Middle East

The Fraser Institute in Vancouver, Canada, just published, for 2024, its annual Economic Freedom of the World Report. There are many ideas about what freedom means. Economic freedom, which the Fraser Institute focuses on, is of key and central importance. It is about the extent to which individuals have control of their economic life.

With an assist from the indispensable people at the pro-Israel media watchdog group CAMERA, our friends at National Review exposed CBS News’s longtime Gaza producer Marwan Al Ghoul on Tuesday as having what they described in their headline as a “as history of antisemitic, anti-Israel commentary” and even wondered if Jewish people are actually human. Despite this and Facebook posts…

Bob Woodward took his book tour to CBS and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Thursday, where he declared that it is “journalism” and not opinion to declare that Donald Trump is unfit to be president.

Wednesday night brought more turns in totally unnecessary fallout from the September 30 CBS Mornings interview between co-host Tony Dokoupil and race hustler Ta-Nehisi Coates on the latter’s new book painting Israel as an apartheid state suppressing neglected Palestinians.This time, reporting from The Free Press, The New York Times, Puck, and Mehdi Hasan’s Zeteo laid waste to…

It took two and one-half months for Kamala Harris to agree to an interview with a national journalist. She was interviewed on "60 Minutes" by Bill Whitaker, but her answers are not likely to help her with the few voters who say they are still “undecided.” Asked by Whitaker to explain her economic plan and how it would be paid for, Harris’ response bordered on the meaningless: “My plan is about…

On Friday, President Biden made his first appearance in the White House Briefing Room with only three and a half months left in office after years of calls from reporters across the political spectrum. Sure, he only took questions for just over eight minutes, but the press corps made sure to throw this unique opportunity away with a combination of open-ended foreign policy queries and…

On Oct. 1, the Islamic Republic of Iran launched some 181 ballistic missiles at the state of Israel. Most were shot down; those that weren't fell largely in uninhabited areas. Thanks to the technological and intelligence superiority of Israel and her allies, the Iranian attack -- the second such attack in six months -- was foiled. As of this writing, the world waits for Israel's promised…

Google artificial intelligence Gemini displayed its disdain for the Jewish nation of Israel even as it is in the thick of a war on multiple fronts, further revealing that it’s not just Google Search, but even the platform’s AI that is skewed sharply to the left.

On Tuesday afternoon, the major broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC each interrupted regular programming of daytime talk shows, game shows, and soap operas for coverage of Iran’s massive onslaught of missile attacks against Israel, particularly in the Tel Aviv metro area. While the networks largely behaved and stuck to the facts and the fear being inflicted on innocent Israelis, there were…

Foreign policy reporting can be tricky. You have to explain what bad people think in an honest way without coming across like you endorse their position. Christiane Amanpour failed in this on Tuesday’s CNN News Central as she omitted key facts related to a recent ceasefire proposal that she claimed could have prevented Iran’s salvo of 180 ballistic missiles on Israel.

To mark this week’s United Nations General Assembly, Secretary of State Antony Blinken appeared Wednesday morning on ABC, CBS, and NBC to discuss the ongoing turmoil in the Middle East with Israel facing attacks from nearly every direction from Hamas in the south to Lebanon’s Hezbollah in the north. Of course, the liberal media — specifically NBC’s Today and some on CBS Mornings…