Today’s 5 Biggest Smackdowns
Smackdown: 1. the act of knocking down or bringing down an opponent; 2. a contest
Pesach Benson
May 16, 2011
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Smackdown: 1. the act of knocking down or bringing down an opponent; 2. a contest
I’m glad to see that the Arab Spring — especially the brutal head-bashing in Syria and
To expand on a story, journalists will sometimes tie in an extraneous item into a
• Two Palestinians, Amjad Awad, 19, and Hakim Awad 18, have confessed to brutally murdering
• Israel might actually allow the Free Gaza flotilla to reach the strip. • Western
Mideast unrest presents opportunities and danger (mostly the latter) for Western and Arab media. A
I don’t normally offer unsolicited advice on media relations to Arab dictators. But the media
• I’ll forgive Irish Times readers if they’re unclear on the chronology of unfolding
CNN and Fox are really going after each on human shields in Libya. What are
• Time meets some Gaza protest leaders who went underground in fear of Hamas. Think
With Gaddafi’s goons preventing foreign journos from leaving Tripoli’s Rixos Hotel to freely cover the
Col. Gadaffi’s says Western airstrikes on Libya are killing lots of civilians. Robert Gates calls
Sky News reports that an RAF mission to hit Libyan targets was aborted: The Ministry
A team of British SAS soldiers and diplomats were caught by Libyan rebels carrying explosives
You know hell’s freezing over when Gaddafi compares himself to Israel: “Even the Israelis in
With the arrival of March comes the ever-popular Israeli Apartheid Week on many college campuses.
Lobbying firms representing autocratic Arab regimes in Washington are having a tough time. For years,
I just gave a thumbs-up to Martin Kramer‘s list of the dumbest things written by Western
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