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IDF Investigates Commander in al-Samouni Gaza Massacre
October 25, 2010Several months ago, the IDF announced publicly that it had begun investigations into two senior commanders for decisions they made during Operation Cast Lead which had been specifically singled out by the Goldstone Report as potential war crimes. The Haaretz article reporting this, specifically mentioned one inquiry involved the use of white phosphorus against military [...]
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Uri Blau Returns to Israel for Questioning, Kamm Close to Plea Deal
October 25, 2010In a follow-up to a story first exposed here, Haaretz investigative reporter, Uri Blau, and his source Anat Kamm, may be close to resolving their respective legal predicaments, that resulted from her transferring to him 2,000 IDF secret documents which he used to write damning reports about military abuses in Gaza and the West Bank. [...]
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NGO Forces IDF to Release Secret Memo Documenting Gaza Strangulation
October 24, 2010While Wikileaks may have the biggest national security expose of the moment, the one I’m going to report tonight on one that in the Israeli context is a close second. Thanks immensely to Ed Mad X for alerting me to the IDF’s release of a much sought after April, 2009 memo (23 pages linked here, [...]
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Channel 1 Correspondent Confirms Ilan as Shabak Director-Designate
October 23, 2010Several weeks ago, I reported here that Bibi Netanyahu had settled upon a candidate to succeed Yuval Diskin as Shabak chief. While Israeli news sources could and still cannot report his name (they call him “Y.”), I did: Yitzhak Ilan. Today, Channel 1‘s military correspondents, Yoav Limor confirms that Bibi shortly will name Ilan to [...]
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Israeli Military Judge Attempts to Extort Machsom Watch for Alleged Personal Defamation
October 23, 2010Despite the fact that I seem to collect many similar stories of Israeli democracy and justice gone awry, this story came close to leaving me at a loss for words. One of the finest Israeli NGOs exposing the shocking inadequacy of Israeli military justice is Machsom Watch. In fact, it was through a Machsom Watch [...]
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Follow the Money of Jewish Neocons
October 22, 2010I just came across this Ben Smith Politico post I missed when it came out during the J Street funding imbroglio. It notes that, at least according to J Street, the IRS was at fault for posting publicly the names of the donors to its 501c4. Here’s the organization’s statement: We are also committed to [...]
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Yediot Publishes List of Bibis Campaign Donor Prospects, Bibis Foreign Legion
October 22, 201098% of the money donated to Bibi Netanyahu for his 2007 Likud primary campaign came from abroad. Much of that from the U.S. Yediot has published a prospect-list written in Bibi’s own hand which notes the prospects. What I don’t have (and would love an Israeli reader to provide) is an actual list of the [...]
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Juan Williams: Muslims Scare Me
October 22, 2010Juan Williams is a “liberal.” FoxNews says so. So does the N.Y. Times media correspondent. That’s why on a Fox show, Juan Williams ‘fessed up that when he sees Muslims with their wild get-ups, it scares him: On the “O’
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Tea Party Senate Candidate Denies Separation of Church and State in Constitution
October 20, 2010Anderson Cooper played some riveting video tonight on his CNN show displaying Christine O’Donnell’s monumental ignorance of the U.S. Constitution. When her opponent pointed out that creationism shouldn’t be taught in schools because of the constitutional princple of the separation of church and state, O’Donnell was incredulous: “The First Amendment does?” O’Donnell asked during the [...]
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Netanyahu Cant Muster Votes for Loyalty Oath Including Jews
October 20, 2010Tonight, we have the delightful prospect of a far-right Likudist government which can’t muster the votes for its own favored version of the loyalty oath. When legal eagles pointed out that a loyalty oath that is required only of non-Jewish new citizens would likely be vetoed by the Supreme Court as overtly racist, the Justice [...]
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Dubai Reveals Canada Arrested Assassination Suspect, Offering No Cooperation; Israeli TV Reveals Suspects Alias, Eric Rassineux
October 19, 2010UPDATE: Israel’s Channel 10 has revealed that the alias of the arrested Mossad agent is Eric Rassineux. His passport is displayed here. It is the first Israeli source also to confirm that Canada is holding him. For those knowing Hebrew, here is the report (which begins 11 minutes into the video). **** Finally a break [...]
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Israels Loyalty Oath: Lets Drink to New Jewish Republic
October 19, 2010It seems a virtual certainly that sometime in the coming weeks Israel’s rightist government will pass a law requiring new citizens to affirm Israel as a Jewish state. As currently formulated the law would only require such an oath of non-Jewish citizens, which would effectively bar most non-Jews, especially Muslims or Arabs, from becoming citizens. [...]
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Mossad Chiefs Targeted Killing of Investigation into Al-Mabouh Assassination
October 18, 2010Reports are beginning to find their way into Israel’s media about what News1 ironically calls Meir Dagan’s “targeted killing” of an external investigation into a Mossad “incident” that occurred this year. The fact that the article uses the specific term targeted killing and notes that the incident was a “sensitive case” cries out for association [...]
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Yediot Poll Notes Threat of Fascism in Israel
October 18, 2010I 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 [...]
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Israeli Poll: 80% Support Democracy, 55% Support Limiting Free SpeechGo Figure
October 17, 2010Thanks to Zvi Solow for sending along these two hilarious pieces of political satire from the Friday Israeli papers: More Laws That Ehud Barak May Support 1. Death penalty for traitors 2. A quota for non-Jews in universities. 3. A Basic Law: The security minister will always be named Ehud Barak. 4. A law to [...]