Saturday, 17 November 2012


Saturday, 11/17/2012

 
Too Many IDF Reservists
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Hamas Won’t Let Foreign Nationals Exit Gaza
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What To Do In Case of Rocket Attack
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Rockets on Gush Etzion – A Personal Story
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Suicide Squads Deployed Near the Border in Anticipation of IDF Invasion
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Video: The Fajr 5 Long Range Missile
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Saturday Night Updates: 4 Rockets Shot Down Over Netivot and Ofakim
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Gush Etzion Hit
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Friday, 11/16/2012

 
Chinese Lanterns In The Sukkah
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Emunah In G-d
Kidz → Tales of the Gaonim
 
Hiroshima on My Mind
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Live Report: 3 Soldiers Injured. Latest Rocket Updates
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Two Missiles Hit Tel Aviv Friday Afternoon, Home Front Minister: Expect Hamas to Fire 100s More
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The Pillars of Defense
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A Thank You from JewishPress.com
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Keynes vs. Hayek: Which Approach Won Over the Economies of the West? (Podcast)
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Noontime War Update
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State Dept. Cites 12,000 Rockets in 12 Years as Justification for Israel’s Choice of Self Defense
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Fifth Iron Dome in Southern Front
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IAF Kills 2 in Gaza while Egypt PM Is Visiting
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Summary of Overnight Events
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Likud Anglo Candidate Suspends Campaign in Solidarity with IDF and Southern Residents
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Netanyahu Offers Temporary Cease Fire
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Romney and Obama, Live From the Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner
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How the IDF Minimizes Harm to Civilians in Gaza (Video)
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Tevye in the Promised Land, Chapter Twenty: Zichron Ya’acov
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IDF Spokesperson: Air Attacks Continue, As Do Rocket Launches
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The Art of Sheltering
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Rainy Tsfat
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Friday Morning Overnight Update
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Massive IDF Attacks in Gaza
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Letter to Our Son in Gaza
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Thursday, 11/15/2012

 
Watch 12 Iron Dome Interceptions Over Beer Sheva
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How to Keep Up School Spirit!
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Four More Terrorists Meet Their Virgins
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Violence in Jordan
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Israel Haters Around the World, Unite!
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Goodbye Dairy: Hello Tofutti!
InDepth → Interviews
 
Lessons for the World from a New Gaza War
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Israel Air Force Pummeling Gaza Terror Targets At Rate of 1 Every 51 Seconds
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Today’s Incidents in Judea and Samaria
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Don’t Kick the Can of Violence Down the Road
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IDF Strikes Near Ismail Haniyeh’s House
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Hamas Claims: We Shot Down an Israeli Plane
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Reports in Gaza: Al-Aqsa Brigades Commander Escaped a Hit
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Arab Men Under 40 Barred from the Temple Mount Tomorrow
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Easing The Trauma Of Divorce
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Funeral for Slain Mira Sharf has Begun
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8:25 PM Gaza Update
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Direct Strikes in Be’er Sheva
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Who Is Sandy?!
Judaism → Torah
 
How Much Time Do You Have?
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Barak: We Called Up the Reserves, IDF Spokesman: Gaza Will Not Sleep Quietly Tonight
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7:50 PM Gaza War Update
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Sirens in Tel Aviv, Residents Report an Explosion, Rocket Falls in Rishon L’Tzion
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Parshat Toldot: The Power Of A Text
Judaism → Parsha
 
Supreme Court President on Demolishing Illegal Mosque: ‘Must Kill Them when They’re Young’
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What Were They Thinking?
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Fajr-5 Rocket Hits Tel Aviv, Iron Dome Intercepts 7 Grad Missiles over Beer Sheva
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Tel Aviv Opening Cultural Center to Southern Residents
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Social Networking And The Blended Family
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Rockets Target Rishon L’Tzion and Updates
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Chronicles Of Crises In Our Communities
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Events in the West
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The Twitter War
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Update of the Past Few Hours of Attacks
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We Are Seeing Moshiach in Action!
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Crossing the Line
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Hamas Takes Hostages
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Three Injured in Eshkol Strike
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Israel Under Fire, the IDF Fights Back: a Recap of Events
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Australian Jewish Students Launch ‘Code Red’ Campaign in Support of Israel
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VIDEO: IDF Takes Out Underground Gazan Rockets
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Video: IDF Drops Leaflets on Gaza, Warns Residents to Flee Hamas Areas
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Canada “Stands With Israel”
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Rocket Attacks 8-9 a.m.
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Latest Rocket Updates
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Ministry of Employment Hotline Assisting Southern Workers
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70 Citizens Wounded Since Pillar of Defense Began
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Getting the Message out to the Innocent Victims
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1,200 Children from Israel’s South Visit Jerusalem
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Of Course it was Planned!
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List of Roads Closed Due to War in South
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Morsi Source of Hamas’ Renewed Confidence
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IDF Initiating Call-Up of Reserves, Preparing for Possible Ground War
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Israel, Hamas, PA Encounter the Paradigm Shift
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New Head of Hamas Military Wing Takes Jabari’s Place
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How You Can Help the People of Sderot
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UPDATED: IDF Soldier Wounded by Syrian Bullet
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Ahmed Jabari Funeral Has Begun
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Ground War Could Start Today, But Which Ground War?
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4th Israeli Dies in Kiryat Malachi Attack
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VIDEO: IDF Destroying Fajr Missile Site
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Not Everyone Has a Bomb Shelter
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Islamic Jihad Video of Rocket Launching
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Prime Minister Netanyahu Makes a Statement to the Nation
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Who Shot First?
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IAF Drops Warning Leaflets over Gaza Strip
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Gaza Launching Long-Range Rockets Northward
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At a Glance 
 
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Gaza’s Millionaires Funding the Hamas Regime through Underground Smuggling

Palestinian Authority employees wait in front of an ATM machine in Gaza city to receive parts of their salaries on March 15, 2009.
Palestinian Authority employees wait in front of an ATM machine in Gaza city to receive parts of their salaries in March 2009. 
Photo Credit: Wissam Nassar/Flash90
The world often thinks of the Gaza Strip, home to 1.4 million Palestinians, as one of the poorest places on earth, where people live in misery and squalor.
But according to an investigative report published in the pan-Arab newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat, there are at least 600 millionaires living in the Gaza Strip. The newspaper report also refutes the claim that the Gaza Strip has been facing a humanitarian crisis because of an Israeli blockade.
Mohammed Dahlan, the former Palestinian Authority security commander of the Gaza Strip, further said last week that Hamas was the only party that was laying siege to the Gaza Strip; that it is Hamas, and not Israel or Egypt, that is strangling and punishing the people there.
The Palestinian millionaires, according to the report, have made their wealth thanks to the hundreds of underground tunnels along the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt.
Informed Palestinian sources revealed that every day, in addition to weapons, thousands of tons of fuel, medicine, various types of merchandise, vehicles, electrical appliances, drugs, medicine and cigarettes are smuggled into the Gaza Strip through more than 400 tunnels. A former Sudanese government official who visited the Gaza Strip lately was quoted as saying that he found basic goods that were not available in Sudan. Almost all the tunnels are controlled by the Hamas government, which has established a special commission to oversee the smuggling business, which makes the Hamas government the biggest benefactor of the smuggling industry.
Palestinians estimate that 25% of the Hamas government’s budget comes from taxes imposed on the owners of the underground tunnels.
For example, Hamas has imposed a 25% tax and a $2000 fee on every car that is smuggled into the Gaza Strip. Hamas also charges $15 dollars for each ton of cement, eight cents for a pack of cigarettes and 50 cents for each liter of fuel smuggled through the tunnels.
For Hamas, the Palestinian sources said, the tunnels are a matter of life or death.
Now, however, Hamas is facing a huge crisis as the Egyptian authorities plan to regain control over Sinai in the aftermath of the recent killing of 16 Egyptian border guards by unidentified terrorists.
The Egyptian army appears to be determined to destroy the underground tunnels out of fear that they are being used to smuggle not only goods and fuel, but also Islamist terrorists who pose a threat to Egypt’s national security.
At this stage, however, it is not clear whether Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood President, Mohamed Morsi, would allow his army to cut off one of Hamas’s main sources of income. Morsi’s policy thus far has been to embrace and strengthen Hamas at the expense of the Western-backed Palestinian Authority in the West Bank.
If the Egyptian army succeeds in its anti-terror security crackdown in Sinai, including the demolition of all the underground tunnels that keep Hamas running, it could mark the beginning of the end of the Islamist movement’s rule over the Gaza Strip. But if Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood tie the hands of their generals and prevent them from completing the mission, Hamas will become even stronger and wealthier.
Originally published by the Gatestone Institute.
About the Author: Khaled Abu Toameh, an Arab Muslim, is a veteran award-winning journalist who has been covering Palestinian affairs for nearly three decades.