Artists Against Hatred: Confronting Genocide in the Middle East

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
March 3, 2010

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/706/artists-against-hatred-confronting-genocide-middle-east

Excerpt:

Everywhere I turn—or so it seems–attacks on Israel and Israelis are in process. The other day, after a long day of writing, I idly, instinctively channel surfed—and there was the infamous Christiane Amanpour grilling Israeli Foreign Minister Ehud Barak. Oh, how this half-British, half-Iranian journalist relished this task. All her questions were hostile and were meant to embarrass or castigate both him personally and Israeli policies in general. CNN's poor excuse for Oriana Fallaci never paused to take a breath; she gave Minister Barak absolutely no quarter. Except once. That's when Amanpour told Barak that he was still saying the same things about peace that he'd said ten years ago when she'd interviewed him, at which moment, she flashed back to that very interview.

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