Daily Archives: February 13, 2002

Motivated Reporting of Science and Medicine What is Used in the News What It Pretends To Be quotes data (measures, scores) eye witness report professional assessment, opinion by-stander accounts statistical verification opinion of interested parties expert objective judgment getting the...

Writing in the Jerusalem Post on February 7, 2002, Henry Siegman, U.S. Council of Foreign Affairs senior fellow and former American Jewish Congress President, enthusiastically recalls and invokes President Eisenhower's declaration"... without equivocation that...

Dr. Aaron Lerner recently noted that Ha'aretz Correspondent Amir Oren reported in his weekly column in today's Hebrew edition of Ha'aretz that Edward Abington, who was the United States consul general in Jerusalem until...

The Israeli-Palestinian Bereaved Families' Forum For Peace headed by Yitzhak Frankenthal has stepped up its ad campaign with a new series of full color newspaper and billboard ads "Lebanon 1982. The Palestinian Authority 2002....

Investigative reporter Yoav Yitzchak report in the February 7th issue of Ma'ariv that former Labor Party MK Yossi Beilin is drawing an annual salary of NIS 350,000 - NIS 400,000 from The Economic Cooperation...

The CIA has dismissed Egyptian assertions that Cairo has ended its missile relationship with North Korea. In both congressional testimony and in its latest report, the U.S. intelligence community has reported that Egypt continues to...

The contacts of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his foreign minister Shimon Peres with a number of high-level Palestinian officials have given the impression that the tide may be changing in the region...

Wafa Idris, who detonated a bomb on Jaffa Street in Jerusalem two weeks ago, killing herself and an 81-year-old man, and injuring 140 people, was the first Palestinian woman to carry out a suicide...

Details of the meetings held on February 8th between US President Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon are emerging. It is becoming increasingly clear that the Bush administration will not protest too vehemently if...