Backspin

Jordan’s King Abdullah’s visiting Canada, where one of his messages (see this Globe & Mail

Khaled Meshaal apologized for Hamas brutality during the Gaza putsch. AP quotes: “What happened, I

Sitcom writer Jeff Astrof got op-ed space in the LA Times to respond to Hamas

Spying squirrels, brutal badgers and perilous porcupines in recent days mean bad headlines for Mideast

A pair of wonks got op-ed space in the Christian Science Monitor urging Israel and

Memri blog picked up on this cartoon published in Jordan’s Al-Dustour. The sign in the

First the BBC allowed anti-Semitic comments to be posted on their Radio 5 site. Following

Rinat Malkes managed to file articles one and two of a three part series from

According to the LA Times, Hamas is walking an “ideological tightrope” between pragmatists and radicals:

The Daily Telegraph picks up on NGO criticisms that Israel’s closure of the Gaza Strip

While Alan Johnston was finally set free, Gilad Shalit, Ehud Goldwasser and and Eldad Regev

Hamas gunmen destroyed Reuters footage of a Khan Yunis demonstration on Thursday, but you wouldn’t

The Memri blog reports that Nahoul the Bee is replacing Farfour, the Mickey Mouse rip

In the NY Times Magazine, Steve Erlanger describes how the Palestinians are actually far worse

Blogger R.G. Combs wonders why the wire services treat the fighting at Nahr el-Bared is

Last month, the Jerusalem Post reported that an unidentified BBC employee who is also a

Memri blog reports that the PA asked the Egyptian government to stop broadcasting Hamas’ Al-Aqsa

Libya’s Supreme Court upheld death penalty sentences for a Palestinian doctor and several Bulgarian nurses