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Du Wei, the Chinese ambassador to Israel. Courtesy of the Chinese Embassy in Israel, via Reuters

A Death in Herzliya

Mystery Remains About the Death of the Chinese Ambassador

Philip Giraldi • May 27, 2020

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On Sunday morning May 17th, China's Ambassador to Israel, Du Wei, was found dead in bed inside his official residence in the Tel Aviv upscale suburb of Herzliya. He was 57 years old, married and the father of a son, and had been appointed to his position in February. He was reported to be in... Read More

Israel Perfecting Surveillance Tech

Leave it to the Mossad and Shin Bet to profit militarily and financially from virus.

Philip Giraldi • May 14, 2020

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Israel’s external spy organization Mossad and its internal espionage equivalent Shin Bet have reputations that are much larger than their actual successes, but the one area where they have excelled is electronic intelligence gathering. Recent electronic spying around the White House and other federal buildings in Washington carried out by the Israeli Embassy demonstrates that... Read More

Former Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman and the F-35I

What Does the Empire's Agony Mean for the "Jewish State of Israel"?

The Saker • May 13, 2020

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First, let's begin with a few (apparently unrelated) recent news items: The latest US PR disaster in Venezuela shows that the AngloZionist Empire truly is agonizing. While this is hardly the first that that a US "special operation" goes down in an embarrassing failure, but even by US standards this latest disaster in Venezuela is... Read More

Israel's War Crimes Have Killed Americans

If the president loves to honor the military, start with the U.S.S. Liberty

Philip Giraldi • May 5, 2020

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Imagine if you will a ship from a nation not at war with anyone sailing in international waters on a quiet June day being suddenly attacked by unidentified warplanes and torpedo boats, their markings covered up to conceal their country of origin. The vessel under attack had little with which to defend itself, but its... Read More

Israeli Lab Claiming to Have COVID-19 Vaccine Is an IDF Biological Warfare Research Facility

Eric Striker • April 19, 2020

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Last month it was reported that scientists at the Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR) in Ness Ziona had developed a vaccine for COVID-19, though it still required clinical trials. Whatever the merits of this claim are, there are striking ethical, historic and public health reasons to reject any "cure" coming from the IIBR. The... Read More

A Viral Pandemic or A Crime Scene?

Gilad Atzmon • April 11, 2020

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We have recently heard from frontline medical physicians that the current global health crisis is something they have not been trained to deal with nor do they fully understand the spectrum of symptoms they encounter in hospitals and emergency centres. Earlier this week, Dr. Cameron Kyle-Sidell, an emergency physician affiliated with Maimonides Medical Center (Brooklyn),... Read More

Targeting Iran While America Locks Down

A national health crisis does not stop the beat of the war drums

Philip Giraldi • April 7, 2020

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The United States has just declared war against the coronavirus, with President Donald Trump self-proclaiming that he is now a “wartime president.” Whether one believes that the virus must be confronted with maximum aggression by effectively shutting down the country or that the measures already in place are already an overreaction hardly seems to matter... Read More

Netanyahu Uses Coronavirus to Lure Rival Gantz Into ‘emergency’ Government

Jonathan Cook • March 30, 2020

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Benny Gantz, the former Israeli general turned party leader, agreed late last week to join his rival Benjamin Netanyahu in an “emergency government” to deal with the coronavirus epidemic. Two weeks ago he had won a wafer-thin majority vote in the parliament that gave him first shot at trying to put together a coalition government.... Read More

#WuFlu: One Foot In Wuhan, One Foot In the Grave (Via Washington State)

Ilana Mercer • March 19, 2020

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When in doubt as to just how remiss your government was, see what Israel has done to protect its nationals from the coronavirus pandemic. Taking its cues from the American Left, the Israeli left is all for national and individual self-immolation. But nobody who matters in that country has been listening to the Left babble... Read More

US Army Cites Cybersecurity Concerns In Scrapping Planned Purchase of Israeli Military Tech

Whitney Webb • March 11, 2020

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After spending $373 million to buy two batteries of the Israeli-made Iron Dome missile defense system, the U.S. Army has announced that it is unable to integrate the batteries it purchased with its other air defense systems because Israel has refused to provide the Army with the source code. The Army asserted that without the... Read More

Who Made Coronavirus? Was It the U.S., Israel or China Itself?

Philip Giraldi • March 5, 2020

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The most commonly reported mainstream media account of the creation of the Coronavirus suggests that it was derived from an animal borne microorganism found in a wild bat that was consumed by an ethnic Chinese resident of Wuhan. But there appears to be some evidence to dispute that in that adjacent provinces in China, where... Read More

Why Does Netanyahu Keep Winning?

Gilad Atzmon • March 4, 2020

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A few days ahead of the previous Israeli election, Haaretz’s lead writer Anshel Pfeffer, authored a spectacular analysis of Israel’s current political deadlock: Israelis are going to the polls to decide whether they are ‘Jews’ or ‘Israelis.’ The first to point out the political rivalry between ‘the Jew’and ‘the Israeli’ was Shimon Peres who, after... Read More

Third Time's a Charm

Israel Shamir • March 3, 2020

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After two dismal failures, Bibi Netanyahu had won the third time. Israeli general elections three times in one year turned the country into Groundhog Day; all polls predicted the third time will be a perfect re-run of previous two runs. But elections are unpredictable: people say what they think the interviewer wants to hear, or... Read More

Hate vs. Peace and Harmony

Gilad Atzmon • March 2, 2020

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We learned today that Israel’s UN ambassador Danny Dannon told AIPAC that Bernie Sanders is an ‘ignorant fool, a liar or both. “We don’t want Sanders at AIPAC. We don’t want him in Israel…Whoever calls the prime minister of Israel a ‘racist’ is either a liar, an ignorant fool, or both,” Ambassador Dannon announced. The... Read More

Palestinian-American Mahmoud Shaalan was shot five times by Israeli soldiers at a West Bank checkpoint. Credit: Courtesy.

American Citizens Killed and Tortured by Israel?

No one is ever held accountable

Philip Giraldi • February 15, 2020

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One of the principal functions of a United States Embassy overseas is to provide citizen services, which includes coming to the assistance of Americans who are treated badly by the local government. It is a responsibility that most embassies take seriously, with the exception of the facility currently located in Jerusalem. One has to understand... Read More

Gruesome Details Emerge of Israel’s Torture of Palestinian Prisoners

Whitney Webb • February 12, 2020

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New allegations have surfaced claiming that Israel’s domestic intelligence agency, Shin Bet or Shabak, is engaged in the brutal torture of Palestinian detainees, despite the practice being against both Israeli and international law. The new accusations, deemed “very credible” by both Israeli and Palestinian rights groups, come amid a recorded spike in the use of... Read More

Gas Wars in the Mediterranean

Mike Whitney • February 5, 2020

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The unexpected alliance between Turkey and Libya is a geopolitical earthquake that changes the balance of power in the eastern Mediterranean and across the Middle East. Turkey's audacious move has enraged its rivals in the region and cleared the way for a dramatic escalation in the 9 year-long Libyan civil war. It has also forced... Read More

Putin in Israel

Stephen F. Cohen • February 3, 2020

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As with its 40-year predecessor, the new US-Russian Cold War has characteristic features, including sharply conflicting historical memories. Some of them are absurdly inaccurate and politically dangerous. Consider a recent ramifying example. On January 23, Russian President Vladimir Putin was in Israel to commemorate Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 75th anniversary of the liberation of... Read More

The Assassins Are Back!

Israel Shamir • February 3, 2020

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Ron Unz, the fearless disturber of established dogma, has published a long essay connecting together some of his earlier texts under the title Mossad Assassinations. I like his natural style, his lack of pathos and drama. He does not lecture you, but shares his progress with you; what did he discover today, and how did... Read More

How Government and Media Are Prepping America for a Failed 2020 Election

Whitney Webb • January 28, 2020

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As World War II drew to a close in Europe, British philosopher Bertrand Russell wrote that “neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.” Though numerous examples in the post-World War II era have proven Russell’s point,... Read More

Why Big Brother Fears Qassem Soleimani

He’s the Che Guevara of the 21st Century

Kevin Barrett • January 27, 2020

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He was the 21st century’s most accomplished military leader—and a deeply spiritual man. Before they killed him, they didn’t even want you to know his name. After martyring him, they realized their mistake—and pulled out all the stops to stop you from finding out that he was a great man, a modern-day Che Guevara. An... Read More

American Pravda: Mossad Assassinations

The JFK Assassination and the 9/11 Attacks?

Ron Unz • January 27, 2020

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The January 2nd American assassination of Gen. Qassem Soleimani of Iran was an event of enormous moment. Gen. Soleimani had been the highest-ranking military figure in his nation of 80 million, and with a storied career of 30 years, one of the most universally popular and highly regarded. Most analysts ranked him second in influence... Read More

The Battle for Auschwitz – II

Israel Shamir • January 24, 2020

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These days, Jerusalem could compete with Davos and Bilderberg. Most distinguished, high and mighty gentlemen have met here, at the Auschwitz Forum in Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center: kings, presidents, prime ministers; a living proof the Jews have some pull in the world. The British Court of St James was represented by Prince... Read More

Netflix’s (And Israel’s) The Spy

Taylor McClain • January 23, 2020

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If the title of this review surprises you, it shouldn’t. Do not be disillusioned — this multi-part spy saga is transparent propaganda, promoted (if not partly financed, I suspect) by Israel. It’s as Kosher as Rosenfeld’s bagels. But first, the story. It concerns a Sephardic Jewish man, Eli Cohen, born in Alexandria, Egypt. By posing... Read More

$Polish \"Neo-Nazi\" Protest$

The Battle for Auschwitz

Israel Shamir • January 20, 2020

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On Friday, January 17, 2020, three thousand salvos shook the earth of the Russian capital city; the sky over Moscow had been emblazoned by glorious fireworks. This was the repeat of the memorable salute given seventy-five years ago, on January 17, 1945 by 24 salvos of 324 heavy cannons at liberation of Warsaw by the... Read More

How an Israeli Spy-Linked Tech Firm Gained Access to the US Gov’t’s Most Classified Networks

Whitney Webb • January 14, 2020

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Through its main investors, SoftBank and Lockheed Martin, Cybereason not only has ties to the Trump administration but has its software running on some of the U.S. government’s most classified and secretive networks. If the networks of the U.S. military, the U.S. intelligence community and a slew of other U.S. federal agencies were running the... Read More

Code-Panic: A Controlled Opposition Spectacle

Gilad Atzmon • January 12, 2020

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Ariel Gold is the national co-director of CODEPINK, an American female “grassroots peace and social justice movement” that claims to work “to end U.S.-funded wars and occupations.” Ariel claims to support the Palestinians and oppose Israel. She has published articles in Jewish progressive outlets such as the Forward, Tikkun Magazine and Mondoweiss. On January 3rd,... Read More

The Iranian Aftermath

Israel Shamir • January 12, 2020

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Trump was panting heavily, like Darth Vader on the Death Star. The mike was too close to his mouth. His laboured speech and strange look did not match the comforting words as he spoke to the American people. But the meaning was clear: the world sheriff had received a ringing slap in the face. First... Read More

The Saker Interviews Michael Hudson

The Saker and Michael Hudson • January 9, 2020

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The Saker: Trump has been accused of not thinking forward, of not having a long-term strategy regarding the consequences of assassinating General Soleimani. Does the United States in fact have a strategy in the Near East, or is it only ad hoc? Michael Hudson: Of course American strategists will deny that the recent actions do... Read More

The State of the Iranian Crisis

Paul Craig Roberts • January 8, 2020

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Readers are asking my take on the Iranian retaliation and Trump’s response. I think a deal might have been arranged between Washington and Tehran via a third party. The Iranian attack resulted in no US casualties. Thus, it serves both Iran’s purpose of retaliating and Trump’s purpose of interpreting the Iranian retaliation to be, in... Read More

Clausewitz, Trump and Soleimani

American politics is a continuation of Israel’s wars by different means

Gilad Atzmon • January 8, 2020

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The 19th century military philosopher Carl von Clausewitz observed that war is the continuation of politics by different means. This is an apt description of Iranian military strategy and geo-political affairs. It is consistent with the rationale that guided General Qasem Soleimani for the last two decades. As a superb military strategist Soleimani grasped that... Read More

Trump as Cyrus: Has Yahweh Grasped Him By His Right Hand?

Laurent Guyénot • January 7, 2020

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(Note: this article was originally written before the US assassination of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani on January 2nd) Trump kept the promise he made to AIPAC in March 2016: “We will move the American embassy to the eternal capital of the Jewish people, Jerusalem.” Its fulfillment gave a timely support to Netanyahu, whose popularity in... Read More

Putin Should Take Control of the Iranian Situation Out of Israel’s Hands

Paul Craig Roberts • January 6, 2020

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At this time, it is up to Israel whether or not war occurs between the US and Iran. Israel very much wants this war as a means of putting Iran and Syria into chaos, thus leaving Hezbollah isolated and unsupplied. Then Israel can succeed in occupying southern Lebanon. The American neoconservatives want Iran in chaos,... Read More

Israel’s Fingerprints Are All Over the Assassination of Qasem Soleimani

Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo • January 6, 2020

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By killing top Iranian military commander, Qasem Soleimani, American and Israeli leaders demonstrated the idiom ‘out of the frying pan into the fire.’ US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are both politically and legally embattled – the former has just been impeached and the latter is dogged by an Attorney General... Read More

Putin’s Hour Is At Hand

Paul Craig Roberts • January 4, 2020

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Vladimir Putin is the most impressive leader on the world stage. He survived and arose from a Russia corrupted by Washington and Israel during the Yeltsin years and reestablished Russia as a world power. He dealt successfully with American/Israeli aggression against South Ossetia and against Ukraine, incorporating at Crimea’s request the Russian province back into... Read More

Graphic by Claudio Cabrera for MintPress News

Why a Shadowy Tech Firm with Ties to Israeli Intelligence Is Running Doomsday Election Simulations

Whitney Webb • January 4, 2020

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A shadowy tech firm with deep ties to Israeli intelligence and newly inked contracts to protect Pentagon computers is partnering with Lockheed Martin to gain unprecedented access to the heart of America’s democracy. Election Day 2020: 32 Americans dead, over 200 injured, martial law declared and the election itself is canceled. While this horrific scenario... Read More

Foul Murder of Another Nation’s Hero

An American Disgrace

Diana Johnstone • January 4, 2020

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The criminal assassination of General Qassem Soleimani was not only an act of war, it was an act of low treachery and crass stupidity. Among the self-justifying lies, leaders of the perpetual war regime in Washington claim that locating the targeted military leader was a brilliant accomplishment of U.S. intelligence. Not at all! The Lebanese... Read More

Lies, the Bethlehem Doctrine, and the Illegal Murder of Soleimani

Craig Murray • January 4, 2020

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In one of the series of blatant lies the USA has told to justify the assassination of Soleimani, Mike Pompeo said that Soleimani was killed because he was planning “Imminent attacks” on US citizens. It is a careful choice of word. Pompeo is specifically referring to the Bethlehem Doctrine of Pre-Emptive Self Defence. Developed by... Read More

A photo shows the alleged site of a US airstrike that killed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani near Baghdad International Airport in Iraq, January 03, 2020. Photo | Iraqi Security Forces handout

A Dubious Official Story Masks the True Motives Behind the Soleimani Assassination

Whitney Webb • January 3, 2020

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Behind the official yet dubious justifications for the U.S. airstrike that killed a top Iranian general on Friday lies a confluence of factors — some decades in the making, others more recent — that are pushing the U.S. towards yet another catastrophic war in the Middle East. BAGHDAD — The recent assassination of Iran’s most... Read More

War Again on the Front Burner

Paul Craig Roberts • January 3, 2020

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The nonsensical statement below from the Pentagon announcing that the US government has committed an act of war against Iran should frighten everyone: “At the direction of the president, the US military has taken decisive defensive action to protect US personnel abroad by killing Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force,... Read More

Dr. Guy Bechor on American Jewry and Its Destiny

Gilad Atzmon • December 23, 2019

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According to Israeli academic Guy Bechor the fate of American Jewry is sealed. In this three years old video Dr. Bechor points at a Jewish progressive ‘conspiracy’ against America, its values and ideals. Bechor reckons that it is just a question of time before American Jews flee to Israel. He also insists that the so-called... Read More

From Corbyn to Stalin to Rothschild

Israel Shamir • December 23, 2019

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(1) England Jewish logic is astounding! The Jews fought Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour tooth and claw. Their newspapers claimed he is a new Hitler. Their Chief Rabbi issued a fatwa against Corbyn. Israel's Foreign Minister said he hopes Corbyn will lose British election. And Labour had been soundly trashed in the British elections. Jews could congratulate... Read More

How the Pro-War “Left” Fell for the Kurds in Syria

Max Parry • December 22, 2019

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The October decision by U.S. President Donald Trump to withdraw American troops from northeastern Syria did not only precipitate the Turkish offensive, codenamed ‘Operation Peace Spring’, into Kurdish-held territory which followed. It also sparked an outcry of hysteria from much of the so-called “left” that has been deeply divided during the 8-year long conflict over... Read More

A Criminal State Under Investigation

Gilad Atzmon • December 22, 2019

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Reports from Israeli press outlets this weekend show that the Jewish State fears the ICC’s (International Criminal Court) decision to move forward with an investigation into whether Israel committed war crimes in the Palestinian territories. Such a probe may expose current and former government officials and military personnel to prosecution on the global stage. The... Read More

Trump Creates a New Nation

Executive order implies that "Jewishness" is now a nationality

Philip Giraldi • December 17, 2019

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The pandering by Donald Trump and those around him to Israel and to some conservative American Jews is apparently endless. Last Wednesday the president signed an executive order that is intended to address alleged anti-Semitism on college campuses by cutting off funds to those universities that do not prevent criticism of Israel. To provide a... Read More

Feature photo | Graphic by Claudio Cabrera

The Israel Lobby’s Hidden Hand in the Theft of Iraqi and Syrian Oil

Agha Hussain and Whitney Webb • December 10, 2019

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The outsized role of U.S. Israel lobby operatives in abetting the theft of Syrian and Iraqi oil reveals how this powerful lobby also facilitates more covert aspects of U.S.-Israeli cooperation and the implementation of policies that favor Israel. Kirkuk, Iraq — “We want to bring our soldiers home. But we did leave soldiers because we’re... Read More

Op-Ed: Say No to the US-Israel Mutual Defense Pact

Eric Striker • December 3, 2019

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Last September, Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu hinted that they were working on a mutual defense pact. Such a treaty, if signed, would officially and permanently mandate an American military intervention if Israel were to ever start a conflict with its neighbors. The Trump administration is desperate to get this done, but Netanyahu is having... Read More

Kevin Barrett and Gilad Atzmon on Netanyahu's Indictment-Press TV, the Debate

Gilad Atzmon and Kevin Barrett • November 25, 2019

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We explored the political options and global consequences of the current Israeli crisis… https://www.presstv.com/Detail/2019/11/24/612052/Israeli-PM-in-Trouble

The Deep State vs. Netanyahu: Lawyers and Statemen

Israel Shamir • November 11, 2019

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Lawyers have a very dubious reputation. Since the days of old, they were considered scumbags; advocates being shysters at best; judges as despotic tyrants at worst. Half a millennium ago, Maître Rabelais said: There is no cause so bad that it does not find itself an advocate, otherwise there would be no lawsuits in the... Read More

Israel's Last War

Gilad Atzmon • November 6, 2019

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In my 2011 book, The Wandering Who, I elaborated on the possible disastrous scenario in which Israel is the nucleus of a global escalation over Iran’s emerging nuclear capabilities. I concluded that Israel’s PRE Traumatic Stress Syndrome (PRE-TSS) would be central to such a development. “The Jewish state and the Jewish discourse in general are... Read More

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