Search

Mideast Media Sampler 04/09/2013 – New York Times op-ed Index for March 2013

Posted by David Gerstman on April 09, 2013 1 Comment

Final Total – Anti-Israel – 12 / Pro-Israel – 3 / Neutral – 3

Mideast Media Sampler – 04/08/2013 – Diplomacy is more than words

Posted by David Gerstman on April 08, 2013 2 Comments

1) The language of concessions The Washington Post reports Kerry presses Israel and Palestinians for concessions to pave way for peace talks: Kerry first visited Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who has resisted new talks for most of the past four years. His government had sought...

Is #OpIsrael invited to CUNY’s Homonationalism and Pinkwashing Conference?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 07, 2013 15 Comments

We have written numerous times about the depraved “pinkwashing” narrative, that Israel must be condemned by gay rights activists for publicizing the fact that it is the only country in the Middle East where gays are not persecuted. That simple truth is too much for...

Bibi didn’t jump high enough for the Turks

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 07, 2013 12 Comments

John Kerry tagged team with Obama to extract a humiliating apology from Israel over the deaths of Turks who violently attacked Israeli soldiers lawfully boarding a ship breaking the lawful Gaza military blockade. The Turks and others in the Muslim world took the apology as...

#OpIsrael Hack versus Counter-Hack

Posted by Mandy Nagy on April 06, 2013 14 Comments

Last November, a faction claiming association to the hacker collective Anonymous launched #OpIsrael, in retaliation for Israel’s strikes on Gaza. Earlier this week, those operations were resurrected in another wave of #OpIsrael that is scheduled to commence on April 7th, the date of Holocaust Memorial...

Mideast Media Sampler 04/05/2013 – Names will never hurt me

Posted by David Gerstman on April 05, 2013 5 Comments

1) Casting the first stone – and all the subsequent ones too What’s the difference between assault with a deadly weapon – a shooting – and assault with rocks that hit cars at potentially lethal speeds? Why should teenagers think of rock-throwing as something fun...

Mideast Media Sampler – 04/04/2013 – Pathological Palestinian Prisoner Protests

Posted by David Gerstman on April 04, 2013 4 Comments

1) Palestinian prisoners protest The New York Times reported Palestinians Jailed in Israel Protest After Inmate Dies: The office of Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, said in a statement that it held the Israeli government “fully responsible” for Mr. Hamdiya’s death, which...

Mideast Media Sampler 03/31/2013 – Beneath the skin deep analysis of the MSM

Posted by David Gerstman on March 31, 2013 8 Comments

1) The counter-intuitive truth David Ignatius, recently peddling conventional wisdom about President Obama’s recent Middle East, Obama’s Pragmatic Approach, trip listed three accomplishments of that trip. Two of them were: Obama breathed a little life back into an Israeli-Palestinian peace process that had all but...

Mideast Media Sampler 03/29/2013 – Does NGO = Nurturing Grievance Organization?

Posted by David Gerstman on March 29, 2013 4 Comments

1) The Washington Post on Obama’s trip Fareed Zakaria uses a guest column in the Washington Post to proclaim Obama appeals to Israel’s conscience: He starts with condescension: As a piece of rhetoric, Barack Obama’s speech to college students in Jerusalem was a triumph. He...

It’s not about the “occupation” — Arabs in France beat anti-occupation Israeli film director

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 28, 2013 11 Comments

A life lesson — Israeli director critical of occupation beaten by Arabs in France: Arab men assaulted an Israeli film director in southern France following the screening of his film criticizing Israeli occupation. Yariv Horowitz was rendered unconscious as a result of the beating Monday by...

Mideast Media Sampler 03/28/2013 – Style and Sensationalism Trump Substance

Posted by David Gerstman on March 28, 2013 2 Comments

1)All that glitters Politico published an analysis of President Obama’s recent trip to the Middle East by Josh Gerstein, Obama in Israel: 5 takeaways (h/t The Israel Link). While the article isn’t awful, it suffers from a lack of substance. The five takeaways are: Bibi...

Mideast Media Sampler 03/24/2013 – Not half bad Thomas

Posted by David Gerstman on March 24, 2013 11 Comments

1) The apology The Washington Post reported Obama ends Israel visit by brokering end to dispute with Turkey: Prodded by President Obama, Israel and Turkey agreed Friday to end a three-year rift caused by a deadly Israeli commando raid on a Turkish ship bound for...

Turkish PM: Thanks for the apology Bibi, but not good enough

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 23, 2013 24 Comments

Diplomatic failure in a fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan

How do you say “Apologize For What?!” in Hebrew?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 22, 2013 16 Comments

What he said, Liberman calls Turkey apology a ‘serious mistake’: Former foreign minister Avigdor Liberman slammed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday for his decision to apologize to his Turkish counterpart for the “operational errors” made by Israel during the 2010 raid on the Turkish...

Mideast Media Sampler 03/22/2013 – Does PA stand for Passive Aggressive?

Posted by David Gerstman on March 22, 2013 5 Comments

1) The President talks to the Israeli people Barry Rubin summarizes President Obama’s message to the young people of Israel whom he addressed at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem yesterday. First: Obama’s big theme is that — and I’m not being satirical here —...

Mideast Media Sampler 03/21/2013 – Obama in Israel, can you feel the spin tonight?

Posted by David Gerstman on March 21, 2013 6 Comments

1) Barack and Bibi The Algemeiner has transcripts of President Obama’s and PM Netanayahu’s remarks at their joint press conference yesterday. Writing in Tablet, Lee Smith covers the three issues that President Obama and PM Netanyau would be discussing: the Palestinians, Syria and Iran. (via...

Mideast Media Sampler 03/19/2013

Posted by David Gerstman on March 19, 2013 5 Comments

1) Is there any hope left for Mideast honesty in the New York Times A few people have pointed out that I missed an op-ed by Rashid Khalidi, Is Any Hope Left for Mideast Peace? One paragraph really stuck out. Until 1991 most Palestinians, although...

100
101
102
of 114
104
105
106

Search

CONTRIBUTORS