Category Archives: Media Bias

PA to Israel: We want peace. Just ignore our terror attacks

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is telling Palestinians to put up or shut up regarding the removal of checkpoints: Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday that Israel would not take any security risks in its gestures to the Palestinians until the … Continue reading

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Editorial bog

In Middle East Bog the perceptive editors of the Washington Post write: The trouble began within days of the Annapolis meeting, when Israel’s Housing Ministry made the first of a series of gratuitous and provocative announcements about construction in Jewish … Continue reading

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Forward right

One of the lead articles in this week’s Forward is Debate Underscores Orthodox Community’s Rightward Drift. Reporting on a recent debate between Michael Medved and David Luchins, Rebecca Spence reports: The charged debate, attended by some 150 Orthodox convention-goers who … Continue reading

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The Freddy’s Seven

via memeorandum Keith Richburg has a front page report Not Relevant? Sharpton Scoffs at the Idea in yesterday’s Washington Post. Clearly the reporter scoffs too. There’s a sub-head line “Activist’s Busy Calendar and Ringing Phone Speak to His Role in … Continue reading

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Gaza’s Christians: Living in fear

The AP has noticed that the Muslims in the Gaza Strip have been terrorizing Gaza’s Christians. The International Herald Tribune carries the story with this headline: Gaza’s Christians keep low profile during Christmas after slaying of activist “Activist”? What did … Continue reading

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24 and the NYT

In season 4 of 24 there’s an excellent exchange between a politician and one of his former aides. I’m going to leave out the character names so this won’t serve as a spoiler to anyone who still plans to see … Continue reading

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NYT vs. Daniel Pipes Round Robin

Down Payment on Mideast Peace The political and territorial challenges facing Israeli and Palestinian peace negotiators are formidable and familiar. The economic obstacles to the creation of a viable Palestinian state are also formidable, but easier to make a dent … Continue reading

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On reporting, awarding, exploding

Abby Wisse Schachter delivers a devastating critique of the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz But Haaretz’s ideological crusade is not limited to the editorial or opinion pages. Its editors are only too happy to publish defamatory feature stories as well. On November … Continue reading

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The wire services: Working for the Palestinians

Let’s look at the ledes on the various wire service articles about the current round of peace talks. Earlier, Reuters: Israel and Palestinians launch peace talks in discord JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Palestinians said on Wednesday they had demanded a halt … Continue reading

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The peace talks in “discord”—because of Israel, mostly

The world media spins against Israel yet again. And of course, here’s how it works. A barrage of rockets into Israel on the morning of the peace talks comes fifteen paragraphs into the main AP story released a few minutes … Continue reading

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Familar unproductive editorial

The editors of the NYT are all for Starting the peace process Israelis and Palestinians are supposed to begin serious negotiations tomorrow after last month’s long-on-optics, short-on-specifics Annapolis peace meeting. Despite all the smiles and handshakes, both sides went home … Continue reading

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The Israel-is-stealing-Christmas story season is upon us

Yes, Virginia, there is an anti-Israel bias, and this is the time of year that it becomes the most virulent. Let us take note of two amazing events in the beginning of the “Israel would make the Baby Jesus cry” … Continue reading

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Palestinians really do cut off their noses to spite their faces

Let’s do a little reading between the lines here. The AP has a three-hanky story on how the mean ol’ Israelis are shutting off the Gaza fuel supply, just because Hamas is allowing terrorists to fire over 2000 rockets into … Continue reading

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The peaceful people of Gaza: 2000 rockets in 2007

The peaceful people of Gaza, who got what they wanted two years ago—all “settlers” out of Gaza, Palestinian self-rule, and Israeli soldiers out of the Gaza Strip—have fired over 2,000 rockets into Israel in 2007. We can make it a … Continue reading

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Jackson’s cagey

Jackson Diehl writes in today’s Fuses in Gaza The Islamic Hamas movement, which won the 2006 legislative elections and took sole control of Gaza in June, spent the week of Annapolis quietly doing what it has been doing every week … Continue reading

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