Game theorists analyze negotiations as if they were split-a-pie games involving selfish players. Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece’s new finance minister I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

A Greek prosecutor issued an arrest warrant against an American citizen, allegedly a CIA agent over the wiretapping scandal in 2004-2005, where some 100 mobile phones of members of the Greek government, then Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis included, were tapped by foreign intelligence services. According to Greek media, the identity of the person is to be published in the next days, and that the suspect was allegedly member of the operational team of CIA in Athens since the middle of the 1990’s, while he worked at the US-Embassy in Athens

Denmark’s chief rabbi, Jair Melchior, said he was disappointed by Netanyahu’s remarks. He said on Sunday: “Terror is not a reason to move to Israel.

“People from Denmark move to Israel because they love Israel, because of Zionism but not because of terrorism. If the way we deal with terror is to run somewhere else, we should all run to a deserted island.”

It is important to note that Ignatius does not detail his sources for the story, and has no official confirmation from either the Israeli or American governments. The columnist is known as a non-partisan reporter with a strong track record and close links in US intelligence agencies, so his report is so far being taken seriously.

Netanyahu makes a campaign promise he can keep: The next four years will be worse than the last. And they‘ve already started.

That is Israel in the 21st century: the glory of creative endeavor within, and on its doorstep terrible, no-holds-barred oppression.

(23.10.2014) It’s not just the cost of living that attracts Tel Aviv’s young, educated and secular elite to the idea, if not the reality, of living abroad – but a broader sense of political and social claustrophobia.

(4.12.2014)

(28.11.2014) Das Phänomen überrascht: seit ein paar Jahren erlebt Berlin eine steigende Immigration von Israelis. Sie sind jung, oft Künstler und werden von den billigen Lebenshaltungskosten und der Freiheit, die die deutsche Hauptstadt bietet angezogen. In Israel beobachtet man diese Entwicklung sehr kritisch.

(15.12.2014)

Die Kanzlerin widerspricht dem israelischen Ministerpräsidenten: Netanjahu hatte Juden nach den Anschlägen in Kopenhagen erneut zur Ausreise nach Israel aufgefordert.

„We‘re very grateful for Netanyahu‘s concern but having said that, we are Danish – we‘re Danish Jews but we‘re Danish – and it won‘t be terror that makes us go to Israel,“ said a spokesman for the Jewish Community in Denmark, Jeppe Juhl.

„My message to French Jews is the following: France is wounded with you and France does not want you to leave,“ Valls said. „I regret Benjamin Netanyahu‘s remarks …. The place for French Jews is France.“

Der von der israelischen Regierung über die Kolonialverwaltung des besetzten Palästinas finanzierte “Siedlerrat von Samaria” hat ein Video unter dem Namen “Der Ewige Jude” veröffentlicht. Im Video werden Symbole linker und / oder pazifistischer israelischer Gruppen und Organisationen verwendet und neben dem Bild eines Juden gezeigt, der sich auf Geheiß einer Figur namens “Stürmer”, der eine Zeitung namens “Die Linke” (“Hasmol”) liest, selbst erhängt hat, nachdem er vorher für Euros Medienhetze gegen Israel betrieben hat.

Im Begleittext des auf Youtube veröffentlichten Videos heißt es:

“Dutzende von radikalen linken Organisationen bekommen Millionen von Euros aus Europa”

Meretz, Peace Now ask AG to order police investigation of the Samaria Settlers Committee for alleged incitement with its new video comparing Europeans to Nazis and left-wing groups as their Jewish collaborators.

As a result of the recent tension between the United States and Israel, the White House has begun to limit the scope, quality and depth of the information it shares with Jerusalem about the progress of the talks with Iran about its nuclear program, senior Israeli officials involved in the issue have told Haaretz.

Mit scharfen Worten verurteilte das Außenministerium Palästinas die erneute israelische Eskalation, darunter die militärischen Operationen und Razzien in Hebron, Jerusalem und Jenin sowie die Beschlagnahme von 2.000 dunum palästinensischen Landes.

Beppe Grillo, the leader of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S), said Monday that it would be up to President Sergio Mattarella to decide whether Italy conducts a military intervention in Libya, not Premier Matteo Renzi.

„It‘s not the time for a military intervention,“ Renzi told Mediaset television Monday.

Concerns are growing amid advances made by Islamist extremists in the North African country separated from Italy only by a narrow strip of sea.

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(10.Februar)

Animated video titled ‚The Eternal Jew‘ features a German named Herr Stürmer paying a hooked-nosed Jew for slanderous information about the IDF and Israel; Peace Now demands AG to open police investigation into video.

The conference will highlight both the inherent dangers and the hidden opportunities for Israel and will host current and former senior government and defense officials, including Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Economy Minister Naftali Bennett, former chief negotiator Tzipi Livni, and Zionist Union chief Isaac Herzog.

Februar:
02.02. – 06.02.2015
23.02. – 27.02.2015

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is exploiting the murderous attack on a synagogue in Copenhagen yesterday to propagandize the Jewish state.

Denmark‘s spy chief Jens Madsen said the gunman was known to the intelligence services prior to the shooting and probably acted alone. He did not elaborate.

‘Jews and Arabs must stand together’ says MK Dov Khenin of the Hadash faction.

Likud ratcheted up its campaign against the left in a video released Saturday suggesting that the left would allow the Islamic State (ISIS) into Israel.

Jetzt fehlt nur noch, dass die Unions-Sprallos die Vorratsdatenspeicherung fordern, um sowas bei uns zu verhindern. Oder war das auch schon?

Update: Haha, war schon! Groundhog day!

(18.3.2011) Haben Sie´s gemerkt? Es verschwindet, ganz unauffällig, sowohl die bindende Pflicht für die Regierungen der Nachbarstaaten Libyens – namentlich für den Militärrat Ägyptens und die Übergangsregierung Tunesiens – sich bei ihren Embargomaßnahmen einerseits an eigenen Gesetze (“legislation”), als auch an das Völkerrecht (“international law”) zu halten. (…)

Mit dieser Vollmacht zur willkürlichen Intervention der Nachbarländer Libyens, Ägypten und Tunsesien, ist jedenfalls die Grundlage für einen permanten Krieg in Nordafrika und im Mittelmeer gelegt.

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(5.7.2006) Al Qaeda is set to release a new video tape featuring one of the suicide bombers from last year’s London attacks, according to Ben Venzke at the IntelCenter. Venzke says the as-Sahab production house will be putting out a tape on the Internet sometime Thursday that includes a video last will and testament of Shahzad Tanweer as well as a new statement from the al Qaeda number two leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.

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(4.9.2014) The publication of a video showing the murder of American journalist Steven Joel Sotloff surprised even the terrorists who supported the killing. Why? Because a little-known research group known as Site Intelligence spotted the video (and alerted the media) before even the jihadis did.

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