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Today’s 5 Biggest Smackdowns

Smackdown: 1. the act of knocking down or bringing down an opponent; 2. a contest in entertainment wrestling; 3. a decisive defeat; 4. a confrontation between rivals or competitors Here are today’s five biggest smackdowns….

Pesach Benson
May 16, 2011
12:00 am

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Smackdown:

1. the act of knocking down or bringing down an opponent; 2. a contest in entertainment wrestling; 3. a decisive defeat; 4. a confrontation between rivals or competitors

Here are today’s five biggest smackdowns.

1. Bashar Assad smacks down Syrian lawyers, doctors, intellectuals, and other educated professionals.

2. The International Criminal Court smacks down Libya.

3. Israel smacks down a boat headed to Gaza.

4. Melanie Phillips smacks down BBC’s Mideast editor, Jeremy Bowen.

5. Jeffrey Goldberg smacks down the NY Times’ Jerusalem bureau chief, Ethan Bronner.

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Tags: Arab Spring, BBC, Ethan Bronner, IDF, International Criminal Court, Jeremy Bowen, Libya, Melanie Phillips, Naqba Day violence, NY Times, Syrian atrocities

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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