Family loses 7 boys because they were firing mortars into Israel. In another example of New York Times bias, the story buries the reasons why they died, and fails to talk about the real tragedy. The Israeli army targets, with one tank shell, a group who are launching mortars from a field in Gaza into […]

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Remapping the Middle East, Maybe Tom Friedman of the New York Times engages in yet another round of Israel bashing by comparing the rightwing settler movement to terrorists. (Tom Friedman does not use the work terrorist, feeling much more comfortable with the “militant” code-word.) The Israeli […]

Dore Gold: Why Syria thinks it can get away with backing the insurgency in Iraq Syria actively supports a number of terrorist organizations, including Hizbullah, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and the insurgency on in Iraq. On top of that, they continue to occupy Lebanon. Dore Gold reminds us that, in spite […]

Whitney emails stuff to me on a regular basis. This was a list of jokes about France. In the intro he writes: It really annoys me that the French were right about Iraq — we now know that Saddam DIDN’T have WMDs, that it WOULD turn into a brutal mess, and that (while I hope […]

Melanie Phillips’s Articles: The Reporting of Iraq and Israel: An Abuse of Media Power This is an excellent article on media bias in the UK. It also goes part of the way towards explaining why.