By Gideon The Second Lebanon War, and the cease-fire agreement signed at the end of the war, put the State of Israel in a dilemma of how to fight an enemey that targets civilan population as its primary objective and uses…
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What you don’t know about the war on the Israeli-Gaza border.
Kibutz Zikim Near the Israel-Gaza border, October 2018 The Israeli media does not report on the current war that is going on the Gaza border. It cooperates with the government in attempt to prevent escalation. By Gideon For a long time,…
Backpage News From The Front – Keep your Spirits Up and Your Head Down!
During the 2014 Gaza war, Daniella Ashkenazy, published a series of articles about life in Israel during the war. The following is an article from this series. It appeared in the CHELM-ON-THE-MED website. It is republished here as a courtesy of the author. a…
The 2nd Lebanon War and the Gaza War as seen in Videos
The war between Israel and the terrorist organization Hezbollah was fought in 2006. It is also known as the 2nd Lebanon War. The Gaza war between Israel and the terrorist organization Hamas was fought in three rounds: 2008–09 conflict, also…
Why Israel won – The seven mistakes Hamas made in the Gaza war
Hamas made several strategic decisions which on paper, and based on past experience, should have given it an advantage to a point that it could have forced Israel into a better cease-fire agreement. An agreement which would have improved Hamas’…
Israeli humor during Gaza war
By Gideon Jewish people turn to humor for comfort in difficult times. In light of the non-stop rocket attacks from Gaza on Israeli cities and the difficult times that the citizens of Israel are going through these days , I…
The game changer that we didn’t see coming – Operation Protective Edge
If I was just returning home, after being stranded on a remote island for the past year, I wouldn’t have believed the news; not because of the success of Iron Dome, or the complex tunnel system that Hamas dug under…