by James M. Wall If you relied on your local newspaper to tell you how things went in Bethlehem this Christmas season, don’t believe what you read. Newspapers across America relied heavily on an Associated Press story to inform their readers that “Bethlehem Celebrates its Merriest Christmas in Years”. It did not. Ask the people […]

By James M. Wall A new Palestinian parliament was elected in the Occupied Territories on January 25, 2006.  One month from this Christmas, Palestinians should have been celebrating the fifth anniversary of that democratic, internationally-monitored, election. There will be no celebration in January, 2011.  Instead, Bethlehem, the West Bank, and Gaza still wait for the […]

by James M. Wall Leave it to linguist Noam Chomsky to provide a precise description of President Obama’s latest diplomatic failure. Washington’s pathetic capitulation to Israel while pleading for a meaningless three-month freeze on settlement expansion—excluding Arab East Jerusalem—should go down as one of the most humiliating moments in US diplomatic history. Few observers were […]

by James M. Wall Could Israel be using Wikileaks to prepare the US for an Israeli air strike against Iran? This nation is moving toward a repeat of the US rush to invade Iraq in 2003. Mass media coverage of the Wikileaks story is performing the same function the media played to make the case […]