The Palestinians See a ‘Joan of Arc’
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...
Al Quds (Palestinian daily) Editorial Explains Palestinians Won’t Honor Security Obligations if Israel Doesn’t...
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...
Egypt Continues Missile Projects in North Korea
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...
Yossi Beilin drawing NIS 350-400 thousand salary covered by European Union
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...
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...