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  • How close did Israel just come to its own Cuban missile crisis?

    Published December 09, 2012

    Hundreds of Iranian-made, long-range missiles already smuggled into Gaza provided a secret sense of urgency behind Israel's recent campaign against Hamas, and the the Jewish state acted with the Obama administration's full knowledge, intelligence experts told FoxNews.com.

  • Behind the Iron Dome: Key engineer tells how Israeli defense system saved lives

    Published December 02, 2012

    If there was one clear winner in the latest round of hostilities between Israel and Hamas, it was the Iron Dome -- the Jewish state's complex defense system that plucks rockets out of the sky before they can threaten civilian targets.

  • Time for US to review links with Hamas sponsor Qatar

    Published November 23, 2012

    With the dangerous and ever-changing political dynamic in the Middle East and North Africa replacing the previous status quo with new governments with very different agendas, the tiny Gulf state of Qatar has emerged as an increasingly significant player in the power-politics of the region.

  • Brazen faking of images reveals Hamas’ desperation

    Published November 20, 2012

    There is only one thing worse than the image of a child killed by military conflict, and that is the image of a child killed by military conflict having deliberately been placed in the line of fire.

  • Israel rattled by rise in anti-Semitic rhetoric from Egypt

    Published October 26, 2012

    The new tone coming out of Egypt - punctuated by President Mohammed Morsi mouthing "Amen" to an Imam's call for the destruction of Israel - is rattling residents of the Jewish state, who claim the Obama administration isn't taking the ratcheted rhetoric seriously.

  • Taking the pulse of Armageddon as Israel-Iran showdown looms

    Published August 25, 2012

    It is just an 18-mile journey from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s private residence in luxurious Caesarea on the shores of the Mediterranean, to Har Megiddo - Armageddon, the hilltop ancient ruins of one of King Solomon’s palaces from where the Bible suggests the final battle between good and evil will be viewed.

  • Hamas leader's kin gets Israeli medical aid even as terror group blasts Jewish state

    Published August 12, 2012

    Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has no problem backing an attack on Egyptian soldiers and blaming Jews, but when his relative needs life-saving heart surgery, only Israeli doctors will do.

  • As Assad teeters, Israel prepares for battle to secure chemical weapons

    Published July 28, 2012

    As Syria's regime teeters on the brink of collapse, Israeli soldiers are preparing for possible military action to make sure Bashar al-Assad's chemical weapons don't fall into the hands of terrorist groups.