While Palestinian dictator Mahmoud Abbas reportedly offers parts of Palestine to the Jewish state – an unelected man with no legitimate credentials, just how Washington and Tel Aviv likes it – nobody serious (except some gullible New York Times commentators) actually believes the Palestinian Authority has any real power to bring change: Since June 2007…
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Making Palestinians central to journalism is still a while off
The lack of representative Palestinian journalists in the corporate press is addressed by one of the best in the business: Taghreed El-Khodary, formerly the New York Times correspondent in Gaza, spoke recently at an event organized by the Palestine Center (6/23/10). She shared some interesting observations–the first being that her revelation that she left Gaza…
The dead Turks would like to come back to life, but alas…
Treat with appropriate skepticism: Israel has signaled it may compensate and apologize to families of some of the victims of its aid-flotilla raid in… comments during a covert meeting between Turkish and Israeli officials, the first high-level contact since the deadly attack.
What a good journalist should do; ask the IDF for the truth
Sydney Morning Herald journalist Paul McGeough was recently on the doomed Gaza flotilla and wrote extensively about Israeli aggression. Australia’s Zionist lobby is upset that McGeough didn’t simply publish Israeli press releases.
Zionist leaders in pyjamas
What a serious government: Israel is expected to broaden the powers of an internal inquiry into the botched raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla in May in the wake of a barrage of claims that its investigation lacks any credibility. Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, appeared to cave in to domestic pressure after the committee…
West Bank poverty “worse than Gaza”, says UK charity
Despite what the New York Times tells its readers about the wonders of life in the West Bank, the facts just keep on getting in the way: Children living in the poorest parts of the West Bank face significantly worse conditions than their counterparts in Gaza, a study conducted by an international youth charity has…
Israeli hack talks of Iranian armageddon
What’s the role of the corporate media? To provide a space for Zionist propagandists to spread lies about the “threats” in the region: In an interview in his office Tuesday, Israel’s ambassador to the United States warned that Iran might unleash a wave of terrorist violence in the Middle East in retaliation for the tough…
The rise and rise and rise of BDS
The following statement has been released: The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI), established in April 2004 by a small group of Palestinian academics and intellectuals and widely supported by leading civil society associations, unions and networks,[1] has not witnessed a sustained surge in cultural boycott of Israel as in…
Don’t speak to terrorists because we must keep Israel strong
This is how Fox News deals with the Middle East. The Obama administration may be speaking to Hamas. Treason!