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Shin Bet chief: Hamas, Islamic Jihad in Gaza have 5,000 rockets
Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin said terror organizations in the Gaza Strip "continue to arm themselves, both through production and smuggling."
Diskin, who spoke in the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, noted that Hamas...
A Tale of Two Cities: Sderot, Music, rockets and you
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...
--A Tale of Two Cities
3/18: 2, 3/19: 1, 3/20: 4, 3/21: 2, 3/22: 2, 3/23: 1, 3/26: 1, 3/27: 2, 4/1: 1, 4/2:1,...
Sheltering for the Next War
Fertile, warm, and humid is the plain leading to the town of Sderot. The houses are yellow and white on the Negev, the desert dreamt by David Ben Gurion, the founder of modern Israel....
Barak: Gaza – an Iranian military base 3 kilometers from Sderot
The Minister of Defense spoke at the Socialist International Council about the security challenges facing Israel from the Gaza Strip and Hamas
The Defense Minister emphasized that any organization wishing to send aid to Gazan...
Sderot, the Capital of Rockets and Rock
You know you’ve arrived in Sderot because you turn from the dusty highway onto a city street bordered by a thin roadside park with new decorations and beautifully manicured lawns. Three years ago this...
An Open Letter to the Australian Community
An Open Letter to the Australian Community
Dear Australian Community,
I would like to extend an enormous thank you to Geoff Weinberg for allowing me to have the privilege of traveling to Australia and sharing the...
Interning With SMC: My Dream Summer #2
I arrived 40 minutes early for my bus to Sderot, yet to me that was not enough time. In a matter of hours, I would be in a front row seat documenting the British...
British Colonel declares that Israel safeguarded Gaza civilians during war
Former commander of British forces in Afghanistan Col. Richard Kemp addressed The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs Joint International Conference on HAMAS, THE GAZA WAR AND ACCOUNTABILITY UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW. The following is a...
More facts or more blame?
The three-week Gaza war has been keeping the UN obsessively busy with months of inquiries and a fact-finding mission into supposed Israeli war crime violations.
In May, the UN came out with a report accusing...
Interning With SMC: My Dream Summer #1
Getting into college seemed like the finish line for me. After I purchased school supplies and made my dorm-room bed the rest would be down hill. What I did not predict was that one...
