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  • I’ll forgive Irish Times readers if they’re unclear on the chronology of unfolding Gaza events. Reporter Mark Weiss doesn’t even mention a laser-guided Kornet anti-tank missile...

Since Saturday morning, Palestinian terror groups have fired 50 rockets at Israel. The IDF’s retaliatory strikes killed a key Hamasnik involved in Gilad Shalit’s abduction. IDF intelligence...

An anti-tank missile hit an Israeli bus outside Kibbutz Saad in the Shaar HaNegev area, critically injuring a teenage boy and the driver. Residents are being instructed to remain in shelters as additional...

I’m just juxtaposing two headlines. AP: Poll: 32% of Palestinians support the killing of settler family in recent attack Gallup: Israelis More Skeptical About Peace ‘Nuff said.

A Russian billionaire told a Washington conference he wants to found a Jewish version of Al-Jazeera. Alexander Mashevich said: “Every day and every hour people get negative information about Israel,”...

CNN and Fox are really going after each on human shields in Libya. What are your thoughts? asks a reader in Milwaukee. It’s complicated because the reporters themselves may have been the unwitting...

Yesterday’s stories that Judge Goldstone would help retract his UN report were too good to be true. AP quotes Goldstone straight from the horse’s mouth: Nevertheless, Goldstone said, he did...

What a day. First, AP reported on the UNHRC’s reaction to Judge Goldstone’s about-face: A spokesman for the U.N. Human Rights Council said for the report to be withdrawn Goldstone would have...

This Voice of America headline and lead ‘graph combo captures the folly of Big Media’s view on the “cycle of violence.” The endless cycle of violence along Israel’s border...

Ben Smith at Politico has been in touch with the NY Times about why it didn’t publish Goldstone’s op-ed. Smith writes: Times spokeswoman Eileen Murphy emails, “We did in fact receive...