Thinking He’s Off-Mike, Bibi Disses EU and Obama, Concedes “Dozens” of Israeli Attacks on SyriaNOTE: Middle East Eye has just published my latest article, Unprecedented and combustible: Why the boycott of...
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Israel Funds Syrian Rebel Weapons PurchasesThe Wall Street Journal interviewed a Syrian rebel commander and other fighters, who confirmed the worst kept...
Syrian Killed in Attack by Golani Druze Was Islamist Fighter, Not Civilian as IDF ClaimedThis post expands on my original one reporting this incident. Some of the material in it may look familiar...
Israel’s Dangerous Game with Syrian IslamistsRecently, Israeli TV aired an interview (Hebrew, at the 2:00 mark) with a wounded Syrian fighter who was treated...
IDF Takes Control (Tacitly) of Syrian GolanEarlier in my reporting on the Syrian civil war, I sketched out what I thought was Israel’s...
Israel Exposes World’s First (Alleged) Facebook Espionage Ring, Claims Golan Druze Spied for SyriaThis is a slightly expanded version of a report that ran in Middle East Eye this past...
Iranian Media Reports on IDF-Islamist Collaboration in GolanDespite an ironclad gag order within Israel prohibiting publication of even a single detail of the “espionage”...
Shin Bet Secretly Arrests IDF Druze Soldier Suspected of Exposing Secret Meeting Between Syrian Rebels, IDF IntelligenceIf you want a lesson in the ways of the Israeli security apparatus–how it manipulates law and...
Israel Secretly Arrests Golani Druze, Accusing Him of Exposing Rebel-IDF CollaborationIsrael’s Shin Bet rearrested Golani Druze Sedki al-Maket (age 48). Until his release in 2012 (Hebrew), he’d been...
What Assad and Bibi Have in Common: Murdering CiviliansThe BBC and Syrian national news aired an interview (transcript) Bashar al-Assad gave to Jeremy Bowen. The...
IDF Embraces Syrian Islamist ExtremistsIf the Israeli government isn’t paying big bucks to Daniel Pipes to advise it on strategic military-political...
Israel Attacks Syria Missle Facility in Latakia AgainIsraeli media are reporting (Hebrew and now in English) an attack on Syria’s missile infrastructure in the...
