flexibility” in allowing in raw materials to enter the Strip, Neri Zilber, a visiting scholar at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, reported in an article published Sunday in Politico. The Gazan population is growing...

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A sniper from Gaza targeted an IDF patrol near the border with Israel today, seriously injuring an Israeli soldier. The New York Times reports: After a routine patrol on the Israeli side of the border came under fire, the Israeli military responded with air and ground forces, in what appeared to be the...

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Turkey in recent days has faced renewed criticism for bolstering non-state Islamist actors, including those who seek to supplant traditional American allies across the region and who are committed to the eradication of Israel. Reports over the weekend conveyed a shift in Qatari foreign policy, away from its traditional ally...

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The Arab newspaper Rai Al-Aam reports (Arabic link) that tensions inside the terrorist organization Hamas are pitting factions who support Iran and the Syrian regime against those who are based in Qatar. The origin of this internal Hamas conflict centers on the decision by Hamas’s political leadership and its chairman Khaled...

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Amid a growing call for Israel to negotiate with Hamas just as Great Britain negotiated with the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), Eamonn MacDonagh responds in On the False Parallel Between Gaza and Northern Ireland, in the December 2014 issue of The Tower Magazine by saying that such comparisons are a “fairy tale” that...

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Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is falling back on political infighting to deal with the crises facing the Palestinian Authority (PA), accusing rival Hamas of being the cause of Palestinian woes. Last week, Abbas blamed Hamas for “slowing down” reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, claiming that Hamas prevented the PA from taking...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel will not overlook the firing of even a single rocket at Israel after a third rocket exploded in Israel since the conclusion of Operation Protective Edge this past summer. Speaking at a Hanuka candle- lighting ceremony at the Western Wall, Netanyahu said: “Israel’s safety...

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Hamas is confiscating materials imported to the Gaza Strip for reconstruction and using them to rebuild its terror tunnels, Ynet reports today. Hamas has been commandeering building materials from Israel transferred into the Gaza Strip for reconstruction for the purpose of rebuilding its offensive ‘terror tunnels’, Ynet has learned from...

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Well-known Egyptian playwright and intellectual Ali Salem said in a television interview Wednesday night that Hamas, not Israel, was “the real enemy” of Egypt. The Jerusalem Post reports: Egyptian writer and playwright Ali Salem, who has a record of peaceful statements regarding Israel, said Israel is Egypt’s “friend” and Hamas...

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