The subtext in President Barack Obama’s speech to the AIPAC conference tonight was that he is essentially asking Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a leap of faith. Continue reading
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Full text of Obama speech at AIPAC 2012
Netanyahu’s disgruntled Ex’s
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could have a serious problem on his hands. Several senior officials who have recently worked for him, and some who are still working for him, have fallen foul of the PM for various reasons. The following is a list of powerful men who have already embarked, or may yet embark, on public campaigns against their former boss, and they all, presumably, hold some information that could be damaging to him, especially in an election season. Continue reading
Talking points for the Israeli nuclear family
Since some of you have been speaking out of turn, shooting your mouths off, and making up your own minds about what you can and cannot say around here, the following Talking Points have been issued by the Ministry of Hysteria to all Israeli nuclear families. The talking points are for your use in travel or business abroad, around the water-coolers, dinner conversations, random talks with strangers at airports, train and bus stations, ferries, kiosks, hotel lobbies, or overseas tourist information desks. Please represent your country in the best possible manner, and stick to the message. Remember, if you’re not with us, you’re not with us. Continue reading
WATCH: West saved their country, Libyans desecrate their graves
This video has started circulating on YouTube, showing Libyan Muslim youth desecrating Christian and Jewish graves in Benghazi. Continue reading
Lapid: Moses, Obama, or just Yair?
Just attended a meeting with Yair Lapid at the Sanhedrin Forum in Tel-Aviv; a forum of young professionals that meets about once a month with top Israeli and international opinion makers in an informal setting.
My impressions of the journalist-celebrity-turned-aspiring politician:
He’s oozing charisma. In this way he reminds me a lot of Barack Obama when he was campaigning for the Democratic nomination. Lapid is engaging, funny, intelligent, and shoots straight. The man certainly has rhetorical skills. Continue reading
On the couch with Bibi Netanyahu
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his weekly therapy session.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Doc, you don’t know how much I needed this session today. I’m a wreck.
Psychologist: I’m sorry to hear that. What’s going on? Continue reading
The truth about our next war
The truth about our next war is that it may not happen at all. It’s shaping up to be big enough and ugly enough to make all sides lose their appetite for it. It may not happen, even though it looks and feels like it is going to happen.
The truth about our next war is that if it does break out, there will be another war after it. Neither side is going to really win, win in the old-school sense of the word. And in the absence of closure, there will be another round, and another round.
Budget Blah Blah
BBC World Have Your Say TV: Iran, Israel and US
Watch me on BBC World Have Your Say TV: Iran, Israel and US
In escalating shadow war, Israel emerging victorious
Israelis aren’t ready for war
My wife has been asking me to go and get our gas masks already. I gave mine back a few years ago when I was told to give them back, and haven’t made the effort to pick up new ones. I’m existentially lazy that way. But now my wife insists I get them back. And who am I to argue? Continue reading
The Day After Israel Attacks Iran
Creative Commons. IDF Spokesperson's Unit
Voice of Israel from Jerusalem,
Shalom, the time is now 6 am and here is the news,
in the studio, this is Rivki Dangot, Continue reading
A New Age declaration of New War on Israel
Anonymous, the hacking ‘movement’, has created a YouTube video declaring war on Israel. The form and content of the declaration are sinister, in a Hollywood type of way. The cyber war, after all, has been going on for quite some time already. But what’s new is that this movement has now formally called on like-minded people all over the world to join in on the attack against Israel. By the way, the Anonymous video could be a fake, nobody really knows.
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Lights, Camera, Nazis!
A tale of two very different films about neo-Nazis which are about to hit the screens.
Kriegerin, which translates loosely as “female fighter” is on wide release in Germany. It looks like a serious and contemporary film exploring the issue of women in the neo-Nazi scene, and it has parallels to a recent neo-Nazi case in Germany. From the screenshots [I haven't seen the film] I do get an impression however that the protagonists are humanized, and fighting to be recognized. It’s tough to reconcile myself to the fact that, in Germany, neo-Nazis might not seem, to the mainstream anyway, as nothing other than pure scum. Screenings are also planned at the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival as well as the Berlin International Film Festival.
Ascot Elite/ Alexander Janetzko
Israeli Homeland Defense Minister abandons post just as things get interesting
So, Homefront Defense Minister Matan Vilnai has accepted an appointment to be Israel’s new ambassador to Beijing.
There are a few things very wrong with this piece of news:
Firstly, Matan Vilnai, a former soldier and deputy defense minister, has absolutely no diplomatic experience to speak of. And he doesn’t speak Chinese. I mean, China is not important enough for us to send a career professional diplomat to, right? Vilnai will replace the current ambassador, Amos Nadai, who served as deputy head of the foreign ministry’s Asia department prior to his appointment as ambassador to China. Now THAT’S relevant experience. Continue reading
Just before Assad falls…
I never took Charles Krauthammer for an optimist.
According to Krauthammer, Bashar Assad’s fall would “deprive Iran of an intra-Arab staging area and sever its corridor to the Mediterranean. Syria would return to the Sunni fold. Hezbollah, Tehran’s agent in Lebanon, could be next, withering on the vine without Syrian support and Iranian materiel. And Hamas would revert to Egyptian patronage.” Continue reading
Is Israel bluffing on Iran?
When it comes to threatening a massive attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities [and by extension launching a full-scale war against Iran and its proxies] is Israel bluffing, or are we really going to do it? If the government believes that it can do it alone, without even informing the Americans, will it? This is what everybody from Washington to Tehran, and everyone in between, wants to know. Continue reading
Netanyahu’s YouTube message after ordering an attack on Iran
In a video message posted on YouTube from an undisclosed location, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the Israeli nation hours after Israeli Air Force warplanes launched an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities. Continue reading
Lampooning Lapid
Yair Lapid, the man who would be king, is starting to lose altitude. Just under two months since he announced that he was quitting journalism and entering politics, Lapid is starting to get worn down. And now the polls are starting to show what could be, for Lapid, a long, slow, and painful descent until the country actually heads into general elections, sometime toward the end of the year or the beginning of next year. Continue reading
