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The words at the bottom of the screen said “Palestinian P.M. Arrested.” Yet when Kate

The Guardian reports that Israeli satellite provider, Yes TV, dropped BBC World for Al-Jazeera English:

We see it year after year: MSM exaggerates Israeli responsibility for Bethlehem’s muted Xmas cheer

At some point, internal violence crosses the line and becomes a civil war. How can

While readers of the British press might understand Gaza’s internal violence as tetchy, today’s Boston

Former President Jimmy Carter got op-ed space in The Guardian to defend his book. Why

Did the UN Human Rights Council get the message loud and clear?

The LA Times reports the latest horror from Gaza. Imagine the headlines if Israel were

Die Weltwoche, a Swiss weekly spoke with Al-Jazeera Editor-in-Chief Ahmed Sheikh (pictured) in Doha. World

The new United Nations Human Rights Council spends little time talking about genuine human rights

Declassified IDF photos, videos and prisoner interrogations prove Hezbollah fired rockets from civilian areas and

* The San Francisco Chronicle profiles Israel’s first Bedouin (and Muslim) foreign diplomat, consul Ishmael

See The Observer (UK) and the JTA for diametrically opposite takes on what drives Palestinian

For a change, here’s some responsible journalism from Reuters. Despite what the locals say about

The Economist notes an interesting job description at France 24: Next year it will add

The second trial related to France 2 TV’s Mohammed Dura footage ended abruptly when a

John Farmer, a columnist at the Newark Star-Ledger, weighs in on the Mideast conflict with

This Chicago Tribune staff-ed correctly understands that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict isn’t the root cause of