The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Mossad's Exploding Pager Attacks and 9/11  Ron Unz Audio Player For the last half-dozen years, Israeli-born  Ronan Bergman  has served as a reporter with the  New York Times , and I’ve regularly heard him described as the best-connected American journalist in Israel, with especially close ties to that country’s powerful security services such as the Mossad, Shin Bet, and Unit 8200. Much of that reputation goes back to the 2018 publication of his book  Rise and Kill First , a widely praised and highly authoritative history of the Mossad, Israel’s foreign intelligence service, as well as its sister agencies. As  I wrote  in early 2020: The author devoted six years of research to the project, which was based upon a thousand personal interviews and access to an enormous number of official documents previously unavailable. As suggested by the title, his primary focus was Israel’s long history of assassinations, and across his 750 pages and thousand-odd source references he recounts th

  It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Fake Presidential Race Don't burn your popcorn Donald Jeffries I’ve been an observer of national politics since I was eleven years old. I cried when they killed Robert F. Kennedy. I was a die hard Democrat. I thought they were the good guys. Then I became an independent, and have grown more radical as I age. I know the process is rigged, and yet I continue to follow it, like a heroin addict. Donald Trump was recently the victim of yet another assassination attempt. Apparently. The same people who believe the first attempt, in Butler Pennsylvania two months ago, was staged, naturally believe this one was fake, too. And they both might very well have been. After all, everything they do is seemingly scripted. No improvisation allowed. But the response is what really grabs my attention. As I’ve noted, those on the Left who are skeptical of the Trump assassination attempts aren’t skeptical about  anything  else. They believe in Russian collusion. They thi

  A Third Lebanon War? (and exploding pagers) Letters from O'Brien #64 Winston Smith Dear Mr Smith, I write this letter to you with some anxiety as it appears there may be a ‘third Lebanon war’ sometime soon. Hopefully, this does not happen, but it is highly possible. I want to highlight a few details about the recent attacks, the motives, the outcome, and where I think Israel is heading in the Middle East. THE PAGER INCIDENT Over the past few days, several attacks have taken place throughout Lebanon, particularly in Beirut. Initially, roughly 3000 people were injured and 26 were killed - including a 12-year-old boy and 8-year-old girl - by exploding pagers. The following day, reports circulated that mobile phones had also exploded, although it was unclear when or how. Then, later in the day, several ICOM-branded two-way radios began to explode, being caught on camera injuring and potentially killing several at a funeral in Lebanon. This has all been established by the media, howev

  The Orwellian Pager Horror in Lebanon Constantin von Hoffmeister We all woke up in a new world — a world that wears the face of familiarity but beneath its surface, there is a silent, creeping terror. Like the pages of Orwell’s  Nineteen Eighty-Four , where truth is warped and reality inverted, we have entered a production where what was once trusted now conspires against us. The lines that separate the mundane from the malevolent have vanished, leaving us grasping for clarity in a haze of dread. We wake up, we check our devices, and, now, we wonder if they will be our last connection to life — or death. In Orwell’s world, Big Brother watches every move, every thought, but here, in our new program, the tools of surveillance have become more than what their original construction purposed them to be. Wiretaps are no longer enough. In this twisted parallel of  Nineteen Eighty-Four , it is not just our thoughts or conversations that are subject to manipulation but our actual existence. T