Paul Michaels It takes an accomplished writer to cover, in under 800 words, as much terrain as concisely and effectively as Robert Fulford did in his May 11 National Post [...]

Paul Michaels In his May 7 Globe and Mail op-ed, “Israel’s motive in hitting Syria was pure self-defence,” the well-known Middle East analyst  Barry Rubin argued that in (allegedly) attacking [...]

Paul Michaels In her April 30th Toronto Star column (“Palestinian Authority keeps media under thumb“), Vivian Bercovici shines a light on an under-reported phenomenon in the Middle East: the contrast [...]

Paul Michaels Last week, the range and pace of news coverage of dramatic North American terrorist-related events was overwhelming. First came the Boston Marathon bombings and reports of possible links [...]

Paul Michaels As Israel celebrated its 65th anniversary last week, the world’s attention was focused appropriately on the horrors of the terrorist attack in Boston. The events in Boston caused [...]

Paul Michaels (Photo Credit: Getty Images) We’re likely to hear quite a lot in the coming months about the Arab Peace Initiative (API), which US Secretary of State John Kerry [...]

Paul Michaels Most media reports that dealt with Israel’s apology to Turkey late last month for “operational errors” in the deaths of nine Turkish citizens during the 2010 Mavi Mamara [...]

Paul Michaels Much has been said about the significance of US President Barak Obama’s visit to Israel and the West Bank last week. Substantial coverage focused on what was – [...]

Paul Michaels In the March 11th Ha’aretz, editor-in-chief Aluf Benn wrote a column on the formation of the new Israeli government which appeared to be a declaration of outrage rather [...]

Paul Michaels Last week, while Israel was in the process of forming a new government, and the Vatican was deliberating over the choice of a new pope, some media attention [...]