The World Bank has come to the rescue of Hamas, giving it $6.4 million to improve water and sewage services after the latest escalation in attacks on Israel that drew Israel into the eight-day Pillar of Defense counterterrorist campaign. The Islamic Development Bank is contributing an additional $11.1 million, but there has been no report […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
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, […]
The Palestinian ambassador said that if Israel expanded the operation in Gaza, it must work to overthrow Hamas, instead of stopping in the middle, as it did in Operation Cast Lead in 2008. “If there should be a ground operation in Gaza, this time he expects to see [Hamas prime minister] Ismail Haniyeh and [high-ranking […]
by Daniel Pipes November 15, 2012 updated Nov 16, 2012 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner Two observations about the hostilities that began on Nov. 10: (1) The old Arab-Israeli wars were military clashes, the recent ones are political clashes. The wars of 1948-49, 1967, and 1973 were life-and-death struggles for the Jewish state. […]
November 19, 2012 17:16 by Simon Plosker As Operation Pillar of Defense continues, here are the Top 5 Media Fails as HonestReporting inaugurates its Hall of Shame. 1. Jon Donnison, BBC for retweeting a dramatic photo of two children wounded in war without making any effort to verify the photo’s authenticity. Turns out the children […]
