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I'll add to this that Reporters don't have a Batman-like ability to happen upon crimes news while out for a stroll. They're dependent on a network of informants, interviewees, and local sources to get information. Those informants don't have the luxury of going away. I posted this a bit...

By the standards some people judge Israel if a man breaks into your house and shoots you several times, but you're wearing a bulletproof best that stops the first couple of rounds and the third is just a flesh wound, you're a murderer if you shoot back and kill him.

That's an option, but a better one is "Don't give Hamas territory surrounding Jerusalem on all sides at point-blank range for an empty promise of temporary ceasefire."

As I understand it, C-RAM only has about a 50-60% success rate with it creeping up towards about 70% under optimal circumstances. That's why Iron Dome's 90% is so revolutionary. If they get fired on by 1,400 mortars and can only intercept two-thirds of those instead of 90%, that's a lot more...

So here's an interesting tidbit Galorian brought up in SB that bears repeating. Iron Dome actually has a minimum range within which it can't intercept mortar fire. From the 1967 borders, Hamas would be able to shell Jerusalem, several other major population centers, and Israel's main airport...

I wonder if Hamas could be exported to some other country. If they've managed to build 500km of tunnels they must be pretty good at it, surely somebody could use the infrastructure? Maybe China could use them for their silk road project building tunnels. I know China doesn't get nearly the...

Guidelines for Journalists by the The Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association, to ensure "accurate" reporting. Helps explain the media situation when their guidelines start from the assumption that Israel is in the wrong and go from there. Highlights include: All reporting should take...

On the flipside from the previous recording, a conversation between the IDF and a Palestinian farmer who just wants to work his plot: Palestinian: Please continue. IDF: You entered a part of the fence which is forbidden to be in during this time. Palestinian: You want me to return home and...

Recording of a conversation between the IDF and a Palestinian, attempting to encourage the Palestinian to evacuate children: Palestinian: I can't get all people out I need at least two hours to get them out of there. IDF: Listen, we are going to bomb the building. Palestinian: You want to bomb...

That's a weird way of spelling "The Israeli Supreme Court" given the "provocation" was their evicting six families for not paying rent. Also, the elections were finished in March. The violence broke out in May. Either time isn't linear anymore or there's some confusion going on as to how...

It's rather curious that people theorize that Netanyahu is causing the wars to benefit his political position, given that his popularity always rises in time of peace and drops when there are more attacks...

Even more, I'd say @History Learner is using the kind of logic and armchair tactics a person develops from playing video games. You reach the boss and if you lose, you try again and again, improving your tactics each time until eventually, you beat the boss. The boss monster meanwhile never...

Tommy Vietor, former Obama staffer, has confirmed that Hamas was in the AP building via his personal contacts. This is extremely convincing proof given that he's highly critical of Israel and not at all one of their supporters so he wouldn't be saying this unless he was absolutely certain.

I rather question your reading comprehension in that case, though as you apparently didn't read the article but instead did a search for a few specific words, I should perhaps instead question how you are qualified to say "nothing I cited shows X," especially when the bulk of the article is...

You've got to be kidding. A brief search reveals over fifty mentions in the article, by an AP reporter, about the AP and it's working with Hamas. More than that and I'll start copyright infringing from so much. Would you care to retract your claim about only two mentions and no mention of...

IT was verified years ago by a former AP press member that the AP press was working with Hamas and reporters who didn't toe the line and report Hamas' story got killed. Consequently it's pretty much impossible to get evidence outside of the IDF, you're literally asking for either Hamas or...

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” ― Upton Sinclair How much more so, when understanding it will get you a bullet in the back of the head.

No, I wouldn't take everything the IDF says at face value at all. I was mostly trying to answer Husky_Khan's statement: Why the IDF would target a media building is beyond me...

According to the IDF's twitter feed, Hamas was using the Al Jazeera building as an HQ for intelligence operations. Note that this is a chain of several tweets so probably better to read the whole list where they break it down.

Picture perfectly encapsulating the crisis in the Middle East. Palestinian missiles flying every which way on the left, Iron Dome fixated on defending against them from the right.