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…

JERUSALEM STRATEGY EXPERTS IN Israel have called on the Netanyahu Government to ban all religious holidays in the country after Saturday’s attack by Hamas which came between Sukkot and Simchat Torah. “Yom Kippur 1973, the Egyptians attack and we almost go under; and now this, another religious holiday attack, and another devastating assault on the…

FROM GAZA “WHERE DOES NETANYAHU want Gazans to go when he tells them to get out? To hell?” Human rights lawyer Bashir Murphy De Gaulle, based in Vienna, says Israel’s air strikes into, and other punishments of, Gaza, are window dressing, a temper tantrum. “Bombing a guerilla army like Hamas in this way is like…

KYIV “YOU GOTTA BE SHITTIN’ me!” These are said to be the words of a Ukrainian colonel who has already lost two thirds of his command when told he had to give back half the US supplied equipment so that it could be shipped to Israel. The Americans are now so short of military equipment…