Friday, April 26, 2013

War Declared On Israeli Journalists by Palestinian Colleagues

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Khaled Abu Toameh .. Gatestone Institute.. 26 April '13.. Palestinian journalists have declared an intifada against their Israel...

Love and determination brought justice despite the pain and anguish of loss.

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Yehudit Tayar .. 26 April '13.. The dignity of Michael Palmer, and the aura of love as he gave testimony describing what he and ...

Was Fayyad a voice of reform and moderation? Think again.

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David Bedein .. Israel Resource Review.. 24 April '13.. The recently resigned former Palestinian Prime Minister Salman Fayyad i...

The Cultural Crisis in the Arab and Islamic World by Dr. Mordechai Kedar

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Israel is perceived as an orderly country of a "normal" people, loving life, progress and development, the exact opposite of what ...
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Denial is still the name of the game - Anarchy in Sinai and no solution in sight

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Zvi Mazel .. Middle East/JPost.. 3 April '13.. The first Egyptian reactions to the grad rockets that targeted Eilat were of flat d...
Thursday, April 25, 2013

Who has given her the mandate to decide who decides who is an Israeli?

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Eytan Meyersdorf .. Times of Israel.. 25 April '13.. The president of Ben Gurion University, Rivka Carmi, recently questioned the...

More Media Distortion of Airport Security Issue

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...Finally it was discovered that metallic buttons on the baby carrier had set off the security scanner alarm. I mention this as just one ex...

As it Goes with Israel, ... Where's the Coverage?

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SC .. CAMERA Snapshots.. 25 April '13.. When terrorists bomb a public place in Israel, injuring dozens and even killing children, ...

Little Adelle, Happy Birthday!

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Paula R. Stern .. A Soldier's Mother.. 25 April '13.. Today is the third birthday of little Adelle Biton - she was critically ...

Media Bias, Marathons and the “Israel as Villain” Plotline

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Perhaps the problem was that reporting the ban on Israelis would have spoiled the neat “Israel as villain” plotline. After all, the race’s m...

Palestinian prisoners releases - A brief history

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...This descent into irrationality was inevitable, as the Palestinians’ decades long obsession with prisoners has never been predicated on t...

Fayyad’s No. 1 fan at the NY Times performs his own postmortem

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Jonathan S. Tobin .. Commentary/Contentions.. 24 April '13.. The political demise of Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fa...

The Secretary of Defense's Epiphany?

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The easy thing would be to credit Mr. Hagel's epiphany to an echo of his boss's change. But one might hope it is something more: a n...
Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Haaretz - The link between financial woes and sensationalist anti-Israel coverage

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Richard Landes .. The Augean Stables.. 23 April '13.. There are some papers which, as much by their literary standards, as by thei...

Is Jordan Palestine? Should Jordan be Palestine?

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...The “Jordan-is-Palestine” plan is thus a right-wing fantasy which mirrors the left-wing fantasy of the “two-state solution.” Both are bas...

The Middle East, the Jews and the Ummah

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Bataween .. Point of No Return .. 24 April '13.. "A well-meant mistake of history."A few years back, thus was Israel de...

The Honey-Trap of (Im)Moral Equivalence

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People love to lay the blame for the stalemate at 50:50. But the facts do not support this. Israeli schoolbooks do not teach children to hat...

Iran is a threat to more than just Israel

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Jonathan S. Tobin .. Commentary/Contentions.. 23 April '13.. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is in Israel this week, and the man who...

Using a Marathon as Political Warfare

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If The Palestine Marathon had nothing to do with politics, it had everything to do with political warfare. It is likely the first marathon i...

Welcome to the Islamist Middle East - Knowing the Score-Card

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Barry Rubin .. Rubin Reports.. 23 April '13.. One of the reasons why the Middle East situation is less fearsome than it might seem...