Tuesday, 23rd March 2010
The New York Times once again shows itself a stranger to the truth
Despite the fact that it is one of only two Arab governments to have made peace with Israel, Egypt has been and remains a volcano of Judeophobic hatred which poisons the Middle East and the world. Yet once again the mainstream media shows itself guilty of an astonishing level of ignorance in a piece in the New York Times by Michael Slackman about the re-opening of a Cairo synagogue. Barry Rubin has taken apart the article’s egregious errors which simply vitiate it as a piece of reputable journalism. It reinforces the dismaying fact that if you want to inform yourself properly about the Middle East, the mainstream media reports are simply to be avoided. They promulgate so much disinformation, propaganda and lies that it is now impossible for the average reader to know when any such reports are actually telling the truth.
Monday, 22nd March 2010
Moral blindness -- and truth and justice betrayed
How utterly extraordinary. Hillary Clinton made a big speech today to the US Jewish lobby group AIPAC – a speech of no small importance given the crisis in relations between the Obama administration and Israel. But in this speech, asIsrael Matzav notes, she committed an astounding howler. Referring to the recent Palestinian naming of a square in Ramallah in honour of terrorist Dalal al Mughrabi, she said:
When a Hamas-controlled municipality glorifies violence and renames a square after a terrorist who murdered innocent Israelis, it insults the families on both sides who have lost loves ones in this conflict.
But Ramallah is not a Hamas-controlled municipality. Hamas controls Gaza. Ramallah is in the West Bank and is controlled by Fatah. The naming of the square was a Fatah event glorifying a Fatah terrorist. Does Clinton not...
Lies, damn lies and Ha'aretz
A sweeping majority of Israelis
thought Obama’s treatment of Israel was 'friendly and fair', I rubbed my eyes. This seemed, to put it mildly, implausible. And so it was. Today’s Jerusalem Postreports that Ha’aretz misrepresented – indeed, reversed – the results of its own poll in order to put Prime Minister Netanyahu in a bad light. Its story stated that, in the poll conducted in the wake of the row between Obama and Israel over building in Jerusalem, 69 per cent said Obama was ‘fair and friendly’ towards Israel and that 42 per cent thought Netanyahu had ‘behaved irresponsibly’. But now the Tel Aviv University professor who oversaw the poll, Camil Fuchs, says Ha’aretz misled its...
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