My latest interview on Al Jazeera English discusses Israel’s determination to bombard Gaza and Lebanon.
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Sky News interview on Israel worsening tensions in Middle East
My interview with Sky News on the growing Israel/Hizbollah skirmishes that threaten a regional war.
Al Jazeera English interview on Biden’s impotent trip to Israel
My latest interview with Al Jazeera English on the devastating attack on a hospital in Gaza, likely by Israel, and US President Joe Biden’s desperate visit to Israel.
Lebanese outlet An-Nahar covers The Palestine Laboratory
My new book, The Palestine Laboratory, has been written about in the Lebanese daily in Arabic An-Nahar (and what follows is the English version via Google Translate). The article is by Jihad Al-Zein: No smartphone anymore Israel is first in the world, not America or China, in smart phone monitoring programs It can be said…
TRT World interview on Israeli attacks across the Middle East
Today I was interviewed on global broadcaster TRT World about increasingly brazen Israeli attacks across the Middle East (forgive the brief technical issues):
Growing ties between Israel and the global far-right
My investigation, for MidEastWire publication, researched over many months: The global sound of fury and shock heralded by the win of Donald Trump as the new U.S. President wasn’t heard in Israel. A poll, released in early December by the firm Dialog, found that 83 percent of Israelis viewed Trump as “pro-Israel” and hoped he…
How Western-backed Saudi fundamentalism is causing chaos
One of the great unspoken truths of the 21st century. After this week’s shocking terrorist acts in Russia, it’s possible (though impossible to know) that Saudi Arabia may be behind the carnage (they threatened as much a few months ago). The venerable Patrick Cockburn, writing in the UK Independent, on the ominous signs of sectarian…
Use and abuse of the Holocaust to defend and support Israel
Interesting and necessary editorial in Haaretz: The flyby over the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp by three Israel Air Force planes 10 years ago was a significant event for the service. The air force’s commander, Maj. Gen. Amir Eshel, still keeps the flight’s documentation close by in his office. Four air force commanders at different times were…
When Ehud Olmert again compares occupation to South Africa
In the just financed film about the Zionist lobby group J Street, there’s an interview with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert about the inability to sustain the Israeli occupation of Palestine for another 45 years. It’s been said many times before, and Olmert is a war criminal for his actions in Gaza and Lebanon,…
Rise of Sunnis in the Middle East and the decline of Iran in 2013
Juan Cole offers some predictions: 2013 will see Iranian influence in the Middle East continue a decline that began with the Arab upheavals of 2011. Iran’s two major allies in the Arab world are Syria and Lebanon. In Lebanon, Iran arms the Shiite party-militia Hizbullah, and does so overland through Iraq and Syria. Since Israel…