FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT BENEATH A VOLCANO SOMEWHERE IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC THE COMPLETE MESS of thirty years of world domination by the United States of America has sent the world’s super-villains reaching for the Xanax and Valium of late. “It’s the realization that taking over the world is a poison chalice that has caused the…

FROM HAIFA “THERE WAS A TIME when we could beat every army they sent at us,” remarked former Israeli general Moshe Golan as he looked out to sea. “I landed here as a kid from Auschwitz in 1947. At night. In secret. I fought in 48, in 56, in 67, in 73. And we were…

GAZA “IF YOU DANCE on the graves of those you have buried alive, don’t be surprised if when they break free of their entombment they run amok among those they hold responsible.” Palestinian academic Edward Goliath, now 101, spoke these words from his bed in Gaza, where the sound of explosions dulled the telephone reception…

FROM OUR SPECIAL INTELLIGENCE CORRESPONDENT IN WASHINGTON DC “IT MAYBE THAT Iran is the immediate string-puller but the timing of all this Hamas stuff leads some of us to believe this is a second front designed to further drain already stretched American resources. If it isn’t, Putin’s a lucky man.” The security expert I met,…

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA MILITANT ABORIGINES AGAINST The Voice To Parliament have told Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese that what he is proposing is nowhere near enough to satisfy their demands; they want a voice like Palestinian group Hamas. Radical Aboriginal organization Terror Nullius, which has cells in every state in the Commonwealth, and is said to…

JERUSALEM EDITOR SAUL TARSUS SENIOR ISRAELI POLICY ADVISORS ARE TELLING PRIME MINISTER NETANYAHU that invading the Gaza Strip to rescue the hostages Hamas has taken will not be another Entebbe, but could be another Custer disaster. “They did this because they want him to come into Gaza,” said an IDF strategist who did not wish…

TEL AVIV IMMEDIATELY THE ROCKETS started to come down, fans and others began to speculate whether this was a fiendish attempt by Hamas to kidnap the Irish manager of Israeli football side Maccabi Tel Avi, Robbie Keane. But the Palestinian militants say no, not the case. “Yes, we could do with someone of his talent…

ROBOTYNE, UKRAINE AS UKRAINE’S COUNTER-OFFENSIVE pauses for a well-earned cup of coffee, and Russia launches a sneaky counter-counter-offensive during the break, Kyiv is crying out to the world not to forget its plight as media attention turns to the latest flare-up and Israeli-Palestinian strife. “The media is wickedly fickle,” explains London journalism researcher John Foster…

FROM OUR REPORTER IN CYPRUS THE LATEST HAMAS attack on Israel has created more than a security headache for the government of Benjamin Netanyahu, as it appears the Israeli military is running out of kick-ass codenames for its retaliation operations. “We’ve practically used up all our stocks over the years,” says Major Yoni Templemount of…

JERUSALEM A SENIOR MOSSAD officer says she believes that Ukrainian corruption may have played a part in arming Hamas. Miriam, as she is known, lives on the East Coast of the United States as part of an Israeli team that monitors US arms shipments around the world. “It’s no coincidence that millions of dollars in…