There are a number of economic systems in the world today. There are market economies in capitalist countries and the state-owned means of production in socialist countries. In each of these systems, the state intervenes to a greater or lesser extent. Israel is nominally a capitalist economy (with a socialist past). But I prefer to […]
Israeli Secret Police Arrest Israeli Palestinian Activist Under Gag Order
המשטרה החשאית עצרה פעילה איסלמית ,איה חטיב, בחשד שהיא מימנה טרור פלסטיני. השב”כ הטיל צו איסור פרסום על התיק Israel’s secret police (aka Shabak) this week arrested an Israeli Palestinian activist for “funding Palestinian terrorists.” The arrest is under judicial gag order and Israeli media may only report the detention, but not the detainee’s identity. […]
BREAKING: Israeli Arrests United Nations Official in Gaza…Again
חשיפה: השב”כ עצר במעבר ארז את חמדאן תמראז, בכיר באגף הבטיחות והביטחון של האו”ם בעזה This is getting old. Israel has once again arrested a United Nations official based in Gaza as he attempted to cross into Israel to attend a work meeting there. An Israeli security source has confirmed to me the linked story […]
IDF Censors Haaretz from Naming Author, Title of Book Portraying 1967 “Nuclear Putsch”
.חשיפה: הצנזורה הצבאית אוסרת להזכיר את שמו של ספר על הנשק הגרעיני הישראלי, ואת שם מחברו Yesterday, Haaretz published an exposé (Hebrew) about a book published by a former Israeli nuclear technician, who claimed that in 1967 Israel’s new defense minister, Moshe Dayan, engaged in a “de facto putsch,” which wrested the country’s sole nuclear weapon […]
