A Hamas Attack on a School Bus near Kibbutz Sa'ad

Debunking the "cycle of violence" lie.

July 19, 2019 Howard Rotberg

In this article I wish to go back a few years to 2011 to shed some light on the continuing rocket attacks from the Hamas terrorist government in Gaza against Israeli civilians. This backstory aims to inform about just one.

Since its violent takeover of the Gaza Strip in 2007, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad have carried out hundreds of horrific suicide bombings, shootings, stabbings and ramming attacks that have killed and maimed thousands of Israelis. To those who advocate giving the Palestinian Authority a state in Judea and Samaria (the so-called West Bank), there is a legitimate concern that, as in Gaza, a terrorist organization controlled by Iran, would overthrow any government.

For years, Hamas has been building up its military capacities, using funds intended for Gaza’s civilians and extorting the local economy to increase its weapons stockpiles and build cross-border attack tunnels. It is said that Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon, to Israel's north, has about 140,000 missiles supplied by Iran, ready to terrorize, kill, and maim, Israelis in the north of Israel.

In early May of this year, Israelis living in the south of the country woke up to yet another barrage of rockets from Gaza. Between Saturday May 4 and Sunday May 5, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas terrorist groups launched over 600 rockets and mortars at Israelis from Gaza (as of May 5th at 6 pm)............To Read More....