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According to Reports: Columnists Focus on Peace Process, Iran
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In his weekly Canadian Jewish News media analysis column “According to Reports,” Paul Michaels, CIC Director of Communications, takes an indepth look at two columns. One, by Robert Fulford in the National Post, challenges conventional thinking about the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. The second, by Bernard Avishai and Reza Aslan in the Washington Post, ascribes conventional [...]
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Channel 4 announces return of Undercover Mosque
According to Reports: Israel Doesn’t EscapeRussia-Georgia War Coverage
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In his weekly Canadian Jewish News media analysis column “According to Reports,” Paul Michaels, CIC Director of Communications, finds that coverage of Isarel itself may be lighter than usual due to the Olympics and the Russia-Georgia war, but Israel’s role in the conflict is a subject of media scrutiny.Some analysts, like Samuel Segev of the [...]
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Judea Pearl Criticizes Al Jazeera’s Coverage of Prisoner Exchange
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On Friday, we blogged about a suprisingly positive piece on Al Jazeera.com (See The Day After: Once the Palestinians Have a Country, Things May Get Harder.) But now it’s back to business-as-usual for the influential Middle East media outlet, according to an op-ed by Daniel Pearl in the Washington Post, headlined “Why Al Jazeera Owes an Apology.”Pearl, a professor at UCLA [...]
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The Day After: Once the Palestinians Have a Country, Things May Get Harder
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“The Day After,” a frank column by - of all people - Amin Howeidi, a former Egyptian minister of defence, in - of all places - al-Jazeera.com, warns the Palestinians that the hard part may come after achieving a state.Howeidi cites examples from the founding of Israel to demonstrate how the Palestinians will have to create [...]
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