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Share this - copied Israel and Hamas have been in this situation again and again. High tensions and violence followed by a ceasefire, usually negotiated by Egypt. And it historically falls through. Ronen Bergman, Staff Writer with New York Times Magazine and author of ‘Rise and Kill First’ joins Ali from Tel Aviv. He says it’s dangerous to think physical harm to the enemy can ever replace a political solution, but is unconvinced Israelis will be on board. “Most people in Israel feel tha...

EXCLUSIVE: Wallabies great George Gregan accused of racist languageExclusive, Caroline Marcus|20/05/2021|4min Wallabies great George Gregan has been accused of using “hateful, racist language” while allegedly plotting to remove a former business partner from the company the man founded. Sky News can exclusively reveal that the explosive conversations between the most capped Wallaby and another former player are set to feature in a high-profile trial next month. Mr Gregan and Matthew Dixon, ...

EXCLUSIVE: Wallabies great George Gregan accused of racist language Exclusive, Caroline Marcus|20/05/2021|4min Wallabies great George Gregan has been accused of using “hateful, racist language” while allegedly plotting to remove a former business partner from the company the man founded. Sky News can exclusively reveal that the explosive conversations between the most capped Wallaby and another former player are set to feature in a high-profile trial next month. Mr Gregan and Matthew Dixon,...

This actually a play on Michael Shrimpton’s article, which is entitled “Israel hammers Hamas,” and which is completely devoid of historical facts and deep analysis about what has been doing on in the Middle East for the better part of sixty years. Back in 2014, Shrimpton and I had a long discussion about similar issues, both at VT and via email messages. For the life of me, I simply cannot understand why Shrimpton continues to avoid scholarly studies that have been written on these issues...

Antiwar.com Blog Grant Smith Posted on a massive coordinated Israel lobby media smear campaign in its tracks by accurately labeling AIPAC as a "hate group." Biden has the power to do the same, but unfortunately his entire career has been in servitude to injustice when it comes to Israel Palestine. The Biden administration assumes power claiming it will reverse Trump administration policies it claims are harmful to Americans and the rest of the world. Biden will end the so-called Muslim ban ...

Israeli journalist and author Ronen Bergman advised readers to avoid a new Persian edition of Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations, which he said was an apparently false and distorted version of his 2018 book. “I strongly recommend NOT TO READ this edition: I have never received a request from this publishing house, never gave [license] to publish Rise And Kill First in Persian, and never received, certainly not approved, a text of it in Persian,” t...

By Richard Walker The brazen murder of an Iranian nuclear scientist shows once again that Israel cares little for international law and stands alone as a country that has assassinated more people than any other Western nation since World War II. That achievement is confirmed in a book by Ronen Bergman, an Israeli investigative writer. In Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations, an analysis of Israel’s history of eliminating its enemies, he says Israel ha...

Image zoom Credit: William Morrow (2) Brad Taylor writes novels that are not only ripped from the headlines, but inspired directly what is happening in the world at the exact moment hes writing. The author, who served in the U.S. Army Infantry for more than two decades and taught at the Citadel, has penned over a dozen installments of his Pike Logan series, which uses his own knowledge of the special forces to create t...

Historical Figures Who Survived The Most Assassination Attempts Print Collector/Getty Images By Marina Manoukian/Dec. 18, 2020 9:56 am EDT Throughout history, prominent figures have been targeted for assassination. And if it occurred during the 20th century, its more than likely the CIA was involved somehow. But some historical figures were able to survive numerous assassination attempts, some through skill and others by dumb luck. Some survived dozens of assassination attempts...

Before it even began. “History,” the writer Philip Roth observed, “is where everything unexpected in its own time is chronicled on the page as inevitable.” Certainly, many failed to predict Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, forty-one years ago this month. But the ouster of the imperial government of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and its replacement with a theocratic totalitarian government led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini wasn’t inevitable. Indeed, it’s entirely possible that Israel,...