The move Black Rain isn’t very good, but it has one magnificent scene. It’s about disgracing yourself and others. Michael Douglas is Nick Conklin, a New York police detective. He and his partner Charlie Vincent (Andy Garcia) extradited a Japanese yakuza back to Tokyo, where he escaped. After Vincent is killed, Conklin has dinner with…
The explosion in Yemen
April 29, 2015
On April 20, 2014, an unidentified nation dropped a gigantic bomb on a military base next to the Faj Attan neighborhood of Sana’a, the capital of Yemen. News reports said that this was a Saudi air strike that hit a SCUD missile depot. Close study of the explosion indicates that this is not true. For…
Israel drops atomic bombs on Gaza!
April 4, 2015
Somebody asked me to look at a photo said to show Israeli air strikes on Gaza. The image is fake. Only atomic bombs could produce such explosions. Here’s the photo. This is a composite. You can always tell Palestinian fake-explosion photos because the fireballs and smoke towers appear precisely on the horizon. What they’re doing…
Hamas tries its hand at parody
March 17, 2015
Thanks to reader Pam, behold the Hamas parody video The Difference Between the Palestinian Resistance and the Israeli Occupation Army. This is actually Hamas satirically commenting on its own savage war-fighting methods. By pretending that they hold their fire in order to not injure children, Hamas is calling attention to the fact that they use…
The great irony of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict
December 28, 2014
I began studying the Israeli Defense Forces when I was about nine. I couldn’t explain why. Part of the reason was that the Israelis used World War II equipment, which had interested me since I was five. I’ve always hated war, but I’ve always studied it. People often enter the psychiatric field to find out…
Damage done by Israeli weapons
November 6, 2014
A reader asked me to do something that required all my researching skills. She very reasonably asked me to show the damage done by Israeli weapons. I read your blog posts regularly, and I noticed that you talk a lot about what Israeli explosions don’t look like. You’ve shown us a lot of Hamas-conducted explosions…
What are inert bombs?
August 25, 2014
I’ve gotten several e-mails asking me, “What are inert bombs? You talk about them a lot, but what are they?” Inert bombs are aerial munitions filled with wet sand or cement. They’re also called “dumb bombs.” Though they were originally designed for training, air forces began using them during wartime in order to reduce collateral…
Bombing Hamas command posts is not like 9/11
August 23, 2014
Today the Israeli Air Force bombed a twelve-story apartment building in the Tal al-Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City. The building—named “Zafir 4″—collapsed. In a completely obscene attempt at historical revisionism, Palestinians are calling this “Gaza’s 9/11.” In reality the IDF is bombing Hamas command posts; this was one such installation. The Palestinians say that seventeen…
Faked photos of Gaza International Airport
August 22, 2014
When I first saw this image of what was said to be the Israeli bombing of Yasser Arafat International Airport on July 7, 2014, I thought it looked very strange. Several other pictures by the same photgrapher were published, and they all had a whiff of fraudulence about them. A little research proved that these…