The casualty count in Israel has been low since before there was an Iron Dome. In fact, Israel's casualty ratio to Palestine was far worse in 2012 than in 2009, and in 2012 they had Iron Dome and in 2009 they did not. If the Iron Dome impacted Israeli performance, it was for the worse, at least...
Gazans will be getting bombed whether Hamas responds or not. Even though the Western media likes to pretend otherwise, and only bother to report on ceasefire breaks if they are by Gazans, Israelis themselves have violated ceasefires numerous times without provocation. It's the same with this...
I'm not Hamas, I don't know the answer. My guess is that Hamas knows that Israel can be pressured with something other than a high body count. Israel is a much stronger army - it is expected that the other side will have a higher casualty count (not least because Israel likes inflating it by...
FACT: In 2012, Israel made fantastic claims about the Iron Dome that the Western media eagerly ate up either out of stupidity or pro-Israeli bias. It took an MIT professor, Ted Postol, in possession of a wealth of footage showing the ID in action to change discourse. He concluded in fact that...
I have no idea what that car is supposed to represent, what does it have to do with what is happening in Gaza, or how does it justify child massacres. I do know the user above has been banned numerous times for trolling Palestine threads, spreading disinformation and using extreme insults...
Israeli airstrikes kill 31 Palestinians | Maan News Agency
GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- Israeli airstrikes across the besieged Gaza Strip killed 31 Palestinians overnight Wednesday and Thursday, including a family of eight, bringing the total death toll to 81.
Israeli warplanes fired a missile at a...
The true Gaza back-story that the Israelis aren’t telling this week - Voices - The Independent
OK, so by this afternoon, the exchange rate of death in two days was 40-0 in favour of Israel. But now for the Gaza story you won’t be hearing from anyone else in the next few hours.
It’s about land...
Euro-mid Observer For Human Rights- Report: Israeli forces stole USD 3 million in cash, property from Palestinians during West Bank raids
Ramallah- During the course of Israel’s three-week campaign of mass arrests in the West Bank, ostensibly to search for the killers of three settlers, the...
Locals: Settlers try to kidnap 7-year-old in Beit Hanina | Maan News Agency
JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Israeli settlers attempted to kidnap a seven-year-old Palestinian child in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina overnight Thursday, locals said.
Witnesses told Ma'an that four settlers from...
Sometimes it takes a day before a Haaretz report first produced in Hebrew gains an English version. I don't think it'll be suppressed but I do have vague memories of Israeli bloggers exposing news that Haaretz only dared post in Hebrew.
Abu Khdeir, Murdered Palestinian Boy Was Forced to Drink Gasoline, Then Burned to Death Tikun-Olam Tikun Olam-תיקון עולם
Haaretz article confirms ghoulish murder of Mohamed Abu Khdeir
With each day that goes by the murder of Mohamed Abu Khdeir becomes ever more bestial. Haaretz reports...
Can one of our Arabic-speaking friends translate the following short story for the forum? It appears settlers are so mad Mohammed's murderers have been caught, they're now running over people in the West Bank.
Israeli settlers storm Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem | Maan News Agency
JERUSALEM (Ma’an) – Israeli settlers on Saturday evening stormed the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah and attacked Palestinian residents.
Locals told Ma’an that some 50 settlers stormed the neighborhood...
Locals: Settlers 'abduct, attack' Palestinian near Nablus | Maan News Agency
NABLUS (Ma'an) -- Palestinians in the northern West Bank say Israeli settlers kidnapped and attacked a young Palestinian man early Saturday.
Locals in the village of Osarin south of Nablus told Ma'an that settlers...
That's not really relevant, though. In no civilized country are children beaten up this way, and no adult person can take liberties with someone so much weaker, who was unarmed (when they were armed) and had no way to defend himself. What happened is an outrage. Being a stone thrower doesn't...