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The barks of pro-Israel media “watchdog” groups like CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America), The Israel Project , and the meretriciously monikered website HonestReporting have echoed the Israeli government’s talking points about the Israeli navy’s attack on half a dozen civilian ships bringing aid to Gaza, in defiance of an Israeli blockade.
But if you’ve been looking to the so-called “liberal” media for more balanced coverage of the events as they’ve unfolded in the international waters off the Gaza coast, you’ve probably gotten thef yip-yap of a pro-Israel poodle.
Tags: Amy Teibel, Associated Press, CAMERA, CNN, Daily Beast, Gaza, Huffington Post, israel, Israel Defense Forces, Jeffrey Heller, liberal media, media, Reuters, Tia Goldenberg
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You really have to hand it to Michael Rubin. His post on “The Corner” in the National Review Online today regarding the Flotilla “Incident” leaves little doubt as to his core worldview. The post speaks for itself:
Monday, May 31, 2010
The Gaza Crisis: Decision Time for Obama [Michael Rubin]
As we near the first anniversary [...]
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Obama administration officials complained repeatedly that Israel was ’singled out’ in the new Mid East NPT document, but it turns out that it was the U.S. itself that put Israel front and center.
In addition to Israel, Pakistan and India were also called out by name in the document, according to the latest reports. So was [...]
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MJ Rosenberg at Media Matters has written a great piece on how the “Israel Lobby” is pushing progressive politicians and organizations down the road to war with Iran.
He writes:
It’s happening again.
The same forces — with a few new additions and minus a few smart defectors — who pushed the United States into a needless and [...]
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The American Century Is So Over
Obama’s Rudderless Foreign Policy Underscores America’s Waning Power
By Dilip Hiro
Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com
Irrespective of their politics, flawed leaders share a common trait. They generally remain remarkably oblivious to the harm they do to the nation they lead. George W. Bush is a salient recent example, as [...]
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Citizen Alioune
How Not to Deal with Muslims in America
By Stephan Salisbury
Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com
Alioune Niass, the Sengalese Muslim vendor who first spotted the now infamous smoking SUV in Times Square and alerted police, is no hero.
If it were not for the Times of London, we would not even know of his [...]
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France is now poised to enact legislation making it illegal to wear the burqa (full body covering) and the niqab (face veil). And a growing number of European countries have already passed or are well on the way to passing similar legislation.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who is promoting such a ban in his country, [...]
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Everyone is talking about Peter Beinart’s new piece in the New York Review of Books, in which the former New Republic editor excoriates the American Jewish establishment for stifling criticism of Israel and warns of plummeting levels of support for Israel in the U.S. Jewish community. And deservedly so — it’s an important piece, as [...]
Tags: Christian Zionism, israel, Israel lobby, Palestine, Peter Beinart, The New Republic
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Obama’s Flailing Wars
A Study in BP-Style “Pragmatism”
By Tom Engelhardt
Reprinted with permission of TomDispatch.com
On stage, it would be farce. In Afghanistan and Pakistan, it’s bound to play out as tragedy.
Less than two months ago, Barack Obama flew into Afghanistan for six hours — essentially to read the riot act to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, whom his [...]
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Dear Senator Allen:
Thanks for publishing your oped in the Austin Capital Times to explain SB 1070, Arizona’s new immigration law. Frankly, I think some of the rhetoric applied to this new measure has managed to generate a lot of heat but not much light. Some of the knee-jerk Arizona-bashers among us just haven’t caught [...]
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