No, I don’t presume that IDF spokespeople read Kafka or Joseph Heller. But they might as well....
Richard Silverstein
Silverstein is an independent journalist and has published Tikun Olam since 2003. It exposes the secrets of the Israeli national security state. He publishes regularly at the New Arab, and Jacobin Magazine. His work has also appeared in Al Jazeera English, The Nation, Truthout and other outlets.
Thanks to reader Walter Ballin for pointing me to Robert Dreyfuss’ new Nation piece about Gabi Askhenazi’s...
A group of U.S. foreign affairs mandarins have urged President Obama to engage with Hamas in talks...
I think it’s useful to do a little debriefing in the aftermath of the Chas. Freeman affair...
This would be funny if it wasn’t so tragic: The United States is protesting to Israel over...
Regarding Aipac’s involvement in the destruction of Chas. Freeman’s candidacy for director of the National Intelligence Council,...
A lot of us who are enraged at the treatment afforded Chas. Freeman have been furiously tapping...
Comment is Free today published my piece on Chas. Freeman’s withdrawal. I wanted to expand on a...
The Israel lobby and Republican neocons have scored their first triumph of the Obama administration by derailing...
Every so often in Israeli politics there are brief flashes of clarity when the clouds of obfuscation...
The art of political cartooning is alive and well (though if the modern newspaper become extinct that...
Ehud Barak, leader, for the time being, of the Labor Party, told Israel’s Channel 2 that he...
