UPDATE: Egypt has brokered what’s being called a ceasefire between Israel and Islamic Jihad, which has cost the lives of 32 Palestinians, with no cost whatsover to Israelis. It’s a so-called ceasefire because there is no such thing as far as Israel is concerned. It violates ceasefires at its pleasure. It agrees to ceasefires when […]
Arab Jews: the ‘Nakba’ That Wasn’t Zionist claims of a historic mass expulsion of Jews from Arab Lands are largely hype, hasbara, and myth
Over the years, a recurring hasbara trope has accused Arab states of ethnically cleansing their entire Jewish populations in the years between 1948-1956. They marshal vivid maps displaying the numbers of Jews originally in these countries and how many are left currently. Phrases like “expulsion,” “refugee,” “Jewish Nakba,” and “pogroms” are bandied about as if […]
Israel’s German-Built, Nuclear-Armed Sub Opens New Front Against Iran and Allies
Not content to fight Iran on its existing fronts in Lebanon and Syria Israel has, over the past few months, opened a new front in Iraq. There, after Iraqi militias allied with Iran participated in attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil fields, Israel struck back with its first-ever air attacks inside Iraq. Though little has been […]
Mueller Investigated Former Lebanese Phalangist, Trump Advisor, for Ties to Egyptian Dictator
The ranks of Republican consultants are filled by hoaxsters, swindlers and crooks. In the era of Trump, this phenomenon has become even more pronounced. One of them is Walid Phares, a former ideological commissar for the Lebanese Phalangist militia which warred against the Muslim forces during the Civil War. Phares was the burning spear of […]
