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Alex Kane

Alex Kane is a staff reporter for Mondoweiss. Follow him on Twitter @alexbkane.

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• Peter Berg: Israel attacking Iran is a more important issue than my board game-inspired film 'Battleship'
  • Alex Kane May 14, 2012 at 8:09 pm

    That was hilarious.

• Shmully and guilt
  • Alex Kane April 26, 2012 at 5:16 pm

    A wonderful story.

• Sy Hersh: US funded and trained Iranian group on State Dept. terror list
  • Alex Kane April 8, 2012 at 11:15 am

    Some of Hersh's sources suggest that the intelligence sharing with the MEK is actively ongoing. Others do say that they believe it stopped. Excerpts from his article:

    Some American-supported covert operations continue in Iran today, according to past and present intelligence officials and military consultants...

    Five Iranian nuclear scientists have been assassinated since 2007. M.E.K. spokesmen have denied any involvement in the killings, but early last month NBC News quoted two senior Obama Administration officials as confirming that the attacks were carried out by M.E.K. units that were financed and trained by Mossad, the Israeli secret service. NBC further quoted the Administration officials as denying any American involvement in the M.E.K. activities. The former senior intelligence official I spoke with seconded the NBC report that the Israelis were working with the M.E.K., adding that the operations benefitted from American intelligence. He said that the targets were not “Einsteins”; “The goal is to affect Iranian psychology and morale,” he said, and to “demoralize the whole system—nuclear delivery vehicles, nuclear enrichment facilities, power plants.” Attacks have also been carried out on pipelines. He added that the operations are “primarily being done by M.E.K. through liaison with the Israelis, but the United States is now providing the intelligence.” An adviser to the special-operations community told me that the links between the United States and M.E.K. activities inside Iran had been long-standing. “Everything being done inside Iran now is being done with surrogates,” he said.

  • Alex Kane April 7, 2012 at 11:53 am with 3 replies

    I agree, Pabelmont! It's terrorism!

• Mark Perry: Israel and Iran's 'low-level war' is 'dangerous stuff'
  • Alex Kane February 17, 2012 at 9:20 am with 1 replies

    Thanks, it's fixed! Good catch.

• 'A level of racist violence I have never seen': UCLA professor Robin D. G. Kelley on Palestine and the BDS movement
  • Alex Kane February 16, 2012 at 12:56 pm

    Same!!!

• 'NYT' carries water on 'Israeli offer' (but there's a hole in the bucket dear Ethan dear Ethan)
  • Alex Kane January 28, 2012 at 11:57 am with 3 replies

    Good stuff, Annie.

    FYI--the "Israeli Offer on 2 State Solution" framing is also in print. I'm a subscriber to the NYT, and I flipped to A2, their table of contents-esque page and it had that headline at the top.

• Newt's New York visit for funds was about Israel
  • Alex Kane December 15, 2011 at 10:20 am with 1 replies

    It's true that Zuckerman plays to both parties, but he voted for Barack Obama, and the Wall Street Journal describes him as a "longtime supporter of the Democratic Party." link to online.wsj.com
    But of course he's not of the left.

    And to Hophmi's point: You're right about Hikind, and that's why I wrote that he is "conservative for a Democrat," but the point still stands, especially because of Zuckerman.

• GOP presidential candidates offer red meat on Israel (UPDATED)
  • Alex Kane December 8, 2011 at 10:18 am with 1 replies

    I don't think it will be an issue in terms of having a serious political debate. But it's clear the GOP strategy will be to push the line that Obama "pushes" Israel too much. But that makes it into a political issue--and people will begin to wonder, perhaps?

• 'It’s time to stop the bully': Adbusters editor Kalle Lasn on Occupy Wall Street, the Israel lobby and the New York Times
  • Alex Kane November 28, 2011 at 12:36 pm with 36 replies

    I'm confused as to how pointing out that there were many Jews who were communists is anti-Semitic. Identity influences biography. Pointing to the identity of communists are neocons is automatically anti-Semitic?

  • Alex Kane November 28, 2011 at 9:51 am with 3 replies

    Seafoid,

    That article is by Naomi Wolf (not the great Naomi Klein), and is riddled with falsehoods.

    AlterNet's Joshua Holland debunks the entire article here: link to alternet.org

• Student leader who tweeted about Obama assassination spent last weekend w/ pro-Israel group StandWithUs
  • Alex Kane November 18, 2011 at 10:48 am

    Annie, that video, I believe, is from me. Here's the link from a post I did for Mondoweiss: link to mondoweiss.net

• Welcome to Mondoweiss's first staffers: Allison Deger and Alex Kane
  • Alex Kane November 16, 2011 at 1:43 pm

    Thanks, Phil, Adam and everyone else. I am thrilled to have this opportunity!

• IDF training settlers for riot policing in anticipation of 'mass disorder' following Palestinian UN push
  • Alex Kane August 30, 2011 at 10:13 am

    FYI, a correction on the "red lines." According to Haaretz, the "red lines" are not for the settlers, as you say, Paul. The IDF is establishing the virtual "lines" for themselves. Excerpts:

    The IDF has conducted detailed work to determine a “red line” for each settlement in the West Bank, which will determine when soldiers will be ordered to shoot at the feet of Palestinian protesters if the line is crossed...

    The army is establishing two virtual lines for each of the settlements that are near a Palestinian village. The first line, if crossed by Palestinian demonstrators, will be met with tear gas and other means for dispersing crowds.

    The second line is a “red line,” and if this one is crossed, the soldiers will be allowed to open fire at the legs of the demonstrators, as is also standard practice if the northern border is crossed.

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