March 17, 2013 17:44 by Pesach Benson The Daily Beast describes the Mideast equivalent of a professional wrestling cage match: Hezbollah squaring off against Jabhat al-Nusra. To Hezbollah’s displeasure, the Al-Qaida-linked rebels have taken over a few Syrian villages along the border: Few in the West may want to shed a tear over a full-scale […]
Although Jerusalem’s keeping quiet about Hugo Chavez’s death, Haaretz reports of Israeli hopes to “reboot” relations with Venezuela. For background on El Commandante’s animus towards Israel, see Israel HaYom. The JTA elaborates on Chavez’s strained relationship with Venezuela’s Jewish community. Repairing Israeli-Venezuelan ties isn’t far-fetched. Elections are supposed to be held within 30 days; the […]
UN Exonerates Israel in Gaza Child Death, Media Ignores March 10, 2013 17:37 by Simon Plosker Referring to the impact of Israeli air strikes on Gaza during November 2012?s Operation Pillar of Defense the BBC’s Wyre Davis wrote: In the BBC Gaza office, that feeling was most tangibly felt on the first day of this […]
March 4, 2013 17:06 by Pesach Benson The Commentator responds to Daily Telegraph coverage of so-called “apartheid” buses: The substance is drearily familiar, though it is particularly gratuitous. It is (yawn) an “Israel-Apartheid” story, and it pegs off moves by the Israeli authorities to take the completely reasonable step of introducing extra Palestinian buses to […]
Palestinian Authority Lockup on New Prisoner Death March 5, 2013 15:45 by Pesach Benson Had Ayman Samarah been found dead in an Israeli prison cell, he’d be just as famous as Arafat Jaradat, who was all over the news last week. But Samarah died in a Palestinian Authority prison cell, not an Israeli one. The PA […]
NPR: Israel Starving Gaza of Its Resources March 5, 2013 10:07 by Pesach Benson A blockade is only as strong as its weakest link. Until recently, all kinds of goods passed through Egypt’s Rafah’s crossing, through smuggling tunnels, and even the Kerem Shalom crossing with Israel. But for Hamas, the situation took a turn for […]
If Israel makes peace with the Palestinians, then the US will make war on Iran. Should Israel accept such hypothetical linkage known in shorthand as “settlements for Iran?” No way, says Zalman Shoval. One of the basic assumptions in the aforementioned proposal is that blocking Iran’s nuclear program is just an Israeli interest, and that […]
Today’s Top Stories 1. Satellite images obtained by the Daily Telegraph show that a heavy water production facility in Arak is now operational. Steam and the unusual level of security is the big giveaway. Oh yeah, international inspectors have been denied access for 18 months. The striking image of steam over the Arak heavy-water complex […]
Inmate Death: What the Media Chose to Ignore February 27, 2013 14:13 by Alex Margolin When is a terrorist not a terrorist? Apparently, when it doesn’t fit the media’s narrative, like the coverage of Arafat Jaradat, who died in an Israeli prison this week. Jaradat, a member of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, was arrested for […]
Whose Opinion Matters? A Look at the New York Times February 20, 2013 11:35 by Yarden Frankl Does the New York Times Publish All the Opinions that are Fit to Print? Are major media giving undue preference to anti-Israel opinions? Is there an obligation to publish pieces representing both sides of controversial issues? HonestReporting typically […]
