Hamas has sided with the Syrian opposition, which is comprised largely of members of the Muslim Brotherhood, while Iran still strongly backs Mr. Assad, whose Alawite sect is a Shiite offshoot. ISIS killed more civilians in two days (700 plus) than Israel has in two weeks.

If Israel wanted to kill civilians, it is terrible at it. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has given “asylum” to three Hamas leaders who fear that the Israeli police might arrest and/or deport them. The official position of the State of Israel is that peace ought to be negotiated on the basis of giving up some control of the occupied territories in return for a stop to the conflict and violence.

Approaching the two-state solution as an incremental exchange of piecemeal concessions is doomed.

JERUSALEM — Israel prepared Friday for a possible ground invasion of the Gaza Strip as Hamas militants continued to lob rockets into Israel, and one of …

Imagine if ISIS or Hamas had Israel's weapons, army, air force, US support, and nuclear arsenal.

Israel doesn’t trust the United Nations. Today, I’m sharing 4 practical steps to trust God completely with you. And even Egypt would probably like to see Hamas weakened further.

Outside coercion is ruled out, so a successful implementation would require of Israel to assume voluntarily the submissive posture of a vanquished nation: an unlikely scenario for a country unaccustomed to defeat and the behavioral exigencies that go with it. Worse, Israel has adopted Hamas’ use of human shields as a blanket excuse for civilian deaths. The remarks, by the Palestinian police chief, left open the question of how Abbas might bring his former rivals in Hamas to heel given their refusal to disarm as demanded by Israel … Their enemies would've been annihilated long ago.

Faith plays an important role in our ability to trust God completely.

Israel seems hesitant to respond to this changing ... we have placed our trust in bean-counters and negotiators, and that is hardly reassuring. Hamas Leader Threatens Israel With 'Six Months' of Rockets on Tel Aviv ; Netanyahu, he added, “might find [a partner] in Hamas, because for Hamas it doesn’t matter what they get at any particular point in time; finality, closure and end of conflict are not issues that bother them.

In order to really believe some of the messages the bible gives us about perfect peace and trust God completely, … So from the Israeli perspective, war-war looked like a better bet than jaw-jaw. There are several Israeli views of the peace process.