(CNSNews.com) – Iran officials and state media continue to ignore, downplay, or see conspiracies behind the anti-government protests and violent clampdown in Syria, in sharp contrast to their response to unrest elsewhere in the Arab world. As protests swept countries including Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, Yemen and Jordan in recent months, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali […]
Security forces in Gaza located overnight Thursday the body of Vittorio Arrigoni, an Italian member of the anti-Israel International Solidarity Movement (ISM), who had been kidnapped by Salafist Muslims earlier. Hamas officials, who reported that Arrigoni’s body had been found, added that the body had been found in an abandoned home in Gaza. Earlier, the […]
Arab-affairs expert Prof. Mordechai Kedar of Bar Ilan University says Israel would be “clearly suicidal” in enabling a Palestinian state, in light of the revolutionary fever sweeping the Arab world. In the latest edition of his weekly column entitled “Middle Eastern Insights,” Kedar writes that given the calls in Egypt to abrogate its peace treaty […]
How Moral Equivalence Erodes Accurate Reporting When Judge Richard Goldstone published his famous op-ed reconsidering the Goldstone Report, he – perhaps unintentionally – revealed one of the predominant biases of the Goldstone Committee that produced the report. The committee, it appears, was operating under a deep-set assumption of moral equivalence between Israel and Hamas. The […]
by Daniel Pipes April 15, 2011 Cross-posted from National Review Online: The Corner Note the pattern of Palestinians who murder the groupies and apologists who join them to aid in their dream of eliminating Israel. Malcolm Kerr, president of the American University of Beirut, killed in January 1984, perhaps by Palestinians. Ziva Goldovsky, an 18-year-old […]
Gaza terrorists continued to pepper southern Israel with rocket attacks on Sunday despite talk of a “ceasefire.” A Kassam rocket exploded Sunday afternoon in an open area of the Ashkelon Coast Regional Council district. No one was injured and no damage was reported in the attack. Three Kassam and Grad missile attacks that were followed […]
Unrest continued Saturday in both Egypt and Syria, as protesters in both cities were killed by security forces in each country. Meanwhile, thousands of Egyptians rioted outside the Israeli embassy in Cairo over the IDF’s response to Hamas terror attacks, increasing concern in Jerusalem that the protests in the Arab world could begin to focus […]
The 91st anniversary of the first international recognition of Jewish national rights in the Land of Israel – namely, the San Remo Conference – will be commemorated in two weeks. The San Remo Conference was an international meeting of four of the leading Allied powers of World War I, known as the post-World War I Allied Supreme Council. It […]
Stories the Media Missed With the international media’s attention fixed on Libya and Japan, Israel has found itself out of the usual media glare up until Wednesday’s bombing in Jerusalem. This would ordinarily be a good thing. Instead, however, with less column inches available for other world news, editors have indulged in selective reporting or […]
The Palestinian Authority is “becoming notorious for assaulting and intimidating journalists” and causing some self-censorship by local reporters, according to the Human Rights Watch organization. The report may partially explain media bias against Israel. Human Rights Watch, which traditionally has focused on allegation of rights abuses in Israel, stated that Palestinian Authority intimidation has caused […]
