Telling the Truth for 28 Years…
Interpreting the Middle East for North Americans • Interpreting North America for the Middle East
The U.S., Iraq, Iran, and the Israeli Occupation of Palestine
7 U.S. Placates Israel and Opens New War Front While Ignoring Palestinians—Rachelle Marshall
9 The Twin Challenges of Terror and Israel—Patrick Seale
11 The Rabbi, the Priest, the Imam and Egypt’s Steel Wall—Mohammed Omer
12 Israel Responds to Palestinian Nonviolence With Violence and Repression—William Parry
14 Justifying Racism Requires Moral Delusions, Denial of Humanity—Awatef Sheikh
16 Life Upside Down: One Year After Israel’s Winter War on Gaza—Mohammed Omer
18 U.S. Silent About Taliban Guarantee Offer on Al-Qaeda—Gareth Porter
19 How President Obama Can Earn His Nobel Peace Prize—Paul Findley
20 Welcome, Americans, to Mysterious Yemen—Eric S. Margolis
22 A Costly Vote? Yemen Paid a High Price for 1990 Security Council Veto—Ian Williams
24 “Kill Another Turk…”—Uri Avnery
26 Congress Passes Foreign Aid, Defense Appropriations Bills With Few Surprises—Shirl McArthur
30 Taking Another Look at the Destruction of Pan Am 103—Andrew I. Killgore
34 “Why?” Answering Helen Thomas—Ray McGovern
40 Is Zionism “Good for the Jews”?—Two Views—Tony Judt, John V. Whitbeck
Taking Another Look at the Destruction of Pan Am 103
Special Report, Pages 30-31 Taking Another Look at the Destruction of Pan Am 103By Andrew I. Killgore“By way of deception, shalt thou wage war.” –The motto of Mossad. IN FEBRUARY 1986 Israeli Mossad operatives installed a “Trojan” communications device on the top floor of an apartment house in Tripoli, Libya. The six-foot-long device was able to receive messages on one frequency and automatically rebroadcast the same message on a different frequency—in this case, one used by the government of Libya. Israeli naval commandos arriving in miniature submarines in the middle of the night had delivered the Trojan, only seven inches in diameter, to the lone Mossad agent in Tripoli, who drove a rented van to their rendezvous point on a deserted beach outside Tripoli. The agent, along with four of the commandos, then took the Trojan to an apartment building in the Libyan capital where he had rented the top floor, and installed the device. By March the Trojan was broadcasting a series of “terrorist” orders to Libyan embassies around the world. |
“Kill Another Turk…”
Special Report, Pages 24-25 “Kill Another Turk…”By Uri AvneryI TRIED to resist the temptation to tell the same classical Jewish joke a second time, but circumstances delivered a plausible excuse. Almost every Jew knows the sentence “Kill a Turk and rest.” The whole story goes like this: In Czarist Russia, a Jewish boy is called up for the war against the Turks. His tearful mother takes leave of him at the railway station and implores him: “Don’t overexert yourself! Kill a Turk and rest. Kill another Turk and rest again…” “But mother!” the boy interrupts her. “What if the Turk kills me?” “Kills you?!” the mother exclaims in sheer disbelief. “But why? What have you done to him?” Jewish jokes reflect Jewish reality. So this joke became true in January. Unfortunately the joke is on us. It happened like this: |