Iran is spreading its tentacles and is directly helping Syrian President Bashar Assad, aiding the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and assisting Sudan, IDF Intelligence Major-General Aviv Kochavi told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Committee Tuesday. The Islamic Republic is “infiltrating and aiding organizations and governments” in Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, Yemen and Sudan, as […]
“Computers and keyboards are the weapons, Facebook and Twitter are the battlefields. It is there that we fight, each and every day.” The fighting words come from First Lieutenant Sasha Dratwa, 25, who heads IDF’s elite “new media” unit. Dratwa, who replaced Lt. Aliza Landes, ws interviewed by Jonatan Urich in the IDF’s website. Dratwa […]
As the Freedom Flotilla 2 prepares to set sail to challenge Israel’s blockade on Gaza, the IDF spokesperson’s office has released an illustrative video detailing the amount of goods Israel transfers to the inhabitants of Gaza on any given week. According to the IDF approximately 6,000 tons of goods (around 260 truckloads) are transferred into […]
Libya Coverage Exposes Media Double Standards With the turmoil and upheaval in the Middle East, it is always interesting to examine how the media is covering events compared with coverage of Israel. Particularly in a situation where Western nations are involved in a military campaign, as in the case of Libya, it can be enlightening […]
(Robert Johnson) Last year, the U.S. Navy bought 59,000 microchips for use in everything from missiles to transponders and all of them turned out to be counterfeits from China. The reports show the chips weren’t only low-quality fakes, they had been made with a “back-door” and could have been remotely shut down at any time, […]
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is hospitalized in Cuba and is in critical condition, according to a report published in the Miami, Florida-based El Nuevo Herald newspaper. He was last heard from on June 12 when his voice was broadcast on a telephone call with Venezuelan state television. At the time, the president told the interviewer […]
HR Comment: Media Crossing the Line This opinion piece by HR Managing Editor Simon Plosker was originally published on YNet News on 22 July 2011. “We are in a battle, and more than half of this battle is taking place in the battlefield of the media.” So said Al-Qaeda’s new leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in November […]
by Daniel Pipes National Review Online June 21, 2011 Zionists stole Palestinian land: that’s the mantra both the Palestinian Authority and Hamas teach their children and propagate in their media. This claim has vast importance, as Palestinian Media Watch explains: “Presenting the creation of the [Israeli] state as an act of theft and its continued […]
A video shows an IDF officer offering water to Arab protesters on a sweltering day. An Arab woman dumped the water on the ground, and other protesters then threw rocks at the troops. The protest took place during on an unusually hot and dry day near Bethlehem, immediately south of Jerusalem and adjacent to Efrat […]
The IDF is training special units to fight in tunnels in Gaza and southern Lebanon, Ahram Online reports. It was reported Wednesday that every soldier in the new tunnel warfare units will be equipped with a ‘robot’ capable of transmitting high-resolution video images from inside the tunnels, which are used by Hamas in Gaza and […]
