You’d think that Israel’s victory in the FIFA battle against Palestine would make Bibi Netanyahu sit back on his laurels and bask in the thrill of international victory. Instead it’s done just the opposite. Instead of victory, from his response at today’s weekly cabinet meeting, you’d think that Israel was about to be overrun by […]
Israeli Media 30-Year ‘Reign of Error’ Predicting Iranian Nuke
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 […]
Yediot Achronot Profile Published
Moshe Ronen has just published a profile of me in Yediot Achronot, one of Israel’s largest daily newspapers. It conveys my ideas very clearly and treats my work and blog with respect, for which I’m grateful. It’s important, for example, for people to know that I oppose terror, whether Israeli or Palestinian, and that I don’t […]
Yediot Poll Notes Threat of Fascism in Israel
I am usually loathe to use words like “fascism” in this blog to denote anything about Israel since the term is loaded, incendiary and draws fierce rebuke from apologists for Israeli policy here. But when I read polls like this one and see powerful graphics like this one published with the poll, then I realize […]
