Backspin

The BBC’s Alan Johnston is abducted by Palestinian gunmen in Gaza. See HonestReporting-UK’s latest communique:

The BBC’s Alan Johnston is the only Western reporter based in Gaza, which makes him

BBC correspondent Alan Johnston was kidnapped in Gaza. AP writes: As he was being taken,

We were fascinated by the Arabic writing on this Palestinian flag photographed by AFP. It

The Toronto Star details how Hezbollah is gearing up for a new round of fighting

The NY Times looks at the human tragedy of a lost generation of Palestinian youths

A Cornell columnist questions the special US-Israel friendship and accuses Jewish groups of stifling debate.

A Reuters report today blames Israel for the Christian exodus from the Palestinian areas, whitewashing

A research paper by Marvin Kalb (in pdf format), published by Harvard, examined media coverage

Why is PA Finance Minister Salam Fayyad already in despair? See the Sunday Telegraph: There

The LA Times gave op-ed space to Professor Saree Makdisi (pictured), who wonders why the

The NY Times examines the state of Christian-Muslim relations in the West Bank: In the

Bloomberg News reports Islamic fundamentalists are targeting internet cafes in Gaza. One owner’s response sums

Nice report in the Baltimore Sun about Israel’s oldest kibbutz, Deganya-A, going capitalist. This is

In the last three weeks, 210,000 people watched the Israeli Antiquities Authority’s live webcam at

Correspondent Jamil Hamad takes a simplistic look at an IDF checkpoint between his Bethlehem home

Ever since the UN’s John Dugard issued a report slamming “Israeli apartheid,” the op-ed pages