Israel pounds Gaza from air as troops assemble, Arab League meets
JERUSALEM - Israel's four-day-old air offensive in the Gaza Strip expanded to target Hamas government buildings on Saturday, and Palestinian militants continued firing a torrent of rockets at civilian areas in southern Israel, as both sides stepped up ...www.washingtonpost.com
White House Leaves Gaza Invasion Decision to Israel
The White House said Saturday that it would leave it to Israel to decide whether it is appropriate to invade Gaza to try to stop rocket attacks into the country but that it remains focused on working behind the scenes to deescalate tensions.blogs.wsj.com
Israel launches scores of airstrikes into Gaza
(CBS News) GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Israel bombarded the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip with nearly 200 airstrikes early Saturday, the military said, widening a blistering assault on Gaza rocket operations to include the prime minister's headquarters, a police ...www.cbsnews.com
David Cameron urges Israel to end Gaza crisis
Prime Minister David Cameron has urged Israel's leader Benjamin Netanyahu to do "everything possible" to end the crisis in Gaza.www.bbc.co.uk
Turkish PM praises Egypt for recalling envoy from Israel
CAIRO Nov 17 (Reuters) - Turkey's prime minister, an outspoken of critic of Israel, praised Egypt's Islamist president, Mohamed Mursi, on Saturday for recalling his ambassador from Tel Aviv in response to Israeli attacks on Gaza. Egypt, which in 1979 ...www.reuters.com
Israel Hits Hamas PM's Office, Readies Troops
The Israel Defense Forces reported in a statement Saturday morning that they had struck "over 200 targets" including "120 underground rocket launchers and more than 20 smuggling tunnels" on the coastal enclave's border with Israel, according to the IDF ...online.wsj.com
Israel: 'Iron Dome' blocks rocket fired toward Tel Aviv
Near the Israel-Gaza border (CNN) -- Israel hammered the headquarters of the Hamas-run government in Gaza and rockets soared from Gaza toward Israel, including one that was blocked by a missile defense system as it headed straight to Tel Aviv.www.cnn.com
Israel Destroys Hamas Prime Minister's Office
JERSUSALEM - Israel retaliated after Palestinian rocket attacks on Tel Aviv and Jerusalem with airstrikes before dawn Saturday on the Gaza City offices of Prime Minister Ismail Haniya of Hamas - the militant Islamist group that governs Gaza.www.nytimes.com
Tasteless? Tacky? Israel's aggressive online advocacy faces backlash
Israel used to be painfully behind the curve when it came to using the Internet in its efforts to influence world opinion. It took devastatingly bad experiences and international image battering during both the Second Lebanon War and Operation Cast ...www.haaretz.com
Kim Kardashian supports Israel then retracts after death threats?
There is a heated firestorm brewing over Israel right now, and Kim Kardashian found herself smack-dab in the middle of it. After tweeting to her fans Friday, "Praying for everyone in Israel", she was met with hateful messages and even death threats.www.examiner.com
As Battlefield Changes, Israel Takes Tougher Approach
TEL AVIV - With rockets landing on the outskirts of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem on Friday and the Egyptian prime minister making a solidarity visit to Gaza, the accelerating conflict between Israel and Hamas - reminiscent in many ways of so many previous ...www.nytimes.com
Tale of Two Battlefields
On the fourth day of an Israeli air-and-sea offensive on Gaza, with the specter of an invasion looming, Palestinian civilians are finding themselves once again trapped in a near-perpetual war zone—a 140-square-mile swath of territory with no escape ...www.thedailybeast.com
Israel Targets Hamas Headquarters
In the early hours of Saturday morning, Israel's Air Force reduced the headquarters of the militant group Hamas to rubble.abcnews.go.com
How Israel's 'Iron Dome' intercepts incoming rockets in Gaza conflict
Along with its tally of "terror target" strikes, the Israel Defense Forces' Twitter feed has announced the number of incoming rockets grounded by the system.www.nbcnews.com
Author barred from Jewish book festival
An author whose outspoken criticism of Israel's "occupation" of the Palestinian West Bank got him banned from a Jewish book festival in Atlanta spoke at a sold-out event at an alternate location.www.ynetnews.com
Israeli air strikes hit Hamas HQ
Israel has targeted the headquarters of Hamas leaders and other key facilities in Gaza, on the fourth day of Israeli air strikes in the territory. Prime Minister Ismail Haniya's office, which Egypt's PM had visited on Friday, was among the buildings ...www.bbc.co.uk
What is Iron Dome?
"It's unbelievable, we are very pleased with how Iron Dome has been operating," a spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces told The Telegraph.www.washingtonpost.com
Hoyer: Israel has a sovereign right to defense themselves against Hamas terror
"Mr. Speaker, I join my colleagues today from both sides of the aisle to stand with the people of Israel in support of their sovereign right to defend themselves against Hamas terror.www.examiner.com
Israel deploys new Iron Dome interceptor near Tel Aviv
No one was injured and no damage was reported, but the fact that Israel's commercial capital is in the firing line has alarmed many Israelis.www.reuters.com
Israel's Shortsighted Assassination
Israel's government has declared that the aim of the current strikes against Gaza is to rebuild deterrence so that no rockets will be fired on Israel. Israel's targeted killings of Hamas leaders in the past sent the Hamas leadership underground and ...www.nytimes.com
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