By Paul Michaels Last week’s column looked at how recent media attention to the broader Middle East following the “Arab Spring” has resulted in less media negativity toward Israel over [...]
By Paul Michaels On the occasion of Israel’s 64th anniversary (at the time of writing), let’s begin on an optimistic note. For it is worth pointing out that, as a [...]
By Paul Michaels This month, Germany’s most famous author, Gunter Grass, published a poem in the leftist Munich newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung [italics] that created an international storm. Under the title [...]
By Paul Michaels The amount of media speculation over the past few months about whether Israel will attack Iran’s nuclear installations has been overwhelming. With reports and commentary quoting this [...]
By Paul Michaels A serious strain in Egypt-Gaza relations, though given scant media attention here, is very revealing about the strange complexity of developments in the region. The story revolves [...]
By Paul Michaels In response to the horrific murder of three Jewish children and a Rabbi at a Jewish school in Toulouse, Eli Wiesel asked: “Will the hatred of the [...]
By Paul Michaels From the perspective of the West, the media coverage of last week’s flare-up between Israel and Gaza can be broken down into three phases. In the first [...]
By Paul Michaels Following Prime Minister Netanyahu’s talks with Prime Minister Harper in Ottawa and President Obama in Washington last week, substantial media coverage implied that Netanyahu is recklessly itching [...]
By Paul Michaels Last month, David Horovitz, former editor of the Jerusalem Post and the Jerusalem Report, launched an online newspaper The Times of Israel. Horovitz, the author of Still [...]
By Paul Michaels Last week in Doha, Qatar, Fatah and Hamas officials announced that they had finally reached an agreement on the formation of a “unity” government. Despite the intense [...]
