You can’t get more dishonest than the father-son duo of Sidney and Max Blumenthal. Sidney is a longtime Clinton sycophant. He was the head of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s private intelligence-gathering organization, even though Blumenthal is a journalist and has no training whatsoever in spycraft. Sidney’s son Max Blumenthal is an author and journalist…
Will people ever stop lying about Israel?
May 19, 2015
Someone directed me to a piece by Washington Post writer William Booth: “Israeli veterans say permissive rules of engagement fueled Gaza carnage.” No. As Booth himself writes, “The testimonies in the report are anonymous and impossible to independently verify.” That means that both Booth’s piece and the Breaking the Silence report “This is How We…
Who really ordered US special forces into Syria?
May 16, 2015
Last night the US Army Combat Applications Group (CAG)—known popularly as the Delta Force—killed Islamic State emir Abu Sayyaf in eastern Syria. The special forces carried out what’s called an air assault: They were flown in by Black Hawk helicopters and V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft. This was an incredibly risky operation. The goal was to…
What if YOU were the murder victim?
May 15, 2015
Today Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to death for his role in the Boston Marathon bombings of April 15, 2013. People on Twitter told me that they oppose the death penalty because it’s immoral. Opposition to the death penalty is perfectly legitimate for a variety of reasons, but if you think capital punishment is immoral, then…
This is why I hate politics
May 14, 2015
I’m apolitical. Although I vote, my heart isn’t in it, and I never expect anything good to come from it. The question du jour being asked Republican presidential candidates is, “If you knew then what you know now about Saddam Hussein, would you have invaded Iraq?” Because of politics, the politicians who want to be…
I hope Israel never gets afraid
May 9, 2015
On April 20, 2014—the birthday of Adolf Hitler—there was a gigantic explosion on a missile base near the Faj Attan neighborhood of Sana’a, the capital of Yemen. I was contacted by the Iranian and Arab press and asked if I would give interviews on what I think is a new weapon that the Israelis, Saudis,…