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October 27, 2010 Media Analysis Israel's Samouni family inquiry in The Independent This weekend saw the launch of an Israeli military investigation into a deadly incident from Operation Cast Lead when a building housing Gazan civilians was struck by an Israeli missile, killing 21 members of the Samouni family. The IDF had instructed the family to take shelter in their home in the Zeitoun district of Gaza but, due to miscommunication between Israeli troops on the ground and the Israeli Air Force, the house was subsequently bombed by an aerial drone. The Samounis' comings-and-goings from the house were evidently interpreted as possible military activity in an area thought to be a hotbed of Hamas' RPG (rocket-propelled grenade) launchings. The investigation was given comprehensive coverage in The Independent, including amain article that ran to 1,200 words, an interview with one of the Samouni family members, and an editorial. The emphasis of all the coverage was on how the accidental deaths of 21 civilians vindicated the Goldstone Report, the UN Human Rights Council-commissioned enquiry into the Gaza War led by South African jurist Richard Goldstone... Read more >> The Wire Independent misleads on Rachel Corrie's death Mon. 25 Oct. 2010 @ 11.37 - The Independent's Yasmin Alibhai-Brown gives a false description of Rachel Corrie's death in order to condemn Israel's behaviour during times of war. In 'A worse record than Saddam's', columnist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown writes in The Independent about the recent Wikileaks revelations about the actions of Western troops in Iraq. She describes some of the accusations made against British and American soldiers...Read more >> Persecution of Coptic community downplayed by Fisk Wed. 27 Oct. 2010 @ 14.34 - Raymond Ibrahim's opinion piece for Hudson New York is in marked contrast to Robert Fisk's portrayal of the Palestinians as the most oppressed Christians in the Middle East. Yesterday, Robert Fisk's front-page story in The Independent, 'Exodus: The changing map of the Middle East', discussed the rapidly dwindling number of Christians in the region. Fisk highlighted Palestinian Christians as perhaps the most oppressed because of Israel's separation barrier: 'nowhere is the Christian fate sadder than in the territories around Jerusalem'... Read more >> Special Event and invite you to a panel discussion on 'How to Stop the De-legitimisation of Israel' sponsored by Click here for more information.