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Ehud Barak is the responsible Israeli Cabinet minister in the Gaza confrontation. And he blew it.
Archive for May, 2010
May 31st, 2010
Category: Israel, Middle East Politics
Debka.com thinks that this was a screwup (h/t TPM): The entire episode bespeaks faulty intelligence on what was going on aboard the six vessels bound for Gaza, although the information was available from daily live broadcasts and easy access to visitors. And another question: The IDF is famous for its innovative electronic warfare capabilities. So [...]
May 31st, 2010
Category: Israel, Middle East Politics
“It was worse than a crime — it was a blunder.” Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, French Foreign Minister, on Napoleon’s assassination of the Bourbon Duc d’Enghien.
May 31st, 2010
Category: Israel, Middle East Politics
It’s best to withhold judgment on the clash between the IDF and pro-Palestinian activists until we know the facts; in the meantime, it does seem that Israel was completely unprepared to handle the situation.
May 31st, 2010
Category: Israel
A write in Ha-aretz says, “We are no longer defending Israel. We are now defending the siege. The siege itself is becoming Israel’s Vietnam.”
May 30th, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
Henry Bonilla enaged in a “defensive gun use.” He’ll do six years for it. Had he been unarmed, might he have been less eager to provoke a confrontation?
May 29th, 2010
Category: Uncategorized
Does BP really care about cleaning up the Gulf? No, but hum a few bars and they’ll fake it.
May 29th, 2010
Category: Personal moment
Life being what it is, we overlook or take for granted so much that is special in our friends and colleagues. When a friend dies, one small consolation is the opportunity to celebrate what made him special to us. We try, in our own halting ways, to make some of the best of him live on through us. That’s the best way to honor a friend, and to be enriched by his example.