Tag: media

All the wars involving Israel, throughout its history, have caused at least 30,000 fewer deaths than have been caused in Syria in the last couple of years alone.

The damage done by the now iconic image of Misharawi clutching his slain child can not be ameliorated by even the clearest retractions.

Even as he left office in January 2002 on a note of unprecedented triumph and popularity, the tone of the New York Times’s editorials and most of its news coverage was startlingly jaundiced.

Even the modestly dressed and Islamist friendly Catherine Ashton did not escape being photoshopped.

Monique Parsons of NPR happily goes along with Hamas-CAIR's ruse of using women and children as props for jihad.

Contrary to claims made in the media, there are no ‘Palestinian only’ bus lines.

Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson sued a Wall Street Journal reporter for libel for calling him “foul-mouthed.” The lawsuit filed last Friday seeks "damages, including aggravated,...

The Israeli media are busy faux negotiating, publishing all sorts of possibilities.

The Guardian and other foreign media invested heavily in promoting their desired political narrative of a Jewish state lurching dangerously towards the right.

President Obama, one could easily accuse the US of not knowing what is in their best interests. After all, they re-elected you, didn't they?

How many times can we be said to have turned right? And why are journalists surprised?

The Guardian’s Jordan page has absolutely nothing warning of the nation’s dangerous lurch to the extreme right abyss.

Human Rights Watch attacked Israel for bombing a media installation. Perhaps they have forgotten the story of Palestinian journalist Ahlam Tamimi.

The Washington Post is suggesting that greater military success for terrorism will lead to Middle East peace.

You wouldn’t make donations to Hezballah, right? Then don’t buy the Times.

Intrigue and rumor swirls around Danny Ayalon's exclusion from the Yisrael Beytenu list, as no one is officially saying a thing. There's nothing nature abhors more than a vacuum.

Europe has not even considered what would happen if terrorist elements in Judea and Samaria would start firing rockets at civilians living across Israel.

Not a week passes without some new rumor from Syria tearing up the social media channels. Here's the latest about Assad.

On the NY Times Public Editor's blog, Margaret Sullivan talks about the leash they'll be putting on Jodi Rudoren, the NY Times Jerusalem Bureau...

Israel: Don't be brainwashed by the media.

"Fascist".... "Radical"... "Ultra-nationalist"....these words were used over and over again by Channels 1, 2, and 10 TV. It seems the mainstream media in Israel is upset by what the people want.

The complicity of the media in Arab aggression against Israel.

Yishai and Malkah discuss the war between Israel and Hamas taking place in and around Gaza.

The IDF's use of twitter has been called perhaps the most meaningful change in our consumption of war in over 20 years.

A runaway hit twit right now is this one: "Hamas Bumper Stickers: Baby Suicide bomber on board." And a joke that's getting old already goes: Two...

If reality doesn't match our concepts, we can always move reality a few miles over to where it fits.

Originally published at Rubin Reports. General David Petraeus was the hero of the victorious surge strategy in Iraq. But he also has the distinction of...

Since we believe Palestinian Arab casualties that result from Palestinian Arab mis-handling or misfiring of Palestinian Arab explosives, guns, rockets, mortars and the like almost never get reported in the mainstream news media, we will be watching to see how much coverage this incident below gets. It appears at this moment on a Bethlehem-based (and somewhat Hamas-hostile) Palestinian news site.

The ritual of rockets that periodically pummel Israel’s southern communities includes numerous media interviews with the important people. The journalists attempt to extract from anybody who thinks he is somebody some piece of a resolution for this crazy situation that is unparalleled anywhere in the world.

Placing innocent Palestinian children in potentially dangerous situations, cynically hoping for a media coup stemming from any overreaction by IDF soldiers, is indeed shameful. However, such provocations by the Tamimis pale in comparison to an antisemitic Palestinian political culture which consistently sends messages to their youth that martyrdom – dying, or even murdering Israeli Jews, to advance the Palestinian cause – is one of the most important political values they should aspire to.