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Israeli soldiers in the fifth day of the search operation walking in the West Bank city of Hebron, June 17, 2014. (Mustafa Bader/Activestills.org)

When ‘The New York Times’ embeds its reporters with the IDF

Embedded journalism is a controversial issue. Many claim that it replaces oversight and criticism with propaganda. I tend to agree. This admiring tone was evident in the pieces published by embedded Israeli reporters this week during the IDF’s crackdown on Hamas in the West Bank. It must have also been part of the reason why Haaretz chose…

By Noam Sheizaf June 24, 2014

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Weekly Notebook: On ‘the Jews,’ ‘price tag,’ Colbert and more

New feature: A selection of Larry Derfner’s sociopolitical outbursts on Facebook for the week ending Saturday, April 12. THE GREAT COLBERT As he moves into the mainstream of the mainstream (taking over the David Letterman show), a reminder of Stephen Colbert’s unforgettable roast of George W. Bush (and the press) at the 2006 White House Correspondents…

By Larry Derfner April 13, 2014

Black Bloc and Tahrir youth celebrate atop a commandeered police truck in the center of the square. (photo: Jesse Rosenfeld)

Postcards from Tahrir: ‘No freedom, bread or social justice’

As Egypt’s currency continues to fall and the IMF strings for a bailout package that will end fuel and food subsides, popular anger has turned on the country’s first democratically elected president. Now, out on the streets of Cairo, protesters are being confronted by the same forces they fought in order to overthrow Mubarak in 2011.…

By +972 Magazine January 31, 2013

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Hitchens was unfairly castigated by the Left for supporting Iraq war

His heart was in the right place; too bad he didn’t see that the Bush administration’s wasn’t. And too bad the Left couldn’t tell the difference. I think Christopher Hitchens was wrong to support the U.S. war in Iraq (interesting that his life ended a day after the war did), but his reasons for supporting it were all good, and it would be nice…

By Larry Derfner December 17, 2011