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Obama propaganda (about Israel, yet again): For crying out loud, stop falling...

Ears to hear.

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Startling admission from Team Obama about the Iran ‘deal’

Peace in our time.

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Bad, or worse? Depends on what the meaning of ‘S-300’ is

Interesting times.

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MSM fail: Pope did NOT call Mahmoud Abbas an ‘angel of peace’; *UPDATE*, with...

He's no angel.

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Iran tries to undermine Saudi embargo by diverting ship to Djibouti for...

Interesting times.

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Complete unraveling: Top 5 reasons why the non-deal agreement with Iran is bad

Such a time as this.

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Obama demonstrates geostrategic incomprehension in webcast with Jewish groups

Uncomprehending.

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Syria: You know this isn’t about Assad anymore, right?

It's on.

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Game change: Russia can now warn Israel against IAF operations over Syria

No going back.

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Paris, the Russian airliner, Lebanon: ISIS is enlarging the war

The center cannot hold.

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Iran, U.S: Pre-talks posturing ropes in Israel, trash talk, Trump administration

Iran announced in early November that it would start talks on the Iranian nuclear program with the Biden administration and other world leaders this coming week in Vienna. In preparation for the talks,...

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TOC Ready Room 15 Dec 2021: Contra-indicative speech; Trump’s F-bomb;...

The strangeness of this hour has crossed a line in recent days.  It’s a line between some level of fealty to demonstrable reality, and none. Over the last few years, we have repeatedly witnessed the...

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TOC Ready Room 29 March 2022: Eyes front (not back), on attacks in Israel

This will be a brief Ready Room; basically little more than a string of tweets.  But it’s important. The subject is the terror attacks in Israel in recent days, which have now taken the lives of 11...

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U.S. renders forensic opinion on Abu Akleh shooting

As an Independence Day treat, the U.S. State Department on Monday announced its conclusions on the shooting of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in Jenin in May 2022. It was reported earlier this weekend...

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TOC Ready Room 22 July 2022: Biden returns from MidEast, with prejudice; CNN...

We’re on deck with a full-up Ready Room today, after a relatively extended blogging hiatus.  Strap in for some serious (if selective) situational awareness. Biden’s Middle East adventure It turns out...

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TOC Ready Room 22 November 2022: Drive-by edition; Poland missile impact,...

Increasingly, I agree with those who say we need an “audit” of U.S. support to Ukraine.  I put “audit” in quotation marks because a mere audit of the tens of billions flowing to Ukraine – and to...

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Israel: Rumors of war in a world transformed

On 9 April 2023, Israeli Arabist scholar and former intelligence officer Mordechai Kedar published an article recounting information recently received from an associate he describes as a source he has...

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A brief meditation on media manipulation: Israel, Republicans, ordinary politics

Haaretz has perpetrated a headline. “Biden Administration Braces for Potential ‘Sh**show’ in Appointing New U.S. Ambassador to Israel – U.S. News” It’s a good mental exercise to recall that whenever...

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Winds of war: Why is this “Hamas” attack different from all other attacks?

[Note: I am going to post this as-is, although several updates from Tuesday would merit discussion.  This just needs to get posted, for the initial point if for nothing else.  I’ve added a “Bonus...

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The Navy shuffle: Mixed signals with Biden visit to Israel

The signals being sent with President Biden’s visit to Israel on Wednesday may not be that mixed.  It remains to be seen.  But if they trend less mixed, we should be concerned that their purpose is to...

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