Maria Abusisi: ‘Ask Daddy to Buy Me a Barbie When He Comes Home’In the midst of all the spookery and legal maneuverings of the Israeli security apparatus as it...
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Abu Seesi’s Brother Confirms Ukrainian Security Service Collaborated in Extraordinary RenditionI had a long, heartbreaking conversation this morning with Dirar Abu Seesi’s brother, Yousef, who just returned...
Israel and Palestine: Free the PrisonersThanks to Michael Levin for creating this wonderful poster which illustrates the hypocrisy or at at least...
IDF Implies, Then Retracts That U.S. Approved Gaza HitThe IDF teamed up with the Shin Bet to execute a Gaza militant, Mohammed al-Nimnim (or Nemnem),...
Grossman: Free Shalit, Free Israel from Its Hamas ShibbolethsDavid Grossman is a perfect example of an artist who has a better political mind than the...
Dagan Dumped, Mossad Fixer Captured in Poland, Did Israelis Mean to Capture–Rather Than Kill–Al-Mabouh?Newsweek has a fascinating article about the ongoing developments in the case of the Al-Mabouh assassination. Poland...
Did George Mitchell Torpedo Shalit Deal?Ali Abunimah blogs that a diplomatic source has told him that George Mitchell directed the Israelis not...
IDF to Barenboim: No to Gaza ConcertIf there’s a lyric to accompany this post it would be Elvis Costello’s What’s So Funny About...
Settler Knesset Member Threatens Sedition Trial Against TV SatiristsI recently wrote a post about a skit on Israel’s Eretz Nehederet TV political satire program which...
In Israeli TV Satire, Settlers Kidnap IDF Soldier–Real Settlers Not AmusedThe far right is up in arms about the Israeli TV satire, Eretz Nehederet (“Wonderful Country”), whose...
Al Jazeera Publishes New Piece on Shalit Prisoner ExchangeAl Jazeera has published my first piece, dealing with the Shalit prisoner exchange. I should add that...
Shalit Moved to Egypt?I preface this post with the caveat that everything reported here is from Arab and Israeli media...