A reporter exposes the fact that the Eilat attacks had nothing to do with Gaza; the IDF has nothing to say Do you remember the Eilat attacks of two months back? How we were told, while the attack was still going on, that the attackers were the Popular Resistance Committees, and that therefore we have [...]
The IDF admits that the Eilat attackers weren’t Gazans, but buries the news Some 34 days ago, a group of terrorists attacked several points on the Israeli-Egyptian border, near Eilat. While the attack was still going on, Security Minister (the term “Defense Minister” does not capture the Soviet/Socialist undertones of the title) Ehud Barak quickly [...]
Why does Israel still refuse to show us the full footage from the Mavi Marmara? Perhaps because it knows what we’ll see Last weekend saw the release of the Palmer Report (which can be read here – a PDF file) dealing the Flotilla incident and the assault on the Mavi Marmara last year. To make [...]
Earlier this week I posted about the cracks in the Barak-Netanyahu narrative regarding the terror attacks near Eilat. A quick reminder: While the attacks were still going on, Barak blamed them on the Popular Resistance Committees in Gaza, and hours later the IAF attacked and killed the leadership of the PRC. However, there is not [...]
Colonel Itay Virov, who won notoriety when he admitted he allowed torture, will become a brigadier general soon The IDF Chief of Staff, Lt. Gen. Binyamin Ganz, decided (Hebrew) to promote Colonel Itay Virov, formerly the commander of the designated occupation brigade Kfir, to brigadier general. Virov will be appointed to the office of Chief [...]
Netanyahu’s magic hat is emptying quickly. Unlike his last term, he failed in buying the students for a few slices of plzza, and his attempt to preempt the “stroller protest” by parents, planned for today, was particularly pathetic: He offered to lower the bus fare of a parent with a stroller by 50%. The offer [...]
A new BTselem report throws light on the way the IDF and other occupation forces treats minor detainees As part of its annoying habit of shedding light on parts of the occupation most Israelis would prefer to know nothing about, BTselem published yesterday morning a report about the arrest of minors in the West Bank. [...]
In an attempt to protect them from prosecution abroad, IDF officers will conceal their identity The IDF is increasingly worried about the possibility of prosecuting its members for war crimes abroad: Maariv published an article this morning (Hebrew), saying senior officers will have their identities hidden, noting specifically this was not due to ‘field security’ [...]
What we can learn from the fabrication of a threat to kill gentiles During the weekend, a short Youtube video (below) became a hit over the Israeli Twittershphere and Facebook. The video was uploaded on May 25th 2011, i.e. during the height of the storm following the crossing of the ceasefire lines in Majdel Shams. [...]
Former Supreme Court Judge, Ya’akov Turkel, harshly criticized both the government and Israeli media today (Hebrew). Turkel claimed the government “doesn’t know how to do Hasbara properly” (inarticulateness in the original), and that its Hasbara organs “have abandoned our judicial Hasbara too quickly. We have more to say, aside from Biblical rights and security reasons”. [...]