My last post identified the senior IDF officer responsible for the rape of a Palestinian female detainee in 2015. He is Col. Yariv Ben Ezra, then commander of the Hebron Brigade and now defense attache in South Korea. Ben Ezra ordered a battalion commander to conduct an invasive full-body search of the vagina and anus […]
BREAKING: IDF Commander Who Ordered Rape of Palestinian Identified
NOTE: I just published a new Middle East Eye piece about the near-disaster averted when a Syrian missile landed less than 20 miles from Israel’s nuclear reactor in Dimona. Please give it a read and promote it on social media. DONATE: No Israeli media can report this story. Israelis cannot learn from their own media […]
In Contentious Meeting, Abbas Tells Shin Bet Chief: “You and I Can Both Sit Together in a Cell in the Hague!”
NOTE: I’ve published two articles on the Israeli elections. In Middle East Eye, I reported on the triumph of Judeo-supremacist Kahanism in the election results. I also published my first article in the Cairo Review of Global Affairs, edited by Firas Al-Atraqchi. It suggests ways in which Netanyahu might cobble together a governing coalition with […]
ICC Approves Pursuing War Crimes Case Against Israeli, Palestinian leaders
In a groundbreaking ruling, a three-judge ICC court has found that the chief prosecutor may commence a war crimes investigation against both Israeli and Palestinian leaders for major violations of international law. They include: building settlements, the murder of Palestinian civilians during Operation Protective Edge and the Great March of Return, and Palestinian rocket attacks […]
