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BRIEFS Center, affiliated with the Israeli 4 Years in a Row
Defense Ministry, examined the
names of those killed on the Pal-
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estinian side and found that half
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were terrorist operatives. Hamas Lakehouse West
Gaza. Without diminishing the tragedy spokesmen had claimed that the
these noises have become the horrible of the deaths of women and children, overwhelming majority of Pales- R E T IR E M E N T E S T A T
R E T IR E M E N T E S T A T E E
soundtrack of the week. many were family members of terror- tinians killed were civilians.
There’s a land version ists. Others lived in close proximity to ‹ Iran played a key role in support of
and a sea version terrorist locations. (Yonah Jeremy Bob, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Ji-
Iron Dome can protect people and in- Jerusalem Post) had rocket fire at Israel from Gaza.
frastructure on land and at sea. One Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas
version can be loaded onto trucks and THE GAZA WAR 2021: in Gaza, declared that Iran was the
placed in desired locations near com- AN OVERVIEW “largest backer, financially and ank you to our staff and residents
munities or important facilities, while ‹ What motivated Hamas to attack militarily” of Hamas, while Ramez during these difficult times.
the other can be positioned atop Israel Israel for the fourth time since al-Halabi, a senior leader of Pales- Our Lakehouse West Family
Navy ships to safeguard infrastructure 2008 after Israel had withdrawn tinian Islamic Jihad, explained that is stronger than ever! 2017

such as offshore gas rigs. from the entire Gaza Strip? “every weapon” his organization
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Iron Domes ideological roots. The 1988 Hamas funding. (Dore Gold, former di- www.lakehousewest.com
After some speculation, the United Covenant stated that “Israel will rector-general of the Israel Foreign Assisted Living Facility License #5850
States confirmed in 2019 that it pur- exist and will continue to exist un- Ministry, former ambassador to the
chased Iron Dome batteries. According til Islam obliterates it.” The Cov- UN, and president of the Jerusalem
to Israeli media reports, the U.S. pur- enant adds, “There is no solution Center (Jerusalem Center for Pub-
chased two batteries, which it planned for the Palestinian question except lic Affairs)
through Jihad.”
‹ Hamas claims the war was caused WHAT’S DISPROPORTIONAL
by Israeli actions in Jerusalem, in- IS THE CRITICISM
cluding plans to evict Palestinians OF ISRAEL
in the neighborhood of Sheikh Jar- While the fighting between Israel and
rah. But in truth, this was a legal Hamas has stopped for now, critics
dispute that had been under consid- continue to condemn Israel for alleged-
eration by Israeli courts for many ly using “disproportional force” and for
years. A deed from 1876 gave legal ethnically cleansing Palestinians from
title to two Jewish organizations Jerusalem. Yet when the city was uni-
that purchased the property. Pal- fied by Israel in 1967 it was 26% Arab.
estinian Arabs moved into the area Now, after 54 years of “ethnic cleans-
after 1948 when it was conquered ing,” Jerusalem is 38% Arab. The dis-
by the Arab Legion and the Jews pute in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood
residing there were evicted. Thus, of Jerusalem involves Palestinians who
this was not a dispute between in- are tenants on land even Jordan agreed
digenous Arab residents and new was Jewish-owned.
Israeli “settlers.” As for disproportionate force, is
on stationing in conflict zones outside ‹ Since the early 20 century, the Israel guilty because far more Gazans
th
of its borders. Britain, meanwhile, has Palestinian leadership in Jerusa- than Israelis have died? In World War
purchased Iron Dome’s control center. lem has sought to use the so-called II, far more Japanese and Germans Help keep our
It’s award-winning threat to the Muslim religious died than Americans. Does that mean
The anonymous developers of the Iron shrines on the Temple Mount Imperial Japan or Nazi Germany were
Dome, who hail from the defense es- as an instrument to rally public in the right, and the U.S. was in the community safe!
tablishment, won the prestigious Israel opinion, and Hamas did so once wrong? Moreover, in May, 680 Pal-
Defense Prize back in 2012 for their again in 2021 when Israel sought estinian missiles misfired and came
work, only one year after the system to end rioting and stone throwing down in Gaza, killing Palestinian ci-
came into use. from inside the barricaded al-Aqsa vilians whose deaths were blamed on
You don’t need a lot of muscle Mosque. Israel. It is the lies told about Israel that
to operate it ‹ In this latest conflict, the Intelli- are disproportional. (Dr. Alex Safian,
According to an interview given by gence and Terrorism Information CAMERA)
Iron Dome’s developers a few years Dermatology by Newman
ago, they created the system with its
future possible handlers in mind. Dermatology by Newman
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