No, this time it is not some advance by those endlessly inventive Israeli weapons scientists. The long-awaited Iron Beam, a laser-based anti-missile defense from Israel, which will cost only $2 for each strike, will not be ready until 2025. This new weapon is not even a missile or a drone, nor a deep-penetration bunker buster […]
Christiane Amanpour and Jon Stewart Should Remember: Israel Did Not Seek War in Gaza
Let’s recall to mind once again, for the sake of the Old Fish Christiane Amanpour and her willing collaborator and host Jon Stewart, doesn’t want anyone to think he has any special feelings for Israel, a few home truths. To wit: 1. Israel did not seek, and did not want, a war with Hamas in […]
Jon Stewart Takes No Notice of the UN’s Double Standard and Anti-Israel Bias
Christiane Amanpour and Jon Stewart want to make sure you understand how terrible Israel really is: “Jon Stewart & Christiane Amanpour Use Daily Show Interview to Muddle Image of Israel,” by Chaim Lax, HonestReporting, April 11, 2024: Near the end of the interview, Stewart questions why the war between Israel and Hamas is “not the […]
Christiane Amanpour and Jon Stewart Ignore Israel’s Efforts to Minimize Civilian Casualties
Christiane Amanpour and Jon Stewart recently had a highly questionable televised tête-a-tête: “Jon Stewart & Christiane Amanpour Use Daily Show Interview to Muddle Image of Israel,” by Chaim Lax, HonestReporting, April 11, 2024: Amanpour credits Al Jazeera with “trying to tell the truth in this waging war,” ignoring the fact that it is a news […]
Old Fish and Jon Stewart Beat Up On Israel
I call Christiane Amanpour an “Old Fish” because that is what alumnae of New Hall, a Catholic girls’ school in Chelmsford, England, call themselves. I know this because several of my relatives attended that school a few years ahead of Amanpour. And that’s exactly what Amanpour, with her special house blend of arrogance and ignorance […]
Fatah Confirms Israeli Claim That Hamas Steals Food Aid
For months, the IDF has been telling the world that the problem in Gaza is not so much the absence of food, but the inability of the aid workers to distribute it to those people it was intended to reach. Instead, said the IDF, armed Hamas operatives steal much of the aid at gunpoint, taking […]
Biden, His Uncle, Cannibalism, and Papua New Guinea
Joe Biden was at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania last week, when he decided — it’s unclear what prompted him — to share the information that the body of his uncle, a downed airman named Ambrose J. Finnegan, whose plane had crashed during World War II in the Pacific, near Papua New Guinea, was never […]
Ritchie Torres and the Million-Dollar Grant to the Bronx Muslim Center
New York Congressman Ritchie Torres represents District 15, that covers most of the south Bronx and is the poorest district in the country. He is known not only for being the first openly homosexual Afro-Latino member of Congress, and for his sponsorship of housing legislation for the poor, but in foreign affairs he has gained […]
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Iran?
On April 13, Iran launched more than 170 drones,130 ballistic missiles, and 30 cruise missiles at Israel. 99% of them were either intercepted by Israel and its allies (including ad hoc ally Jordan), or failed at liftoff or while in flight. It was quite a display both of Iranian malevolence, and of impotence. Since then, […]
Israel Carefully Measured Its Response
Feeling the terrific American pressure not to respond to Iran’s attack on February 14, in which 360 drones, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles were fired at Israel — 99% of them were intercepted or failed on launch or while in flight — Israel chose to do the minimum. It could not have let the Iranian […]