While Islamic Jihad Launches Rockets at Israel, Hamas Faces a Dilemma
One wants quiet, the other to “engage the enemy.”
November 13, 2019
While Islamic Jihad Launches Rockets at Israel, Hamas Faces a Dilemma
One wants quiet, the other to “engage the enemy.”
On November 1, Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), an Iran-backed terrorist group based in the Gaza Strip, launched a barrage of rockets at nearby towns in Israel. The IDF responded by striking military targets in the Strip and, yesterday, in the wee hours of the morning, killed Baha Abu al-Ata, one of PIJ’s senior commanders. The terrorist group responded by launching some 200 rockets over the course of the day, sending Israelis to bomb shelters not just in the immediate vicinity of Gaza but also in the center of the country and as far north as Tel Aviv. Khaled Abu Toameh analyzes the political calculations of both PIJ and Hamas:
November 13, 2019
Bernie Sanders’ Proposal for Fighting Anti-Semitism Involves Subsuming It in a Laundry List of Progressive Causes
As Soviet history shows, it’s an approach that’s bound to fail.
It’s Not Benjamin Netanyahu or the West Bank That Divides American Jews from Their Israeli Coreligionists, but Something Much Deeper
In the U.S., Jews, too, have absorbed Protestant individualism.
As Fewer Americans Marry, Jewish Marriage Rates Prove Surprisingly Resilient
Even after taking the Orthodox out of the picture.
France’s Oldest Synagogue, and the History beneath It
When Jews in France were being persecuted, the pope protected those in Carpentras.