* When Stephanie Gutman, author of “The Other War: Israelis, Palestinians and the Struggle for Media Supremacy,” spoke to San Francisco-area Israel activists, the Jewish News Weekly of Northern California covered her talk, nicely summing up many issues of media bias we’ve addressed over the years.
* The Observer reviewed “Massaker,” a new film about the Sabra/Shatilla massacres, featuring interviews with Christian Phalangists with blood on their hands.
The directors say that they deliberately made a ‘politically incorrect’ choice in portraying the massacre from the perspective of the perpetrators. The characters are unpalatable and the directors hope not only to confront their audiences about the violence generally, but to tackle the Lebanese head-on about their past deeds.
* Hamas and Syria are feeling Western pressure as the Palestinian terror group requested to move it’s headquarters from Damascus to either Egypt or Jordan. Haaretz reports that both Egypt and Jordan refused. Syria has insisted that the Palestinian terror organizations located there only maintain “information offices.”
