Gaza-Israel

Gazans flee border areas, fearing Israeli ground invasion

But even inland areas are no haven as Israeli air strikes continue in Gaza. One strike today killed 11 civilians including six children in an attempt to kill a Hamas commander.

Civilian death toll climbs in Gaza

Casualties mount after Israel steps up attacks on the homes of suspected Hamas leaders.

• Israel Sends Hamas 36-Hour Ultimatum

  Diplomatic message to Egypt: Hamas terrorism must cease by Tuesday evening or we step up attack. Israel has delivered an ultimatum to Hamas through Egypt, according to which the IDF will widen its offensive in Gaza in 36 hours unless Hamas ceases firing rockets and smuggling arms into Gaza, IDF Radio reported Monday morning. Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz told the station that the time left before Israel steps up its attack can be measured in "hours, not days." "We are at a junction," he said. "Either we go toward a calm or toward a meaningful widening of the operation… including...

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Rocket sirens pierce the Tel Aviv 'bubble' 

Israel pounds Gaza as U.N. pushes ceasefire talks

GAZA/JERUSALEM - Israel bombed dozens of suspected guerrilla sites in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip and Palestinian rocket fire from the enclave dropped off as international efforts to broker a truce  

Tel Aviv is a city that symbolizes efforts by Israelis to maintain a sense of normalcy despite the Arab-Israeli conflict. But now the new normal here includes the opening of municipal bomb shelters.

• America, Israel, Gaza, the World

  Mon Nov 19 02:12:27 2012 · by JerseyanExile · 4 replies

  The American Interest ^ | November 18, 2012 | Walter Russell Mead

  As Israeli airstrikes and naval shells bombarded Gaza this weekend, the world asked the question that perennially frustrates, confuses and enrages so many people across the planet: Why aren’t the Americans hating on Israel more? As in Operation Cast Lead, the last big conflict between Israel and Hamas, and as during the operation against Hezbollah in Lebanon, much of the world screams in outrage while America yawns. If anything, many of Israel’s military operations are more popular and less controversial in the United States than they are in Israel itself. This time around, President Barack Obama and his administration have...

Israel's Iron Dome provides cover, but not normalcy (+video)

Israeli sources claim the Iron Dome missile defense system has successfully shot down most of the rockets that it has tried to intercept from Gaza.

Syrians want to know: 'Are you okay after Superstorm Sandy?'

With the sound of mortars in the background, Syrians in Aleppo express concern for our American correspondent and his storm-battered homeland.

On the Gaza-Israel border, Israeli reservists weigh a ground assault

As trucks hauled armored vehicles in southern Israel, thousands of reservists headed to training bases, resigned to a ground assault: if the rocket fire didn't end, said one, 'we'll have no choice.'