Though critics continue to unfairly condemn Israel for the Gaza blockade, which forms a necessary barrier between Israel’s enemies and those who would help arm them, now is a terrible time to consider abandoning the blockade.

At last, Cairo seems to understand how countering the Hamas smuggling operations is in its own national security interests.

Why Israel's campaign against Hamas may succeed.

The conflict in Gaza is the policy of Hamas, and hoping for positive diplomatic intervention from Hamas's allies in Iran and Syria is futile.

The recent triumph of Hamas is yet another indication that the West is fully at war with Islamist extremism and that it is losing that war.

Was it an Israeli shell that killed the Ghalia family? An Israeli military investigation quickly cast considerable doubt on the official Palestinian version of events.

Why is Ariel Sharon evacuating Gaza? It is not because he believes that a decent Palestinian state will emerge after the Israelis withdraw. Nobody believes that.

According to demographic projections by the United Nations, the U.S. Census Bureau, and the Palestinian National Authority, the Arabs of the West Bank and Gaza are the world’s fastest growing population—and residents of the Palestinian National Authority will outnumber Israeli Jews in the foreseeable future. But are these estimates accurate?