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Mideast Media Sampler 04/04/2013

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” … Continue reading

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Mideast Media Sampler 04/03/2013

1) Meanwhile in Egypt The New York Times is reporting Egyptians Struggle as Wary Tourists Stay Away: Tourism plummeted in 2011 with the fall of President Hosni Mubarak and the unrest that followed. Some tourists have started to return, but … Continue reading

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Mideast Media Sampler 03/31/2013

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 … Continue reading

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Mideast Media Sampler 03/29/2013

1) The Washington Post of 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 … Continue reading

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Mideast Media Sampler 03/28/2013

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. … Continue reading

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Mideast Media Sampler 03/24/2013

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 … Continue reading

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Mideast Media Sampler 03/22/2013

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 … Continue reading

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Mideast Media Sampler 03/21/2013

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 … Continue reading

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Mideast Media Sampler – The anti-Zionist DNA of the New York Times

The New York Times, the American Council for Judaism and Israel Last year a former New York Times reporter, Neil Lewis wrote a defense of the New York Times’ coverage of Israel. (.pdf) Lewis writes of Arthur Hays Sulzberger: Whatever … Continue reading

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Mideast Media Sampler 03/19/2013

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. … Continue reading

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Mideast Media Sampler 03/18/2013

Cheerleading the Intifada The New York Times has done it again. Less then two weeks after publishing an intellectual attack against Israel, it publishes an article glorifying physical attacks on Israel. The front page story of yesterday’s New York Times … Continue reading

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Mideast Media Sampler 03/15/2013

1) Why is this debate a virtue? Yesterday, I wrote about Joseph Levine’s outrageous article at the New York Times arguing that Israel is not a legitimate secular democratic state. At the Daily Beast, Ralph Seliger writes: I think it’s odd … Continue reading

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Mideast Media Sampler 03/14/2013

The Ranting of Levine Last week the New York Times published an essay by a philosophy professor, James Levine On Questioning the Jewish State. I won’t quote from the essay, but here are some of the responses. Elder of Ziyon … Continue reading

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Mideast Media Sampler 03/13/2013

1) Being a reporter means never having to say you’re sorry The New York Times has reported on the UN report that raised doubts about the death of Omar Masharawi. Isabel Kershner wrote U.N. Ties Gaza Baby’s Death to Palestinians: … Continue reading

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Mideast Media Sampler 03/12/2013

Mendacious Max Beyond Iron Dome Max Fisher, the blogger for the Washington Post who publicized the picture of Jihad Mishrawi has now responded to a new United Nations report that concluded that the rocket that killed Mishrawi’s son was likely … Continue reading

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