What to read before the work day begins? • Turkey Predicts Alliance With Egypt as Regional Anchors — Turkey’s foreign minister foresees Israel and Syria isolated by Egyptian-Turkish “Axis...
HR Comment: Turkey Tantrum Burying Palmer Report
Only weeks after its release, the Palmer Report into the 2010 Gaza flotilla incident, the media have consigned it to the dustbin of history.
Is Time Really On the Palestinians’ Side?
Gaza and the West Bank are now literally in separate time zones. Reuters explains that Hamas and Fatah agreed to turn the clocks back one hour for the month of Ramadan to ease fasting. But Ramadan’s...
Palmer Report: Israel Vindicated, Media Shrugs
What did the media choose to focus on and emphasize with the publication of the Palmer Report? A grudging acknowledgment that Israel did indeed have a valid case? Not exactly.
The Broken Clock Logic of Palmer’s Rejectionists
Just as a broken clock is still correct once a day, it’s safe to say that the UN will vindicate Israel once in a blue moon. But as I read The Guardian’s staff-editorial on the Palmer report,...
5 Key Claims of the UN’s Mavi Marmara Report
The NY Times obtained a copy of the UN report on the Mavi Marmara affair. The inquiry — chaired by Sir Geoffrey Palmer — is expected to release its report tomorrow. I skimmed the full report...
Why the UN’s Biased Against Israel
Impressive video nicely explaining why Israel never gets a fair shake in the UN.
Leaked: Assad Regime Tied to Israel Border Riots
A leaked document details how the Syrian authorities actively helped to create border confrontations as a way to distract attention from the Assad regime’s own murderous behavior.
Colonel Richard Kemp: A True Friend
Richard Kemp Today, Israel faces a conspiracy of delegitimization, which aims to give validity and justification to attacks on Israel by groups such as Iran’s proxies Hamas and Hezbollah, allowing...
LA Times Odd Couple: Musa Abu Marzook and John Bolton?
Hamas spinmeister Musa Abu Marzook and John Bolton, the outspoken former US ambassador to the UN, make for the mother of all odd couples. What else can I say after seeing the LA Times publish their analyses...
