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Stephen M. FlatowJNS20.04.2018
Elizabeth Warren’s Gaza problem
If mobs of firebomb-throwing foreigners were trying to storm across one of America’s borders, I doubt she would lecture our border guards to “exercise restraint.” There’s no justification for giving such advice to America’s ally.
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Stephen M. Flatow20.04.2018
Elizabeth Warren’s Gaza problem
If mobs of firebomb-throwing foreigners were trying to storm across one of America’s borders, I doubt she would lecture our border guards to “exercise restraint.” There’s no justification for giving such advice to America’s ally.
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Gazans use kites to set fire to fields, forests in Israel
17.04.2018
Israeli farmers near the border are being urged to be on the alert for suspicious flying objects and to alert firefighters, if necessary.
Palestinian protesters demonstrate and burn tires near the border with Israel in the Gaza Strip, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, on April 13, 2018. Credit: Sliman Khader/Flash90
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Rioters, summoned by Hamas, attack Gaza border fence for third week
13.04.2018
The demonstration is the third in a series of “March of Return” assemblies, each of which has been marked by Palestinians throwing stones, Molotov cocktails, burning tires and trying to create a smokescreen to breach the security fence.
Palestinian protesters demonstrate and burn tires near the border with Israel in the Gaza Strip, as seen from the Israeli side of the border, on April 13, 2018. Credit: Sliman Khader/Flash90
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Stuck in strategic stalemate, Hamas uses Gaza border protests to pressure Israel
Israel Kasnett12.04.2018
The so-called “return” marches, which despite their billing as “peaceful” have been associated with violent behavior, have served to place the Palestinian issue back on the world stage. But the Jewish state is standing fast, with some Middle East countries even standing with them.
Palestinian protesters burn tires during clashes with Israeli security forces on the Gaza Israeli border east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip on April 6, 2018, the second of two border marches. April 13 marks a third week in a row the area has seen violence. Credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90
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Palestinians detonate bomb near IDF bulldozer in Gaza buffer zone
11.04.2018
Israel responded by striking Hamas terror targets in Gaza with tank fire, according to an army statement.
Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli soldiers near the border fence east of Gaza City on Dec. 22, 2017. Credit: Wissam Nassar/Flash90.
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Israeli airstrikes target Gaza following breach of border, planting of explosives
09.04.2018
The Israeli Air Force hit terror targets in northern Gaza early Monday after three Palestinian terrorists planted improvised explosive devices on the border fence.
An Israeli jet flying during an Israeli airshow. Credit: Flash90.
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Arab Knesset member calls for millions of Palestinians to ‘march on Jerusalem’
09.04.2018
Hanin Zoabi tells reporters at a U.N. press conference that protesters at the Gaza-Israel border over the last three weeks were engaged in a “march of peace,” calling it a “peaceful act of popular struggle.”
Knesset member Hanin Zoabi speaks during a vote on the so-called “Regulation Bill,” a controversial bill that seeks to legitimize illegal West Bank outposts, in the Israeli parliament, on Dec. 7, 2016. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90
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Karen Bekker & Sean DurnsCAMERA08.04.2018
‘The Washington Post’ provides cover for Hamas
Although Hamas claimed it was staging a peaceful border protest, rocks were thrown and tires burned, and in one instance, gunfire was involved. But the media helped serve Hamas's objectives by uncritically repeating claims by the terror group and those living under its brutal rule.
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Hamas to reward families of casualties in Gaza fence riots
05.04.2018
Some $3,000 will go to the families of demonstrators who are killed, $500 to families of the seriously wounded and $200 to families of those moderately wounded.
A Palestinian man waves the Palestinian flag near Israeli soldiers by the border fence near Gaza City in March 2010. Photo by Wissam Nassar/Flash90.
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Hamas tire-burning at Gaza security fence poses a potential ecological disaster
05.04.2018
Readiness teams have been sent to the border with particle gauges and will run multiple models of particle dispersion based on factors such as weather and wind patterns.
Palestinian protesters burn tires near the West Bank city of Ramallah during a protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, March 16, 2018. Photo by Flash90.
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Hamas leadership becomes mired in infighting as Gaza-Israel tensions mount
Daniel SiryotiIsrael Hayom05.04.2018
Power plays among the leadership within the Gaza-based terrorist group are expected to affect its decision-making process and policies, especially with respect to the conflict with Israel.
Yahya Sinwar (left), the new leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, with senior political leaders of the Islamist movement Hamas Khalil al-Haya (center) and Ismail Haniyeh in the southern Gaza Strip on Feb. 24, 2017. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/ Flash90
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Jonathan S. Tobin03.04.2018
Will Israel pay a price for Trump’s pro-Israel policy?
The president’s support for Israel on Gaza could turn into an issue for the “resistance,” even if most Americans approve of his stance.
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US blocks UN statement calling for inquiry into Israeli actions during Gaza riots
01.04.2018
“Any state whose borders people tried to crash would act in an even more severe way than we did, and therefore the procession of hypocrites calling for a committee of inquiry must understand that there will be no such thing,” said Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley addresses a U.N. Security Council meeting on the situation in Syria on April 27, 2017. Credit: U.N. Photo/Rick Bajornas.
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Estimated 30,000 Palestinians engage in riots along Gaza border on ‘Land Day’
30.03.2018
The protesters, hurling rocks and Molotov cocktails, descended on the fence that separates Gaza and Israel as part of the “March of Return” demonstrations organized by Hamas.
Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli troops during a protest marking “Land Day” in the West Bank city village of Qusra near Nablus on March 30, 2018. Credit: Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90
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Fiamma Nirenstein29.03.2018
Kill or be killed: Terror is the sole tool of Hamas
It’s time to stop talking about “lone wolves”; this boils down to Palestinian incitement.
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