All Entries Tagged With: "Ma’an News"

The Day In Israel: Mon Nov 2nd, 2009

Relatives of the Jewish man arrested on suspicion of deadly terror shootings and bombings have justified his actions, calling them “heroic acts of resistance.”
Naa, not really.
In the weeks following the arrest, the family still held hope that the Shin Bet had made a mistake: “We want to believe that everything will turn out to be [...]

The Day In Israel: Sun Oct 4th, 2009

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According to the British Times, when Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu recently did his best David Copperfield impersonation and briefly “disappeared” – in what turned out to be a (not so) secret trip to Russia – he gave the [...]

Headline of the Day

..comes courtesy of the palestinian Ma’an News Agency:
Busy day for Gaza coast guard: Giant turtle, 30 kids rescued
I hope the turtle fared better than this one.

Food For Thought

Ma’an News reports:
Israeli forces seize five West Bankers
Which begs the question: were they on a picnic at the time?

Israel Kills Wife of Abu Mazen

No, not that Abu Mazen.
And we didn’t exactly kill her. Although Ma’an typically lays the blame with us.
A 52-year-old Palestinian woman died of a heart attack on Sunday when she discovered that none of her three imprisoned sons was to be released by Israel in Monday’s prisoner release, her husband said.
Rebheyeh Saleh Al-Qanni, known as [...]

Palestinian Media Panel Decries Lack of Impartiality in Reporting

Of course, by impartial and professional, they mean not showing bias against any of the palestinian terror organizations. Bias against Israel is fine.
Journalists lamented the balkanization of Palestinian media at a symposium in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Sunday.
A panel titled “The Role of Journalism in Enhancing Civil Society” was held on Sunday [...]

Arafat Remembered

Ma’an News has a tribute article to Yasser Arafat, which is begging for some mockery.
On Tuesday 11 November Palestinians commemorated the death of their first leader: Abu Ammar, Al-Ra’is (the president) and in the end Al-Khityar (the old man), former Palestinian President Yasser Arafat.
Not to forget Abu Al-Shityar (the dirty old man), Abu Nimr (the [...]

Mainstream Media Bias of the Day

The AFP reports:
Jewish settlers beat up Palestinian boy near Hebron
Bilal Daana was attacked by a group of settlers near the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba near Hebron. They beat him up and threw stones at him, the Palestinian medics said.
The boy was taken by Israeli soldiers to a checkpoint at the entrance to Hebron from [...]

Delicious Irony of the Day

Back to the drawing board.
Journalist working on police success story has car vandalized near Ramallah police station
Unidentified vandals smashed the windshields of Ma’an’s Ramallah correspondent Muhammad Al-Lahham in the central West Bank while he was preparing a report on the Palestinian police units in the city.
According to Al-Lahham, he parked his car near Ramallah Park [...]

Today’s Stabbing Attack

A palestinian terrorist today murdered an 86-year-old man, and wounded a police officer, in a stabbing attack in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo.
Here’s what went down:
A young Arab man murdered a civilian and injured a police officer in Jerusalem’s Gilo neighborhood on Thursday morning.
The 86-year-old citizen was critically injured and evacuated to the Shaare Zedek [...]