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Another day, and another Western government chastises Israel for the use of non-Israeli passports in the assassination of Hamas terrorist mastermind Mahmoud al-Mabhou. This time it’s Australia’s turn....
View ArticleMahmoud al-Mabhouh, Fashion Icon
Alleged Mossad hits are good for business, apparently: Sales of Mossad-themed T-shirts, available by mail order, have risen tenfold since the Israeli spy agency was linked to last month’s assassination...
View ArticleDer Spiegel: “An Israeli Affront Against Germany”
The headline is breathless, and the article is stupid. The German paper claims that both the failure of the Shalit talks and the Dubai assassination were grave Israeli insults to Germany. This marks...
View ArticleEvenhandedness Would Be Swell
Isi Leibler, writing in the Jerusalem Post, observes Obama’s not at all evenhanded approach to the Middle East, started long before the most recent conflict over an apartment complex in Jerusalem:...
View ArticleFlotilla Incident — Constructive Criticism
When Israel is attacked — physically or rhetorically — the impulse of all friends of Israel (myself included) is to jump immediately and totally to its defense. That is a commendable impulse; certainly...
View ArticleScammed Again (Even Without the Dolphin Show)
Jeffrey Goldberg, fresh from flacking for Fidel Castro, moves on to Castro’s sidekick Hugo Chavez: One day after I posted Fidel Castro’s condemnation of anti-Semitism on this blog, the Venezuelan...
View ArticleWikiLeaks Debunks History for Stupid People
Gideon Rachman at the Financial Times says WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange deserves a medal rather than prison. “He and WikiLeaks have done America a massive favour,” he writes, “by inadvertently...
View ArticleA Nation of Political Imbeciles
I strongly dislike, on general principle, descriptions of any country on earth as “a nation of political imbeciles,” or anything similarly obnoxious and dismissive, but I’m afraid Bret Stephens is...
View ArticleCurb Your Enthusiasm: Iran Is Still on Track to Have a Bomb in Four Years
Two weeks ago, Israeli cabinet member Moshe Ya’alon said that Iran wouldn’t have a nuclear weapon until 2013. But apparently, the outgoing head of the Mossad, Israel’s intelligence agency, is even more...
View ArticleIran Nuclear Sabotage Helps Delay Inevitable
Outgoing Mossad chief Meir Dagan’s recent assessment that Iran won’t be able to build a bomb until 2015 appears to be further evidence that the sabotage campaign against the Iranian nuclear facilities...
View ArticleDon’t Ignore the Politics of Mossad’s Iran Assessment
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is clearly doing her best to defuse the bombshell dropped last week by Israel’s outgoing Mossad chief, Meir Dagan. During a visit to the Gulf states yesterday, she...
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu distanced himself from his former Mossad chief’s assessment that Iran won’t acquire a nuclear weapon before 2015: “‘I think that intelligence estimates are...
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The U.S. Department of State may drop Sudan from its list of state sponsors of terrorism as a bargaining chip to push the Sudanese government to recognize the south’s independence: “’Should the...
View ArticleIranian-Funded Press TV’s British Bank Accounts Frozen
Press TV, the international news organization and propaganda arm of the Iranian government, has had its British bank account frozen, the Times of London reported today. The frozen account is thought to...
View ArticlePro-Mubarak Demonstrators Attack Reporters
Pro-Mubarak protesters in Egypt may have been following government instructions when they attacked members of the media today, according to the Jerusalem Post. Journalists from Sweden and Israel have...
View ArticleRE: Egypt Needs Liberalism
There’s not much more to say in a general sense about Michael Totten’s badly needed reality check differentiating liberal democracies — roughly, those that have robust democratic institutions that...
View ArticleEchoes of 1967 in Israel’s Iran Dilemma
One of the interesting aspects of yesterday’s New York Times Magazine cover story about Israel’s decision whether or not to strike at Iran’s nuclear program came from a passage in which author Ronen...
View ArticleSlain Iranian Nuclear Scientist’s Goal: Annihilate Israel
If Iran’s goal is to convince the world its nuclear program is not aimed at creating a weapon to use against Israel, it’s going about it the wrong way. Tehran’s government-run Farsi News Agency has...
View ArticleDagan’s Tactical Disagreement
One of the standard themes of those who claim there is no need to take action to halt Iran’s progress toward nuclear capability is that intelligence experts dispute the notion that this program poses a...
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Alleged Iranian Spy Was Scapegoated
Last week, Iranian blogger Potkin Azarmehr questioned the authenticity of reports that Iran had executed Majid Jamali Fashi, the 24-year-old Iranian accused of carrying out the assassination of Iranian...
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