Haaretz has just published a revealing story (Hebrew version) adding further details to the failed IDF commando raid last November, which led to the killing of a Sayeret Matkal commander and nearly 20 Palestinian militants who detained them at a Gaza checkpoint. In the aftermath of the disaster, two senior IDF commanders have been either […]
BREAKING: IDF Names New Commander After Disastrous Gaza Operation, His Identity is Censored
חשיפה: המועמד לפקד על מערך המבצעים המיוחדים של אמ”ן (ולשקם אותו אחרי כשלון הפעולה בעזה) הוא תא”ל אביהוד בן-ארי, לשעבר נספח צה”ל באיטליה Several months ago, I violated Israeli military censorship to report on the death of a senior officer in Israel’s élite commando unit, Sayeret Matkal. He’d been tasked with planting spy devices inside […]
Hamas Releases Video of Failed IDF Commando Raid, Which Led to Significant Intelligence Damage
חשיפה: המידע שנאסר לפרסום בישראל, מתוך סרטון הווידאו של חמאס על המבצע הכושל בעזה Hamas released a six-minute video filled with operational details of November’s failed IDF commando raid which resulted in the death of Sayeret Matkal commander, Lt. Col. Mahmoud Kheireddine, Hamas commander Nour Baraka, and nearly twenty other militants under the latter’s […]
Facebook: Inside the (Warped) Mind of a Censor
Readers will know that I’m endlessly fascinated by secrecy, censorship and political repression: both the processes themselves and the thinking of those who implement them. That’s one of the reasons the bout of social media censorship I’ve faced is so intriguing. Why did they censor it? Not the reason they gave, but the underlying reason. […]
