Author Archive | David Bernstein

While I’m on the subject of media coverage of the Israel-Party of God war, here is a very revealing excerpt from CNN’s Reliable Sources, July 23rd: KURTZ: All right. I want to go now to CNN’s Nic Robertson, who joins us live from Beirut. Nic Robertson, we were speaking a moment ago about the way […]

“Green Helmet” is moniker EU Referendum has given to the mystery man who appears in the most famous photo to come out of Qana, of a grieving man identified as a rescue worker holding up the body of a dead baby. He was also photographed holding up a dead baby for the cameras in 1996 […]

In my last post (linked below), I wondered whether the MSM would seriously investigate allegations that some of the photos taken by photojournalists at Qana, including a few that appeared in major newspapers around the world, were staged. Answer–No! The AP said information from its photo editors showed the events were not staged, and that […]

As I noted previously, the blog EU Referendum has presented powerful evidence that the photos of Qana splashed across the front pages of newspapers worldwide yesterday were staged. Indeed, further evidence suggests that one “rescue worker” whose photograph with a dead child was circulated around the world is actually a leading and longstanding Party of […]

Over at the Huffington Post, Hollywood agent Ari Emanuel writes:”People in the entertainment community, whether Jew or gentile, need to demonstrate that they understand how much is at stake in this by professionally shunning Mel Gibson and refusing to work with him, even if it means a sacrifice to their bottom line.” Even before Gibson’s […]

Top of the article: The “hiding among civilians” myth “Israel claims it’s justified in bombing civilians because Hezbollah mingles with them. In fact, the militant group doesn’t trust its civilians and stays as far away from them as possible.” First two paragraphs of the article: “The bombs came just as night fell, around 7 p.m. […]

[NEW UPDATE: NY Times: But for some of the Christians who had made it out in this convoy, it was not just privations they wanted to talk about, but their ordeal at the hands of Hezbollah — a contrast to the Shiites, who make up a vast majority of the population in southern Lebanon and […]

As we all know, the current war in Lebanon and Israel started when Lebanese Party of God terrorists crossed into Israel and kidnapped two soldiers, murdering others. The original goal was apparently to force a prisoner exchange. In particular the Party of God seeks the release of Samir Kuntar, whom Israel has refused to release […]

Krauthammer is must-read. Richard Cohen’s blood is boiling. Efraim Inbar, one the more lucid Israeli scholars on strategic issues, says Israel needs to be going after Syria. In a “flying pig” moment, a U.N. official criticizes Hezbollah for hiding behind civilians. Yalla Ya Nasrallah. An appropriately militant, and quite catchy, Hebrew YouTube music video. CNN […]

The classic example of chutzpah is the person who murders his parents, then pleads for mercy because he’s an orphan. But how about a government leader that puts a terrorist organization in his cabinet; gives the organization free reign over the southern part of his country from which the organization every so often attacks a […]

Legal scholars generally assume that the Supreme Court’s decision in Lochner v. New York, invalidating a state-imposed 60 hour work week for bakers, was “counter-majoritarian” [update: in terms of diverging from a national political consensus] For example, Paul Finkelman, an excellent legal historian, recently wrote, in the Harvard Law Review: “A majority of the Justices […]

When’s the last time you saw an article in the Washington Post on an incredibly lopsided vote in the U.S. House of Representatives (in this case, 410-8) that gave most of its attention to the views of the losing side? UPDATE: As I note in the comments below, in case my point was too subtle, […]

It’s come to my attention that a very important case, In re Lockheed Litigation Cases, is apparently pending in California. California is a “Frye” state, which means that it applies a general acceptance test to the admissibility of expert testimony. However, California precedent suggests that the state version of Frye (Kelly-Frye) has a very narrow […]

I’m on some list, along with other “media sites,” that some anti-Israel crackpots send emails to. I usually get one or two a day. Today’s, from the address juan_xxxxxxx324@excite.com, was a particularly lovely example: The people of Israel have no soul, no moral core, no humanity, no human decency. Israel is a blight on the […]

In Ha’aretz, Professor Yagil Levy criticizes the Israeli government for hasty decisionmaking, too much deference to the military, and for having both unrealistic and unclear goals. I think he’s likely mistaken on a variety of grounds, and I don’t know if he even has his facts right (maybe Israel had a contingency plan ready to […]