Hamas officials said that a 52-page document has been compiled to testify that the offensive missiles fired during Operation Cast lead were “an accident” due to their weapon’s lack of aiming capabilities toward military installations. However, section 1687 of the “Goldstone Report” presents that, “indeed, Palestinian armed groups, among them Hamas, have publicly expressed their intention to target Israel civilians.... claimed responsibility for the deaths...

In October of 2009, I had the opportunity to sit down with Talal Nasser, a senior Hamas official in the Hamas office in Damascus, Syria. Hamas is designated by the West as a terrorist organization and is viewed as a resistance movement in the Arab world. The most recent and significant clash with Israel occurred in the winter of 2008- 2009 and was called Operation Cast Lead by the Israelis and was known as the Gaza massacre in the Arab world. The following is an interview that attempts to shed...

The year 2009 brought about a fresh wave of anti-Israel rhetoric and accusations, most which cited Israel’s supposed siege on Gaza. The international press frequently cited calls by human rights groups to “end Israel’s illegal blockade” and “liberate Gaza.” Such messages have been conceived to undermine Israel and present a very misleading angle of the actual Gaza conflict. In a typical blockade, no supplies would be allowed to enter into enemy territory,...

October 9, 2009: Hamas is making efforts to obtain longer-range rockets with greater accuracy and larger warheads to improve its rocket force capability, according to a report written by Y., a former deputy head of the Shin Bet. The report was published Thursday by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Entitled "Hamas in Combat," the article was co-authored by Jeffrey White, a veteran of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and Y., the former deputy head of the Shin Bet who was...

TEL AVIV [MENL] Middle East Newsline, Nov 5, 2009-- Israel's military has assessed that Hamas might be preparing for an imminent conflict with Israel. Military sources said the intelligence community has determined that Hamas was intensifying military preparations for another war with Israel. They said Hamas has replenished its missile and rocket arsenal and acquired weapons that could strike major Israeli cities and critical facilities. "The security leadership does not ask whether...