Writing last week on Antiwar.com the redoubtable Phil Giraldi said: "The Israel connection is significant because Israel has long been at the heart of America's foreign policy woes. America's misguided war on terror is in fact a complete adoption of Israeli security...
Is Palestine America’s Next Vietnam?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hasn't been alone in playing for time when it comes to American policy, that's for sure. (Think, for instance, of our Afghan War commander Gen. David Petraeus.) But Netanyahu played out the pre-election months with some skill...
Netanyahu Pounds War Drums
Less than a week after Republicans made major gains in the U.S. midterm elections, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called on President Barack Obama to "create a credible threat of military action" against Iran. Initial official reaction was negative,...
Netanyahu Tries to Scuttle Peace Talks Again
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has once against scuttled a chance for progress in the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process. You didn't know? Don't feel bad. It all happened so quickly that hardly anyone noticed it – except in Ramallah, where the...
The State of Blah-Blah-Blah
Will Germany enact a law that demands that every Turk aspiring to citizenship swear allegiance to the “German Federal Republic, the Nation-State of the German People”? Sounds like a ridiculous idea. Will the U.S. Senate adopt a law that would compel every candidate...
His Father’s Boy
Which is the real Netanyahu? Bibi the weakling, the invertebrate, who always gives in to pressure, who zigzags to the left and to the right, depending whether the pressure comes from the U.S. or from his coalition partners?The tricky Likud chief, who is afraid that...
All Quiet on the Eastern Front
People endowed with sensitive political ears were startled this week by two words, which, so it seemed, escaped from the mouth of Benjamin Netanyahu by accident: “Eastern front." Once upon a time these words were part of the everyday vocabulary of the occupation. In...
Bibi Unmasked
In 2001, Bibi Netanyahu paid a condolence call on a group of Israeli settlers in the village of Ofra, widows whose husbands had been killed in the Intifada: the videotaped conversation has just been leaked, and broadcast by Israel's Channel 10, and it is a...
Obama and Netanyahu All Smiles
Insisting that the bond between their two nations was "unbreakable," U.S. President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu emerged all smiles from their long-awaited White House meeting Tuesday. Speaking before reporters, the two men, whose last...
Shalit Debacle Shows Netanyahu’s Incompetence
I am composing these lines while looking through the window at the blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea and thinking about the young man who is being held not far from this sea, a few dozen kilometers from here. Can Gilad Shalit look out on the same sea through his...