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Hamas and Israel: What Next?

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 …

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Hamas’s Deception – and Our Self-Deception

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 …

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Should We Help the Palestinians in Gaza?

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 …

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Les mauvaises actions vont à Washington

Des négociations ? L’acteur et sa femme scénariste, Volodymyr et Olena Zelensky, se sont rendus à Washington. Pourquoi des mauvaises actions ? N’est-ce pas un peu dur ? Pas quand on sait que plus de 500 000 Ukrainiens sont morts jusqu’à présent. Espérons qu’ils ont un aller simple. Car lorsque …

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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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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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