The concept of divide and conquer has been used successfully by colonial power for centuries, perhaps even millennia. The British Empire would pick a minority tribe in one of their colonies. The Crown officials would shower the minority with favors. It would train and educate them to rule over their countrymen and women. It purposely chose a non-majority … [Read more...]
Breaking: Lieberman Meets Secretly With Ex-Fatah Strongman, Dahlan in Paris
Israeli media reported in the past few hours that an Israeli minister met several times with former Fatah strongman Mohammed Dahlan. My Israeli source confirms the meetings and tells me the minister was Avigdor Lieberman, the foreign minister. The meeting was in Paris as confirmed by this Maariv report which noted Lieberman had been spotted in a hotel … [Read more...]
CIA Report Finds Israeli Targeted Assassinations Don’t Work
Wikileaks has released a new document trove in which there is some interesting material related to Israeli counter-terror operations. A CIA report with the chilling title, Best Practices in Counter-Insurgency: Making High-Value Targeting Operations an Effective Counterinsurgency Tool, makes the case for the value of targeted assassinations: A CIA review of … [Read more...]
IDF Embraces Syrian Islamist Extremists
If the Israeli government isn't paying big bucks to Daniel Pipes to advise it on strategic military-political policy, it should be. When the Syrian civil war first began, Pipes wrote that Israel should favor whichever side was losing and hope both sides fought each other to a bloody stalemate. The more Arab blood spilled the better. It was a classic … [Read more...]