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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 great post written about him on incontext.blogmosis.com. In her article titled “A Real Journalist”, Lynn B writes a great tribute to him here:

http://incontext.blogmosis.com/archives/024656.html

Here are a few excerpts from her article: 

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 great post written about him on incontext.blogmosis.com. In her article titled “A Real Journalist”, Lynn B writes a great tribute to him here:

http://incontext.blogmosis.com/archives/024656.html

Here are a few excerpts from her article: 

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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 its principles. “The government did not collapse after one year,” he declared. “Nor did it make compromise the rights of the Palestinians.”

Here are three more excerpts from his article:

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 its principles. “The government did not collapse after one year,” he declared. “Nor did it make compromise the rights of the Palestinians.”

Here are three more excerpts from his article:

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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 engineered the bombing in an attempt to “focus Palestinians’ attention away from killing each other,” Sky News reported. 

This means that any time there is domestic trouble among the Palestinians, Israel can expect a terrorist bombing.

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 engineered the bombing in an attempt to “focus Palestinians’ attention away from killing each other,” Sky News reported. 

This means that any time there is domestic trouble among the Palestinians, Israel can expect a terrorist bombing.

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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 would be to resolve these problems without the hoopla.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way. Where a culture of secrecy thrives, so thrives ‘dirty laundry’. When you keep the evil hushed up – it’s rarely ever dealt with.

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 would be to resolve these problems without the hoopla.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way. Where a culture of secrecy thrives, so thrives ‘dirty laundry’. When you keep the evil hushed up – it’s rarely ever dealt with.

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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. 

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 century that “power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

Wherever an exaggerated concentration of governmental power exists, corruption brews. Wherever there is excessive bureaucracy or excessive regulation, corruption will flourish. Because it’s human nature. In any given large group of public servants and politicians there are those who can be seduced to make shortcuts.

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. 

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 century that “power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

Wherever an exaggerated concentration of governmental power exists, corruption brews. Wherever there is excessive bureaucracy or excessive regulation, corruption will flourish. Because it’s human nature. In any given large group of public servants and politicians there are those who can be seduced to make shortcuts.

Read Full Post »