John Whitbeck’s commentary: In the article transmitted below, Philip Giraldi considers the national embarrassment to Canada posed by its prime minister Stephen Harper and warns against the risk and threat of putting in charge of a country’s foreign policy an individual in the grip of “nuttier-than-fruitcake” superstition. This threat is, obviously, not unique to Canada. […]
By Alan Hart. Arafat was not personally corrupt and did NOT steal any money let alone “billions”. What he did do, as his most senior leadership colleagues told me, and he himself subsequently confirmed to me, was tolerate corruption in some around him. Why did he do that? Because the PLO was penetrated not only […]
John Whitbeck’s commentary: On January 24, I wrote at the end of my introduction to an article on Iraq that the Obama administration’s impulse to maintain an American military presence in Afghanistan for another ten years “can be explained only by a self-interested concern of American political and military ‘leaders’ to kick the can down […]
By Alan Hart. Redress, January 28, 2014 – The expanded and most explicit form of my headline question is this. Is Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu of sound mind and knowingly talking propaganda nonsense about threats to Israel’s security in order to fool the world including most of its Jews, or, is he unbalanced, mentally disturbed, […]
John Whitbeck’s commentary: While polls show that more than three-quarters of the French people view their president’s erratic love life as a private affair, it appears from the AP news report, published by the International New York Times, transmitted below that the love life of the Israeli prime minister’s son is widely viewed in the […]
John Whitbeck’s commentary: Transmitted below is a link to an article in the TIMES OF ISRAEL on a clarification of Bibi Netanyahu’s vision for Israeli-Palestinian “peace” which should have attracted more attention in the Western media than it has so far. http://www.timesofisrael.com/pm-would-let-settlers-remain-in-west-bank-official-says/#.UuZQYRs4wkg.email Perhaps the prime minister is worried that his two carefully carefully crafted poison […]
John Whitbeck’s commentary: In the article transmitted below, HAARETZ columnist Amira Hass considers, with considerable help from Nabeel Shaath, Bibi Netanyahu’s diversionary tactic of demanding that Palestine must formally recognize Israel as a “Jewish State”, a demand unfortunately “swallowed” by John Kerry, who, in accordance with a decades-old tradition, appears to be adopting Israel’s goals, […]
IMEMC, January 29, 2014 – Palestinian medical sources have reported that a young Palestinian man has been shot and killed by Israeli army fire near the Ein Senia area, north of the central West Bank city of Ramallah. The sources stated that resident Mohammad Mahmoud Mubarak, 20, was shot and killed while working. The family said […]
By Esti Shoshan. Ynet News, January 14, 2014 – There is something about the word “anti-Semitism” which shuts the mouths of accusers in a pretty efficient way. Many times, the collective Jewish trauma justifies the feeling of permanent persecution accompanying our lives, out of a paranoia of survival we have developed as a defense mechanism. True, […]
Ynet News, January 15, 2014 – The Israeli daily Globes revealed on Wednesday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had previously held a bank account in the Channel Islands, which is a tax haven. Netanyahu’s bank account was active between the years 1999 and 2003, while he took time off from political life, but still maintained his account […]
