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Mideast Media Sampler 02/28/2013

1) Water, water everywhere At the Times of Israel, editor David Horovitz writes about how Israel’s dealt with its water crisis. (h/t Yaacov Lozowick) “How did we beat the water shortage? Because we said we would. We decided we would,” says Kushnir, a big man with a warm smile and a robust Russian accent. “And […]

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Mideast Media Sampler, David Gerstman, 11/6/12

1) No return? Recently, as Dan Williams reported for Reuters, Mahmoud Abbas apparently gave up his “right of return.” Speaking to the top-rated Israeli television newscast, Abbas was asked whether he wanted to live in Safed, his boyhood town in the Galilee region of what had been British-ruled Palestine and is now northern Israel. “I visited […]

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Mideast Media Sampler, David Gerstman, 10/24/12

1) Not responding Earlier this week Lee Smith wrote America’s 40 year embassy crisis. Ben Affleck’s movie “Argo” about the Iranian takeover of the American embassy in Tehran prompted the article. In short, American diplomatic personnel have often been targets of hostile elements and America – under both Democratic and Republican presidents – has failed to […]

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Mideast Media Sampler, David Gerstman, 10/23/12

1) Daylight Last week, Shmuel Rosner tweeted: Did Obama say he’d put “daylight” between US-Israel? http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/17/us/politics/a-closer-look-at-some-disputed-claims.html?pagewanted=2&_r=0&smid=tw-nytimes … The New York Times article linked to argues: Mr. Romney said that “the president said that he was going to put daylight between us and Israel.” Is he correct? … The newspaper account did not quote Mr. Obama as explicitly stating […]

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Mideast Media Sampler, David Gerstman 10/21/12

Mideast Media Sampler By David Gerstman   1) Wissam al-Hassan Last week a car bomb blast in Beirut killed Brigadier General Wissam al-Hassan. The New Yorkt Times reported, Blast in Beirut Is Seen as an Extension of Syria’s War: Within hours of the attack, the Lebanese authorities announced that the dead included the intelligence chief of […]