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Sheikh Jarrah Protestors Defy Censors, Out Doron Zahavi
August 1, 2010I’m grieved that some of my readers today have been telling me they can’t access my site. My host tells me it’s because the new DNS hasn’t fully propagated itself and that takes up to 48 hours. But I’m not sure why some readers should have access to the site and then lose it. I [...]
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U.S. Companies Facilitate Mossad Assassination
July 31, 2010The Wall Street Journal (yes, it’s true) published an illuminating article detailing a U.S. investigation into the financing for the Mossad hit on Mahmoud al-Mabouh in Dubai several months ago. It notes that several U.S. online sites which match technical jobs and freelancers and arrange for payments for such work, were exploited in order to [...]
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Tikun Olam Suffers DOS Attack After Exposing Former IDF Torturer
July 29, 2010The gremlins were very unhappy with Yossi Gurvitz, Itamar Sheltiel and me yesterday for exposing the identity of Doron Zahavi as the military intelligence agent alleged to have tortured Mustafa Dirani and threatened East Jeruslem Palestinians in his new role as Arab affairs liaison to the Jerusalem police. An Israeli colleague posted a link to [...]
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Identity of Former IDF Torturer Exposed, Captain George is Doron Zahavi
July 29, 2010Yesterday, I reported here on a Haaretz story about the notorious “Captain George,” an IDF military intelligence interrogator accused in 2004 of sodomizing a Lebanese kidnap victim in order to secure information about the location of IDF officer, Ron Arad. Among the things I wrote was my complaint that Haaretz was protecting the real identity [...]
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Jerusalem Posts Resident Israeli Arab Toady Advocates Three-State Solution
July 29, 2010Stand With Us and the inimitable Hudson Institute are currently touting this nifty piece of anti-Palestinian propaganda by the Jerusalem Post’s resident Israeli-Arab (I deliberately do not call him Palestinian) toady, Khaled Abu Toameh. It has the virtue of advocating not a one, or even two, but three-state solution: It is also a disgrace for [...]
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Why Bibi Cant Extend Settlement Freeze
July 29, 2010From the Needs No Further Comment Department: Netanyahu: Israel’s government will fall if settlement freeze continues Sounds fine to me. [OK, I couldn't help myself] Related posts:Seattle Times Op-Ed on Settlement Freeze Last week, the Seattle Times published a ‘stealth’ op-ed by… Bibi: Making a Fool Out of the Freeze Hopes for a US-backed deal [...]
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Eyewitness Account of the Razing of Al-Araqeeb: You Will Not Erase It
July 28, 2010Yesterday, Daniel Dukarevich posted an eyewitness account (Hebrew) of the eradication of the Bedouin Negev village of Al-Araqeeb by the Israeli police and military. It is disturbing and moving and worth reading to learn how this evil decree was implemented: Translation: Dena Shunra I don’
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Sacked IDF Torturer to Direct Police Relations With East Jerusalem Arabs
July 28, 2010If anyone ever wants to know why relations between Israel and the Arabs are so incredibly messed up, you have but to examine the story I’m about to tell. It will show you that Israel’s police, military and political leader are clueless when it comes to really understanding their Arab neighbors. In fact, one could [...]
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Israel Eradicates Bedouin Village in Negev
July 28, 2010How desolate sits the city that was full of people, How she has become as a widow that was great among the nations –Jeremiah 1:1 This is the month of Av, the saddest of the Jewish year because the 9th of the month commemorates the destruction of the Holy Temple. On this fast day, we [...]
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Haaretz Headline Convicts Israeli Palestinian Mother of Espionage Even Before Trial
July 27, 2010Police arrest fourth suspect in case of espionage against Israel blares a Haaretz headline about the arrest of an Druze mother living in the Golan, whose son had earlier been arrested as part of the same alleged spy conspiracy: Israeli authorities arrested a fourth suspect on Monday as part of an investigation into suspected espionage [...]
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Israels Media Equivalent of J. Edgar Hoover on Way Out
July 26, 2010Danny Seaman, who for ten years has been acting director of the Israeli Government Press Office, is being forced out of his job. It is his responsibility to issue and oversee foreign reporters’ credentials and he wields his power like a cugdel. His capriciousness is legend. He himself concedes that he has denied credentials to [...]
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Wikileaks Afghanistan Trove to Rival Ellsbergs Pentagon Papers?
July 26, 2010The N.Y. Times today published a summary of tens of thousands of U.S. government cables and other secret information pertaining to our involvement in Afghanistan. The archive, amassed by Wikileaks and probably provided to it by U.S. Army whistle-blower Bradley Manning, will immediately be compared to the Pentagon Papers, both in the voluminous amount of [...]
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Goldstone Was Right
July 25, 2010You remember, no doubt, the rage that greeted Justice Richard Goldstone‘s UN report on the Gaza massacre in which members of his faith, my faith, called him a traitor to his race, accused him of blood libel, called him a moser (betrayer of Jews)? You remember the hate-filled invective from figures as esteemed (by some) [...]
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Bar Ilan President Calls for Ouster of Faculty Supporting Academic Boycott
July 25, 2010In a new low for academic freedom in Israel, Bar Ilan University’s President Moshe Kaveh called for the firing or resignation of any faculty members who advocate the academic boycott (BDS) of Israeli institutions. He did so in a political, rather than academic setting–as part of a panel on Jewish identity at a Jewish culture [...]
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Rightist Philosophy Lecturer Dismissed by Hebrew University
July 24, 2010The Philosophy department at the Hebrew University recently dismissed Ran Baratz, a lecturer on Greek philosophy. And ever since, the Israeli media has been in a mini-uproar. The Knesset’s Education Committee will take up the affair. According to Maariv and other publications, Baratz was let go because he violated the leftist academic code prevailing in [...]