Krauthammer vs. Peace
Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer continues to support Israel's assault on Gaza in today's paper (1/9/09). He displays a remarkably odd notion of what a cease fire is for, citing the...
View ArticleFAIR Activist: Friedman's Phony Evidence That Terror Works
Posting his letter to the New York Times on FAIR Blog, FAIR activist bpb points out that not only is Thomas Friedman claiming that terrorism works, he's making up evidence to claim that terrorism...
View ArticleSeeing Cracks in Big Media's Pro-Israel Opinion Wall
Asserting that "one positive aspect of the wreckage left by the Bush presidency is that many of the most sacred Beltway pieties stand exposed as intolerable failures, prominently including our...
View Article'Criminalizing Speech' to Fight 'Terror'
Reporting on New York's Javed Iqbal receiving a 69-month prison sentence for "assisting Hezbollah… by providing satellite television services that included broadcasts by the party's television station,...
View ArticleAdventures in Absurd Anonymity, Continued
Anonymous Israeli officials are weighing in at the New York Times today. Let's remember the Times has some rules regarding the use of anonymous sources: The use of unidentified sources is reserved for...
View ArticleRepublicans and the Hezbollah-in-Mexico Menace
Political campaign watchers seem to agree that the election will be about the economy, and that Republicans probably won't have much to say about Obama's foreign policy (partly because it doesn't much...
View ArticleCNN Pushing Alarmist Tales of Hezbollah Sleeper Agents
With discussions of a military attack on Iran circulating among U.S. and Israeli political elites, CNN has added fuel to the fire with a series of alarmist reports about supposedly Iranian-linked...
View ArticleBlaming Iran for Bulgaria Bombing: Assertions Before Evidence
Right after news of a suicide bombing attack in Bulgaria that killed five Israeli tourists, Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu pointed the finger squarely at Iran. For media outlets that are supposed to...
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