CENTCOM’s Blue Sky, Red Team Talks Sense About Hezbollah, Hamas Mideast Peace CENTCOM’s Blue Sky, Red Team Talks Sense About Hezbollah, Hamas Richard Silverstein June 30, 2010 Mark Perry has a mini-blockbuster of a story in Foreign Policy revealing that a team of CENTCOM... Read More Read more about CENTCOM’s Blue Sky, Red Team Talks Sense About Hezbollah, Hamas
Tom Terrific, Fayyadist Mideast Peace Tom Terrific, Fayyadist Richard Silverstein June 29, 2010 This is another installment in the amazing adventures of Tom Terrific (aka Friedman) in Palestine, wherein our... Read More Read more about Tom Terrific, Fayyadist
Huge Rise in Israeli Police Wiretaps; Judges Acquiesce in 99% of Cases; 30,000 Secret Recordings of Makhoul Mideast Peace Huge Rise in Israeli Police Wiretaps; Judges Acquiesce in 99% of Cases; 30,000 Secret Recordings of Makhoul Richard Silverstein June 29, 2010 Israeli State Controller Micha Lindenstrauss released a report revealing a massive increase in the use of secret... Read More Read more about Huge Rise in Israeli Police Wiretaps; Judges Acquiesce in 99% of Cases; 30,000 Secret Recordings of Makhoul
Israeli Investigation of Gaza Flotilla in Disarray, Chairman Threatens Resignation, Bibi Relents Mideast Peace Israeli Investigation of Gaza Flotilla in Disarray, Chairman Threatens Resignation, Bibi Relents Richard Silverstein June 29, 2010 After the Israeli NGO Gush Shalom filed a complaint with the Supreme Court seeking to disband the... Read More Read more about Israeli Investigation of Gaza Flotilla in Disarray, Chairman Threatens Resignation, Bibi Relents
NY Times Reporter Calls Israeli Treatment of Palestinians ‘Aggression’ Mideast Peace NY Times Reporter Calls Israeli Treatment of Palestinians ‘Aggression’ Richard Silverstein June 28, 2010 In an excellent article on the rising tension between Turkey and Israel, a N.Y. Times reporter had... Read More Read more about NY Times Reporter Calls Israeli Treatment of Palestinians ‘Aggression’
Border Policeman Admits Shooting Jilani at Point Blank Range, U.S. Consulate Offers Widow Little Help Mideast Peace Politics & Society Border Policeman Admits Shooting Jilani at Point Blank Range, U.S. Consulate Offers Widow Little Help Richard Silverstein June 28, 2010 NOTE: I apologize to readers for posting such a graphic image here. I do not normally do... Read More Read more about Border Policeman Admits Shooting Jilani at Point Blank Range, U.S. Consulate Offers Widow Little Help
Dagan Dumped, Mossad Fixer Captured in Poland, Did Israelis Mean to Capture–Rather Than Kill–Al-Mabouh? Mideast Peace Dagan Dumped, Mossad Fixer Captured in Poland, Did Israelis Mean to Capture–Rather Than Kill–Al-Mabouh? Richard Silverstein June 27, 2010 Newsweek has a fascinating article about the ongoing developments in the case of the Al-Mabouh assassination. Poland... Read More Read more about Dagan Dumped, Mossad Fixer Captured in Poland, Did Israelis Mean to Capture–Rather Than Kill–Al-Mabouh?
Seattle Conference: Gaza Humanitarian Crisis Mideast Peace Politics & Society Seattle Conference: Gaza Humanitarian Crisis Richard Silverstein June 27, 2010 Yesterday night, 200 people joined us for the conference I initiated, Gaza’s Humanitarian Crisis: the Failure of... Read More Read more about Seattle Conference: Gaza Humanitarian Crisis
Did George Mitchell Torpedo Shalit Deal? Mideast Peace Did George Mitchell Torpedo Shalit Deal? Richard Silverstein June 27, 2010 Ali Abunimah blogs that a diplomatic source has told him that George Mitchell directed the Israelis not... Read More Read more about Did George Mitchell Torpedo Shalit Deal?
Mysterious Soviet-Israeli Double Agent Unmasked–Sorta Mideast Peace Mysterious Soviet-Israeli Double Agent Unmasked–Sorta Richard Silverstein June 24, 2010 Israel’s News1 site reveals that some years back Israeli intelligence apprehended an Israeli who was an agent... Read More Read more about Mysterious Soviet-Israeli Double Agent Unmasked–Sorta
Uzi Arad: Israel’s Dr. Strangelove Mideast Peace Politics & Society Uzi Arad: Israel’s Dr. Strangelove Richard Silverstein June 24, 2010 Uzi Arad is one of those Darth Vader-like figures so common in the Israeli intelligence netherworld. He... Read More Read more about Uzi Arad: Israel’s Dr. Strangelove
Seattle Conference: Gaza’s Humanitarian Crisis and the Failure of U.S. Policy Mideast Peace Politics & Society Seattle Seattle Conference: Gaza’s Humanitarian Crisis and the Failure of U.S. Policy Richard Silverstein June 23, 2010 I am organizing a conference this week here in Seattle that will focus on all the issues... Read More Read more about Seattle Conference: Gaza’s Humanitarian Crisis and the Failure of U.S. Policy