Backspin

Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell responds to criticism of the paper’s Mideast coverage.

The Jerusalem Post reports that Hezbollah put sleeper cells world-wide on standby to attack Israeli

WorldNetDaily sheds some light on the Iran-Syria- Hezbollah axis at work. Reporter Aaron Klein writes:

Judging from Western coverage of the fighting in Lebanon, YNet News columnist Sever Plocker says

See this honest, heartfelt Haifa diary, courtesy American ex-patriate Menachem Kellner and the Washington Post.

South African cartoonist Adam Zapiro’s fighting Israel with every drop of ink at his disposal.

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A nasty staff-ed in the South African Mail & Guardian directly compares IDF to the

Six Israeli reporters renounced their membership in the International Federation of Journalists. This is in

* Mitch Bard advises everyone following press coverage of the Lebanon crisis to take the

See On the Face for the story behind this controversial AP photo. Israeli girls write

See Martin Rowson’s cartoon and judge for yourself whether The Guardian’s apology spotted by Stephen

This LA Times update contained an eye-opening snippet: Hezbollah guerrillas were setting up rocket launchers

Two wonks in the Christian Science Monitor argue that Iran’s involvement in the Lebanese crisis

Lebanese PM Fuad Saniora called for the disarming of Hezbollah. AP writes: Hizbullah has created

CNN’s Lou Dobbs seems to be a victim of Richard Cohen’s second-hand smoke. According to

* In The Australian, Rebecca Weisser argues that the Aussie media has unfairly held Israel

New Zealand’s veteran cartoonist, Tom Scott, is in the running for a Poison Pen Award,