by Charles Cameron | Oct 12, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a deep look into IS / Daesh from Amsterdam ] . This video contains some of the most fine-grained analysis of IS / Daesh and the situation in Iraq / Syria that I have seen so far: Eye-witness report from the frontline by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad...
by zen | Sep 18, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Infinity Journal has an exclusive review up of Israel’s Operation Protective Edge campaign against HAMAS by LTC Ron Tira. Colonel Tira is the author of The Nature of War: Conflicting Paradigms and Israeli Military...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 17, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — responding to Steve Engel’s comment on my post Purim, or Israel vs Iran redux? ] . Steve picked up on the image of the Merkabah, Ezekiel‘s visionary chariot as five wheels with wings in his comment today: noting their...
by Charles Cameron | Dec 16, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — introducing a significant post by Tim Furnish re Israel’s safety, Iran and more ] . The Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem (Picturesque Palestine, 1881, left) and the Israeli Iron Dome missile defence system (contemporary, right). Our...
by Charles Cameron | Nov 20, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — this began with two quotes about the killing of Ahmed al-Jabari and ended up reminding me of traffic flows ] . So very much depends on nuance, doesn’t it? There are, after all, one-way streets and two-way streets: Surely...
