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PLO Secretary-General Saeb Erekat speaks during a press conference in Jericho on Feb. 15, 2017. Photo by Flash90.

Time to bury Palestinian inflexibility

Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat sought to undermine the Abraham Accords, all while successfully selling the Israeli left on his image as a peace-loving ideologue. It’s time to do away with the policies he led.

November 12, 2020

Smoke and fire rise from a location reportedly belonging to Hamas, following an Israeli airstrike in the southern Gaza town of Rafah on July 14, 2018. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

‘War will erupt this summer,’ says Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader

Speaking to a Lebanese TV station, Ziad Nakhala issues threats against Israel and predicts a large-scale war in the coming months against the backdrop of U.S. actions in the region.

May 8, 2019

Rockets fired from the Gaza Strip on July 14, 2018. Source: IDF Spokesperson's Unit.

A premeditated Ramadan offensive

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar took a calculated risk in ordering his operatives to launch rockets at Israel even while he was away in Cairo.

May 5, 2019

A Palestinian protester from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) holds a picture Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah during a demonstration in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Sept. 3, 2014. Credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Hezbollah isn’t ready for a fight

Today, less than 15 percent of the organization's fighting force is ready and available for a military conflict with Israel.

December 5, 2018

Yahya Sinwar, leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Feb. 24, 2017. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Hamas’s troubles could be Israel’s gain

Despite Hamas’s efforts to project unity, it’s no secret that an epic struggle for control is raging within its ranks.

November 22, 2018

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh flashes the victory gesture upon his arrival at the Rafah border crossing from Egypt after reconciliation talks with the Fatah movement mediated by Egyptian intelligence in southern Gaza, Sept. 19, 2017. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Knocking on Cairo’s door

Indeed, not only did the rocket fire take Hamas by surprise, the terrorist organization was also forced to pay a steep price for Iran’s capriciousness.

October 28, 2018

Members of the Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades attend the funeral of six Ezzedeen Al-Qassam Brigades fighters at a cemetery in Deir Al Balah refugee camp in central Gaza, May 6, 2018. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

The facts belie the claims of ‘siege’

Despite declaring Gaza “hostile territory,” despite the military conflicts Israel waged against Hamas and other armed factions in Gaza, despite the unceasing terrorist activity waged from Gaza, Israel took care to allow 100 trucks carrying goods and fuel into Gaza every day.

October 14, 2018

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi in New York on Sept. 18, 2017. Photo by Avi Ohayon/GPO.

Egypt holds the key

Egypt has managed to keep another war in the Gaza Strip at bay, despite Hamas and the other Palestinian factions’ repeated provocations and the growing number of Palestinian casualties in the weekly border-fence riots.

October 7, 2018

Raed Salah Abu Shakra, the leader of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel. Credit: Wikipedia.

Umm al-Fahm, a capital of terrorism in Israel

Much like the funeral of other terrorists who came ‎from the northern Israeli town, Ahmed Mohammed Hamid’s funeral was ‎led by members of the Northern Branch of ‎the Islamic Movement, who incited the 1,000-strong ‎crowd to riot. ‎

August 22, 2018