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Israelis take cover near a bus stop in a street in center Tel Aviv during a siren alarm as a rocket Is launched from Gaza strip, August 3, 2014. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

What if Hamas fired rockets at Britain?

When Israeli spokesmen defend the IDF’s actions in Gaza by asking what you would do if rockets rained down on your home, the example of Northern Ireland can serve as one response. By John Jackson Over the last weeks Israeli government spokesmen have provided cover across international TV and radio airspace for their military onslaught in…

By +972 Magazine August 30, 2014

Dror Khenin's father mourn hum during the funeral ceremony, July 16, 2014 in the city of Yahud, Israel. Khenin is the first Israeli to be killed by a rocket since Israel started the recent attack on the Gaza strip, as he offered food to Israeli soldiers near the Erez border crossing between Israel and Gaza. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Mourning death wherever it strikes

(Translated from Hebrew by Sol Salbe) Sometimes it feels like this is some sort of a test. Will the leftists mourn now? Will they say that they feel the pain? Will they dare criticize the war now that our soldiers have died? So there, yes, it hurts. I know that that doesn’t necessarily apply to…

By Haggai Matar July 21, 2014

Protesting arrest without charges, Khader Adnan is dying

Adnan is held for at least the 7th time in administrative arrest, a practice used at any given moment to detain hundreds of Palestinians. This is a translation (with slight changes) of an article published in Hebrew in my weekly column at TimeOut Tel Aviv The IDF’s court of appeals rejected this week the motion…

By Noam Sheizaf February 18, 2012

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It’s time the US talked to Hamas

The positive reports coming out of the Israeli-American-Palestinian summit in Sharm el Sheikh– like those which came from Washington a week earlier – shouldn’t surprise anyone. There is a strange dynamic to these talks: both sides present an optimistic smile to the world and a hawkish, pessimistic face at home. As both recent polls and…

By Noam Sheizaf September 14, 2010

Stop the press! We know the dissidents’ wish list!

Ardoyne Riot. Credit: Belfastgonzo, Flickr The Observer leads today with one of the weirdest stories I ever read: Irish terror groups target Conservative party conference in Birmingham Irish republican dissident groups are targeting the Conservative party conference this autumn, raising fears of a repeat of the 1984 Brighton attack that nearly killed the then prime…

By Dimi Reider August 22, 2010