NOTE: The Nation has published my new piece on NSO Group and Black Cube. It is my first piece published there in years. I'm proud of it and hope you will read and pass it on... * * Why Israel, of course! But this post is going to start out in a strange place far removed from the Middle East. And I promise that though the starting point is Mongolia, this … [Read more...]
2017: Support Tikun Olam
Many of you know how hard I work at putting together this blog. You have some sense of the hours of research, the cultivation of sources, and then the literary crafting of these posts, and all that this involves. It's intense work. Even sometimes frustrating work. But there is nothing I'd rather do than this. In nothing else can I conceive that I can … [Read more...]
BREAKING: Israeli, Jordanian Intelligence Maintain Reciprocal Presences in Each Others’ Countries
NOTE: Middle East Eye today published my piece on the 50th anniversary of the 1967 War. I took a decidedly more contrarian-critical approach than the typical liberal Zionist 'shooting and crying' report you'll find in most world media. Please read and share via social media. גורם ביטחוני ישראלי: השב"כ פועל בשטח ירדן ושירות הביטחון הירדני פועל בשטח ישראל, … [Read more...]
Breaking: Israeli Supreme Court Releases Hunger-Striking Prisoner
The Israeli Supreme Court has ruled that hunger striking Palestinian prisoner, 31 year-old Mohammed Allan, will be released from administrative detention...but only if medical tests show that he's suffered "irreversible" damage as a result of his 65-day hunger strike. Apparently, a healthy Allan was a grave national security threat. While a near-dead … [Read more...]
