A weapon doesn’t have to powerful, or to be wielded by the powerful, to be effective.

Why does the Grey Lady continue to employ David Sanger, didn’t they learn anything from the sordid Judith Affair…?

Deadly fighting breaks out on Israel-Lebanon border after IDF forces try to trim hedges on Lebanese side of border fence.

In his visit today to Israel, U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen said “I always try to see the threats and the challenges from an Israeli perspective.”

About 200 people demonstrated against the attack on the Gaza flotilla in Paris on Thursday.

You don’t often get a piece of cable TV this good, so it’s worth transcribing and posting in its entirety. In a rare and contentious eight minute cable news segment, Glenn Greenwald decided to set the record straight with Eliot Spitzer on MSNBC regarding the Gaza flotilla.

In order to prop up the IDF’s storyline that it and not the Freedom Flotilla was attacked first in international waters, the Israeli government has been trying to deny media access to the flotilla survivors — but their effort to create an information blockade is failing. The survivors’ stories are getting out, and they all debunk the IDF’s claims.

Last night, Israel’s leaders and commandos forgot the past Leon Uris drew upon for his fictionalized celebration of their nation’s creation. The IDF’s witless, merciless repetition of their nation’s pre-history ensured predictably tragic consequences for the humanitarian flotilla attempting to penetrate Israel’s deadly Gaza blockade. As of this writing, the IDF are reported to have killed up to twenty and wounded scores more civilians aboard the unarmed flotilla. In this lethal campaign of attacks on unarmed vessels in international waters, Israel’s leaders and armed forces aped the the British Navy’s successful prevention of the Exodus’ attempt to break the British blockade of Palestine in 1947.