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Netanyahu lays blame for Bulgaria attack ahead of evidence
The investigation into the Burgas terror attack barely got underway when Prime Minister Netanyahu already announced that it was carried out by Iran through its proxy Hezbollah. Whether or not it in fact was, it is the public’s duty to refuse to accept the government’s claims, until they are backed up with solid evidence.  Returning to…
By Yossi Gurvitz July 21, 2012
Israeli airstrikes in Gaza in 2009. Photo by Oren Ziv/activestills.org
IDF mum on Eilat attacks that justified Gaza bombing
A reporter exposes an IDF investigation acknowledging that the Eilat attackers came from Sinai, not Gaza; the IDF has nothing to say on the matter Do you remember the Eilat attacks of two months back? How we were told, while the attack was still going on, that the attackers were the Popular Resistance Committees, and…
By Yossi Gurvitz October 23, 2011
The IDF quietly abandons its spin on Eilat attack
The IDF admits that the Eilat attackers weren’t Gazans, but buries the news Some 34 days ago, a group of terrorists attacked several points on the Israeli-Egyptian border, near Eilat. While the attack was still going on, Security Minister (the term “Defense Minister” does not capture the Soviet/Socialist undertones of the title) Ehud Barak quickly…
By Yossi Gurvitz September 22, 2011
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Israeli airstrikes in Gaza in 2009. Photo by Oren Ziv/activestills.org
Still no evidence for PRC involvement in attacks
A week passed since the Eilat attack, and the IDF has yet to prove the blame of the group Israel chose to attack in response. Earlier this week I posted about the cracks in the Barak-Netanyahu narrative regarding the terror attacks near Eilat. A quick reminder: While the attacks were still going on, Barak blamed…
By Yossi Gurvitz August 25, 2011
A child in Bil'in, carrying a gas mask (Yossi Gurvitz)
Spin’s “senior source” revealed: Who briefed the rightist bloggers?
The IDF speaks in two voices in the Jawaher Abu Rahmah affair – because it knows its case is weak On Monday the IDF went on a coordinated media offensive against the Bil’in activists and the Abu Rahmah family, claiming not only that Jawahar Abu Rahmah was not killed as a result of inhaling IDF…
By Yossi Gurvitz January 4, 2011
Most Israeli media publish press releases as straight news
By Shuki Tausig, 7th Eye – Hebrew original here. “Netanyahu’s office has an original technique for marketing its messages,” senior Yedioth Ahronoth columnist Nahum Barnea wrote in his Friday column. “Briefings are emailed every few hours to reporters and commentators.  The condition is that the information not be attributed to Netanyahu, his advisers, his “circles”…
By +972 Magazine November 22, 2010
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