New York racing officials suspended Bob Baffert, the Hall of Fame horse trainer. “It would seem as if the current round of violence emerged out of a complex series of events in Jerusalem,” Vox’s Zack Beauchamp wrote. When Arab countries controlled Palestinian territories in the 1950s and ’60s, they could have created a nation and did not. New York City is planning to hold its marathon in November with 33,000 runners instead of 55,000. Bryan Gardner for The New York Times. “If it happened to Washington or to New York?” Netanyahu said on CBS this weekend. Bask in “the glory of Fran Drescher’s wit and fashion sense,” Hilarie Ashton writes. In fact, though, Israel seems on the verge of winning a major victory over its enemy: Hamas’ military power has been considerably degraded already and it remains contained in Gaza, while Israel is not suffering any backlash from other governments. It will lay out the basic arguments that the two sides are making. Israel’s critics — including a growing number of American progressives — see it as using military force to perpetuate a brutally unjust society. Israel vs. Hamas. Joel Greenberg, a former confidant of Representative Matt Gaetz, pleaded guilty to sex trafficking and other charges. Hamas's exact troop strength is unknown, but various estimates have put armed manpower at around 30,000 militants if you include non-core personnel who could be mobilised in an emergency. Bringing together two of the largest media companies “appears to be the quickest way to buy more eyeballs.”. Garfield said he had yelled. Militant Hamas is both an ideological but also a demographic reaction counting on the fact that Arabs in the future may present a fait accompli to the Jewish state. But the new fighting seems to be squelching most optimism. The current conflict did not escalate into something approaching war until shortly after 6 p.m. last Monday. Israel and Hamas have fought three wars, which were largely seen as failures for both sides, with Hamas still in power and Israel continuing to maintain a crippling blockade. The military did not immediately respond to a request for comment. They often cannot travel without enduring checkpoints and roadblocks. As the fighting continues in Israel and Gaza, we lay out both sides’ cases. The Battle of Gaza, also referred to as Hamas' takeover of Gaza, was a military conflict between Fatah and Hamas, that took place in the Gaza Strip between June 10 and 15, 2007. Activists demonstrating for and against abortion rights at the Mississippi State Capitol in 2019. An independent Palestine should exist alongside Israel to bring this baffling extreme of identity politics to an end. And Israel has launched bombing attacks on the buildings and underground tunnels where Hamas stores its missiles. Initial Israeli court rulings upheld the evictions, and the Supreme Court has yet to rule on the case. When it does, Israel’s military strength, financed partly by the U.S., allows it to inflict disproportionate damage. Over the past eight days, more than 200 Palestinians have died in the fighting, compared with at least 10 people in Israel. A number of wars have broken out in the Middle East with the sole purpose of deleting the Jewish state. Israel launched deadly airstrikes on Gaza in … In fact, this encore is the intellectual centre of Western capitalism as we know it. Just as Mr Okia lifted the Bible aloft to start administering the oath, his wife raced from behind and pushed herself next to the incoming... 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They are instead pursuing versions of total victory. The hosts joked about Biden’s Venmo account. Israel steps up Gaza offensive, kills senior Hamas military leaders Israel and Hamas have fought three wars since the Islamic militant group seized power in Gaza from rival Palestinian forces in 2007. Justice Brett Kavanaugh may be the swing vote. Refaat Alareer, a professor in Gaza, has lost his brother, and his wife, Nusayba, has lost her grandfather, brother, sister and sister’s three children, all in Israeli attacks over recent years, as he explained in a Times Opinion piece. Fast forward to 2021, after a number of peace agreements, detentes’ etc., with Israel in like terms feared or respected establishing itself as a paragon of technology, military hardware, industry etc. Moreover, the Iranian threat has led Arab Gulf states to make a military alliance with the United States and Israel. Many Israeli and Palestinian leaders have given up on the idea of lasting peace, such as a two-state solution in which Israel and a sovereign Palestine would coexist. Women take cover in a shelter in Ashdod, Israel. Israel’s bombardment of what it describes as military targets in Gaza began after clashes between Israeli police and Palestinian protesters at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound. — David. Know your alliums: Spring onions, scallions, leeks, ramps — what’s the difference? Hamas has turned its military weakness vis-a-vis Israel into a political advantage. A Times investigation reports that Apple has given in to escalating demands from the Chinese authorities. Britain faced decades of hand wringing after the second world war until Margaret Thatcher rose to power accusing the establishment of managing Britain’s steady decline after the loss of her colonies. People siting in the rubble of a bombed house in Gaza on Monday. But Israel says that Hamas deliberately stores missiles near civilians, knowing that the resulting casualties help it win global sympathy. When you strip both down to their essence, they help to explain the situation. When the United Nations proposed a two-state solution in the 1940s, Arabs rejected it, David Harris recently wrote in The Times of Israel. A jury awarded $75 million to two Black men who spent 31 years imprisoned on wrongful convictions. “The Israeli regime implements laws, practices and state violence designed to cement the supremacy of one group — Jews — over another — Palestinians,” B’Tselem, a human rights group, has written. For Hamas, the militant group that rivals Fatah as the dominant Palestinian political party, that means the destruction of Israel. Beneath the surface, Hamas has also displayed a tenacity with good funding from Israel’s neighbours who sanction them during the day but are driven by local realpolitik to support them at night. As the fighting continues in Israel and Gaza, we lay out both sides’ cases. On “Popcast,” the rediscovery of Beverly Glenn-Copeland. You can see today’s print front page here. The founding of Israel in 1947 was to settle a centuries old problem, the expulsion of Jews from their homeland by the Arabs by reclaiming part of Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria. Author: Mr Karoli Ssemogerere is an Attorney-at-Law and an Advocate. Long term, consolidation often leads to higher prices for consumers. It is possible Israel could carpet bomb Gaza into submission. Biden said the U.S. would send 20 million vaccine doses overseas next month. During the current conflict, Hamas said it is "defending Jerusalem" by launching rockets at Israel. The pangram from yesterday’s Spelling Bee was bellyache. Of course the humanitarian issues remain, no justification exists for the loss of human life. Abraham Lincoln became the Republican nominee for president 161 years ago today. Any type of dried noodles can work in this recipe for yo po mian, a staple from China’s central northwest. Israel and Hamas agreed to a cease-fire Thursday, halting a bruising 11-day war that caused widespread destruction in the Gaza Strip, brought life in much of Israel to a … It is instead spinning off the Warner properties, which include HBO and CNN, into a new company that is merging with Discovery Inc., which owns reality-based cable channels like HGTV and the Food Network. It is just one example of how Israel has imposed control over places where Palestinians have lived for decades. Israel can’t make a peace deal, its supporters say, until it has a partner more interested in building a prosperous society than trying to destroy Israel. If you’re in the mood to play more, find all our games here. For all its military advantages, Israel is surrounded by oil money and a fragile pact with big neighbour Egypt and to a lesser extent Syria. Today’s episode of “The Daily” is about the U.S. economy. Over the past few days of escalating conflict between Israel and Palestine, Hamas, a militant organisation, has come to the limelight once again. Countries need to cut planet-warming pollution faster to avoid irreversible damage to Earth, the International Energy Agency says. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to expand the offensive, while Gaza militants unleashed a fierce late-night … Instead, the real cost to Israel has been the exposure and exacerbation of internal social tensions. Today’s newsletter is mostly for them. This week, AT&T walked away from the strategy. Internally these developments have only been eclipsed by numerous UN resolutions mostly vetoed by the United States where persons of Jewish descent play an outsize influence in the country’s political and social economic life. The Israeli military unleashed a wave of heavy airstrikes on the Gaza Strip early Monday, saying it destroyed nine miles of militant tunnels and the homes of nine Hamas … The Israeli military said later the building was a legitimate military target because it contained military assets of Hamas, the Islamist group that runs Gaza. The US Pentagon budget has stabilised at $700 billion in the last five years but America has discovered, it needs to do more to shore its human resource and declining workforce participation rate. Find more on what the deal means for your favorite shows. Israel is the strongest military power in the Middle East, but as its 2006 war with Hezbollah and its last three wars with Hamas amply illustrate, it is vulnerable to enemy rocket attacks. At the same time, it’s difficult for Israel to maintain a legal framework that subjugates Arabs within its borders to second class status; or wishes the Palestinian problem away. As The Times’s Patrick Kingsley has written, “Israeli law allows Jews to reclaim ownership of land they vacated in 1948, but denies Palestinians the right to reclaim the properties they fled from in the same war.” Netanyahu and his allies believe that they can reduce the chances of a future Palestinian state by displacing Palestinians and expanding Jewish settlements. The other oil kingdoms tolerate Israel but look at militants like Hamas as another potential trigger for upheaval. The … Its ideological positions – refusing to recognize Israel and to engage in diplomatic negotiations with it – has become an effective strategy. See you tomorrow. “You know damn well what you would do.”. WNYC fired the host Bob Garfield after two investigations found he had violated an anti-bullying policy. Hamas and other militant groups in Gaza, claiming to be defending Jerusalem, have fired hundreds of rockets at Tel Aviv and other cities. Sign up here to get this newsletter in your inbox. More broadly, the East Jerusalem case is an example of how Palestinians must endure frequent humiliation. They can be denied Israeli citizenship. The point of the bombings is to degrade the Hamas threat. Hamas, which is backed by Iran, has now fired at least 3,350 missiles toward Israel. Israel and Hamas have fought three wars since the Islamic militant group seized power in Gaza from rival Palestinian forces. Israel’s answer is both defense and offense. Food fight: Some people call Alice Waters elitist. One spark for the current fighting is an attempt by Jewish settlers to evict six Palestinian families from their East Jerusalem homes, where they have lived since the 1950s. This toll, Alareer writes, makes him and his wife “a perfectly average Palestinian couple.”. The bigger picture is the stability of the Middle East, the home of three of the world’s major religions, Christianity, Islam and Judaism which share the same history, share similar beliefs, i.e. Israel insists that it tries to minimize Palestinian civilian deaths, going so far as announcing some bombings in advance, even though Hamas fighters can then escape. The politics in the Middle East is back to centre stage on the global map. The settlers have cited a 19th-century real-estate transaction to establish their ownership. Water, medicine and power shortages are common, with Gaza relying on Israel for its supplies. It remains unclear when the missile attacks and bombings will stop or if they will instead escalate into a ground war. It’s a version of imperialism. Hamas vs Israel: Military might brought to fore after decades of complacency Thursday May 20 2021 Author: Mr Karoli Ssemogerere is an Attorney-at-Law and an Advocate. Hamas aims to cement its hold on power and expand its influence relative to its Palestinian rivals, seeing violence against Israel as a key tool in this struggle. Claire Moses, Ian Prasad Philbrick and Sanam Yar contributed to The Morning. P.S. Virus resources: How to travel while vaccinated. Before this conflict started, an optimist could imagine how the next few years might bring progress. When Israel and President Bill Clinton offered a two-state peace deal two decades ago, the Palestinians said no. She says they just don’t get it. That tactic is consistent with decades of Palestinian political dysfunction. Lives Lived: As a top modeling agent in the 1960s and ’70s, Barbara Stone cultivated the careers of Cheryl Tiegs, Cybill Shepherd and even a young Martha Stewart. Even many supporters of Israel who despair over Netanyahu’s leadership believe the larger problem is the Palestinians’ unwillingness to empower competent political leaders, rather than militants like Hamas. belief in one God and are unitary in structure with a strong emphasis on hierarchy, dogma and tradition. The old secrets of electronic intelligence translated into warfare are now on display. In Times Opinion, Thomas Friedman writes that both Netanyahu and Hamas “have kept power by inspiring and riding waves of hostility to ‘the other.’” Michelle Goldberg and Bret Stephens also have columns. Sentiments for the return of the Zionist state were exacerbated by the Holocaust (the indiscriminate elimination of Jews by Hitler using populism and jingoism to establish himself first politically and later on to annihilate his neighbours in the second world war). Israel, Hamas Begin Truce, Gazans Celebrate Each side said it stood ready to retaliate for any truce violations by the other. “The youngster who, with ragged trousers, used barefoot to drive his father’s oxen and spend his days in splitting rails, has risen to high eminence,” The Times wrote. Cairo said it … A Times classic: OK, you fix the climate. It also remains unclear when either the Israelis or Palestinians will have political leaders whose priority is peace. Here’s today’s Mini Crossword, and a clue: Politician’s mistake (five letters). Israel has meanwhile carried out hundreds of airstrikes across impoverished Gaza, which is home to more than 2 million Palestinians and has been under an Israeli and Egyptian blockade since Hamas seized power from rival Palestinian forces in 2007. Stone died at 87. At its centre is the existence and expansion of the Jewish State on the one hand and the inevitable demographics of Palestinians who occupy the West Bank and Gaza but are also the largest sub-group in Jordan. Hamas regularly lobs missiles into Israel, and Israel has launched military operations and imposed economic sanctions on Hamas-run territory for years. Arab countries resisted this development championed by World Jewry and Western powers which have been the economic and intellectual home of the world Jewish population for decades. Israel has deployed the Iron dome, a missile defence system, to intercept rockets fired by Hamas and launched a deadly counterpunch. When it does, Israel’s military strength, financed partly by the U.S., allows it … The ’90s sitcom “The Nanny” is having a resurgence. You can reach the team at themorning@nytimes.com. The best hope for change, many Palestinians believe, is pressure from Israel’s most important ally, the United States. And they may bristle at the above description as false equivalence. The military wants Hamas to return the bodies of two soldiers before it considers a truce, an Israeli government aide said. President Xi Jinping of China, lower left, greeting Apple’s chief executive, Tim Cook, in 2015. Mr Ssemogerere is an Attorney-At-Law and an Advocate. Their economy suffers from blockades. The latest conflict between Israelis and Palestinians had its own specific sparks. The result is the worst fighting since 2014. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/briefing/israel-hamas-conflict-fighting.html. Here is today’s puzzle — or you can play online. The Gulf state supports former Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal and Haniyeh, while at the same time supporting Sinwar, playing them off against each other to promote its interests, explained Michael. Israel vs. Hamas: Again May 13, 2021, 5:54 PM ... Irish government’s position that Israel’s military response to Hamas attacks was “not acceptable,” and Israel … Some anti-abortion activists feel “a great sense of inspiration.”. Hamas had given Israeli forces a 6:00 pm deadline to leave the compound, one of Islam’s holiest places and possibly the world’s most sensitive religious site. Three years ago, AT&T tried to become a major player in the entertainment industry by buying Time Warner. These inequities fuel Palestinian anger, which occasionally explodes. Topics Israel Nothing will change for consumers in the short term; the deal won’t close for another year, if regulators approve it. It has built a defense system known as Iron Dome, which has intercepted many missiles. Many Israelis ask their critics: What would you do if a terrorist group (which Hamas is, according to the U.S. and European Union) committed to the elimination of your country fired missiles at it day after day, inducing widespread terror? President Biden expressed support for a cease-fire during a call with Netanyahu yesterday. The historical ones are 1948, 1956, 1967 and 1973 all of which ended in Israel gaining more territory and leverage over her neighbours. That’s when Hamas launched missile attacks on Jerusalem’s civilians. A recent episode of “The Argument” looks at the Supreme Court’s major options: overturning Roe v. Wade, undermining it or largely letting it stand. In the latest round of fighting, Hamas has launched several rocket attacks on Israel, which have killed several people including Sergeant Omer Tabib, an Israeli military leader. “But in reality, these events were merely triggers for escalations made almost inevitable by the way the major parties have chosen to approach the conflict.”. For Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israel, it means a two-class society in which Palestinians are crowded into shrinking geographic areas and lack many basic rights. It was a prominent event in the Fatah–Hamas conflict, centered on the struggle for power, after Fatah lost the parliamentary elections of 2006.Hamas fighters took control of the Gaza Strip and … I recognize that some readers are deeply versed in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, with strong views about it. But just as important as those sparks is a larger reality: Both sides in the conflict are led by people who are relatively uninterested in compromise. “It hints at a future with fewer, broader streaming options,” Jason Karaian, the editor of DealBook, said. Post coronavirus pandemic, many of these geo-strategic issues may mean less as the centre of gravity dissembles into multiple (bilateral) centres. Israel and four Arab nations recently established diplomatic relations, a breakthrough that could eventually offer a framework for resolving the Palestinian question. Food Stylist: Barrett Washburne, a growing number of American progressives, what the deal means for your favorite shows. Hamas, like many groups in the Middle East, remains resentful of the creation of Israel after the Second World War, something promoted largely by Western powers.
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