Saudi plan for 'Arab force' to confront Iran in Lebanon A cable released by Wikileaks and reported in yesterday's Guardian shows Prince Saud al-Faisal of Saudi Arabia proposing an 'Arab force' which would destroy Hezbollah. At a meeting between US ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Saudi foreign minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal in 2008, the document records that the latter...Read more>> Wed. 8 Dec. 2010 @ 16.15- BBC News agrees to amend misleading article that suggests Israel is building new settlements. This morning, the BBC News website reported on Mahmoud Abbas' reaction to the announcement that the US has failed to secure an Israeli settlement freeze in the West Bank. The opening sentence of 'Middle East peace talks 'crisis' over settlement row' implied that Israel was building new settlements, rather than buildings within pre-existing settlements: 'Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas says Middle East peace talks are in crisis following Israel's refusal to stop building settlements on occupied land.' Following the publication of the online article, Just Journalism contacted Tarik Kafala, the Middle East Editor at the BBC News website...Read more>> A senior Hamas politician voiced support for the renewed kidnapping of Israelis, while the Gaza-based Islamist group has also sentenced an alleged collaborator to death. The Palestinian Ma'an news outlet reported today on two separate stories concerning Hamas. Firstly, the deputy speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council, Ahmad Bahar, attended a conference in Algeria, where he: '...urged Palestinian resistance factions to capture more Israeli soldiers in order to force Israel to release all Palestinian political prisoners held in Israel.' Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was kidnapped in Gaza in 2006 and has been denied Red Cross access for the duration of his imprisonment...Read more>>
December 9, 2010 Media Analysis More WikiLeaks Middle East revelations
As the Wikileaks cables continue to be published in the global media there have been a number of disclosures relating to a range of Middle Eastern states and parties. To read Just Journalism's review of British editorials' reactions to the revelations on Iran, click here. Below is a selection of recently disclosed cables and what they reveal.The Wire 
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