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In his latest column, The Guardian’s Jonathan Freedland calls on Israel to engage Hamas, comparing

With the indictment of President Moshe Katzav, the MSM has also spotlighted an array of

Frustrated that your letters to the editor aren’t being published? The National Post shares its

With Lebanon now paralyzed, Hezbollah has been accused of “terror” by no less than Lebanese

The Norway Post reports that imports from Israel increased 15 percent despite a boycott led

A blast damaged the Gaza offices of Al-Arabiya TV. According to AP, the Dubai-based network

Reuters’ Editor-in-Chief finally responds to the “Fauxtography” affair. See HonestReporting’s latest communique: Heads Roll at

When it comes to terror groups like Hamas and Islamic Jihad, AP identifies their members

Jeremy Bowen produces an unbalanced report for the BBC’s Radio 4 Today program. Listen to

After grandiose promises of Construction Jihad last year, Hezbollah is now dragging its feet on

The Islamic Movement accuses Israel of digging under the Temple Mount. YNet News writes: Sheikh

Organizers of the four-day Herzliya Conference are making all the speeches available streamed live and

We received the following email from Steve Herrmann, editor of the BBC News web site.

The Jerusalem Post‘s Khaled Abu Toameh updates the latest on the Hamas-Fatah battle over the

Following up on the fauxtography scandal, Reuters’ blog notes that an unidentified photo editor was

Backspin’s on break. We’ll be back and blogging away as usual on Sunday. In the

Headlines & Deadlines caught some rather surprising CBC coverage. Correspondent Ben Gilbert filed a report

In the NY Times, Professor Judea Pearl wonders about the effects of Al-Jazeera’s English broadcasts: