– Who is winning this war?On the 15th day of the war, Hizbullah is functioning and fighting. That by itself will go down in the annals of the Arab peoples as a shining victory.When a featherweight boxer faces a heavyweight and is still standing in the 15th round – that is a victory, whatever the … Read more
“IT SEEMS that Nasrallah survived,” Israeli newspapers announced, after 23 tons of bombs were dropped on a site in Beirut, where the Hizbullah leader was supposedly hiding in a bunker.An interesting formulation. A few hours after the bombing, Nazrallah had given an interview to Aljazeera television. Not only did he look alive, but even composed … Read more
A WOMAN, an immigrant from Russia, throws herself on the ground in total despair in front of her home that has been hit by a missile, crying in broken Hebrew: “My son! My son!” believing him dead. In fact he was only wounded and sent to the hospital. Lebanese children, covered with wounds, in Beirut … Read more
המטרה האמיתית היא לשנות את המשטר בלבנון ולכונן בה ממשלה התלויה בישראל.זאת הייתה גם מטרת הפלישה של אריאל שרון ללבנון ב-1982. היא נכשלה. אבל שרון ותלמידיו בצמרת הצבאית והמדינית לא נטשו אותה מעולם.כמו ב-1982, גם הפעולה הנוכחית תוכננה ומבוצעת בתיאום מלא עם ארצות-הברית.כמו אז, אין ספק שהיא מתואמת עם חלק מהצמרת הלבנונית.זהו העיקר. כל השאר … Read more
THE REAL aim is to change the regime in Lebanon and to install a puppet government.That was the aim of Ariel Sharon’s invasion of Lebanon in 1982. It failed. But Sharon and his pupils in the military and political leadership have never really given up on it.As in 1982, the present operation, too, was planned … Read more
THAT’S IT. Tomorrow the World Cup games come to an end. We can congratulate the new champions and wish them arrivederci or au revoir, as the case may be. Now the public can return to less important matters, such as the daily killing and destruction, the captured soldier, the launching of Qassam rockets and everything … Read more
“ISRAEL HAS declared war on the Palestinian people! The Palestinian people will answer in kind! The Palestinian rebellion will go on! The Palestinian fighters are steadfast in the service of the nation! Down with the Nazi-Zionist occupation! Out with the unclean infidels from the Holy Land! Destroyed Rafah – we shall build you anew! Long … Read more
IF PRESIDENT Bush wanted to deal with Iran by “bombing them back into the stone age”, (as an American general once put it during the Vietnam War), now would be the time. With everybody riveted to the World Cup, who would notice? The Israeli government knows this well. In their fight against the Qassam rockets … Read more
“I COLLECTED with my bare hands the body parts of my two little sons. What mother must do that? One shell of the aggressors blew them apart. Within a second, my life was destroyed forever.” The woman spoke quietly. Her third son, a boy of about eight, stood at her side and, from time to … Read more
NINE MONTHS before he invaded Lebanon, Ariel Sharon let me in on his grand design for solving all the problems of this region. It was mind-boggling. He did not ask me to keep it secret, just not to attribute it to him directly. I published it accordingly. Sharon, then the freshly appointed Minister of Defense, … Read more