melanie phillips compares international coverage of the french soccer incident: deeply disturbing
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appallingly rascist, anti-semitic behavior in france
from paris, november 24, afp report:
“A French police officer - a black man in plain clothes - shot dead a Paris-Saint Germain football fan after being turned on by a mob during racist violence that followed the team’s defeat by Israeli side Hapoel Tel-Aviv.
Antoine Granomort, who was in custody Friday […]

thoughts about iran’s ahmadinejad by the 1986 nobel peace prize winner, elie wiesel, published in the new york daily news, saturday, november 25th, 2006
united nations must expel Ahmadinejad’s murderous regime, says one of the world’s leading moral voices

“Those among us who thought that the victory of allied democracies in 1945 would mark the […]

the world according to carter
book review by alan dershowitz
new york sun
november 22, 2006
“Sometimes you really can tell a book by its cover. President Jimmy Carter’s decision to title his new anti-Israel screed “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid” (Simon & Schuster, 288 pages, $27) tells it all. His use of the loaded word “apartheid,” suggesting an analogy […]

excerpts from a powerful commentary by dr eran lerman, director, ajc israel/middle east office, on the current iranian situation
“It is by now common knowledge …. that when he witnessed the awesome power of the device he was responsible for inventing, Robert Oppenheimer found himself mulling over some powerful lines from the Hindu scriptures ….
‘If the […]

from the new york times
november 16, 2006
by ian fisher
sderot, israel, november 15
photo by rina castelnuovo for the new york times
fatima slutzker’s burial at the cemetery in sderot, israel, was interrupted by four more rockets exploding in the distance
Crude rockets fired from Gaza killed a 57-year-old Israeli woman and seriously wounded two other people here on […]

how deep is the crisis of leadership in israel?
reflections on david grossman’s speech at the rabin memorial gathering
by dr. eran lerman, director, ajc israel/middle east office
……. “and it came to pass that in those days there was no king in Israel”
full text of dr lerman’s remarks

from the forward
november 3, 2006
by david harris
On July 18, 1994, the deadliest postwar terrorist attack against a Jewish target took place in Buenos Aires. The seven-story headquarters of the AMIA, the Argentine Jewish community’s central welfare body, was destroyed. Eighty-five people, Jews and non-Jews alike, were killed; hundreds were wounded. It followed in the wake […]

in a depply disturbing article by brian ledbetter in the blog, snappedshot.com: exposing photojournalism one shot at a time, mr ledbetter reveals the rift between the “facts” and the pictures of the most recent confrontations in gaza, in which palestinian women were used as “human shields” (see posting above)
when context is missing, interpretation is impossible, […]

david harris writes about gaza and hamas in today’s international herald tribune
full text of op-ed