The effectiveness of missile defense can scarcely be inferred from the “sound and light show” that is Iron Dome. Contrails, the wake of an aircraft, are usually created by water vapor in its […]
The contrails have it: Iron Dome is a dud
Let my people go
We have finally invented the internet. In current form, the internet allows for things like the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street, and the documenting of a tragic school building collapse in China. […]
Jabari assassination brought Hamas negotiations to premature end
Israeli last to know that his negotiations with Ahmed Jabari were as doomed as the man. In an oped in the New York Times, Gershon Baskin, who negotiated with Hamas for the […]
Nota Bene #54
Link of the Week (as opposed to the Weakest Link) Shashank Bengali, McClatchy News, Israel’s destruction of U.S.-style school shocks Gazans: “It seems that targeting our school . . . was one […]
Nota Bene #53
Links of the Week (as opposed to the Weakest Link) Bill Simmons, ESPN.com, the Sports Guy, on the airliner guided to a crash-landing in the Hudson River: And was anyone else on […]
What Israel's really afraid of
It was while reading Gareth Porter’s latest piece at IPS News, Israel Rejected Hamas Ceasefire Offer in December — Israel at its peremptory best — that it occurred to us. Porter wrote: […]
Palestinian children sitting shiva
You’ve probably heard this story by now. . . From the Washington Post: The International Committee of the Red Cross said Thursday that it had found at least 15 bodies and several […]
Peace through cluster munitions
Gaza is now full blown. The US of A blocked the Security Council resolution…will wonders never cease? And still no word from the president to be, who’s now in D.C. and must […]
Is the Gaza operation really just a glorified war game?
John McCreary, editor of AFCEA Intelligence’s Nightwatch writes: “Haaretz reported on 5 January the Israel Air Force on Sunday struck and wounded Husam Hamdan, a senior Hamas militant responsible for the Qassam […]
Nota Bene #52
Link of the Week (as opposed to the Weakest Link) Warren Strobel, McCatchy’s Nukes & Spooks, blogging from Tehran: . . . rumors are running rife in Tehran’s huge central bazaar that […]
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