They [the Israelis] ignored one of the advice of the Florentine clerk that “Don’t wound a deadly enemy and let him live to recover. Either turn him into a friend or kill him!” Israeli leaders tried to apply to Hamas the strategy they had used against hostile Arab neighbors since …

The US and Israel continue to base their policies on the fiction that the Palestinian Authority is willing to coexist with the Jewish state. “We made [the Israelis] think Hamas was busy with governing Gaza, and that it wanted to focus on the 2.5 million Palestinians [there] and had abandoned …

The countries of the European Union are divided over whether to continue aid to Gaza. However, the question of whether it is possible to help the civilian population without strengthening Hamas is not part of the current debate. Most international aid to Gaza is channeled through UNRWA, a UN agency …