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• Israel might actually allow the Free Gaza flotilla to reach the strip. • Western journos are going batty in Tripoli’s Rixos Hotel. I wouldn’t blame Harriet Sherwood for missing the press freedom (and comfort)…

Pesach Benson
April 14, 2011
12:00 am

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• Israel might actually allow the Free Gaza flotilla to reach the strip.

• Western journos are going batty in Tripoli’s Rixos Hotel. I wouldn’t blame Harriet Sherwood for missing the press freedom (and comfort) of the Jerusalem beat.

• Iran’s helping Assad suppress Syrian protests.

• Justin Bieber ain’t Israel’s only VIP guest tweeting right now. Dallas police chief David Brown’s here for counter-terror training.

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Tags: Arab uprising, counter-terror, Flotilla, Gaza, Harriet Sherwood, Iran, Justin Bieber, Libya, press freedom, Syria

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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