'The Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.' --Abba Eban, 1973 Obama administration Middle East hands, rankled, disrespected and generally pissed off, are extracting their pound of political flesh by exposing yet another historic Bibi Netanyahu missed opportunity (to evoke Abba Eban's old bon mots). Haaretz reveals that Secretary of State … [Read more...]
Barak Under Investigation for Exposing Israeli Intelligence Secrets
Ehud Barak is cooperating on a new biography about his political life. As part of the hoopla surrounding the book's publication, its co-authors and Barak himself are spilling beans right and left. They're telling the media about the most intimate of internal cabinet deliberations about going to war with Iran. They're exposing secret Mossad operations in … [Read more...]
Iran to Open Israeli Embassy?
No, not really. At least not yet. But since Britain has just reopened its shuttered embassy in Tehran, it seems appropriate to think about what the future may hold for Israel-Iran relations. Of course, extremists on both sides (the IRG and Israel's political leadership) will make life miserable for the other side. They will sabotage normalization and … [Read more...]
Bibi’s Fake Iran War Option, Barak Has Alzheimer’s
Yossi Melman wrote in Maariv recently that from 2011-13, when Bibi Netanyahu and Ehud Barak were pounding the drums of war against Iran, they were engaged in an elaborate fraud. In 2011, Israeli secretly decided not to mount a military assault on Iran to degrade its nuclear program. Instead, it decided to implement a plan that included continued covert … [Read more...]