Tag: Israel

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Beltway Confidential

United Nations relief agency finds Palestinian terrorist rockets in Gaza school

Philip Klein · July 17, 2014 2:33 pm

Israel and the West

William Kristol · July 17, 2014 10:14 am

Israel, Hamas agree to Gaza ‘humanitarian’ pause

Israel, Hamas agree to Gaza ‘humanitarian’ pause

IBRAHIM BARZAKDANIEL ESTRIN · July 17, 2014 3:12 am

Palestinians flee their homes Wednesday in the Shajaiyeh neighborhood of Gaza City after Israel had airdropped leaflets warning people to leave the area. Alongside the air strikes, Israel also ordered tens of thousands of residents of the northern town of Beit Lahiya and the Zeitoun and Shijaiyah neighborhoods of Gaza City, all near the border with Israel, to evacuate their homes. The warnings were delivered in automated phone calls, text messages and leaflets.(AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Beltway Confidential

Five reasons why comparing Israeli and Palestinian death totals is a misleading way to judge the conflict

Philip Klein · July 16, 2014 9:45 pm

Three Iron Dome rockets explode to intercept rockets launched from the Gaza Strip by Palestinians militants, as seen from the Israel Gaza border, southern Israel, Thursday. (AP/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Ronald Reagan’s missile defense vision is saving lives in Israel: Examiner Editorial

Washington Examiner · July 16, 2014 9:20 pm

The Iron Dome defense system fires to intercept an incoming missiles from Gaza in the port town of Ashdod, Israel. Israel's military has deployed Iron Dome defense system to the north of the country following Israeli airstrikes in neighboring Syria targeting weapons believed to be destined for Lebanon's Hezbollah militants. (AP Photo /Tsafrir Abayov)

Israeli Iron Dome demonstrates missile defense payoffs

Austin Bay · July 16, 2014 3:11 pm

Palestinian Suma Abu Mahsen, 7, stands by a damaged wall of a house following an overnight Israeli missile strike to a nearby transition center for newly released convicts, that was not yet operational, in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, July 15, 2014. An Egyptian truce proposal for the conflict in Gaza quickly unraveled Tuesday, after the Islamic militant group Hamas rejected the plan. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Israel: Hamas to pay price for its ‘no’ to truce

KARIN LAUBARON HELLER · July 16, 2014 12:24 am

Israel's President Shimon Peres speaks during an interview with The Associated Press, at his residence in Jerusalem, Tuesday, July 15, 2014. Peres said the killing of civilians by Israeli air raids on Gaza presents a moral dilemma, but argues there is scant alternative as long as the Islamic militants who rule the coastal strip refuse to stop firing rockets at much of Israel. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

AP INTERVIEW: Israel’s Peres defends airstrikes

Dan Perry · July 15, 2014 9:20 pm

In this Monday, July 14, 2014 photo, sisters Mariam Attar, center right, and Sada Attar, center left, rest with their children inside the New Gaza Boys United Nations School after fleeing their home in fear of Israeli airstrikes in Gaza City. The children of the Attar clan have lived through three wars in just over five years, each time fleeing their homes as Israel bombarded their neighborhood in the Palestinian Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Scars show as Gaza’s children endure third war

Karin Laub · July 15, 2014 6:21 pm

A Palestinian man rides past a transition center for newly released convicts that was empty and not yet operational, that was hit by an overnight Israeli missile strike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday. (AP/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Beltway Confidential

Poll finds Republicans sympathize with Israel much more strongly than Democrats

Philip Klein · July 15, 2014 4:52 pm

Smoke rises after an Israeli missile strike in Gaza City, Tuesday, July 15, 2014. The Israeli military says it has resumed airstrikes on Gaza after Hamas militants violated a de-escalation brokered by Egypt. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)

Key demands, issues in Israel-Gaza cease-fire

Tia Goldenberg · July 15, 2014 2:16 pm

Why Israel Is Winning This War

Elliott Abrams · July 15, 2014 12:08 pm