BY YNETNEWS— The Grad rockets that hit Ashdod and Beersheba this week were launched by terrorists from Islamic Jihad’s armed wing, as were the numerous mortars fired towards the western Negev. Four of the five terrorists killed by Israel on Wednesday were longtime Jihad members who had been firing rockets and mortars at Israel since…
BY BARRY RUBIN— Why is terrorism against Israel increasing now? Because the terrorists have: –Everything to gain domestically. Terrorism mobilizes support among their own people and proves their militancy against rival groups. –Everything to gain regionally. There is increasing radicalization and growing power for revolutionary Islamism. Throughout the region and especially for Hamas, Egypt’s revolution–which…
BY CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— What are we to make of the fact that no one has taken credit for Wednesday’s bombing in Jerusalem? The Wednesday bombing was not a stand-alone event. It was part and parcel of the new Palestinian terror war that is just coming into view. As Israel considers how to contend with…