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Haaretz reports that the UK’s largest union of university lecturers is once again pushing for

We were impressed with Trevor Asserson’s (pictured) take to the independent panel’s report on the

Inside Hamas, which airs tomorrow night on PBS Frontline, got a thumbs up from Bloomberg

Australian journalist Richard Carleton (pictured) died of a heart attack while covering trapped miners in

PA parliament speaker Aziz Dweik thinks that a fire in the Ramallah parliament building was

Israel’s new Defense Minister, Amir Peretz (pictured), will need thick skin to deal with reports

Time magazine thinks Hamas has been observing the cease fire: Although the movement is currently

The Washington Post notes that one-quarter of the members of the Hamas cabinet have US

According to the Sunday Times of London, Israeli intelligence tipped off Mahmoud Abbas of an

With the new Israeli cabinet sworn in, here’s a scorecard of all the players.

What’s the use of releasing info about the level of terror alerts to the media?

Elder of Ziyon fisks Reuters coverage of a Khaleed Mashaal speech to students at Damascus

YNet News found that clashes at the security fence in Bil’in are anything but spontaneous:

We’re off for Israeli Independence Day. But we’ll be back and blogging away on Thursday.

The independent inquiry into the BBC’s Mideast coverage released its long-awaited full report (in pdf

An explosion at a PA security compound in the Gaza Strip a short time ago

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The Palestinian Journalists Union claims that the Hamas government has been threatening reporters writing critical