Results tagged “Hamas”

Los Angeles Times -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's recent statement that Israel can't defend itself with borders drawn along pre-1967 lines has been questioned in certain foreign policy circles. These critics have noted that Israel successfully fought two wars, in 1956 and in 1967, while based within those borders. And...

Israel finds itself increasingly in an adversarial position today on the issue of human rights, constantly defending itself from the newest report of Amnesty International or the UN, like Goldstone Report. Reportedly, "Turkish human rights" groups have sought the arrest of Defense Minster Ehud Barak during his visit to Ankara....

Speaking before Israel's ambassadors from around the world two months ago, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu explained his view about how to create effective security arrangements in the event of an Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement. He decided to stress that to safeguard the demilitarization of the West Bank, it was vital for...

Anyone analyzing what Israel's adversaries are planning should read the writing of Professor Richard Falk carefully. A former professor of international law at Princeton, where he defended the use of violence by Vietnam War protesters and supported the rise of Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran, he was recently appointed by the...

With Lt. Col. (res.) Jonathan Dahoah Halevi -- Studying the recent statements of Col. (ret.) Desmond Travers, the Irish military man who sat on the Goldstone panel, I couldn't believe what I was reading, when he argued that Israel used thermal sensitive UAV's to look inside of Palestinian homes in...

In the West there is a growing trend to view Hamas as separate from al-Qaeda in order to open a political dialogue with Hamas, but is this view correct? In its annual survey of terrorist threats to Israel during 2009, the Israel Security Agency noted the spread and buildup...