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Thursday, January 27, 2011

Al Jazeera continues to allege facts that aren't in the PalPapers

Whether or not the "Palestine Papers" truthfully reflect what happened in closed-door negotiations, what is clear is that The Guardian and Al Jazeera are reporting their own spin rather than facts. "Electronic Intifada" founder and NYT darling Ali Abunimah writes in Al Jazeera: PA lobbying blocked Shalit swap The PA blocked potential prisoner swaps that would have freed thousands of Palestinians and Shalit. Analysis of secret minutes of meetings...

Abbas rewards family of terrorist

From Palestinian Media Watch: Earlier this month a Palestinian terrorist attempted to attack an Israeli checkpoint. Carrying two pipe bombs, he ran towards the Israeli soldiers, screaming "Allahu Akbar" - "Allah is Greater" - and was shot and killed before he could detonate the bombs. Yesterday Palestinian Authority Chairman Abbas granted "the relatives of the Shahid" $2000: "The governor of the Jenin district, Kadura Musa, has awarded a presidential...

Syria blocking social networking sites

In 2007, Syria blocked access to the Facebook webpage by its citizens. Now, in the wake of the Tunisia uprising, they are tightening the ban even more. From Reuters: Syrian authorities have banned programmes that allow access to Facebook Chat from cellphones, tightening already severe restrictions on the Internet in the wake of the unrest in Tunisia, users said on Wednesday. Nimbuzz and eBuddy, two programmes that allow access to Facebook Chat...

Iran publishes and promotes explicit anti-Semitism

The Muslim world has always insisted that it is not anti-semitic, simply anti-Zionist. The current Iranian regime in particular has stressed this argument, using useful pawns like the New York Times' Roger Cohen to point to the Iranian Jewish community as proof it is not against Jews. The Aladdin Project, an initiative to promote peace between Jews and Muslims, has demolished Iran's claims. The Aladdin Project has catalogued more than 160 books...

Gaddafi foundation reneges on UNRWA pledge

From UNRWA, August 9, 2010: The Gaddafi International Charity and Development Foundation (GICDF) and UNRWA have signed a $50 million agreement to rebuild 1250 refugee homes in the Gaza Strip destroyed when Israel launched its last devastating attack on Gaza during December 2008 and January 2009.Isn't it heartwarming when Arabs step up to help out their fellow Arabs in Gaza? Oops: The media advisor to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine...

What it feels like to be murdered by an Arab

A must-read article in the Jerusalem Post: The two women got out of the car with Wilson’s dog, Peanut, and walked a bit on the Israel Trail. They had wandered off the path to an overlook when suddenly two Arab men appeared and asked in Hebrew if they had any water. “I was startled... so I answered in Hebrew, which was a mistake,” Wilson said. “I know what they were trying to do, they were trying to figure out if we were Jewish.” The men gave her...

Conspiracy theory: Netanyahu released PalPapers to get Abbas killed

A great conspiracy theory is published as an op-ed in the pro-Fatah Palestine Press Agency. The author argues that the release of the "Palestine Papers" must have been orchestrated by Bibi Netanyahu. Here's the bizarre thinking that leads the author to this conclusion. Netanyahu is threatened by Abbas because Abbas is managing to build a nation on his own. Abbas is also a threat because Israel can no longer point to him and say that all Palestinian...

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Fatah newspapers have been furiously publishing articles supporting the Fatah leadership and attacking Al Jazeera. One article in Al-Ahd shows a gimmick that we have seen even mainstream newspapers use in order to push forward propaganda as news. See if you can spot it: The masses of refugees in camps in the West Bank confirmed their support for President Mahmoud Abbas and...

Protests continue in Egypt Wednesday

Some headlines from Al Masry al-Youm today: Egyptian police fired teargas on Wednesday to disperse hundreds of demonstrators in Ramses, Cairo’s busiest square, eyewitnesses said. A group of around 600 protesters managed sneak into downtown Cairo by tricking security forces which were blocking the roads. They gathered in Ramses chanting anti-government slogans, activists and eyewitnesses told Al-Masry Al-Youm. Egyptian police fired teargas canisters...

Wikileaks: The Qaddafi Soap Opera

From a Wikileaks cable written in February 2010: A local political observer XXXXXXXXXXXX told us that the Qadhafi family has been consumed in recent weeks by efforts to control the damage from Mutassim and Hannibal's recent headline-grabbing behavior. National Security Advisor Mutassim al-Qadhafi kicked off 2010 in the same way he spent 2009 -- with a New Year's Eve trip to St. Bart's -- reportedly featuring copious amounts of alcohol and a million-dollar...

Mid-day link briefs

Benny Morris: Whatever happened to the image of the hardboiled, cynical journalist, who believes no one and questions everything?Just Journalism: (h/t Folderol) Osama Hamdan offers an official Hamas response to the Palestine papers in The Guardian today, in which he claims that had the Palestinian Authority reached a peace deal with Israel based on the compromises laid out in the exposed documents, it ‘would have represented the biggest act of treason...

From AP: Palestinian Fatah supporters burn banners fashioned to look like Israeli flags, with an Al-Jazeera logo at their center instead of a Star of David, during a rally in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2011. Do you think you are missing out on the fun because you don't have one of those nifty Al Jazeera Zionist flags? Well, you are...

Hamas bans "un-Islamic" books from Gaza bookstores

PCHR reports that Hamas has been engaging in a little book censorship in Gaza. At approximately 13:30 on Sunday, 23 January 2011, 4 persons, one of whom was wearing military uniform, who introduced themselves as members of the GIB, confiscated copies of two novels – Alaa al-Aswany's "Chicago" and Haidar Haidar's "Banquet for Seaweed" – from Ibn Khaldoun bookstore opposite to al-Azhar University in the west of Gaza City. The GIB members...

LOL: Iran reveals Israel's project "Al Quds 2020"

By apparent policy, the Iranian media refuses to say the word "Jerusalem," instead referring to "Al Quds." This can result in some interesting pseudo-news stories. Gaza's religious affairs ministry expressed concern over a project to build 58,000 Jewish settler homes in occupied Al-Quds by 2020. Meanwhile, Zionist regime is announcing Al-Quds as the capital for Jewish people and allocating funds to attract Jews in a project dubbed Al-Quds 2020,...