Friday, February 26th, 2010
WRITTEN BY IBRAHIM HEWITT – ALSO IN SPANISH BELOW!
A leader writer in the Observer newspaper (“Israel can accelerate peace by exercising restraint” http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/21/observer-editorial-israel-palestine , 21 February) really must be taken to task over the language that was used in the column. In seeking to analyse the Israel-Palestine situation the writer ...
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
Egyptian plain-clothes policemen detain a demonstrator in Mahala, April 2008. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
Pro-democracy protests in Iran top the news agenda, but similar tensions in Egypt pass unreported
WRITTEN BY JACK SHENKER – Here's a thought experiment: pick a random Middle Eastern country led by an unpopular autocrat whose legitimacy is being ...
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Sunday, February 7th, 2010
Ethan Bronner and Susan Chira
Ethan Bronner's Conflict With Impartiality
By Alison Weir*
Ethan Bronner is the New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief. As such, he is the editor responsible for all the news coming out of Iasrael-Palestine. Iact is his job to decide what gets reported and what doesn't; what goes in ...
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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
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Thursday, December 10th, 2009
Juan Cole is an expert on the Middle East. He knows Arabic and Farsi and probably a handful of other languages. He knows more about the Arabic and Islamic world than most Arabs and Muslims can hope to learn in a lifetime. But he supports the empire. I have attended one ...
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
WRITTEN BY KHALID AMAYREH
In a recent article in the New York Times, the American Jewish journalist Thomas Friedman blamed the so-called Arab-Islamic “Narrative” for all the troubles surrounding US-Muslim relations-from the 9-11 terrorist events in 2001 to the recent killing of 13 American soldiers in Texas by American-born and American-bred Nidal Malik Hasan.
Friedman suggested ...
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
Winning wars in the Information Age largely depends on winning the battle for public opinion. Thus the opinion-shaping role of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) when it attacked a high profile California professor for his criticism of Israeli policy in Palestine.
That ADL intimidation campaign successfully chilled debate on campuses nationwide during ...
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Tuesday, November 24th, 2009
Sameh Brill is back! And he's produced the first of a new series of videos for the European Campaign to End the Siege on Gaza. In this video we see news clips, but mostly… we see those who tell us that we weren't allowed access to see ANYTHING. Those people ...
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Allow me to start with a correction. How impolite, you'd rightly think, but anyway, we Israelis are being forgiven for much worse than impoliteness.
What is so generously termed today by the International Women's Media Foundation as my lifetime achievement needs to be corrected. Because it is Failure. Nothing more than a ...
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Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
WRITTEN BY MARY RIZZO
While preparing the insertion of the article by Nahida Izzat About anti-Semitism, as do all of her thoughtful and intense contributions, many segments caused me to reflect. Her analysis and especially her questions are so important and meaningful, that it would only be logical to address them bit ...
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