Today was the day many of us dreaded. Tension has been building all week since the murder of two Israeli police officers and the liquidation of their Palestinian attackers at the Haram al Sharif. Israel's immediate response to seal off the entire Old City for three days along with the Muslim holy sites, and then reopen them with metal detectors and … [Read more...]
Thinking He’s Off-Mike, Bibi Disses EU and Obama, Concedes “Dozens” of Israeli Attacks on Syria
NOTE: Middle East Eye has just published my latest article, Unprecedented and combustible: Why the boycott of Al-Aqsa matters. It deals with last week's attack on the Haram al Sharif and the Muslim boycott of the holy sites. It hasn't been a good week for Bibi Netanyahu. A few days ago he left for Europe under a foreboding cloud of scandal … [Read more...]
IDF Reveals (Partially) Existence of Secret Nuclear Base Exposed Here Six Years Ago
צה"ל חשף (בטעות?) את שדות האלה - בסיס הטילים הגרעיניים הסודי בחיל האוויר Many (though not all) of Israel's security secrets are of the worst-kept variety. An example, is the Israeli Air Force nuclear weapons base known variously as Sdot Ha'Elah or Sdot Micha. Readers of this blog would've read of the name and purpose of this base back in 2010 based on my … [Read more...]
Trump: ‘Making Foreigners (and Me) Great. America? Not So Much…’
Timothy Snyder wrote an excellent essay about the "new conservatism," in which he compared a more principled traditional form of it (think moderate Republicans of the Old School) to the modern iteration à la Trump. He noted a strange contradiction which has puzzled me as well. The old conservatives were nationalists, rather than internationalists. The new … [Read more...]