Barak Ravid reported yesterday that the military escalation in the Persian Gulf announced by John Bolton (sending a carrier task force into the Strait of Hormuz) was a response to a Mossad intelligence report. UPDATE: It now appears that Bolton's statement about deployment of the U.S. carrier itself was misleading as the task force was already steaming to … [Read more...]
Netanyahu Calls on Arab States to Join War Against Iran
In comments delivered to an Israeli TV news reporter at a Warsaw conference designed to unite world leaders against Iran, Bibi Netanyahu made his harshest statement yet, calling for war against the Islamic republic: What is important about this [conference]…is that this is an open meeting with representatives of leading Arab countries that are sitting down … [Read more...]
Speaking at Israel’s Nuclear Reactor, Netanyahu Threatens Iran With Nuclear Annihilation
NOTE: I've just published a new piece in Middle East Eye recounting the history of the IHRA defintion of anti-Semitism; and the role played by the Israel Lobby in devising it and exploiting it to sabotage the political ascent of Jeremy Corbyn, among others. Please give it a read and let others know too. * * The world's Iran haters are quick to point out … [Read more...]
Ex-Mossad Chief: Best Part of My Job Was Having ‘a License to Crime’
NOTE: This is an extremely important piece which I'd hoped would be accepted for publication. I submitted it to several publications, none of whom accepted it. Their loss. As I mentioned in yesterday's post, the only way to give this work its proper audience is to ask you to make up for Google's search censorship by promoting it yourselves in any way … [Read more...]
