Israel (and western ) media have a long history of predicting an impending Iranian nuke. That history goes back at least to 1984 if not before. Thanks to Israeli blogger and reporter for Calcalist, Omer Kabir, we have this history (Hebrew) in headlines and screenshots from Israel’s media. Scott Peterson performed the same research to […]
Barak Clamors for War on Iran, Bibi’s His Poodle
Maariv’s Ben Caspit is not someone I ever quote. In fact, normally if Caspit says something, I believe the opposite. That goes back to the nasty smears he levelled against Shammai Leibowitz when he was a human rights fellow of the New Israel Fund and studying law at Georgetown. Caspit orchestrated a whispering campaign with […]
Amnon Dankner: ‘I’m Ashamed of Being Israeli’
Amnon Danker, former editor of one of Israel’s most popular dailies, Maariv, has written a scathing essay (English translation here) excoriating Israel and the current political situation there. The terms he uses are savage and unsparing. It’s rare for such mainstream cultural and media figures to speak in such unconditional terms about the state of […]
Maariv Satirizes Anat Kamm Gag Order
Let it not be said that in a nation in which democracy is honored only in the breach (or not at all), there is not a sharp sense of satire. The Soviet Union was like this, and now Israel. Hence this hilarious, knowing and merciless skewering of the cowardice of the Israeli press in regards […]
