When a country’s top diplomat starts using terms like “act of war” to portray an act by an enemy state, then the world should get ready for actual war. I don’t know whether Mike Pompeo realizes that he just threw down the gauntlet and made a real war that much more likely. My guess is […]
Song for Lebanon
In the current climate, when a Middle East war may come from any direction, it’s worth sitting back and hearing beauty, the opposite of war and hate. After reading Idan Landau’s post (in Hebrew) predicting an imminent “war of choice” by Israel against Hezbollah, I watched the video he featured of the Israeli performer, Karolina, […]
Israel’s Sunni-Shia Divide and Conquer Strategy
Sun Tzu had the Art of War. Von Clausewitz had On War. Britain used divide and conquer to maintain control of its colonies. Now Israel has transformed the strategy into a fine art in its manipulation of its Arab neighbors. Earlier this week, Israel’s intelligence minister, Israel Katz, who has already announced his intention run […]
Wall Street Journal Publishes Israel’s Leading Stone-Cold Arab-Killer
There is little that surprises me these days regarding the callowness of the media towards the Israeli-Arab conflict. But the Wall Street Journal has sunk to a new low with its publication today of an op-ed (Islamic State Understands One Thing: Force) by senior Israeli minister and Bayit Yehudi leader, Naftali Bennett. In his bio at the […]
