Posted in Honor Roll, Media, Palestinians on Jan 31st, 2007
Yesterday’s post featured the comments of a brave and clear thinking Arab journalist, Khaled Abu Toameh. Whenever I find an article like the one he wrote yesterday, I search the web for more of what he says, and where he can be found.
I didn’t find any site dedicated to him, but I did find a [...]
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Posted in Honor Roll, Palestinians on Jan 30th, 2007
You would think that, with all that’s happened to the Palestinians, Hamas would be suffering from a ‘bad smell’.
Not so.
In his article last Thursday, Analysis: A year after elections, Hamas riding high, Arab journalist Khaled Abu Toameh says:
In a speech in Gaza City, Haniyeh boasted that “Zionist schemes” had failed to topple the “elected” government or force Hamas to abandon [...]
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Posted in Palestinians, Peace, Terrorism on Jan 29th, 2007
Now, for those of you who are wondering why peace in the Middle East is so impossible, you need go no further than this statement about their terrorist attack in Eilat:
Islamic Jihad, which claimed responsibility for the attack together with two other groups, posted a statement on its Web site Monday saying that it had [...]
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Posted in Democracy, Society on Jan 26th, 2007
Thank you all for not sending me emails asking me to stop airing ‘the family’s dirty laundry’.
It’s a standard complaint made to the Jewish/Israeli press that they are giving Israel a bad name by airing reports of corruption, scandal, and other bits of ‘dirty laundry’.
And, those complaints have a point. It is true that a better course [...]
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Posted in Society on Jan 25th, 2007
With all the talk about corruption, Bibi has weighed in with a great article. It comes off of his blog and was translated by The Jerusalem Post and appeared on their website.Â
Many believe that corruption is unavoidable, that it’s the Israeli way of making deals. It is not.
Renowned British historian Lord Acton argued in the 19th [...]
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