Joe Biden has completed the Israel leg of his Middle East coming-out party. Even before he left the US, critics lambasted him for tone-deafness in meeting Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who ordered the murder of journalist, Jamal Khasoggi. The shameful transparency of the visit’s purpose–to lobby his government to increase oil production, in […]
Saudis Used NSO Group’s Pegasus in Misogynist Smears of Female Journalists Legal Dispute Leads to Potential Company Sale to US Investor
The Israeli spyware company, NSO Group, has been in the line of fire after a major international investigation, Project Pegasus, exposed 50,000 cell phone numbers of world leaders, diplomats and military-intelligence officials, which company clients in 50 countries targeted for hacking. NBC reports that multiple female Middle Eastern journalists were targeted by Saudi intelligence and […]
In the Middle East, Is Hope Still a Dirty Word?
Either PT Barnum or HL Mencken (depending on who you ask) once said: “No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.” That saying was particularly apt on Election Night 2016. I’d like to apply the saying to the region at hand–the Middle East: no one ever went broke underestimating the chance […]
BREAKING: Israeli Who Offered Escape to Jordanian Ex-Crown Prince’s Family is Mossad Asset
חשיפה: הישראלי רועי שפושניק, המעורב באירועים האחרונים בחצר המלוכה בירדן, הוא סייען של המוסד حصري: الاسرائيلي روعي شابوشنيك، الضالع في الأحداث الأخيرة في البلاط الملكي الإردني، متعاون مع الموساد An Israeli Mossad asset aided Jordan’s ex-crown prince, Hamzah bin Hussein, in a plot to overthrow King Abdullah. Roy Shaposhnik is not an ex-Mossad agent, […]
