In an account published yesterday in The Atlantic, former reporter for the Associated Press (AP) Matti Friedman explains how bias develops and influences international reporting from Israel. Friedman identifies both news agencies and NGO’s as effectively complicit in advancing the Hamas media strategy in particular and anti-Israel narrative bias more broadly. He notes:...

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In a case that has dragged for years in a trial dubbed as the “trial of the century” by local media, a Cairo court on the weekend acquitted on former President Hosni Mubarak of conspiring to kill protesters during the 2011 uprising that led to his ouster. The Cairo Criminal...

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Although the security situation in Jerusalem and other areas in Israel has calmed somewhat in recent days, Palestinian incitement and calls for terrorist acts against Israelis are continuing. The Hamas movement called Thursday (Twitter Arabic link) on Arabs in the West Bank and Jerusalem to do all they can “to defend...

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The Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security agency, announced Thursday that it had broken up a “wide-ranging” Hamas terror plot run by Saleh al-Arouri, a top Hamas official who lives and operates openly in Turkey. CNN reports that more than 30 suspects were arrested after authorities investigated a series of explosions...

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Former French President Nicholas Sarkozy expressed his opposition to the unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state ahead of next week’s French parliamentary vote according to a report Wednesday in The Times of Israel: “I will fight for the Palestinians to have their state. But unilateral recognition a few days after a...

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Reports emerged Friday morning that at least 30 Hamas members had been arrested in the West Bank in recent weeks for planning a series of terror attacks against Israeli targets. Senior Palestinian officials told veteran Arab affairs correspondent Avi Issacharoff that the expansive West Bank network was both funded and...

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The Jerusalem Post reported yesterday that three Palestinians were indicted this week on charges of plotting to assassinate Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman this past summer. The three men – Ibrahim el-Zir, Ziad el-Zir and Anans Bech, all from Harmala in the West Bank – allegedly decided to assassinate the...

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A terror attack on a synagogue in Jerusalem’s Har Nof neighborhood yesterday left five people – four rabbis and a Druze policeman – dead and several others injured Tuesday when two Palestinians entered during morning prayers armed with knives, meat cleavers, and a handgun and attacked worshipers inside. Secretary of State John...

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Iranian sources are involved in shady weapon deals with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), an Iraqi security source told the Saudi newspaper Okaz (Arabic link). The source said Iranian “agents” are supplying ISIS in Iraq with weapons in exchange for oil. These transactions are alarming Western and...

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The Fatah movement and Palestinian Authority officials are giving contradictory messages following the murder of five Israelis in a Jerusalem synagogue. While Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas condemned the attack, one of his senior advisors and the official Facebook page of Fatah praised the attack, in which two Palestinians shot...

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