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Anonymous, the hacking ‘movement’, has created a YouTube video declaring war on Israel. The form and content of the declaration are sinister, in a Hollywood type of way. The cyber war, after all, has been going on for quite some time already. But what’s new is that this movement has now fornally called on like-minded people all over the world to join in on the attack against Israel. By the way, the Anonymous video could be a fake, nobody really knows. The video is sinister because the... Read Full Story

A tale of two very different films about neo-Nazis which are about to hit the screens. Kriegerin , which translates loosely as “female fighter” is on wide release in Germany. It looks like a serious and contemporary film exploring the issue of women in the neo-Nazi scene, and it has parallels to a recent neo-Nazi case in Germany. From the screenshots [I haven't seen the film] I do get an impression however that the protagonists are humanized, and fighting to be recognized. It’s tough to... Read Full Story

So, Homefront Defense Minister Matan Vilnai has accepted an appointment to be Israel’s new ambassador to Beijin g. There are a few things very wrong with this piece of news: Firstly, Matan Vilnai, a former soldier and deputy defense minister, has absolutely no diplomatic experience to speak of. And he doesn’t speak Chinese. I mean, China is not important enough for us to send a career professional diplomat to, right? Vilnai will replace the current ambassador, Amos Nadai, who served as... Read Full Story

I never took Charles Krauthammer for an optimist. According to Krauthammer , Bashar Assad’s fall would “deprive Iran of an intra-Arab staging area and sever its corridor to the Mediterranean. Syria would return to the Sunni fold. Hezbollah, Tehran’s agent in Lebanon, could be next, withering on the vine without Syrian support and Iranian materiel. And Hamas would revert to Egyptian patronage.” It all sounds so fine and dandy. Too good to be true even. Wish it were so. But so often in the... Read Full Story

When it comes to threatening a massive attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities [and by extension launching a full-scale war against Iran and its proxies] is Israel bluffing, or are we really going to do it? If the government believes that it can do it alone,without even informing the Americans, will it? This is what everybody from Washington to Tehran, and everyone in between, wants to know.  But with all the recent talk of attack, is Israel bluffing? The question goes to the very heart of... Read Full Story

In a video message posted on YouTube from an undisclosed location, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the Israeli nation hours after Israeli Air Force warplanes launched an attack on Iranian nuclear facilities. Sitting at a desk beside a flag of Israel, and in front of a volumes of Talmud and the Old Testament, Netanyahu, whose words were subtitled into Arabic at the bottom of the screen, said the following: “Citizens of Israel, Shalom. I speak to you today from Jerusalem, our... Read Full Story

Yair Lapid, the man who would be king, is starting to lose altitude. Just under two months since he announced that he was quitting journalism and entering politics, Lapid is starting to get worn down. And now the polls are starting to show what could be, for Lapid, a long, slow, and painful descent until the country actually heads into general elections, sometime toward the end of the year or the beginning of next year. It started two weeks ago with his academic degree issue . Lapid was... Read Full Story

News coming out today from the Prime Minister’s Office could lead one to believe that the atmosphere inside the most important and sensitive office in the country is on the chaotic side of late. Firstly , the sensational story about alleged harrassment by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s bureau chief Nathan Eshel. The alleged victim, R, who also works in the Prime Minister’s Office, complains to her colleagues in the PMO about Eshel, saying that he snooped on her emails and SMSs, that... Read Full Story

I can’t sleep. How awful. I’ve had such a long day, and now I’m lying in bed, and all I can think of is Iran. Will we or won’t we? Should we or shouldn’t we? If we do, will the Americans join in? Or will we be in this on our own? It seems like today, more than most days, was ‘let’s talk about Iran’ day. Ashkenazi talked about it, Yadlin talked about it, Dempsey talked about it. Time Magazine wrote about it. The New York Times had a big story about it. The Institute for Science and... Read Full Story

When it comes to sending signals, a picture is worth a thousand words. And lately, Israel has been sending a lot of signals, and using specific kinds of pictures to get its message across. Just over the past week, the Israeli defense establishment has released the following pictures of its set pieces: The Ministry of Defense has released pictures of an Arrow 3 anti-missile defense system test. [Message to Iran: We can hit your long-range missiles, your threats of massive rocket attack... Read Full Story