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  Arab Jews: the 'Nakba' That Wasn't Zionist claims of a historic mass expulsion of Jews from Arab Lands are largely hype, hasbara, and myth
  January 7, 2022 by Richard Silverstein 39 Comments
  Over the years, a recurring hasbara trope has accused Arab states of ethnically cleansing their entire Jewish populations in the years between 1948-1956. They marshal vivid maps displaying the numbers of Jews originally in these countries and how many are left currently. Phrases like "expulsion," "refugee," "Jewish Nakba," and "pogroms" are bandied about as if […]
  Israel's German-Built, Nuclear-Armed Sub Opens New Front Against Iran and Allies
  December 30, 2020 by Richard Silverstein 25 Comments
  Not content to fight Iran on its existing fronts in Lebanon and Syria Israel has, over the past few months, opened a new front in Iraq. There, after Iraqi militias allied with Iran participated in attacks on Saudi Arabia's oil fields, Israel struck back with its first-ever air attacks inside Iraq. Though little has been […]
  May 30, 2020 by Richard Silverstein Leave a Comment
  The ranks of Republican consultants are filled by hoaxsters, swindlers and crooks. In the era of Trump, this phenomenon has become even more pronounced. One of them is Walid Phares, a former ideological commissar for the Lebanese Phalangist militia which warred against the Muslim forces during the Civil War. Phares was the burning spear of […]
  April 14, 2019 by Richard Silverstein 4 Comments
  You can forget that claim you hear from Trump, Netanyahu and MBS that Iran is the greatest sponsor of state terrorism in the world. That award goes to Saudi Arabia hands down. First, it spent and wasted billions building up ISIS and arming it in order to topple the Syrian Alawite regime. It did so, […]