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Our new Question of the Week asks: Why might Al Jazeera have chosen The Guardian over larger Western news services to partner in the Palestine Papers leak? Here are my four reasons why The Guardian made...

Good grief, could this Edmonton Journal staff-ed possibly lack any more nuance? Judge Jacob Turkel’s commission was government appointed, but independent from that point on. Lord David Trimble of...

A collection of what’s being said about the sturm und drang of the Palestinian Papers published in The Guardian: Elliott Abrams: Third, what some newspapers are calling “offers” or “agreements”...

Aussie David just introduced the first match of the 2011 Pro-Israel Blog-Off. This match pits against each other submissions by Life Through My Eyes, Liberty’s Spirit, and Elder of Ziyon. Check out...

So the Palestinian Authority and its Fatah cadres are having a hissy fit over a slew of documents leaked to Al-Jazeera and then shared with The Guardian. Big yawn. The whole leak is just a localized...

In the aftermath of the Mavi Marmara, the world demanded a thorough, impartial and transparent Israeli inquiry into the affair. Well, they got it. The Turkel commission released its part one of its final report...

There was absolutely no news at the IDF’s Bethlehem checkpoint, but get a load of this photo serving only to dehumanize the army. Palestinians pass through a security checkpoint at the Bethlehem...

Since when were tourists able to visit Jerusalem in a state of Palestine stretching from the Med to the River Jordan?

Why does the media not show the same skepticism towards Palestinian libels as it does towards official Israeli statements?

Why does the founder of Hezbollah deserve a fawning obituary in Time’s review of the year? What is it about the late  Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlalah that makes some media lose all sense...