gaza Archives – Page 4 of 8

A call from Tel Aviv: Freaked, at first

Rob Eshman November 20, 2012

Is this a war? It’s so hard to know these days. Wars used to happen on things called battlefields, where armies met, fought and met again.

Israel-Gaza conflict: Low expectations

Shmuel Rosner November 20, 2012

No one knows for sure why the Gaza hostilities began. We know that there had been weeks of intensifying rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip, rockets fired by various Palestinian groups that were tolerated, even encouraged by the governing Hamas.

From Sandy to Gaza rockets, students weather each other’s storms

Jewish Journal November 20, 2012

Between Israeli youths going through Hurricane Sandy and American youths experiencing the onslaught of rockets from Gaza, participants of November’s America Israel Friendship League’s (AIFL) student exchange rode an emotional and historic rollercoaster on both sides of the Atlantic.

Gaza ground war wouldn’t cure Israel’s Hamas headache

Jewish Journal November 19, 2012

An Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip will not provide any long-term solution to the problem posed by the Islamist group Hamas, and this will make the government think long and hard before sending in the troops.

Economic costs of Gaza fighting

Jewish Journal November 19, 2012

Last Friday, Moshe Ahituv (not his real name) received another call-up from the Israeli army. A captain in the home front command, he had already completed 43 days of army reserve service this year.

Gazans in Jordan scramble for news about relatives

Jewish Journal November 19, 2012

With one eye on Skype and the other fixed on the television screen, Salma anxiously searched for news about her father, two brothers and younger sister in the Gaza Strip. “I am suffering so much. I do not know how I will handle not being near my family, even under the bombardment,” Salma, 23, who grew up in Gaza and moved to Jordan in 2010 after she married, told The Media Line. She asked not to use her last name out of concern for her family.