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**FILE** Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg attends a news conference of the Genesis Prize Foundation in Jerusalem on May 22, 2014. (Associated Press)

Michael Bloomberg thumbs FAA ban, plots course to Israel

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

A Palestinian man carries his father as he and others run to take cover during an Israeli air strike in Rafah on Wednesday. (Associated Press photographs)

Hamas rejects Kerry’s call for cease-fire; Fears grow others could join fight against Israel

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

An Israeli soldiers walks by a military vehicle near the Israel Gaza Border, early Tuesday, July 15, 2014. The Israeli Cabinet has accepted an Egyptian proposal for a cease-fire to end a week of conflict with Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip that has killed 185 Palestinians and exposed millions of Israelis to Hamas rocket fire. No Israelis have been killed as a result of Hamas rocket launches. A senior Hamas official says the Palestinian militant group rejects an Egyptian proposal for a cease-fire with Israel. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

VANNESS: Keep Rafah closed

By Alex VanNess

Israeli police officers secure a destroyed house that was hit by a rocket fired by Palestinians militants from Gaza, in Yahud, a Tel Aviv suburb near the airport, central Israel, Tuesday, July 22, 2014. As a result, Delta Air Lines and U.S. Airlines decided to cancel their scheduled flights to Israel.(AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

HUMPHRIES: The Israel/Palestinian conflict is actually easy to understand

By Rusty Humphries

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in Jerusalem, Wednesday, July 23, 2014. Kerry is meeting with Ban, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas as efforts for a cease-fire between Hamas and Israel continues. (AP Photo/Pool)

John Kerry defies FAA and flies to Israel to talk peace

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This Sept. 4, 2013, file photo shows Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn. speaking with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Murphy: Israel must be wary of Hamas using civilian deaths for recruitment

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Israeli police officers secure a destroyed house that was hit by a rocket fired by Palestinians militants from Gaza, in Yahud, a Tel Aviv suburb near the airport, central Israel, Tuesday, July 22, 2014. As a result, Delta Air Lines and U.S. Airlines decided to cancel their scheduled flights to Israel.(AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Airlines ban flights to Israel after rocket strike

By ARON HELLER - Associated Press

Ron Dermer, Israel's new ambassador to U.S., has presented his credentials to President Obama. Mr. Dermer started developing close ties with Republicans when he worked with party strategist Frank Luntz in the 1994 congressional campaigns. (Twitter/@AmbDermer) ** FILE **

Israel’s ambassador praises Obama, slams Human Rights Watch report

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Israeli soldiers carry the coffin of Maj. Amotz Greenberg, 45, during his funeral in the Israeli city of Hod Hasharon, Sunday, July 20, 2014. According to reports, Greenberg was killed fighting a group of militants who infiltrated Israel through a tunnel from the Gaza Strip. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)

Hamas terrorists wear Israeli army uniforms to ambush soldiers in Gaza

By Abraham Rabinovich - Washington Free Beacon

Israeli soldiers kneel during a drill near Israel and Gaza border, Tuesday, July 22, 2014. Israeli airstrikes pummeled a wide range of targets in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday as the U.N. chief and the U.S. secretary of state began an intensive effort to end more than two weeks of fighting that has killed hundreds of Palestinians and dozens of Israelis.(AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)

Israel hits five mosques, sports complex in overnight Gaza strikes

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Palestinian rescuers release a lifeless body from the rubble of a house was destroyed by an Israeli missile strike, in Gaza City, Monday, July 21, 2014. On Sunday, the first major ground battle in two weeks of Israel-Hamas fighting exacted a steep price, killing scores of Palestinians and over a dozen Israeli soldiers and forcing thousands of terrified Palestinian civilians to flee their devastated Shijaiyah neighborhood, which Israel says is a major source for rocket fire against its civilians. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Hamas sends in bomb-covered donkey to hit Israeli troops

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Israeli soldiers carry the coffin of Sgt. Nissim Sean Carmeli during his funeral in Haifa, Israel. Sgt. Carmeli, of Texas, was killed in fighting on Sunday. (Associated Press)

U.S. scrambles as violence escalates in Israel-Hamas conflict

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Thousands of Israelis attended the funeral of Sgt. Nissim Sean Carmeli, at the military cemetery in the northern Israeli city of Haifa. Sgt. Carmeli from Texas was killed in fighting in the Gaza Strip on Sunday. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Amid Mideast conflict, media outlets tell different stories

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

Obama calls for Israel-Hamas cease-fire

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Israeli Defense Forces tweeted this picture of rockets over London to justify its Gaza invasion.

Israeli army tweets image of rockets over London to justify Gaza invasion

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Palestinian rescue workers search for survivors under the rubble of a house was destroyed by an Israeli missile strike, in Gaza City, Monday, July 21, 2014. On Sunday, the first major ground battle in two weeks of Israel-Hamas fighting exacted a steep price, killing scores of Palestinians and over a dozen Israeli soldiers and forcing thousands of terrified Palestinian civilians to flee their devastated Shijaiyah neighborhood, which Israel says is a major source for rocket fire against its civilians. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Netanyahu spokesman: Israel ‘looking into’ Hamas claim of captured soldier

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

In this Saturday, July 12, 2014 photo, Palestinian medics wheel an injured man on a stretcher into the Shifa hospital after an Israeli missile strike in Gaza City. In the heart of Gaza City, as its citizen again find themselves under fire from Israeli airstrikes and artillery, the wounded and their wailing families stream into Shifa Hospital without end. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

Kerry: Hamas must agree to cease-fire

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Smoke and fire of an explosion after an Israeli missile hits the Shijaiyah neighborhood in Gaza City.

Israel intensifies Gaza ground assault on conflict’s deadliest day yet

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times