The Israeli Palestinian Conflict

The focus of these last two weeks’ events was a massive rocket and mortar shelling by Hamas on Israel’s Independence Day, the first such attack since the signing of the ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip The Chairman of the Palestinian Authority and the Finance Minister completed series of trips to Western and Arab countries Read more...

Using Egypt as an intermediary, Hamas recently sent Israel a list of Palestinian prisoners whose release they demand in return for Gilad Shalit. The Palestinian national unity government has undertaken an political-propaganda campaign to lift Europe’s political and economic boycott of the Palestinian Authority. Israeli security forces exposed a Hamas operational infrastructure in Qalqilya which Read more...