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News from TheMediaLine.org. (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
The Israeli media is rife with reports that Defense Minister Ehud Barak's wife Nili intermittently employed an illegal Filipino migrant worker to clean the family's Tel Aviv apartment and prepare their home for guests. Arguably more damaging than accusations of what is a relatively common though illegal practice in Israel, are the report's claims that the cleaner did not have the usual...
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Backspin (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Hezbollah blurred the line between its so-called "military" and "media" wings this weekend. Mehdi Kanso, the group's intelligence chief, who took part in the 2006 abduction of IDF reservists Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev was recently seen conducting surveillance of...
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Overturning lies n hate (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8403660.stm Israeli settler Yaakov Teitel goes on trial for murder Yaakov Teitel, Jewish settler accused of a series of murders and attacks Police say Mr Teitel has confessed to murder of a Palestinian The trial of a Jewish settler charged with two murders and a string of other attacks has begun in Jerusalem. Yaakov Teitel, an American immigrant who lives...
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Kishkushim خربطات קישקושים (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
Shmuel Rosner (Photo: Jewcy.com ) I just caught a lecture by Shmuel Rosner, former chief of news at Ha'aretz , as well as their Washington correspondent, and now a highly influential blogger at the J-Post . The lecture, which was co-sponsored by the Judaica collection of the Doe Library and the Berkeley journalism school, concerned media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian, Israeli-Arab...
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Rick's Café American (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
... was her death the result of a tragic mistake in a complicated war? Was it the story of a callous Israeli officer, or perhaps of a general atmosphere of contempt towards Palestinian lives? There was no lack of people willing to tell the facts as they were convinced of them. Here , for example, you can read the Guardian's Chris McGreal investigation: he not only knew that Iman had been repeatedly...
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Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | yesterday
"Israeli media sources reported that Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, stated that Syria dropped an Israeli withdrawal from the occupied Golan Heights as a precondition to resume indirect peace talks. Netanyahu told the Foreign and Security Committee that French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, informed him that Damascus is not longer demanding a withdrawal from...
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JoeSettler (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
Last week the Israeli media ran a convention in Eilat. One of the issues they discussed is if Israeli media is Left. The consensus that was reached at the panels is that Israeli media is actually Center-Right (and that's coming from Haaretz!). By the way, Israeli media sources NOT represented at the convention, and certainly not on the panel discussion...
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Rantburg (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
[Iran Press TV Latest] Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri says even if prisoner exchange negotiations are completed, Israel will not end the siege of Gaza. Zuhri made the remarks on Saturday following Israeli media reports quoting officials close to the negotiations as saying that a prisoner exchange would not mean an end to Israel's three-year blockade of the Gaza Strip, the Maan news agency...
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budgie's squawks (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
... support for Zionism. Such facts are not usually mentioned in the mainstream British and American media, but The Jewish Chronicle and the Israeli media have no such inhibitions, and the Arabic media both in London and in the region are usually not far behind. All five members have outstanding reputations and records, but it is a pity that, if and when the inquiry is accused...
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Israel Matzav (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Fatah is seething over reports that the Jewish National Fund has contributed 3,000 tree seedlings for a new Arab town being built near Ramallah. The Fatah-led Palestinian Authority has expressed displeasure that the Israeli media publicized the contribution of 3,000 trees by the Jewish National Fund to a new Arab city near Ramallah in Samaria. The PA leadership has requested that such...
