EU Sponsored Israeli-Palestinian Bereaved Families’ Forum For Peace Launches Ad Campaign

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....

Abington: the Man Who Wrote Arafat’s Oped in the New York Times

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...

Correcting Wrong Impressions About Eisenhower and Israel’s Forced Withdrawal From Sinai

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...

How Terminology Used in the Media Disguises Data . . . And Sometimes Misrepresents...

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...

Rabbis for Human Rights Fabrications: A Critique of The “Olive Tree Campaign”

Throughout the centuries, Jews have suffered whenever a lie repeated often enough becomes believable. Fifty dedicated people were brought to Israel this week under the specious premise that tens of thousands of trees had been...

An Examination of the Work of the JMCC: The Jerusalem Media and Communications Center

When a foreign journalist arrives in Israel, according to law, he must get a press card that is certified for use in Israel from the Israel Government Press Office, located at the Beit Agron...

News Stories Inside the Palestinian Authority Not Reported Elsewhere: Accountability and the PLO

PLO representative in Washington, Hassan Abdul Rahman has kept millions of dollars for Palestinian students from abroad. He spent money to buy huge homes in the Washington area. He has a Cadillac, beautiful clothes....

Was Arafat Responsible for the PLO Gun Ship?

Seamen admit: we reported every step to the PA Yedioth Ahronoth (p. 7) by Alex Fishman -- Members of the Israeli intelligence service burst into laughter when they heard Arafat's announcement that he proposed establishing a...

When the Captain of the PLO Gunship Gave a news Interview

The Captain Speaks Akawi: "I knew the weapons were destined for the Gaza Strip". Ma'ariv (p. 8) by Oded Granot -- "I knew the weapons were destined for the Gaza Strip. I received instructions from the...

Military Implications of the Seizure of the PLO Gun Ship

Alongside the diplomatic efforts to reach a ceasefire with Israel, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has been involved -- since the beginning of the second intifada -- in the indigenous production of weapons and ammunition...