Kishkushim خربطات קישקושים

Everyone involved in this blog probably had the same initial reaction of disbelief, shock and sadness when they heard about the deaths (so f...

Some very impressive reporting in the Times on a firefight in Marja involving at least one talented Afghan marksman and some WWII-era rifle...

BY AMOS In the past two years, we have seen repeated crises in Turkish-Israeli relations. Most of these were set off by Turkish condemnation...

I have recently waded into the murky waters of the history of piracy in the Greco-Roman world. As a participant in a graduate seminar here a...

From Ha'aretz : Said Sayyam and Salah Abu Shreich, two senior Hamas figures, were killed in an air strike in Jabaliya. The home of anoth...

As a number of commentators are pointing out, "Operation Cast Lead" has reached a critical point. It looks like the air force is s...

The katyusha or Grad rocket attack on Ashqelon today surely marks a new chapter in the war between Israel and the Palestinian terrorist gro...

Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) (Photo credit: webb.senate.gov) Don't hold your breath. After two grueling days of Gen. Petraeus' Congressional...

As our commenters have observed, the Israelis have been surprisingly disciplined so far in maintaining silence on the air force raid in Syri...

I am fairly confident that the recent incident on the Turkish-Syrian border, where Syria alleges it repulsed an Israeli fighter jet from its...

Battle of the Golan Heights, 1967 (Map Source: Wikipedia ) Uri Bar-Yosef is concerned about the lack of interest in negotiations with the S...

Antidote to the post that follows below: Shlomi Saranga and Moshik Afia, "Sweet Dream" (2002) I have not seen a great deal of disc...

Israel's foremost military commentator, Ze'ev Schiff, has died . It seems like yesterday that I quoted one of his articles here. His...

Rear door of Merkava 4 tank, a feature that experts say helps the IDF save lives. On a recent visit to Israel, I spoke with a member of th...

Everyone knows about the Czech rifles that saved Israel. But I was not aware of the extent of the cooperation, which actually came at the be...