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The week Hamas reinvented horror

Israel has become a theatre for gruesome spectacle Israel and Gaza are a Pathé newsreel of violence. Atrocity mounts upon atrocity. Blood smeared on gristle. Festivals mottled with corpses. Women dragged off to be raped and killed. And, now, perhaps the ultimate taboo. “This is the most difficult image we’ve …

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Guerre Israël-Hamas : Maroc, Algérie, Tunisie, des réactions contrastées

Au Maghreb et au Moyen-Orient, les réactions face à l’offensive du Hamas contre Israël varient en fonction des liens entretenus avec Tel-Aviv. Mais les autorités doivent aussi composer avec une opinion publique totalement acquise à la cause palestinienne. Les réactions se multiplient dans les capitales du Maghreb et du monde …

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Israel’s Intelligence Disaster

How the Security Establishment Could Have Underestimated the Hamas Threat Hamas’s devastating terrorist attack against Israel has unleashed the most violent and serious conflict the country has seen in half a century. Already, at least 1,000 Israelis (and 14 U.S. citizens) have been killed. It is an astronomical number for …

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