On August 18, 2011, squads of heavily-armed Popular Resistance Committee (PRC) guerrillas from Gaza travelled about 120 miles through Egyptian Sinai to attack Israeli citizens near the southern Israeli city of Eilat, killing eight Israelis. Israel retaliated with airstrikes on targets inside Gaza. The PRC is a relatively small Palestinian resistance group that has at…
New Gaza war ‘a question of when, not if’ The UN says at least 62 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli action in Gaza so far this year A senior Israeli army officer has told the BBC that as long as Hamas remains in control of the Gaza Strip, another war is “a question of…
According to the BBC on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 Four Israelis killed in West Bank Four Israelis have been shot dead in the West Bank, Israeli police say. Their vehicle came under fire on a road between the settlement of Kiryat Arba and the Palestinian village of Bani Naim, near the city of Hebron. The…
The world is slowly creeping toward the long-awaited and long-feared Iran War. What is this ‘Iran War?” At some point, Iran will be attacked, most likely by Israel, perhaps less likely by the United States or some coalition of Western powers. But the ongoing concerns regarding Iran’s continued nuclear weapons development and the collapse of…
The Iran War Scenarios and Analysis page is now up and running. This page will track current news, rumors, and analysis related to possible attacks on Iran by the United States and/or Israel. http://www.historyguy.com/iranwar.htm