Beginning with a misleading Defense News report on a new U. S. military facility located in an Israeli air base, world media have falsely reported that it is the first such joint operation in the country. Here's what Barbara Opall Rome wrote: ... The new U.S. base marks the first to be co-located within an Israeli base... That's actually not true. It … [Read more...]
Thinking He’s Off-Mike, Bibi Disses EU and Obama, Concedes “Dozens” of Israeli Attacks on Syria
NOTE: Middle East Eye has just published my latest article, Unprecedented and combustible: Why the boycott of Al-Aqsa matters. It deals with last week's attack on the Haram al Sharif and the Muslim boycott of the holy sites. It hasn't been a good week for Bibi Netanyahu. A few days ago he left for Europe under a foreboding cloud of scandal … [Read more...]
IDF Reveals (Partially) Existence of Secret Nuclear Base Exposed Here Six Years Ago
צה"ל חשף (בטעות?) את שדות האלה - בסיס הטילים הגרעיניים הסודי בחיל האוויר Many (though not all) of Israel's security secrets are of the worst-kept variety. An example, is the Israeli Air Force nuclear weapons base known variously as Sdot Ha'Elah or Sdot Micha. Readers of this blog would've read of the name and purpose of this base back in 2010 based on my … [Read more...]
Israel’s NSO Group Permits Foreign Intelligence Agencies to Spy on Human Rights Activists
The NYT's lead story recently featured a chilling story of the infamous Israeli cyber-security firm, NSO Group, whose Pegasus malware has been illegally utilized by Mexican intelligence agencies to spy on legitimate human rights and anti-corruption activists. NSO negotiates lucrative contracts with foreign governments, which purportedly use the malware to … [Read more...]