The Arab League Loses Interest in the Palestinians
No longer the paramount unifying issue.
August 3, 2016
Could an Egyptian Spy’s Warning Have Averted the Yom Kippur War?
Or was he a double agent?
In 1970, Ashraf Marwan—the son-in-law of Gamal Abdel Nasser and the chief aide to Anwar Sadat—telephoned the Israeli embassy in London and offered to provide classified documents as well as his own assessments of Egyptian government thinking. Although the Mossad took him on as a spy, Marwan’s warnings about an imminent war were ignored by Israeli intelligence. In a new biography, Uri Bar-Joseph puts to rest rumors that Marwan was a double agent but is unable to explain the mysterious fall from a fifth-story balcony that ended his life in 2007. Dan Raviv writes in his review:
August 3, 2016
Blaming Zionism for Jewish Suffering
Imperfect nations do not lose their right to exist.
Freedom of the Press Isn’t Dying in Israel. So Why Say It Is?
Left-wing journalists fear losing their monopoly.
Could an Egyptian Spy’s Warning Have Averted the Yom Kippur War?
Or was he a double agent?
An Ancient Pottery Factory Discovered in the Galilee
With a unique design for its kiln.