Haniyeh said during the graduation ceremony of the first class of police academy in Gaza article: ‘The institutions set up security on a national basis should remain a working incubator for any security in the future.’ Haniyeh said: ‘What we have built will not destroy, because the Palestinian people felt fruit construction, particularly by ending

This interview was done January 5th, 2009. On Iran's Press TV, no less. Tell me again he doesn't hate Jews.

On December 27th 2008 Israel launched a combined military attack on the Gaza Strip under the codename Operation Cast Lead. It began with an air attack employing US supplied F16 fighter jets to bomb a range of targets, including underground tunnels, used to defy a siege that had succeeded in hermetically sealing off 1.5 million people

Israel's Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein announced today that the Government of Israel will not seek to prosecute MK Hanin Zouabi (Balad) and other leftists who took part in the Gaza flotilla in 2010. Zouabi and others were aboard the Mami Mamara in 2010 along IHH members who prepared an ambush and attacked the IDF Naval Commandos who boarded the ship after it attempted to break the Gaza bl...

Today's sampler and analysis of Mideast media content from my pal Soccer Dad: 1) Whatever happened to Hamas? Maybe it's wishful thinking. In early October, The Christian Science Monitor reported: Of the many complaints in Gaza, one has become a popular refrain: the increasing taxes levied by Hamas. Fathi Abu Gamar, a gas station owner in Jabaliya refugee camp, readily joins the chorus: T...

Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has written Ismail Haniyya, Prime Minister of the Hamas-led government in the Gaza Strip, inviting him to visit Turkey, and informing him that he has instructed Turkey's Ministry of Finance to allocate $300 Million in aid for Hamas. Hamas sources said that Erdogan was responding positively to Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal's call for closer relations be...

Today's sampler and analysis of Mideast media content from my pal Soccer Dad: Cease-fire? Today the New York Times reports After Attacks, Efforts to Restore Truce Between Israel and Groups in Gaza. "Groups?" How descriptive is that? Is the New York Times incapable of using the word "terrorists?" The report includes the boilerplate: Hamas has largely maintained the fragile cease-fire that went...

by Noam Chayut The Independent  In 1979, the year I was born, the Israeli occupation of Gaza and the West Bank was 12 years old. I was 10 during the first Palestinian uprising, when my father and his comrades in a reserve unit forced innocent Palestinians out of their homes and shops and, as a form of

Turkey has said its warships will escort future convoys attempting to run the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza, a move that raises the risk of a naval confrontation.

Turkey began implementing what its foreign minister Ahmet Davutoğlu called"plan B' in his ultimatum yesterday demanding Israel apologize and pay compensation to Turkey over the May, 2010 raid on the flotilla ship Mavi Mamara, which occurred when the ship was attempting to break the Israeli naval blockade on the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. Davutoğlu announced that Turkey was was expelling Israel...