My following article appeared yesterday in the Canadian magazine Adbusters: Each side in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict believes criticisms in the media are biased, but the Palestinians are the ones doing almost all the suffering and dying these days. Antony Loewenstein argues for reality-based… coverage. Israel’s highly decorated Chief of Staff, Mordechai Gur, once said, “we make…
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Islam is here to stay
Israel attacks Gaza in an attempt to crush Hamas. Alas, its popularity in the Arab world has soared and political Islam rises in strength:
There is no other term for it
Sayyid Najm, Egyptian novelist and literature specialist on war in literature, speaks on Al Jazeera Arabic… about the war in Gaza: If were were to speak about the literature of war with regard to today, I’d have to say that there is no war in Gaza. In Gaza today, all that we have experienced and lived…
How America started seeing Cuba
Al-Jazeera English on the changing face of Cuban Americans in Florida. Simply put, a hard line against the Castro brothers has been an abject failure; time for a change:
Surely time to shun official sources
Two different speakers at this week’s Edinburgh International Television Conference revealed the paucity of imagination and guts in so much of the mainstream media’s coverage of the “war on terror”. Al-Jazeera director general Wadah Khanfar: Less and less field work is being done. More official sources are being taken as uncollaborated fact. Less and less…
Jewish impediment to peace, part 5673
Prof. Mordechai Kedar of the Arab Studies Department in Bar-Ilan University argues on al-Jazeera that Jerusalem will always remain the undivided capital of the Jewish state and Israel’s occupation of the West Bank isn’t actually an occupation at all. These are the voices, too rarely heard in the West, that have made a two-state solution…
All media are not created equal
Al-Jazeera cameraman Sami al-Haj, held without charge in Guantanamo Bay for over six years, speaks out after his release from the American gulag:
A consistent war against Islam
Robert Fisk, in the Palestine Chronicle, discusses the similarities and differences between the war against Iraq and the 1990s battle in Bosnia: “Bosnia was in Europe, so eventually, we wanted to switch the war off. Iraq is a different matter – we’re in Iraq for oil. If the national product of Iraq was asparagus, we…
Jews who can’t handle debate
Israeli peace activist Uri Avnery placed the following statement in Haaretz on March 14: I am shocked by the silence of the Israeli media after the government’s decision to boycott the Aljazeera network as punishment for its coverage of the bloody events in Gaza. As journalists and citizens of the “Only Democracy in the Middle…