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My opinion piece on Libya for the New York Times
February 27, 2011What will happen to Libya? Assuming the revolutionaries manage to kick Qaddafi out, what kind of government can we expect? Will there be a power vacuum? A civil war? These are some of the questions that I and a few others attempt to answer in a series of short opinion pieces that was published on [...]
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Tonight: Why Settle? A Valentines Day Affair
February 9, 2011If you’re in NYC, come to this snarky party for those more interested in making love, not war.
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ORGANized Crime Part IV: Smug Smugglers, Our Gang
January 25, 2011“The United States of America and the Kosovo Liberation Army stand for the same human values and principles’
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Neutrality will not shield Sweden from Terrorism
January 5, 2011Until Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly’
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NETANYAHU DEMONSTRATES LEADERSHIP UNDER FIRE
December 5, 2010Fairly or unfairly, leaders are made or unmade during emergencies. George W. Bush grasped was made by 9/11 and unmade during Katrina. Barack Obama was unmade by the Gulf oil spill. In Israel Ehud Olmert was unmade by the second Lebanon War. Benjamin Netanyahu is being made by his brilliant response to the Carmel mega [...]
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Andrew Sullivan on What I Apparently Believe
November 30, 2010Andrew writes: One of the relieving aspects of the Wikileaks docu-dump is that Jeffrey Goldberg no longer has to muddy his newly-discovered support for war against Iran.This is a flat-out misrepresentation of my position. I am opposed to a military strike on Iran for the foreseeable future. Last week, I wrote, of the Stuxnet virus [...]
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Yehi zichram baruch
November 11, 2010War is evil. It is incumbent upon us always to remember the victims of the institution of war and our culpability in the very fact that wars are still fought. These are the American soldiers who died since the beginning of the month. Their average age is 24 and a half years old. They are [...]
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In Fit of Pique, Israel Cancels Strategic Dialogue With Britain
November 4, 2010In yet another sign that Israel is feeling the pain of war crimes accountability, it announced during the middle of a visit by new British foreign minister William Hague that it was suspending a “strategic dialogue” with that country. The dialogue had earlier been suspended anyway so I’m not sure precisely what the punishment was. [...]
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IDF Censors Israeli Reporting on War Game Exercises Training for Iran Attack
October 30, 2010Until they were censored a few hours ago, Israeli news reported a series of critical war games conducted with the Greek air force (take that Turkey!) which simulated an attack on Iran and subsequent attacks on Lebanon and Syria to quell their responses to the Iranian bombardment. Now, the Israeli reports talk about an “attack [...]
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Fundamentalism in Bosnia and Herzegovina
October 22, 2010Fundamentalism in Bosnia and Herzegovina probably deserves more attention as a sociological and political phenomenon, than it does in other European countries. It is a country with a very weak democratic and parliamentary tradition, until 15 years ago Bosnia suffered from extremely destructive war which in this case was more than just a civil war. [...]
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Yom Kippur War Documentary
September 17, 2010Related posts What’s Up With Olmert? (1) The Missiles Are Not Sophisticated, Israel is Simply Miniscule (5) The Gaza War Hill Of Shame and Reporting in Cast Lead (3) Tel Aviv’s Obsessed with Sushi (0) Sounds Of War – Alarm Announcement in Sderot on National Radio (2)
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Israeli Intelligence Leaks Syrian-Hezbollah War Defense Plans to Arab Media
August 30, 2010The Kuwaiti newspaper, al Rai, reports that Syria and Hezbollah have agreed to a wide ranging intelligence sharing operation which also includes a joint operations center staffed by Hezbollah and Syrian military officers in the event of a war with Israel: Hizbullah concluded “field understandings” with the Syrian army, [in] which both sides will cooperate at the [...]
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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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UN Court Orders Retrial of Kosovo War Criminal…a Day Before Ruling in Independent Kosovo’s Favor; KLA Threatens War Anyway
July 23, 2010On Thursday we received the stunning news that: UN court orders retrial for former Kosovo premier By MIKE CORDER (AP) THE HAGUE, Netherlands ‘