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Violating the 2009 cease-fire, Hamas and other terrorist groups maintained a steady “drizzle”—tiftuf, in Hebrew—of rockets and mortar shells on southern Israeli towns. After the Muslim Brotherhood’s 2012 victory, that drip became a downpour. On October 24 alone, Hamas fired eighty projectiles at Israel. This
Michael B. Oren • Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide
The U.S. geopolitical leadership has shown two faces to the world. One was the U.S. interest in building law-based multilateral institutions, including the global institutions of the UN system and regional institutions such as the European Community (and later European Union), of which the United States was a champion from the start. The other was
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Amid criticism, Biden administration makes plea for civilians trapped in Gaza under Israeli bombardment — Los Angeles Times
Tracy Wilkinsonapple.newsThomas Ahern’s CIA and Rural Pacification in South Vietnam and James Stejskal’s Special Forces Berlin: Clandestine Cold War Operations of the US Army’s Elite, 1956–1990 (Ahern 2001; Stejskal, 2017).
David Tucker • United States Special Operations Forces
such, Abbas was likely to pocket any concessions that Kerry pried from Israel, declare a Palestinian state unilaterally in the UN, and then sue Israel in the International Criminal Court for illegally occupying that state.