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

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

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

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