Sorry it's been a few days since my last blog entry. I’ve been busy travelling, and have also had some serious computer issues to deal with. Anyways, I came across an interesting report featured on the Dutch-funded Menasset.com. It covers a conference recently held between journalists from both Hamas and Fatah factions addressing media issues that have […]
An article in the Norwegian daily Bergens Tidende on July 4 again demonstrated how parts of the European media are struggling to present a non-biased picture of the U.S. presidential election despite their support for Barack Obama. The article sought to analyze the most important battleground states and discussed the strengths and weaknesses of the […]
Anthony Julius of the Mischon de Reya law firm, well known for his work on behalf of Princess Diana and Deborah Lipstadt (an American historian accused by historian David Irving of libel), recently wrote an opinion piece for the The Times of London accusing an imperial United States of throwing its weight around even on […]
As this blog has documented, Barack Obama has received extensive, and mostly positive, coverage in Europe. Just as he is planning a trip to Europe, however, many in the European media are for the first time strongly criticizing some of his policy pronouncements, particularly those seen as signaling a move to the political center for […]
In response to a proposed US Congressional resolution to label the Hamas-affiliated Al-Aqsa TV a terrorist entity, the head of the channel's administrative council said on Thursday that the resolution goes against international regulations and conditions for media freedom, insisting that the channel plays an important role in informing the Arab/Islamic Ummah on the Palestinian […]
Is today's bulldozer attack in Jerusalem indicative of a developing trend in terrorist tactics in the West Bank? Similar to the March shooting that killed eight Israelis at a religious school in Jerusalem, various Palestinian groups took credit for today's attack that involved a Palestinian man running a Caterpillar front loader into traffic and pedestrians. […]
Steven Erlanger, one of the New York Times’ best foreign affairs writers, filed a delightful report June 30 from a French village in Provence, Collobrieres (population 1600), which has reintroduced the French franc, alongside the euro, in order to boost business. The mayor is quoted as saying, “We lost something with the franc; we lost […]
The front page of Al-Akhbar's Tuesday edition features news of the upcoming release of a Hezbollah music video celebrating the second anniversary of the July War of 2006. Subsequently, the name of the of the video is tammuz, which translates simply as July. According to the pro-opposition Lebanese daily, the picture at the bottom of […]
The 11th Arab conference on combating terrorism was held this past week in the Tunisian capital of Tunis. The two-day event, convened by the Council of Arab Interior Ministers, brought together officials from the region's counter-terrorism establishments to address various issues stemming from terrorism. In addition to the council, representatives from the Arab League and […]
According to the Palestinian Ma’an News Agency, the Hamas-led government in Gaza threatened to take measures against anyone who violates the ceasefire. This came in response to a rocket attack launched by the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades against the Israeli town of Sderot. Hamas claims that the Al-Aqsa Brigades, an armed wing of the group's political […]
The New York Times reported in an interesting article from Paris June 17 that Barack Obama's political success in the United States is helping to give hope, and a new sense of identity, to blacks in France. The report erred, however, by referring twice to incidents of vandalism and rioting in France with the clear, […]
Some supporters of the European Union's Lisbon Treaty are making wild, and so far unsubstantiated, allegations that American “neocons” were responsible for the treaty's defeat in the Irish referendum June 12. France's Europe Minister Jean-Pierre Jouyet went farthest, stating that “Europe has powerful enemies on the other side of the Atlantic, gifted with considerable financial […]
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