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In their article “IDF sending Hamas a message: Now it’s personal” Ha’aretz writers Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff explain that the assassination of senior Hamas official Nizar Rayyan on January 1 “is a significant development at this stage of the…

Ha’aretz reports: “The threat that Hamas’ ballistic capabilities pose to the people of the Negev is less serious than initially presumed and the residents of the targeted areas are not demonstrating signs of panic, according to an interim analysis by…

CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr can be seen here saying this morning on the cable network that the use of American-made hardware to destroy that Hamas leader’s house with 18 people inside is “very problematic” because “these weapons are supposed…

Adam Horowitz writes: On the day the ratio of Israelis to Palestinians killed has hit 1:100, Alan Dershowitz writes “Israel’s Policy Is Perfectly ‘Proportionate'” in the Wall Street Journal: The claim that Israel has violated the principle of proportionality –…

Adam Horowitz: I wonder what focus group came up with the gem “roof knocking”. And is it just me or does this make no sense – “In these cases, Channel 10 reported Thursday, the IAF sometimes launches a relatively harmless…

Adam Horowitz writes: A protest against the war in Gaza that was planned in Tel Aviv was being prevented by Israeli police not because they were afraid of violence, but because they were afraid that protesters would raise the Palestinian…

Nattering neocons. Commentary is saying that J Street is an anti-Israel organization! Well I love Jeremy Ben-Ami for his courage (even though J Street is backsliding somewhat, inevitably) and Jeremy, we’ve got your back! Who are we? Progressives, realists, the…