Analysis
Wednesday, July 30th 2025 / Wednesday, July 30th 2025
Jeffery Herp Times of Israel, July 22, 2025 “The governments expressing concern about the impact of the war on Gazans would help bring about that result by calling on Hamas’ leaders to surrender.” In an over 3,000-word opinion piece in the New York Times of July 15, Brown University professor Omer Bartov concluded that Israel […]
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Wednesday, July 30th 2025
Lt.-Col (res.) Maurice Hirsch and Abby Notkin Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, July 23, 2025 “Alongside the demand to release the terrorists already convicted, Hamas is also demanding the release of the terrorists who participated in the October 7 massacre and were arrested at the scenes of their atrocities or thereafter.” Kidnapped during […]
Tuesday, July 29th 2025
Matti Friedman The Free Press, July 27, 2025 “You might have thought that hunger in Gaza would work against Hamas, forcing the group to have mercy on its own civilians and accept the ceasefire desired by Israel and the U.S. and currently under discussion in Qatar. But Hamas knows that the opposite is true.” A […]
Tuesday, July 29th 2025 / Tuesday, July 29th 2025
Khaled Abu Toameh Gatestone Institute, July 28, 2025 “Hamas has no problem lying to Trump and US envoy Steve Witkoff, as they have probably already figured out.” On October 24, 2023, senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad threatened that his Iran-backed terror group would carry out more massacres against Israelis — time and again until Israel was […]
Jonathan S. Tobin JNS, July 28, 2025 “But we do know that those who have—either out of malice for Israel or ignorance of facts on the ground—aided Hamas’s efforts to manufacture a famine or have spread misinformation about the crisis to blame the Jewish state for what the terrorists have done are as much […]
Itamar Eichner Ynet News, July 28, 2025 “We’re surviving and growing. Today we distributed more food. Despite all the challenges, this is a historic success, and you can’t imagine what Gaza would look like without GHF.” The newly appointed chair of the U.S.-based Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), Rev. Dr. Johnnie Moore, said there is […]
Friday, March 28th 2025
Ohad Tal Jerusalem Post, Mar. 27, 2025 The three war goals outlined by the Israeli government immediately after the October 7 attack were clear: to destroy Hamas, to free the hostages, and to ensure Gaza no longer poses a threat to Israel. Each of these goals has been achieved to a degree yet not completed. Since the […]
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Wednesday, March 19th 2025
BAR’S MISSIVE The Letter That Led to Netanyahu’s Decision to Fire Shin Bet Chief Ronen Bar: Nadav Eyal, Ynet News, Mar. 18, 2025 — The real reason behind Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to fire Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar may lie in an extraordinary four-page letter Bar sent to Netanyahu, attached to the intelligence agency’s investigation into its failures […]
Yaakov Lappin BESA Perspectives Paper No. 2,336, Mar. 13, 2025 “… the underlying reality is that Hamas has no intention of relinquishing its control over Gaza, and would obviously waste no time in exploiting fig leaf administrations in Gaza to reassert control and entrench itself militarily once again.” EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Hamas seeks to end the war while […]
Yoav Zitun and Noa Lutski Ynet News, Mar. 18, 2025 “Your mission is to protect the communities. We are engaged in a continuous operation against Hamas while remaining fully committed to bringing the hostages home.” The IDF launched a surprise operation in Gaza early Tuesday, striking 80 targets simultaneously. The strikes, which began at 2:10 a.m., […]
*** Herb Keinon Jerusalem Post, Mar. 18, 2025 “Hamas could have released hostages to extend the ceasefire, but instead chose refusal and war.” Israel’s wave of a large-scale attacks on Hamas in Gaza on Monday night were neither a full-scale war nor a specific threat of a ground operation, but an action aimed at convincing Hamas to […]
Wednesday, March 19th 2025 / Wednesday, March 19th 2025
Stav Levaton Times of Israel, Mar. 18, 2025 “In a September 2021 conference held in Gaza titled “Promise of the Hereafter – Post-Liberation Palestine,” Palestinian factions openly discussed governing the entirety of Israel’s territory, “from the river to the sea.”” In the years leading up to its invasion of Israel on October 7, 2023, Hamas developed a […]
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