Brigadier general (Res.) Assaf Orion

The Gaza Spring Offensive: Hamas Hybrid Warfare Threat and Israel

This report analyses the occurrences from the strategic, operational and tactical levels, from both political and military aspects, and sets the unfolding events in a wide context. A thorough look into the parties' options, choices and actions arrives at a clear conclusion: while the Gaza Strip under Hamas is indeed in dire conditions, the Gaza terror government sought to forcefully coerce Israel into concessions, helping Hamas out of its straits.

Working Paper 48

Alexander Greenberg

Iran: Possible Responses to a US Scrapping of the JCPOA

The Trump administration's decision to withdraw from the Iranian nuclear deal has put decision-makers in Tehran on the defensive. Though the prospect of such a move had been a predictable possibility for months, the nature of Iran's response has always been harder to anticipate.

Working Paper 47

FoII

Confronting Hamas' Lies and Media Strategy on Gaza's Border

Working Paper

Actualidad Económica, May 21

Iran: Trump Has Done the Right Thing

The problem is Iran, not the White House.

2018-05-21 by Rafael Bardaji

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FOII's intervention at the UN Human Rights Council

Colonel Kemp's Testimony at the Emergency Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council on the Deteriorating Situation in Gaza

Your failure to admit that Hamas is responsible for every drop of blood spilt on the Gaza border encourages their violence and use of human shields. It makes you complicit in further bloodshed.

2018-05-18 by Colonel Richard Kemp

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La Gaceta, May 17

Hamas and the Exploitation of Death

Nonetheless, we must remember it forcefully: Nations have all the legitimacy, protected by international law, to defend themselves against aggression. The poor and innocent Palestinians appearing in those images are neither so poor nor so innocent. They may be oppressed, but by their own corrupt and totalitarian rulers, whether in Gaza or in the West Bank.

2018-05-17 by Rafael Bardaji

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The Telegraph, May 15

Hamas are using their own people as expendable tools. Don't fall for their games

All of this is no doubt hard to fully understand, especially if you are conditioned to see Israel in a bad light. But those who wrongly accuse Israel of using too much force play into the hands of Hamas.

2018-05-15 by Colonel Richard Kemp

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