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March 21, 2019

Why Israel Pretends That Hamas Fired Rockets by Accident

The Gaza conundrum.

Israeli military and political officials have repeated Hamas’s dubious claim that the launching of two rockets at Tel Aviv last week was inadvertent. To Smadar Perry, accepting Hamas’s story rather than engaging in further retaliation is but a convenient, and perhaps necessary, way of aiding Egyptian efforts to broker a deal with the terrorist group. But even if these efforts succeed, the results will be mixed:

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March 21, 2019

  1. Why Israel Pretends That Hamas Fired Rockets by Accident

    The Gaza conundrum.

  2. For Today’s Hard Left, Those Who Condemn Anti-Semitism Are the Enemy

    The logic behind attacks on Chelsea Clinton, and on “white Jews.”

  3. In Appointing a New Prime Minister, Mahmoud Abbas Focuses on His Rivalry with Hamas

    Meet Muhammad Shtayyeh.

  4. Esther, Shakespeare, and the Hidden Hand of God

    Can Measure for Measure help explain the biblical book?

  5. The Sabbath Is an End in Itself, Not a Path to Inner Peace

    What Lieberman saw that Heschel didn’t.