Via Dissident Voice (Hat tip: Odie)

(Image by Ben Heine)
The horrific shooting of eight young people at a Jewish seminary in Jerusalem last Thursday was followed by saturation media coverage. International statesmen lined up with condemnations of the attack and condolences for the victims and their families.

Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced: “This is clearly an attempt [...]

But the death or illness of Palestinians doesn’t interest the media much… Israel is the victim; how could the victim do anything wrong? It’s a dilemma, so it just ignores it. When Israel attacks Gaza today or so, there will be no media there… they will be sipping martinis in the Colony hotel or the [...]

And possibly your Sputnik will get a chance to be launched to space. Isn’t this cool?

BBC Magazine describes here ‘How to build your own Sputnik’ and promises that they’ll investigate how to get your Sputniks launched.

It seems incredible that the technology that went into building the first successful satellite 50 years ago can now be [...]

“I will suggest that the secretary general withdraw the UN from the Quartet, if the Quartet fails to have regard to the human rights situation in the Palestinian Territories.” John Dugard, UN special rapporteur

John Dugard, the UN human rights envoy for the Palestinian Territories, told the BBC the US, EU, UN and Russia were failing [...]

This is Bush (and allies) ‘victory’ in Iraq:

[Via: BBC]
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Civilian toll

Sunday’s violence followed the publication of a survey of Iraqis which suggested that up to 1.2m people might have died because of the conflict in Iraq.

A UK-based polling agency, Opinion Research Business (ORB), said it had extrapolated the figure by asking a random sample of [...]

Via Haaretz:

…”Britain talked directly with Hamas leader Khaled Meshal and Syria to facilitate Johnston’s release, violating the global boycott of the movement…”

“How can Israel and Abbas continue to ignore the only force capable of managing the Gaza Strip?….And no less important: Is there still any point in boycotting Hamas or the Israel Defense Forces’ operations [...]

Hamas blames PA officials for interfering in British hostage case and alleged that officials from the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah coaxed British hostage kidnappers not to release him. “We have monitored calls coming from Ramallah telling the kidnappers not to release the hostage, so Hamas won’t get credit for it,” Abu Zahri claimed.
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Hamas: Kidnappers of [...]

The BBC World Service program World Have Your Say has turned itself over to children who have experienced the Israeli war on Lebanon. The show has live blogged the episode.

In less than an hour, I’ll be on BBC Arabic talking about “Lebanon Issue.” My part will be focused on Arab bloggers and their role in what is going on. Stay tuned!

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…BTW, we did a segment on Star Academy yesterday and quoted your blog. [Hat tip: email from Kevin - BBC to me]
You can still listen to last night “Have Your Say” discussion on this (I guess it will be replaced by the today segments soon, so hurry up).