By Alison Weir* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
Recent exposés revealing that Ethan Bronner, the New York Times Israel-Palestine bureau chief, has a son in the Israeli military have caused a storm of controversy that continues to swirl and generate further revelations.
Many people find such a sign of family partisanship in an editor covering a foreign [...]
Ethan Bronner's Conflict With Impartiality
By Alison Weir* | Sabbah Report | www.sabbah.biz
Ethan Bronner is the New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief. As such, he is the editor responsible for all the news coming out of Iasrael-Palestine. Iact is his job to decide what gets reported and what doesn't; what goes in a story and what [...]
By Mohamed Khodr *
Zimbabwe expels U.N. rights investigator (Washington Post, October 29, 2009)
Zimbabwe Deports U.N. Investigator (New York Times, October 29, 2009)
Zimbabwe Deports U.N. Investigator (Wall Street Journal, October 29, 2009)
BUT: This headline is Absent.
Israel denied entry to Richard Falk, UN Human Rights special rapporteur and deported him from Ben Gurion (December 15, [...]
US Media Misreport Latest Gaza Violence
Please phone and ask for correction!
[A FLYER about this can be downloaded at: www.IfAmericansKnew.org/download/gazacfv.pdf ]
American media are reporting violence that took place along the Gaza-Israel border on January 27th as, in the words of CNN, "the first incidents of violence since last week's Mideast cease-fire," telling the public that Palestinians [...]
CNN: Red Cross demands Gaza access, cites 'shocking' discoveries
http://tinyurl.com/a59nan
Telegraph: Gaza medics describe horror of strike which killed 70
http://tinyurl.com/7fdzde
NYT: Gaza Children Found With Mothers' Corpses
http://tinyurl.com/85nvpk
Times: Gaza victims' burns increase concern over phosphorus
http://tinyurl.com/8wscez
Washington Post: An Unnecessary War – By Jimmy Carter
http://tinyurl.com/7cf3lm
NYT: The Dominion of the Dead
http://tinyurl.com/9ttd6q
NYT: What You Don't Know About Gaza
http://tinyurl.com/7gl33u
The Nation: Israel in Gaza: Irrationality
http://tinyurl.com/7zz4vz
The [...]
The op-eds were by Hamas's Ahmed Yousef, and were attacked by the usual suspects – CAMERA, the Anti-Defamation League, the Zionist Organization of America.
http://tinyurl.com/24hoj8
1. What 'Israel's right to exist' means to Palestinians
By John V. Whitbeck (Source: The Christian Science Monitor)
"Recognizing Israel" or any other state is a formal legal and diplomatic act by one state with respect to another state. It is inappropriate – indeed, nonsensical – to talk about a political party or movement extending diplomatic recognition [...]
The Council for the National Interest Foundation is leading campaign to tell the Bethlehem Story in a Christmas Eve New York Times Ad:
CNI president wrote:
Over the weekend we received nearly one hundred generous donations and much excellent feedback on our Christmas Eve New York Times advertisement titled "Is Bethlehem Dying?" After just three days, we [...]
Bush always claimed that he will refuse any bills amendment (such as this one) which would limit the treatment of detainees in his "war on terror" because he says they are "not needed" and because they don't torture anyone, right?
Then why are Bush and Cheney asking for an exemption for the CIA on the amendment, [...]
Received by email (exposeaipac@gmail.com):
We appeal to activists everywhere to hold the media in this country accountable for not reporting what everyone else in the world is reporting. It's a shame that the following story is headline news in all of the Israeli media outlets and that not a single American newspaper finds this news [...]
Following the CNN sample of misleading reporting when it comes to Palestine/Israel conflict, another classic example of how the US media adopts the version of the Israeli Occupation Forces,
This study consists of a statistical examination of The New York Times’ news coverage of the first year of the current Palestinian uprising, and of its coverage [...]
In an April 24, 2005 column, �The Hottest Button: How the Times Covers Israel/Palestine,� The New York Times' Public Editor Daniel Okrent dismisses the broad international consensus that Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories are illegal under international law. (See below for full article.)
The NYT continues to mislead its readers by not telling them [...]
What liberal infidels will never understand about the president.
by Rick Perlstein
Here are some things that Christopher Nunneley, a conservative activist in Birmingham, Alabama, believes. That some time in June, apparently unnoticed by the world media, George Bush negotiated an end to the civil war in Sudan. That Bill Clinton is "lazy" and Teresa Heinz Kerry [...]
Venture to Offer ID Card for Use at Security Checks.
Americans hate to wait. But will they pay – and submit to security screenings and even high-technology fingerprinting – to avoid the long lines snaking behind checkpoints in airports, office buildings and sports arenas?
If businesses, airports and government agencies sign on to the plan and put [...]
