From Israel’s founding to last month’s attack on Gaza, it has constantly portrayed itself as a victim defending its right to exist from aggressive Arab enemies intent on its destruction. This includes the War of Independence, the 1967 War, the 1982 Lebanon invasion, and multiple invasions of Lebanon and Gaza in the early 2000s. I’ve […]
U.S. Neocons Again Lead March to War…on Iran
For those of you of a certain age, you may remember the refrain from that Crosby Stills and Nash song: “we have all been here before.” We have indeed. But not in the quasi-mystical sense the boys of rock & roll meant it. Rather, the Middle East seems to draw the U.S. regularly into massive […]
Israel’s Leaders Argued for Expelling Gazans to Jordan after 1967 War
An Israeli far-right journalist and an academic teaching at Ariel University have exposed plans proposed by Labor governments after the 1967 War to expel the residents of Gaza to Jordan. They discovered government reports and memos advocating that the best way to deal with Gazans would be to remove them from their homes and transfer […]
IDF Censors Haaretz from Naming Author, Title of Book Portraying 1967 “Nuclear Putsch”
.חשיפה: הצנזורה הצבאית אוסרת להזכיר את שמו של ספר על הנשק הגרעיני הישראלי, ואת שם מחברו Yesterday, Haaretz published an exposé (Hebrew) about a book published by a former Israeli nuclear technician, who claimed that in 1967 Israel’s new defense minister, Moshe Dayan, engaged in a “de facto putsch,” which wrested the country’s sole nuclear weapon […]
