Broader View

Growth in Gaza’s economy – Update, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, December 1, 2011

Why Hamas is losing Gaza by Karl Vick, Time, October 17, 2011

Besieged by Israel and the West, which regards it as a terrorist group, and cut off from the Palestinian majority in the West Bank, Hamas has little to offer beyond its jihadist credentials — and the promise of clean government. So it’s hardly surprising that the party has been rapidly losing ground in its stronghold. Recent surveys by leading pollsters conclude that if elections were held in Gaza today, Hamas, an acronym in Arabic for the Islamic Resistance Movement, would not be returned to power. A June poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research found that Hamas would get just 28% of the vote, a steep decline from the 44% plurality it won in 2006.

Building Boom in Gaza’s Ruins Belies Misery That Remains by Ethan Bronner, New York Times, June 25, 2011

In assessing the condition of the 1.6 million people who live in Gaza, there are issues of where to draw the baseline and — often — what motivates the discussion. It has never been among the world’s poorest places. There is near universal literacy and relatively low infant mortality, and health conditions remain better than across much of the developing world.

The Hamas – Oops, Gaza – Flotilla by David Harris, Jerusalem Post, June 21, 2011

The Gaza Flotillas to Come: Some Ground Rules before Setting Out by Alan Baker, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Brief Vol. 11, No. 3, June 5, 2011

Lattes, beach barbecues (and dodging missiles) in the world’s biggest prison camp by Peter Hitchens, Daily Mail (UK), October 11, 2010

Gaza, September 2010 by IsraeliGirl (video)

New update on investigations into the Gaza Operation, Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, July 19, 2010

A war for world’s future: Battle isn’t about Gaza, but rather, about radical Islam vs. liberal West by Mordechai Kedar, Ynetnews.com, May 31, 2010

Welcome to Gaza by Ronen Newmark, July 25, 2010 [video]

To the Free Gaza Movement by David Harris, Huffington Post, June 6, 2010

Group with Terrorist Ties Attempts to Deliver Supplies to Gaza, Refuses to Deliver Letter to Captive Israeli Soldier, The Israel Project, May 28, 2010

Israel Publishes Gaza Travel Guidebook For Pro-Hamas Freedom Flotilla, Mere Rhetoric, May 26, 2010

Behind the Headlines: The Israeli humanitarian lifeline to Gaza, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, May 25, 2010

Fancy restaurants and Olympic-size pools: What the media won’t report about Gaza by Tom Gross, National Post, May 25, 2010

Debunking the Gaza Siege Myth by Jacob Shrybman, Huffington Post, May 3, 2010

Dear Irish Foreign Minister Micheál Martin by David Harris, Jerusalem Post blog, April 8, 2010

Dear Baroness Catherine Ashton by David Harris, Jerusalem Post blog, March 28, 2010

A Moral Evaluation of the Gaza War (Operation Cast Lead) by Asa Kasher, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Brief, Vol. 9, No. 18, February 4, 2010

Aid to Gaza and Haiti, Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, JINSA Report #959, January 28, 2010

When Does Self-Reflection Become Self-Destruction? by David Harris, Jerusalem Post blog, January 24, 2010

Amnesia International: Forgetting the Real Culprits in Gaza by Justus Reid Weiner and Dimitri Teresh, Global Law Forum, January 19, 2010

Is Gaza Occupied? Redefining the Legal Status of Gaza by Elizabeth Samson [pdf], The Begin-Sadat Center For Strategic Studies Bar-Ilan University, Mideast Security and Policy Studies No. 83, November 2009

UK Commander Challenges Goldstone Report [also video], UN Watch,  October 16, 2009

The U.N.’s Anti-Antiterror Report: A biased ‘finding’ on Gaza could also apply to Afghanistan, Wall Street Journal, September 23, 2009

Israel’s Gaza Vindication by Jackson Diehl, Washington Post, September 21, 2009

Gaza: The Overcrowding Myth by Fabián, Z Word, September 18, 2009

The Goldstone Report: Rewarding Palestinian Terror, HonestReporting.com, September 16, 2009

Palestinian “Policemen” Killed in Gaza Operation Were Trained Terrorists, by Jonathan D. Halevi, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Brief Vol 9, No. 8, September 13, 2008

Operation Cast Lead and the Ethics of Just War by Asa Kahser, Azure, Summer 5769 / 2009, no. 37 (a detailed and comprehensive analysis)

Egypt’s Role in Gaza Arms Smuggling by Chris Harnisch, Palestinian Rocket Report, Jewish Policy Center, August 3, 2009

Ship of fools: Free Gaza sails again, BlueTruth blog, July 1, 2009

When Egypt was in Gaza by Eliezer Whartman, Jerusalem Post, June 3, 2009

Numbers Game: How many civilians were killed in Gaza? Meet the people who do the counting by Simona Weinglass, The New Republic, May 6, 2009

Examination of the number of Palestinians killed during Operation Cast Lead, Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC), April 7, 2009

The Iranian Gambit in Gaza by Jonathan Schanzer, Commentary, February 24, 2009

An Escalating Regional Cold War – Part I: The 2009 Gaza War by Y. Carmon, Y. Yehoshua, A. Savyon, and H. Migron, Middle East Media Research Institute, MEMRI Inquiry and Analysis No. 492, February 2, 2009

The Phony War Crimes Accusation: The double standard against Israel by Alan M. Dershowitz, January 2009

Proportionality: Israel’s Response to Hamas Rocket Attacks Under International Law By Shoshana Bryen, Senior Director for Security Policy, Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), January 29, 2009

Victory Dancing, JINSA Report #846, January 20, 2009

Averting Iranian Influence in Post-War Gaza: The Rehabilitation Issue by Shimon Shapira, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Brief Vol. 8, No. 18, January 19, 2009

VIDEO: Former British Army Colonel Richard Kemp Discusses IDF Gaza Ops, BBC, January 18, 2009

How to close the Gaza tunnels by William Saletan, Slate, January 16, 2009

Gaza Conflict: Deterrence and Other Missed Points By Michael Radu, Foreign Policy Research Institute, January 2009

Proportionality and hypocrisy by Martin Sherman, YNetNews.com, January 14, 2009

Myths and Facts about the Gaza War, Aish.com, January 13, 2009

Weighing Proprotionality in Gaza by Alon Ben-Meir, January 13, 2009

Gaza’s True Disproportion by Carlos Alberto Montaner, Washington Post, January 12, 2009

Ignoring the Bloodshed in Gaza: The world turns a blind eye to the Palestinian civil war by Jonathan Schanzer, Weekly Standard, January 9, 2009

Myths and Facts about the Fighting in Gaza by Alex Safian, Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), January 8, 2009

Legal Aspects of ‘Operation Cast Lead’ in Gaza by Amos Guiora, JURIST Legal News & Research, January 2009

On Proportionality by Michael Walzer, The New Republic, January 8, 2009

Militant Islam Threatens Us All by Benjamin Netanyahu, Wall Street Journal, January 7, 2009

Double Standard Watch: Israel’s actions are lawful and commendable by Alan Dershowitz, Jerusalem Post blog, January 4, 2009

Rocket Statistics, IDF Spokesperson, January 3, 2009

Moral Clarity in Gaza by Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post, January 2, 2009

Hard Truths About the Conflict by Robert J. Lieber, Washington Post, January 1, 2009

Gaza by the Numbers, The Israel Project, December 31, 2008

Why Israel Had No Choice by David Harris, Jerusalem Post blog, December 30, 2008

Israel’s Disproportionate Response Jonathan Mark, The Jewish Week [New York], December 29, 2008

Israel strikes back against Hamas terror infrastructure in Gaza, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, December 29, 2008

Israel at War: A Primer HonestReporting, December 29, 2008

Wartime in Gaza: The worst anti-Israel charges you’ll hear by Bradley Burston, Haaretz, December 29, 2008

Palestinians Need Israel to Win: If Hamas gets away with terror once again, the peace process will be over by Michael B. Oren and Yossi Klein Halevy, Wall Street Journal, December 29, 2008

Israel’s Operation in Gaza: An ADL Backgrounder, Anti-Defamation League, December 29, 2008

Did Israel Use “Disproportionate Force” in Gaza? by Dore Gold, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Brief Vol 8, No. 16, December 28, 2008

Israel Defends Citizens from Hamas, The Israel Project, December 27, 2008

Gaza War: 4 Media Myths to Be Wary Of, HonestReporting blog, December 27, 2008

Rockets Over Sderot: What should Israel do to stop this outrage?, Facts and Logic About the Middle East (FLAME)

Gaza Powder Keg Set to Explode by Michael Sharnoff, Pajamas Media, November 23, 2008

Hamas in Gaza Continues to Allow Rocket Attacks on Israeli Civilians as Palestinians Demand Fuel Shipments from Israel, The Israel Project, November 20, 2008

The Gaza ‘siege’ (editorial) Jerusalem Post, November 12, 2008

“Gaza’s misfortunes are largely self-inflicted. Hamas has made battling Israel its highest priority regardless of the damage this causes Palestinian society. [....] Over the long haul, Israel simply can’t tolerate an Islamist regime anywhere between the Mediterranean and the Jordan that is dedicated to its destruction.  Those concerned about the well-being of the people of Gaza should put the pressure where it belongs – and tell Hamas to stop the violence.”

Backgrounder: The Rafah Crossing and Restrictions on Cross-Border Movement for Gaza Palestinians by Gilead Ini, Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in American (CAMERA), October 22, 2008

Gaza truce user guide by Ron Ben-Yishai, Ynetnews.com, June 17, 2008

HRW’s Letter to President Bush on Gaza: The “Collective Punishment” Hoax, NGO Monitor, June 16, 2008

The Dilemma in Gaza-And the Shadow of Iran’s Ascendancy by Dr. Eran Lerman, American Jewish Committee, June 2008

The Gaza breakdown by Mark Matthews, Baltimore Sun, May 30, 2008

The Myth of Occupied Gaza by David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey, Washington Post, May 10, 2008

IDF: Hamas creating phony humanitarian crisis by Hanan Greenberg, Ynetnews.com, April 10, 2008

NGOs on Gaza: propaganda and false claims, NGO Monitor, April 10, 2008

Hamas’s military buildup in the Gaza Strip [PDF], Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC), Updated April 8, 2008

Your Tax Dollars at Work in Gaza by Jonathan S. Tobin, The Jewish Exponent, March 20, 2008

The Gaza Prison Camp by Nonie Darwish, The Huffington Post, March 16, 2008

What to do about Gaza: The realistic scenario by Barry Rubin, Jerusalem Post, March 16, 2008

Tired Gaza Two-Step by Victor Davis Hanson, National Review Online, March 13, 2008

Double Standard Watch: Hamas has declared war on Israel – how should Israel respond? by Alan Dershowitz, Jerusalem Post Blog, March 13, 2008

Nine immoral solutions for Gaza – a guide by Bradley Burston, Haaretz, March 4, 2008

Five days of escalation in the Gaza Strip, Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Israel Intelligence Heritage & Commemoration Center (IICC), March 3, 2008

Responding to Hamas Attacks from Gaza – Issues of Proportionality, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, March 2008

Israel’s War to Halt Palestinian Rocket Attacks by Dore Gold, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Brief, Vol. 7, No. 34, March 3, 2008

Is Israel Bound by International Law to Supply Utilities, Goods, and Services to Gaza? by Abraham Bell, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Jerusalem Issue Brief, Vol. 7, No. 33, February 28, 2008

“[I]nternational law does not require Israel to supply Gaza with fuel or electricity, or, indeed, with any other materials, goods, or services. [....] Dependence on foreign supply [...] does not create a legal duty to continue the supply. Absent specific treaty requirements, countries may cut off oil sales to other countries at any time.”

False Claims of “Collective Punishment” in NGO Campaigns on Gaza, NGO Monitor, February 28, 2008

The Sderot Calculus by Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal, Febuary 26, 2008

Collective Punishment and Newspeak by Michael I. Krauss, American Thinker, February 24, 2008

Terror in Gaza: Eight Months Since the Hamas Takeover, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, February 14, 2008

A Visit to a Gaza Rocket Factory by Ulrike Putz, Spiegel International, January 29, 2008

Hamas Manufacture a “Crisis,” But Media Blame Israel by Tamar Sternthal, Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA), January 22, 2008

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