Impact of New Israeli Elections
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Exactly one month after the 21st Knesset were sworn in, a majority of the Knesset voted late Wednesday to disperse themselves and initiate an unprecedented repeat election on September 17.
Israel lifted its military rule over the state's Arab community in 1966 only after ascertaining that its members could not return to the villages they had fled or been expelled from, according to newly declassified archival documents.
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FBI evidence supports prior knowledge or complicity
Israel's parliament on Monday passed a preliminary motion to dissolve itself.
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An Israeli spyware company named in a Financial Times report on a WhatsApp security flaw prides itself on "rigorous, ethical standards" despite previous links to alleged espionage.
With so much attention focused recently on constant consumer spying and privacy violations, erroneous or otherwise, by Amazon, Facebook and now Twitter, it is easy to forget that virtually...
This chapter provides a historical perspective of US war plans directed against Iran, including the use of a preemptive nuclear attack, using low yield, "more usable" tactical nuclear weapons. Emphasis added
John Bolton has gotten away with a dangerous deception. The national security adviser's announcement Sunday that the Pentagon has deployed air and naval forces to the Middle East, which he combined with a threat to Iran, points to a new maneuver to
Trump destroyed his chance at being a successful president by the stupid appointments he has made. At the moment he is being set up by his national security advisor John Bolton and Israel for a war with Iran.
J. Swift comments at the end of the Iran JCPOA thread (emphasis added):
One of the terror groups attacking Israel has admitted that its own rocket killed a 14 month old baby in Gaza, exploding inside the family's home.
update: The major Saturday morning flare-up between Gazan militants and Israel, which began with 100 Hamas and Islamic Jihad rockets launched in under the span of an hour Saturday morning looks to turn into a potentially prolonged conflict.
The IDF spokesman announced the assassination of Hamed Ahmed Abed Khudri, which would mark the first time in a number of years that the IDF has used targeted assassinations against terrorist leaders.
The IDF spokesman announced the assassination of Hamed Ahmed Abed Khudri, which would mark the first time in a number of years that the IDF has used targeted assassinations against terrorist leaders.
Israel is the perpetual victim
Donald Trump is the most disruptive president in anyone's memory, and that disruption has brought shockwaves to the culture. (Would #MeToo have happened if we had gotten the first woman president, rather than a Groper In Chief? I don't think so.)
Netanyahu said there "is a need to express our appreciation by calling a community or neighborhood on the Golan Heights after Donald Trump."
No, I'm not selling drugs or peddling child pornography. I write about America's wars and the primary objective of those illegal and immoral wars--to make Israel the hegemon of the Middle East along with Saudi Arabia. All US foreign policy in th
So, what have we learned from the Israeli legislative elections on April 9? A whole lot.
More wag-the-dog means war for America
More wag-the-dog means war for America
After winning the Israeli election with a slim majority, in a campaign that grew more sordid and vilifying by the day, Benjamin Netanyahu is poised to begin his fifth term as Israeli prime minister.
Morris Kahn, the primary sponsor of SpaceIL's Beresheet spacecraft, announced on Saturday evening the funding of a second Israeli spacecraft, Beresheet 2.0.
Earlier this morning, the Israeli Air Force launched several airstrikes on the key Syrian city of Masyaf in the Hama Governorate. According to a military source near the scene of the airstrikes, the Israeli warplanes hit a number of sites near the Ma
On Monday, President Donald Trump designated the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization, the first time the United States has designated part of another nation's government as such a threat.
I was pretty sure by the time I went to bed Monday night -- even though not a single ballot had been counted -- that Bibi Netanyahu was on his way to another historic victory in the Israeli elections.