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Gaza and CNN
Winds of Change.NET —
Michael Oren, The New Republic:
"CNN International's coverage of yesterday's fighting in Gaza concluded at midnight with a rush of images: mangled civilians writhing in the rubble, primitive hospitals overflowing with the wounded, fireballs mushrooming between apartment complexes, the funeral of a Palestinian child. Missing from the montage, however, was even a fleeting glimpse of the tens of thousands of Israelis who spent last night and much of last week in bomb shelters; of the house in Netivot, where a man was killed by a Grad missile; or indeed any of ...
Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
Daily Kos —
... about the Internet. I write about people who are using the Internet." Ari Melber: Barack Obama does not look like any other American president, but more important, his supporters look different from every other president's base. Chris Ayers: Losing one's superpower status isn't so bad, once you get used to taking the subway like everyone else. Jackson Diehl: "Olmert's Final Failure" Michael B. Oren: Nobody seems to know how long Tempered Lead will last or ...
Do we need an exit strategy?
Israel Matzav —
... with the additional weaknesses of "poor lines of communication [and] no strategic position"? There are alternatives to Hamas rule in Gaza other than Fatah. Michael Oren suggests the Egyptian army (Hat Tip: ...
Israel's sorry history in Gaza
Israel Matzav —
... Israel has a sorry history in Gaza that derives from its unwillingness to take decisive action regarding the strip. Michael Oren recounts that history . Back in 1949, at the end of Israel's War of Independence, Israeli forces surrounded Gaza in an attempt to conquer it and annex it to the nascent Jewish State. Frustrated in that gambit, Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion secretly sought to purchase Gaza from the Egyptians in the early 1950s, and then, during the 1956 Suez Crisis, Israel briefly occupied the Strip. Israeli soldiers in 1967 received unequivocal orders not ...
Larwyn's Links: Hamas' suicide mission
Doug Ross @ Journal —
Wednesday, December 31, 2008 Larwyn's Links: Hamas' suicide mission [image] Hamas's suicide mission : National Post Palestinians admit using human shields : Peace with Realism World's deadliest conventional weapons : Fox News CNN at its unprincipled worst : The New Republic WaPo steps in Pallywood Doodoo? : Augean Stables On the other side from civilization : Spectator (Melanie Phillips) Why we need net neutrality : Pajamas Media NASA: Trauma Killed Shuttle Columbia Astronauts : Fox News Financial ...
Why Israel is Smart Keeping the Media Out of Gaza
Pajamas Media —
... of course exceptions) long ago chose sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and they sided with the Palestinians. Driven in some cases by a soft-left worldview that demands unquestioning sympathy for the perceived victims of a given conflict, and in others by a hard-left ideology that blames Israel and the United States for all the ills of the Middle East, the media has for years tended to sympathize with the Palestinians, while missing no opportunity to criticize Israel. Â Â Led by ...
