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Israeli Air Force F-16 (photo: IDF Spokesperson / CC BY-NC 2.0)

Goading Putin: The insanity of Israel’s military policy

Israel is now bombing the strategic interests not only of its preferred targets – Syria, Lebanon, Sudan, Iran or other vastly inferior military powers – but of Russia. When I think of Israel’s continual acts of military “preemption,” I think of a cocky kid who believes he can run across the freeway, so he…

By Larry Derfner August 2, 2013

Last man standing? Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad (Picture: Agencia Brasil)

‘100 Days in Syria’: An eyewitness account of a country imploding

By Yacov Ben Efrat In seeking the “truth” about Syria, I came across a book by Lebanese reporter Ghadi Francis, “My pen and pain: One hundred days in Syria” (Beirut: Saqi Books 2012), in Arabic. I did not find the “truth” but I did find many things which explain the outbreak of revolution in Syria, and especially its…

By +972 Magazine June 21, 2012