Obviously a heat seaking Muslim terror fighting phone, he would have been fine had it blown up two feet away from him.

I'd like to think that perhaps Goldberg feels a little bad about people, terrorists or not, being assassinated with a cell-phone, and that this little anecdote quiets his conscience.

Or not. Maybe he's totally fine about it. That still leaves room for the claim that he did it for show - so that if you suspect him of schadenfreude, as many are pressured to feel in regards to the Palestinians (either that or worshipful of the IDF and their incredible cleverness), you might excuse it.

Finally, he could be against it altogether, and simply have fabricated this whole story to discourage the assassinations altogether. Wouldn't that be something?

I guessed Goldberg didn't answer because he had bombed the phone himself, while the guy wasn't on the room.

Jeffrey Mark Goldberg (born September 1965) is an American-Israeli journalist.

From Wikipedia.

Now is he a journalist or a propagandist for Israel?

Congratulations Less you have mastered the art of the self answering question.

Goldberg chose #6.

I don't think Goldberg ever actually interviewed Rantissi. It's curious how none of his palestinian interviewees are alive to deny the interview! And him being Jeffrey Goldberg, I don't think it's such a stretch to imagine the whole thing as a fabrication.

Interesting, it appears they have taken the article in question down, wonder if that means anything. But often propaganda is presented as a human interest story (usually a product of fertile imaginations), it’s kind of a give-away for the half awake.

Rob, thanks for that -- changed the link. Peace Now took it down but it's still on Goldberg's personal site.

I like to play a game we call "Palestinian Roulette." I call Jeffrey Goldberg on the phone-if he answers I say "Boom!" If he doesn't answer I leave a message, "You have outsmarted the terrorists today, but stay vigilant Jeffrey."

He does the same thing to me-keeps us on our tiptoes.

Considering that it's the Israelis who, according to Goldberg, are killing "terrorists" with exploding telephones, shouldn't that be "Israeli Roulette", seth?

Duncan-I suggested that but Jeffrey insisted we call it "Palestinian Roulette" because they forced the Israelis to come up with weaponized phones.

Jonathan, Your'e welcome and thank you for the great education on how things work.

I'm looking forward to the Hitchcock remake: Dial P For Propaganda.

I've had enough by and about Jeffrey Goldberg this week for the next several months, so am not going to pursue the link to his New Yorker article. I assume, though, that he fails to mention the effect on children and other living things of an earlier Israeli effort to kill Rantisi in June 2003: two civilians dead, thirty wounded (half children under 12).

In assassinating Rantisi in April 2004, again by firing missiles from a helicopter at a vehicle in which he was riding, the IDF killed two bystanders, a mother and daughter, in addition to Rantisi's son and a bodyguard.

[CR wins the thread.]

Like a dope dealer who started using his own product, J started believing the propaganda he was supposed to be selling for the cartel back in Tel Aviv.

There is one major discrepancy with his analysis about all those children present (read human shield), the zionist entity has never had a problem with murdering Arab children - Surely Senor Rantisi must be aware of this.