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Misunderstanding Israeli motives
Alistair Crooke
Article posted on english.aljazeera.net
Al Jazeera’s release of The Palestine Papers helps to make clear why there is no Palestinian state. It illuminates a key flaw in Palestinian and western understanding of Israeli thinking. It is this flaw which helps explain why a state has failed to emerge – despite the many, many opportunities in […]
Posted: January 25th, 2011 under ARTICLES, AUTHORS, Alastair Crooke, Democracy, Israel, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Media, Palestinians.
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Western Media Representations, Iran, and Orientalist Stereotypes
A Conflicts Forum Monograph, by Seyed Mohammad Marandi, January, 2009
The image of Iran is almost always negative in the western media. Whether it is the BBC, CNN, The New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, Time Magazine, or Newsweek, Iran is regularly described as a land of abnormalities. One could argue that their representations of […]
Posted: February 12th, 2009 under Iran, MONOGRAPHS, Media.
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CNN’s image fetish
By Mark Perry, Conflicts Forum, July 6, 2007
Thursday, July 5, 2007 was a fairly typical day for the world. In Iraq, two American soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb, while the U.S. military reported killing an al-Qaeda member in a military raid west of Baghdad. Seventeen people were killed in Dora — a neighborhood […]
Posted: July 6th, 2007 under CF NEWSVIEW, Hamas, Mark Perry, Media.
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