Pollard Espionage Ring Still Unfolding
Almost one year ago Victor Gilinsky and Roger J. Mattson penned the stunning article "Revisiting the NUMEC Affair" in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists. It describes how in the 1960s Israeli agents and their U.S. collaborators stole highly enriched uranium from the...
Pox Americana
As we've watched the dramatic events in the Middle East, you would hardly know that we had a thing to do with them. Oh, yes, in the name of its War on Terror, Washington had for years backed most of the thuggish governments now under siege or anxious that they may be...
A Villa in the Jungle?
We are in the middle of a geological event. An earthquake of epoch-making dimensions is changing the landscape of our region. Mountains turn into valleys, islands emerge from the sea, volcanoes cover the land with lava. People are afraid of change. When it happens,...
Critical Connections: Egypt, the US, and Israel
Israelis Discover a New Love for Mubarak
JERUSALEM - Around the world, peoples revel in anticipation of the fall of a regime that has denied its citizens their basic rights. But most Israelis are haunted by nightmare scenarios of 'the day after', as if their country's stability was anchored in the continuity...
How About a Clean Break – with Israel?
It Could Be Too Late for Two States
RAMALLAH - The credibility of the Palestinian Authority (PA) on the Arab street has been further weakened by the release of the "Palestine Papers," but ironically the release of the explosive documents by Al Jazeera could bolster support for the Palestinian...
Israel’s European Friends Get Active
BRUSSELS - The pro-Israel lobby is seeking to increase its influence among members of Europe's parliaments by offering them an expenses-paid trip to the Middle East. Brochures circulated in several elected assemblies invite their representatives to take part in a...
A Hezbollah-Run Lebanon Poses Little Threat to US Security
With the rise of a Hezbollah-backed government in Lebanon, hand-wringing seems to be the order of the day in the American and Israeli governments. Hezbollah is a Shi'ite Islamist group that is the only Arab entity to have defeated Israel in armed conflict – the latest...
