Monthly Archives: November 2010

How Haaretz concocted a conflict

-- On July 10, 2008 Ha’aretz’s main section contained a small story. Not small, tiny. 93 words to be precise. “The district committee,” stated the article, “has approved for public hearing the establishment of...

U.S. Security Guarantees – “Israel’ sole discretion” provision is crucial

"The chances of achieving a peace agreement will be significantly advanced by achieving comprehensive security understandings between Israel and the US." Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu - Press Release - Prime Minister’s Office, 10 November, 2010 "Israel, with her survival...

EXCERPT OF CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER HARPER’S SPEECH ON ANTI-SEMITISM

Email Share RSS Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper Photo by Rhonda Spivak. Photo by Rhonda Spivak. SPEECH DELIVERED TO INTERNATIONAL GATHERING AT CONFERENCE ON COMBATING ANTI-SEMITISM ON PARLIAMENT HILL November 9, 2010 [ Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt...

A WaPo reporter’s anti-Israeli approach: from Sderot to Jakarta

When Washington Post reporter Scott Wilson did a stint as the paper's Jerusalem correspondent, he earned a well-deserved and well-documented reputation for anti-Israel bias, shading and spinning his copy to portray Israel in the...

News Analysis:

"Tedious" We've been there, done that. Plans for building in Jerusalem east of the Green Line are announced, and the world goes slightly berserk. It is really tiresome. Word from the government here is that 1) these...

UNRWA and the code of silence

One of the first rules of being an UNRWA official is omerta. Above all the code of silence means refusing to tell two truths. First is the truth about UNRWA. It is a key...

U.S. Congress Backs Israel, Will Israel Join In?:Interview with David Bedein

Several members of the United States Congress have sponsored legislation aimed at putting an end to Arab incitement against Israel. Now an Israeli reporter is calling on the government to state its own position,...

News Analysis

Lest anyone have mistakenly imagined that my last posting about hope http://israelbehindthenews.com/bin/content.cgi?ID=4180&q=1 (which certainly exists now !) signaled a whole new ballgame, with problems instantaneously diminished on all fronts, I state unequivocally that I...

Editor’s Notes: Danny Seaman’s farewell voyage: The departing head of the Government Press Office...

BEFORE READING THIS NEWSWORTHY INTERVIEW, PLEASE READ THE NEWS STORIES ABOUT DANNY SEAMAN FROM EIGHT YEARS AGO WHICH APPEAR ON THIS WEB SITE: http://www.israelbehindthenews.com/bin/search.cgi?match=AND&keywords=seaman+press+cards&submit=Search Photo by: Marc Israel Sellem Winding up a torrid decade as director of...