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 […]
Ynet News, January 16, 2014 – An FBI investigation into Republican Congressman Michael Grimm’s campaign finances ties him to Israeli Rabbi Yoshiyahu Pinto through donations of more than half a million dollars, and has also led to suspicions of senior Israeli police officers accepting bribes from Pinto. The affair came to light due to an FBI wiretap agreed to […]
By Aviel Magnezi. Ynet News, January 16, 2014 – Israel Police is investigating senior officers on suspicion of accepting bribes from an influential Israeli rabbi, in a scandal involving the police, a former cabinet minister and even the FBI. The details of the investigation were released Thursday, after a sweeping gag order on the affair was […]
John Whitbeck’s commentary: Transmitted below is a clear-headed reflection from Fareed Zakaria, who, it may be worth noting, supported the American invasion of Iraq which, as he now realizes, blew the lid off Pandora’s Box. Making things worse in the Middle East By Fareed Zakaria. Washington Post – Over the past few months, the Middle East has […]
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