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Judea Pearl: When will our luminaries stop making excuses for terror?
But the clearest endorsement of terror as a legitimate instrument of political bargaining came from former President Jimmy Carter. In his book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid,” Mr. Carter appeals to the sponsors of suicide bombing. “It is imperative that the general Arab community and all significant Palestinian groups make it clear that they will end [...]
Continue reading...Efraim Karsh: What’s Behind Western Condemnation of Israel’s War Against Hamas?
Published Sunday, January 18, 2009 at 9:21 pm
With a unanimity that has become all too familiar, politicians, the media, NGOs, and church leaders across the globe took their cue to denounce Israel’s legitimate act of self-defense against one of the world’s most extreme terror organizations. This chorus of disapproval is in stark contrast to the utter indifference to far bloodier conflicts that [...]
Continue reading...Mark Steyn: The ‘Oldest Hatred’
Published Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 10:24 pm
In Toronto, anti-Israel demonstrators yell “You are the brothers of pigs!”, and a protester complains to his interviewer that “Hitler didn’t do a good job.” In Fort Lauderdale, Palestinian supporters sneer at Jews, “You need a big oven, that’s what you need!” In Amsterdam, the crowd shouts, “Hamas, Hamas! Jews to the gas!” In Paris, [...]
Continue reading...Contentions: The Genesis of a Libel
Published Sunday, January 11, 2009 at 7:09 pm
As Israel continues to hammer at Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the same old games are being played by observers around the world — especially the “war crimes” accusations. The current contender for dumbest accusation has to be that Israel is violating international law by using white phosphorus munitions in Gaza. This is a re-run [...]
Continue reading...Noah Pollak: Hamas’ Extracurricular Activities
Published Wednesday, January 7, 2009 at 11:26 am
Noah Pollak of Commentary Magazine has a few words regarding the feckless media coverage of the events taking place in Gaza, which Michael J. Totten correctly refers to as Journalistic Malpractice: Allow me to propose a metric for evaluating whether a journalist is behaving responsibly or not: If he reports that Israel bombed a UN [...]
Continue reading...Mark Steyn: Jews get killed, but Muslims feel vulnerable
Published Tuesday, December 9, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Shortly after the London Tube bombings in 2005, a reader of Tim Blair, the Sydney Daily Telegraph’s columnar wag, sent him a note-perfect parody of a typical newspaper headline: “British Muslims Fear Repercussions Over Tomorrow’s Train Bombing.” Indeed. And so it goes. This time round — Bombay — it was the Associated Press that filed [...]
Continue reading...Craig Franklin: Media myths about the Jena 6
Published Saturday, October 27, 2007 at 11:06 am
By now, almost everyone in America has heard of Jena, La., because they’ve all heard the story of the “Jena 6.” White students hanging nooses barely punished, a schoolyard fight, excessive punishment for the six black attackers, racist local officials, public outrage and protests – the outside media made sure everyone knew the basics. There’s [...]
Continue reading...Jonah Goldberg: Storm of Malpractice – Katrina was a media disaster
Published Wednesday, September 5, 2007 at 11:02 am
This hurricane of hurricane retrospectives was no doubt long in the works, as editors like to put stories “in the can†for vacation time. The media seemed to cover every angle, particularly the Bush administration’s missteps in response to the disaster. And while some might quibble with this or that characterization or selection of facts, [...]
Continue reading...Bret Stephens: Global warming is more alarmist than alarming
Published Tuesday, August 28, 2007 at 7:30 pm
I confess: Denial never solves anything. But neither does sensational and deceptive journalism. Newsweek illustrates this point by its choice of cover art–a picture of the sun, where the surface temperature hovers around 6,000 degrees Celsius. Given that the consensus scientific estimate for average temperature increases over the next century is a comparatively modest 2.6 [...]
Continue reading...John Stossel: Why the U.S. Ranks Low on WHO’s Health-Care Study
Published Saturday, August 25, 2007 at 1:49 pm
The New York Times recently declared “the disturbing truth … that … the United States is a laggard not a leader in providing good medical care.” As usual, the Times editors get it wrong. Full article
Continue reading...Phil’s networks
Published Wednesday, February 4, 2009 at 7:04 pm
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