Tear Down This Wall, Mr. Netanyahu – OpEd
Bibi Netanyahu is visiting China where he’s negotiated trade deals, lobbied unsuccessfully for a tougher Chinese diplomatic stance against Iran, and likely cooked up some secret arms deals with the…
Ben Zygier Compromised Major Mossad Operation To Retrieve Remains Of IDF MIAs From Lebanon War – OpEd
Trevor Borman produced a second installment of his TV documentary on Prisoner X aka Ben Zygier. Borman was the first journalist to expose the real identity of Prisoner X three…
After Kerry Calls Erdogan Visit To Gaza Untimely, Turkey Tells Him To Mind His Own Business – OpEd
John Kerry and Chuck Hagel have been continuing the Obama administration love fest with Israel that began with the President’s visit a few weeks ago. Hagel on his visit bore…
Aipac Asks US Congress To Approve Israel Visa Waiver Program – OpEd
Aipac, with its hand deeply in the pocket of the U.S. taxpayer on Israel’s behalf, and with Congress in its own pocket, has devised proposed legisltation that would even further…
Defense Minister Yaalon Rejects Palestinian Participation In Alternative Memorial Day Ceremony – OpEd
Yesterday, I posted the flyer for Friday’s Yom Ha-Zikaron ceremony sponsored by Combatants for Peace. It is the eighth year in which they’ve offered an event that incorporated the political…
Two Life Terms For American-Jewish Terrorist, Jack Teitel – OpEd
Jack Teitel, the ‘flower’ of American Jewry, has received two life sentence from an Israeli court for his acts of terror against Palestinians, Christian missionaries, gays, Israeli leftists, and even…
Pew Poll: Declining Democratic Preference For Israel – OpEd
M.J. Rosenberg just featured the latest Pew poll on American attitudes toward Israel and Palestine. He focussed on a decline among Democrats in those who say they favor Israel over…
Israel Ranks Low In OECD Quality Of Life Survey – OpEd
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which monitors key indices of social development among major western nations, published the Better Life index. It is a new survey which…
Nakba Steals All: Land, Life, Libraries – OpEd
There are thousands of evils the Israeli Occupation does every day. Just as there were similar evils of the Nakba which preceded it and served as its harbinger. But we’re…
Qatari Emir Pledges $1-Billion Fund To Preserve Arab Jerusalem – OpEd
Qatar’s emir, who earlier pledged $400-million for reconstruction of Gaza after Israel’s Cast Lead devastation, has vowed to create a $1-billion fund to preserve Arab Jerusalem: Qatar’s emir proposed on…
Chinese Intelligence Aware Israel Used China To Lure Lebanese Into Spying – OpEd
Ronen Bergman’s account of the Ben Zygier tragedy notes that Israel lured two high-level Lebanese to spy on its behalf. One, Ziyad al-Homsi, mayor of a Bekaa Valley village, was…
Ben Zygier’s Betrayal Led To Worst Mossad Debacle In Decades – OpEd
Jason Koutsoukis has published a follow-up piece to Ronen Bergman’s, which I wrote about yesterday. He and Bergman cooperated together on a piece for Der Spiegel which either has just…
Zygier Case Revealed: In Failing To Penetrate Iran And Hezbollah, He Exposed Israeli Spies In Lebanon – opEd
Ronen Bergman, Israel’s leading intelligence correspondent published a new report in Der Spiegel today (this is a teaser and here a summary–in German) that details the cause of Ben Zygier’s…
Obama’s Grand Bargain? Israel Apologizes To Turkey, Promises Mavi Marmara Compensation – OpEd
In a remarkable about-face after three years of adamant refusal, Bibi Netanyahu has apologized to Turkey’s premier for Israel’s 2009 massacre on the Mavi Marmara. He’s also promised financial compensation…
Israel To Obama: Be Gentle With Me – OpEd
Jodi Rudoren’s survey piece about Israeli public opinion as the backdrop to Barack Obama’s arrival in Israel is a total bunch of mush, from the sources she chose to offer…
Knesset Plans To Raise Election Threshhold, Oust Palestinian Parties – OpEd
In the past few days, Haaretz reported that all the major coalition partners in the incoming government have agreed that one of their orders of business will be to raise…
Israel’s New Settler Government–Formed Just In Time For Obama Visit – OpEd
The new Israeli cabinet announced today is a government of the settlers, by the settlers and for the settlers. Of course, in the past government the settlers maintained dominance over…
IDF Soldiers Demand Prosecution Of 5 Broken Cameras Director For Incitement – OpEd
This post comes under the heading of “Chutzpah.” Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi, as anyone who follows the Oscar race knows, had their film, 5 Broken Cameras nominated for an…
Iron Dome System Failed Miserably – OpEd
After Operation Pillar of Smoke, the IDF claimed that its Iron Dome anti-missile system performed brilliantly destroying 84% of its targets. Defense Minister Barak sang its praises, Israeli civilians breathed…
Obama’s Israel Trip: It’s Iran, Stupid! – OpEd
Much of the U.S. media that’s written about Pres. Obama’s upcoming visit to Israel (next month) has focused on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. This narrative says Obama is coming to…
63% Of Iranians Say, Continue Nuclear Program Regardless Of Sanctions – OpEd
Now repeat after me: Sanctions…do…not…work. I coulda told Obama that before he waded neck deep into the Big Muddy on that one…in fact, I did. A new Gallup poll of…
Bulgaria Blames Hezbollah, Bibi Blames Iran – OpEd
Bulgaria finally released its much-anticipated report on the terror bombing at its airport last year which killed five Israelis. It said that several of the bombers and accomplices had clear…
Israel Attacks Syria Arms Convoy, Intelligence Exploited Fordo To Conceal Plans – OpEd
Israel’s Air Force attacked (Haaretz report) a Syrian arms convoy inside the country that was shipping an advanced anti-aircraft system to Hezbollah forces inside Lebanon. Israel felt especially threatened by…
Panic In Likud At Party’s Freefall In Internal Polls – OpEd
The Likud Party house organ, Yisrael HaYom, has a headline this morning (Israel time) showing Likud-Beitenu in a panic as internal party polls show it falling to either 31 or…
Social Justice Party, Eretz Chadasha, Poised To Win 2 Knesset Seats – OpEd
Israelis will be voting tomorrow for a new Knesset. Editorials in newspapers like Haaretz have urged Israelis to vote. Friends in Israel who share my politics are urging in their…
Haaretz Goes Arab – OpEd
Undoubtedly, Israeli settlers and ultra-nationalists who dare to read Haaretz will think its editors have finally “gone native.” That they’ve shown their true Arab-loving stripes by turning the editorial page…
Egypt Arrests Israeli Activist Traveling To Gaza – OpEd
Last summer, after leaving IDF service, Andrei Pshenichnikov, age 24, underwent a radical political conversion. He began working with anti-Occupation groups and decided to renounce his Israeli citizenship. Further, he…
Chuck Hagel, Knifed In The Back By The Lobby – OpEd
As I wrote a few days ago when many were whispering that Chuck Hagel’s chances of becoming secretary of defense had died, what does it matter whether it’s the Israel…
Lieberman Resigns…for Now – OpEd
Yesterday, the State prosecutor announced he would indict Avigdor Lieberman for the relatively minor crime of “breach of trust” for seeking to obtain information about the status of legal proceedings…
Meshal’s Triumphal Welcome In Gaza – OpEd
A few days ago, Khaled Meshal made a triumphal, first-ever visit to Gaza to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Hamas’ founding and the movement’s “triumph” in Operation Pillar of Cloud. …
As Peretz Abandons Labor Party, Israeli Political Center Implodes – OpEd
Nothing illustrates the political bankruptcy of the Israeli political center better than this image of Tzipi Livni, founder of the Ha-Tenuah Party holding hands with her freshest catch, Amir Peretz,…
Iran’s Nuclear Bomb Diagram Stolen By Mossad Hack – OpEd
AP is reporting a breaking news story that officials of a country hostile to Iran (hint, hint) have leaked an Iranian diagram that plots the force of the explosion of…
Advocating Israel Talk To Hamas Is Criminal Offense – OpEd
If you’re a much-decorated IDF general advocating the radical step that Israel recognize Hamas and negotiate with it you’ll merit a front page article in Haaretz. That’s what Gen. Giora…
Morsi Assumes Absolute Power – OpEd
While I’m not an expert on Egyptian politics, I can’t help speculate on what Pres. Morsi’s assumption of absolute powers may mean for his country’s relations with Israel and the…
Israel At “Highest State Of Readiness” For Gaza Ground Invasion – OpEd
Sheera Frenkel reports in the Times of London that a senior IDF officer told her the army has been moved to its “highest state of readiness.” In IDF jargon, this…
Israeli Ground Invasion Of Gaza Imminent – OpEd
IDF heavy weaponry, including tanks and armored personnel carriers are massing near the Gaza border, signalling Israel’s intent to launch a ground invasion of the enclave. 16,000 reservists have been…
Why Did FBI Agent Go Outside Chain Of Command In Reporting Petraeus Case To House Republicans? – OpEd
The NY Times report on the latest in the Petraeus case raised my eyebrows quite a bit. This is the most strikingly political aspect of this scandal: Meanwhile, the F.B.I.…
IDF Unit 8200: Coming Soon To A Theater Near You – OpEd
The U.S. Army ad slogan may be: “The Army needs a few good men.” But IDF Unit 8200′s slogan is: “The IDF needs a few good hackers.” Actually not a…
Israeli Arms Exports Fuel Armenian-Azeri Conflict, Could Foment Major Regional War – OpEd
Global Post has published an important overview of Israel’s role as major arms exporter fueling the Armenian-Azeri conflict. Recently Azerbaijan announced a $1.6-billion arms deal with Israel that would bring…
IDF To Double Unit 8200 Cyber-War Manpower – OpEd
The Israel’s Channel 2 reports (Hebrew) that the IDF intends to double the manpower of its Unit 8200, which is charged with waging cyber-war on Israel’s enemies. It plays a…
Israel Lobby Threatens Church Groups With Congressional Investigation Over Call For Restricting US Military Aid – OpEd
A coalition of U.S. church groups recently made public a letter which called upon the U.S. government to condition future military aid to Israel on its fulfillment of obligations under…
Iranian Drone Incident Was Unacknowledged IDF Security Debacle – OpEd
I’ve often noted the parallel between the IDF’s public statements and Kabuki-style Japanese theater. Everyone wears a costume (or uniform) and mask, everyone plays a role, no one’s actual role…
What Goes Around, Flies Around – OpEd
Hezbollah today took credit for the drone which penetrated 35 miles into Israeli airspace last week and came with 18 miles of overflying Israel’s top-secret Dimona nuclear weapons facility before…
Israeli Political Leadership Uses War As Tool For Dampening Social Protest – OpEd
Smadar Lavie (CV) is Scholar in Residence at UC Berkeley, whose academic field is the study of the role of women, particularly Mizrahi women, in Israeli society. She’s just published…
Bibi Calls New Elections: Meet New Boss, Same As Old Boss – OpEd
There’s hardly a better, more cynical analysis of political power relationships than the Who lyric, Won’t Get Fooled Again, which closes with the words: “meet the new boss, same as…
IDF Failure Allows Hezbollah-Iranian Drone To Overfly Israeli Cities, Military Bases – OpEd
The IDF displayed yet another embarrassing failure in defending the homeland yesterday regarding the Iranian drone launched under the auspices of Hezbollah from Lebanon. Yediot’s Alex Fishman, one of the…
Sanctions Help, Not Hurt Iranian Regime – OpEd
The prevailing narrative among those western nations and media supporting sanctions against Iran is that it is harming the regime by gradually depriving it of support in much the same…
New Study Predicts 85,000 Casualties, “Devastating Consequences” for Iran Attack – OpEd
The University of Utah’s Hinckley School of Politics and Omid for Iran conducted an extensive year-long study of the impacts of a western military attack on Iran. Led by Iranian-American…
Clinton Blames Iranian Victim For Suffering Caused By Sanctions – OpEd
Now that the Iranian economy is reeling and real people are feeling the pain from strangling sanctions imposed by the west, the perpetrators are beginning to blame the victims. As…
US-Israeli Cyber-Attacks Against Iran Continue With Assault On Internet – OpEd
Reuters reports that foreign cyber-attacks have decimated internet traffic within Iran. My own Israeli source tells me that these were mounted by a joint Israeli-U.S. cyberwar operation designed to ratchet…
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