New York Times Redefines the Word Journalist November 26, 2012 14:49 by Alex Margolin After years of working for the newspaper of record in the US, you’d think veteran newsman David Carr would know the difference between a journalist and a propagandist. Apparently not, judging by his impassioned defense of journalists “targeted” in last week’s […]
Today’s Top Stories 1. The UN General Assembly’s Palestinian statehood vote’s on Thursday. Britain looks likely support the Palestinian statehood bid, reports the Financial Times (via Google News). The FT says London wants three Palestinian assurances: • The PA won’t join the International Criminal Court or other UN agencies. • The PA won’t use non-member […]
The Palestinian Authority, which has been pushing to be recognized as a state in the United Nations, has won a symbolic victory—an upgrade of its status. Despite the fact that the Palestinian push for unilateral statehood violates all existing internationally agreed frameworks for negotiating a peace between Israel and the Palestinians, the United Nations General […]
On the heels of the very successful performance of Iron Dome during Operation Pillar of Defense, the IDF on Sunday tested yet another missile defense system, “Magic Wand,” also known as David’s Sling, designed to shoot down long range missiles fired at Israel. Whereas the Iron Dome system is designed to intercept short-range rockets that […]
‘Sunday Times’ cites Israeli official claiming Tehran shipping Fajr-5 rockets through Sudan to the Gaza Strip. Israeli intelligence satellites have spied the loading of rockets and other materiel believed to be destined for the Gaza Strip,The Sunday Times reported citing Israeli officials. According to the report, Iran began preparing the weapons shipment around the same time […]
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is calling for a jihad (“holy war”) to liberate the Palestinian Authority areas. “Jihad is obligatory” for Muslims, top Islamic cleric Mohammed Badei said, adding that peace deals with Israel are a “game of grand deception”. Badei added that there have been enough negotiations and that the “enemy knows nothing but the language […]
November 22, 2012 15:24 by Alex Margolin As Operation Pillar of Defense appears to reach its conclusion, we round up our Hall of Shame with a further five new entries. Click here to see 1 – 5 6. Anthony De Rosa, Reuters columnist and social media editor for a tweet displaying so much ignorance it […]
Noam Bedein is a photojournalist, lecturer and founder/director of Sderot Media Center. He lives approximately two miles away from the Gaza-Israel border in the missile-battered Israeli city of Sderot. From the last day of Operation Cast Lead (January 18, 2009) until the 1st day of Operation Pillar of Defense, the Gaza Hamas regime launched 2,000 aerial […]
HR Comment: Media War Review November 22, 2012 15:23 by Simon Plosker With a ceasefire in effect, Operation Pillar of Defense appears to be over. Of course there will be plenty of media coverage in the coming days and weeks as the “fog of war” clears. In any event, Israel is rarely out of the […]
GENEVA, Switzerland— Although this past week saw U.N. agencies and high officials rushing to intervene the moment Israel began to defend its civilian population from hundreds of Hamas rocket attacks, letters published by UN Watch show that the same U.N. actors repeatedly turned a blind eye while Israel pleaded for action. Russian ambaasador Vitaly Churkin, […]
