Killing Palestinians doesn’t count: Is a ceasefire breached only when an Israeli is killed? [Poynter.org — http://groups.poynter.org/members/blog_view.asp?id=160568&post=56867] [Earlier Version published by CounterPunch, Jan. 29, 2009: http://counterpunch.org/weir01292009.html] Killing Palestinians doesn’t count: Is a ceasefire breached only when an Israeli is killed? On January 27th media headlines trumpeted that Palestinians had broken…
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CNN, CBS and others use an analyst who appears to be in the foreign military on which he is commenting and yet don’t divulge this fact Published on Poynter.org, Jan. 13, 2008 It appears that one of the media’s major “Middle East experts,” Jeffrey Goldberg, is a member of the…
Daniel McGowan — Professor Emeritus, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and founder of Deir Yassin Remembered — has written an unusual and interesting essay in which he suggests that many of Madoff’s victims were, themselves, victimizers. He is pleased that their ability to continue to harm people may be diminished:…
Sadly, I don’t have time to keep up with blogs as much as I should (not surprisingly, since I almost never even post to my own), but I recently discovered that a prominent blogger named Philip Weiss (whose work I have sometimes read and found valuable) had written some odd…
“Democracy Now” is quite possibly the best national radio and television news show on US airwaves. It consistently produces honest, hard-hitting reports on a multitude of subjects. For many years Amy Goodman and her team have built a well-deserved reputation for reporting on subjects often untouched by the “corporate media.”…
I’ve finally decided to try to create a blog. I plan to tell a little about who I am, why I feel that it is so important for Americans to learn about Israel-Palestine, and provide additional resources and thoughts on this subject. In addition, I’ve noticed that there are various…
My Articles — These are available on our website. Since some people attempt to call me anti-Semitic (a slur often used to try to silence honest discussion of Israel-Palestine), you may wish to read one of my first essays, “Anti-Semitism is wrong“, written in 2001. Video about me and about…