חשיפה: המועמד שהפסיד במירוץ לראשות השב”כ הוא אסף יריב, כיום בשירות המוסד For the past two years, there has been essentially a two-man race to succeed the current Shin Bet chief, Yoram Cohen. Though Israeli media could not identify the candidates except by their initials, in 2013 I reported them as Roni Alsheikh (nickname, “The Fox”) […]
Meet the New War, Just Like the Old War
The video is my latest interview, tonight, on PressTV speaking of western intervention in the Middle East against ISIS in the aftermath of the Paris terror attack. In times like these I trot out those wonderful lyrics from The Who’s Won’t Get Fooled Again: “Meet the new boss, just like the old boss.” In tonight’s […]
Death in Paris
Peace for Paris pic.twitter.com/ryf6XB2d80 — jean jullien (@jean_jullien) November 13, 2015 Today, terrorists attacked Paris. In a series of well-orchestrated assaults, they killed over 153 people in a series of locations including restaurants, a concert hall and the soccer stadium, in which the French president was watching a match between the French national team and […]
European Refugee Crisis is Product of Middle East Dysfunction, Much of It Our Fault
You’d have to be deaf, dumb and blind not to have noticed that Europe has a massive refugee crisis on its hands. Pictures of drowned babies have washed up on the shore of media consciousness in the past week. They are indelible images which aren’t easily erased from our mind, nor should they be. We’ve […]