"A huge lie repeated often enough is accepted as truth." — Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Propaganda Minister

"Unanswered media bias and misinformation repeated often enough is accepted as truth." — PRIMER

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: "Israel's right to exist in safety as a Jewish state, with defensible borders and an undivided Jerusalem as its capital, must never be questioned."

President Barack Obama:
"If somebody was sending rockets into my house where my two daughters sleep at night, I'm going to do everything in my power to stop that."

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Quote of the Week #1: "There are 1.5 million people living in Gaza and only one of them really needs humanitarian aid," Defense Minister Ehud Barak said. "Only one of them is locked in a tiny room and never sees the light of day, only one of them is not allowed visits and is in uncertain health - his name is Gilad Shalit, and this month four years will have passed since he was kidnapped."

Quote of the Week #2: There should be another international committee; to investigate why the United States placed two skyscrapers in the way, disturbing Al-Qaeda's Humanitarian Peace Flyby on September 11th.

PRIMER Annual Meeting June 15

Gary Jones

PRIMER held its annual meeting on June 15, 2010. The meeting featureed Gary Jones, the recently installed Connectut Regional Director for ADL.

Responding to the Flotilla Propaganda Barrage

The facts are pretty clear, but one would be hard-pressed to find them in the media. It's up to the people to write - letters and commentaries - and send them to the newspapers.

Many other organizations have put together excellent resources that may be used to respond to the unfair attacks and biased reporting. PRIMER sees no need to duplicate these efforts. The following is a list of some of these excellent resources. Please let PRIMER know of others we should include.

The Daily Alert: The Daily Alert contains synopses of articles and links to the full versions. It's worth looking through their archives.
PRIMER's own resource list: The PRIMER web site contains a general list of resources for activists. Most of the sites cited have additional very useful information.
The IDF's YouTube Channel: This contains videos from the incident, including attacks on the IDF soldiers.
CAMERA
HonestReporting
ADL
AIPAC
JINSA
ZOA
StandWithUs
The Israel Project
Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Israeli Embassy
We Con the World: This is a terrific video in the political satire realm. It puts to song the thoughts that were obviously going through the minds of the flotilla organizers.
Free Gaza - From Its Arab Oppressors: Op-Ed by PRIMER President Alan Stein published in the Manchester Journal-Inquirer on June 2.

It's also available on the Journal-Inquirer web site at registercitizen.com/articles/2010/06/01/opinion/doc4c04f41c91d20808312393.txt.

Eye On The Hartford Courant

PRIMER began analyzing all articles in The Hartford Courant relating to the Arab-Israeli conflict at the start of May.

Write a Letter

The Israel Project has a web form which may be used to write letters to your local newspaper without having to remember its email address. It's called Write a letter to your local newspaper.

Case Study: Abusing and Misusing the Power of the Press

The Hartford Courant, March-April 2010

On March 21, The Hartford Courant published a typically highly biased commentary by Bessy Reyna, filled with errors of commission and omission, misrepresentations and distortions, entitled Amid Repression, Provocations of Palestinians, It's Business As Usual.

PRIMER quickly sent a message to the editorial page editor of The Courant, listing some of the blatant factual errors and requesting corrections be issued. Such corrections are mandated both by the Code of Ethics of the Society of Professional Journalists and the Statement of Principles of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.

The Courant not only refused to issue any corrections, but also told PRIMER it would not publish a letter longer than 200 words, even though a concise, partial listing of errors, without even giving context, took 225 words. It turned out the word length didn't matter, since The Courant then refused to publish either of the two letters PRIMER sent for them to choose from.

The Courant's excuse was the letters stated there were errors in Reyna's op-ed and that statement was false!

PRIMER provides here links to the original comments made regarding Reyna's op-ed, the texts of emails exchanged between between PRIMER President Alan Stein and Courant Editorial Page Editor Carolyn Lumsden and Courant Op-Ed Editor Peter Pach, and the letters The Courant refused to publish.

Original Comments By PRIMER Concerning Reyna's Op-Ed
March 21, 2010. Email from Alan Stein to Carolyn Lumsden. This letter listed some of the factual errors in Reyna's op-ed and asked The Courant to issue corrections.
March 25. Carolyn Lumsden to Alan Stein. Lumsden doesn't respond to any of the factual errors pointed out to her.
March 28. Alan Stein to Carolyn Lumsden. PRIMER repeats the request that the errors be corrected.
April 1. Peter Pach to Alan Stein. Pach replies to the email to Lumsden but claims everything's a matter of opinion.
April 1. Alan Stein to Peter Pach. PRIMER again points out four clear factual errors, again asks The Courant to issue corrections, and asks for sufficient space to respond in a letter if The Courant refuses.
April 2. Peter Pach to Alan Stein. Pach doesn't even respond to the request for corrections and refuses to give sufficient space for an adequate letter.
April 3. Letters Submitted to Courant. The Courant refused to publish either letter unless it was rewritten to refer to facts as matters of opinion.

Taking the Offensive

PRIMER board member Don Morris recognizes the increasing pressure Israel is facing to make more unreciprocated, counterproductive concessions and is making an effort to educate with a series of op-eds which may be read here and on the PRIMER blog.

Israel falsely accused of distractor's sins By Alan Stein — Response written to a vicious anti-Israel letter in The Hour. It was published as an op-ed. (August 22, 2010)

We are onto your lies and distractions! By Don Morris (June 22, 2010)

Since does gender matter when you break the law? By Don Morris — Don Morris considers the cowardice of the media in reporting on the Hizbullah-linked Lebanese boat trying to evade the Israeli blockade of arms to Hamas by carrying woman. The reports quote spokespersons for the mission blatantlylying without challenge. (June 21, 2010)

Why is the West Ignoring the Facts? By Don Morris (June 16, 2010)

Free Gaza-from what, from whom-do you mean from the autocratic control by Hamas? By Don Morris (June 15, 2010)

Borders Do Not Exist By Don Morris (June 11, 2010)

Understanding the Fourth Geneva Convention By Don Morris (June 5, 2010)

Peace with Truth as its Base By Don Morris — On campuses across the United States, Israel is being accused of human rights violations. The accusations are so many and so detailed that even relatively well informed pro-Israel students are often at a loss to refute them. (April 22, 2010)

Wanting to believe By Don Morris (March 28, 2010)

Islamophobia-Example of Irresponsible Behavior:re-visited By Don Morris — A year since Don Morris last wrote on this topic, we see the persistence of our enemy. (March 27, 2010)

Only word-smithing has changed from May 2005-November 2009 By Don Morris — The West Bank, i.e. Judea and Samaria, to this day remain disputed, not occupied, territories. (November 18, 2009)

Time for Truth–Time to Change the Lexicon By Don Morris — Forget the settlements. If the world truly wants to identify an obstacle to peace, it could do much worse than cast its eyes towards Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa. (September 9, 2009)

Settlers-rights and/or wrongs-another look By GS Don Morris (September 6, 2009)

It's not only about Yaalon's Comments, it's much more that is in the balance By Don Morris (August 21, 2009)

The Hypocrisy of the Israel-Haters By Alan H. Stein — Hatred and bigotry have always been at the heart of the global anti-Israel conspiracy, of which lies, distortions and hypocrisy have always been staples. Those Israel-haters are now hypocritically attacking Doc's Talk, an excellent blog from PRIMER board member Don Morris. (June 12, 2009)

And now, the Unspoken Truth By GS Don Morris — Don Morris analyzes Barack Obama's Cairo speech, including exaggerations, misconceptions and misrepresentations. (June 6, 2009)

Borders Do Not Exist By GS Don Morris — Don Morris reminds readers of the reality Israel has never had the luxury of borders, so talking about going back to the "1967 borders" is nonsensical. (May 27, 2009)

What's in a name? By GS Don Morris — Don Morris on the inappropriate and counterproductive acquiescence in the use of the term "settler." (May 25, 2009)

So, You Want to Be a State? By GS Don Morris — Morris analyzes the standard criteria used to recognize whether an entity qualifies as a state, demonstrating the Palestinian Authority has a long way to go before it would be reasonable to give it that status. (May 23, 2009)

Solution: Implies common agreement on the problem and … By GS Don Morris — Don Morris was invited by MK Moshe "Bogie" Ya'alon to a special Knesset conference discussing alternatives to the so-called two-state solution. These are remarks he was prepared to make. (May 20, 2009)

The Jerusalem Post had this report in advance of the conference and Arutz Sheva has made this video available.

Annual Meeting July 21

Rev. Larry C. Green

PRIMER held its annual meeting the evening of July 21.

The meeting featured Rev. Larry C. Green of Grace Baptist Church in Waterbury.

Rev. Green participated in the ADL Connecticut Regional Office's Interfaith Mission to Israel. Mission participants included Methodist, Episcopalian, Baptist, Lutheran, Catholic, Muslim, Jewish, United Church of Christ, AME Zion and Presbyterian denominational, communal and religious leaders. For ten days, the group explored seminal sites in the Holy Land through their respective faith prisms, meeting with diverse religious, academic and government leaders and dialoguing about the challenging issues confronting a place so resonant with meaning for all.

Profile in Courage?

Two protesters braving at least one inch of snow to protest the study of antisemitism in front of Luce Auditorium.

One has to be a bit of a lunatic to protest in favor of antisemitism, but that's what two lonely fanatics did in New Haven on Tuesday evening, February 3.

They stood out, in more ways than one, in the cold on a snowy night, in front of Yale's Luce Auditorium in New Haven, protesting the Second Annual Professor William Prusoff Honorary Lecture, part of the Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective seminar series organized by YIISA, the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism.

The intrepid supporters of antisemitism were surrounded by a half dozen protest signs, apparently brought to be carried by the hoards of supporters they expected to join in the protest called by The Middle East Crisis Committee, proud of its crusade against any efforts to prevent the ethnic cleansing of Jews from their ancestral homeland.

While they felt no shame in protesting against the study of antisemitism, one of the two was apparently ashamed of the way he looked, frantically hiding his face behind an envelope as soon as a camera came out.

Bringing all that paraphernalia was a waste of time, since primerprez was apparently the only person who stopped by long enough to either see or hear them, but at least they adhered to one tenet that some incorrectly believe is part of the Hippocratic Oath: with nobody being misled, for once they did no harm.

Operation Cast Lead

View articles, letters and editorials about Operation Cast Lead.

Bessy Does It Again

In defiance of her editors, Hartford Courant columnist Bessy Reyna has published yet another biased and misleading anti-Israel op-ed.

In a departure from her usual style, rather than directly making false statements, she includes false assertions she can attribute to others and misleadingly implies they are true.

The column itself may be viewed on the Hartford Courant's web site by clicking here. Those interested in countering the hatred in her column are encouraged to post comments online (look for the dialog box, by her column, in which you can post a comment) and also write directly to The Courant by sending an email to letters@courant.com.

You may also wish to read PRIMER's Comment & Analysis on the PRIMER blog.

Yale Censors Israeli Speaker

Yale University appeased anti-Israel Hamas supporters by forcing the Slifka Center for Jewish Life to cancel a speech by retired Israeli Brigadier General Nechemia Dagan.

In the article "Israeli general draws protests," staff reporter Nicolas Niarchos reports: "Dagan was invited to Yale to speak about Israel's invasion of the Palestinian-occupied Gaza Strip, a conflict renewed Dec. 27 that Palestinian medical officials say has already taken the lives of more than 971 Palestinians and 13 Israelis. Although the Slifka Center had initially planned to host Dagan, police concerns forced the event to relocate to the Jewish Community Center of Greater New Haven here in neighboring Woodbridge."

To read the full article, click here.

To write the editor, click here or send email to editor@yaledailynews.com.

Rallies Across America: Jews Also Pray for the Palestinian Arabs

The Hartford, Connecticut community held a "Community Service for Israel Solidarity" January 14 as part of the week of "Rallies Across North American."

Typically, there were protesters outside, on Bloomfield Avenue, chanting slogans like "Free Palestine" (really meaning enslave the Jews in Palestine, since the Arabs already have their own governments in Jordan, Gaza and the West Bank) and "Apartheid is a Crime" (typically accusing Israel of the crime for which even the moderate Palestinian Arabs strive, as they still demand a state which is judenrein, something far worse than apartheid).

Those inside, at the rally, had something far different in mind: peace.

While obviously there to show solidarity with the people in Israel who have been bombarded with rockets shot from Gaza for the last eight years, they also expressed sadness at the plight of the Palestinian Arabs.

Typical of the thrust of all the speeches was the message in this prayer, written by Rabbi Stephen Fuchs, and read together by all those at the rally.

Eternal God,

We weep for the children of Israel whose lives have been traumatized these three years by the threat and the reality of rocket attacks from Gaza!

We weep for the children of Palestine victimized by the savagery of their leaders' decisions to use them as human shields behind which they launch deadly attacks on the children of Israel!

How long, Eternal One?
How long will it take until the Palestinian people say to Hamas, 'Enough! You are destroying any hope that we have for Palestinian dignity, independence and prosperity.'>
How long?

How long will Hamas continue to shed the blood of its own people?

May the New Year bring sanity to those so called leaders who make Hamas' decisions, and may it be a year of peace and harmony for all of Your children-the Palestinians and the Arabs in their vast land holdings and the tiny Jewish State of Israel.
May they live side by side in peace and harmony with one another,
And may those who call for only one state and no Jewish state at all realize that their intransigence only leads to more conflict and bloodshed.

Baruch Atah Adonai Ga'al Yisrael. We praise You Eternal One our God, the Redeemer of Israel!

Prayer for the Israel Defense Forces

May He who blessed our ancestors, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, bless the soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces and the security personnel who stand guard over Israel and the cities of our God, from the Lebanese border to the Egyptian wilderness, and from the Mediterranean Sea to the edges of the desert - or wherever they might be - on land, in the air, or at sea.

May God cause our enemies who attack us to suffer defeat at the hands of the troops. May the Holy One, blessed is He, shield and protect them from any adversity of anguish, any ordeal or suffering, and send blessing and success to everything they do. May He bring those who hate us under their sway, and glorify the forces with the crown of salvation and the mantle of victory, so that the verse, "The Lord, your God marches with you to do battle for you against your enemies and to save you," will be fulfilled through then, and let us say Amen.

PRIMER Statement on Operation Cast Lead

From the moment in 1967 that it captured the Gaza Strip from its Egyptian occupiers, Israel was prepared to give it away in return only for peace. In 2005, having no partner with which to negotiate, it simply walked away from Gaza, leaving it to the Palestinian Authority while asking for nothing in return.

Since then, rather than building a real society in the territory completely under their control, the Palestinian Arabs used Gaza to launch thousands of mortars and missiles at Israeli civilians.

No nation can allow its citizens to be attacked in this way. Israel therefore initiated an operation against the forces who have turned Gaza into a hostile, terror entity.

PRIMER-Connecticut regrets the necessity of what Israel is calling Operation Cast Iron. We support Israel in this effort to bring normalcy to those who have lived within the increasing range of the Kassam and Grad missiles launched from Gaza by Hamas and other terror groups. The operation's success is important not only to Israel, but also to those Palestinian Arabs who desire peace.

PRIMER calls on reporters and news organizations to keep their dispatches balanced and to include appropriate context about the intolerable terror attacks which have made this operation unavoidable.

Anti-Zionism at Ms. Magazine

Ms. Magazine, on spurious grounds, refused to publish an innocuous advertisement from the American Jewish Congress. PRIMER activist June Neal has been following the situation closely. She has sent out information about the situation, including the ingenuous press release distributed by Ms. and a list of advertisers along with recommendations on how to protest.

Destroying History

The Day of New London on Sunday, December 30, 2007 published a highly misleading op-ed entitled "Palestine Is Being Destroyed."

Read PRIMER's Comment & Analysis.

PRIMER Dominates JBlog

For a period of time on December 22, PRIMER's blog primerct.blogspot.com along with PRIMER Board member Don Morris' docstalk.blogspot.com blog dominated the ratings at JBlog Central, The Jewish and Israeli Blog Network, between them having the seven most popular posts of the previous twenty-four hours.

View what JBlog Central's home page looked like with PRIMER dominating the top seven spots.

Revealing Quote

"The U.S. and Israel and other regional powers were generous enough to provide Fatah security with very good weapons, and now they are in our hands." — Hamas gunman.

Read Hamas Militants Train for Attack on Israel on Fox News for an article containing this quote.

Interesting Doings in Cornwall

A simple post responding to an anti-Israel message on the Cornwall (Connecticut) Community Forum on YahooGroups set up a storm of controversy as a number of people there seem to be irate over the possibility that someone might post a message that's not virulently anti-Israel. Check out the Cornwall Community Forum at groups.yahoo.com/group/cornwall_community_network and the PRIMER Blog. The posts are also being made available on this web site.

The PRIMER Blog also contains notes about a talk by Brigette Gabriel celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of Israel's re-establishment.

Update

As of Monday, November 19, the Israel-haters on the Cornwall Community Forum have succeeded in stifling debate. The following letter was sent to PRIMER's president by the moderator.

Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 09:42:58 -0500
From: Hendon Chubb <garlic@aya.yale.edu>
Subject: Cornwall Community Network

Dear Mr. Stein,

Nobody has supported your argument that you are really a member of the Cornwall community and the consensus is that you are not a qualified member. I have banned you from posting on Cornwall Community Network. Please feel free to log onto it at any time to read other people's messages.
Hendon Chubb
Moderator

PRIMER President Alan Stein responded with the following message.

I can't say I'm surprised. I did go to log in to read the messages of others and found that you not only banned me from posting, but have totally locked me out of the forum so that I am unable to even read anyone's messages.

I might also point out that, according to the description of the forum on its home page, residency in Cornwall or even the surrounding communities is not a requirement for membership in the forum. You have actually used an invalid reason for banning me. Although I have not researched it yet, I suspect you may be in violation of YahooGroups' rules.

To remind you, the following is the description on the forum's web site regarding membership: "This Discussion Page is designed to allow a free and open discussion of matters of interest to residents of the Town of Cornwall, CT. Comments are invited from year-round and weekend residents of Cornwall, people who live in the nearby communities in the Northwest Corner and from anyone else who loves and values Cornwall."

There is a ground rule you do have listed which was clearly violated: "No personal attacks, or profanity will be allowed."

A significant proportion of the messages posted were minimally veiled personal attacks on me; some were blatant personal attacks.. I personally don't really mind them, having some confidence that the fair minded people who are not part of the lynch mob recognize them for what they are, a reflection of the hatred of those making the attacks. They do, however, reflect poorly on both Cornwall and the forum.

The reality is this entire brouhaha has nothing to do with whether or not I'm a "member" of the nebulous Cornwall community; it has to do with people unwilling to participate in an honest and open discussion of the Arab-Israeli conflict, people unwilling to have their lies and distortions challenged.

So be it.

Shalom.

It is interesting that the hypocritical Israel-haters worked so hard to shut down a balanced discussion in the northwest corner of Connecticut at the same time they were falsely accusing supporters of Israel of preventing an Arab dance troupe from performing at the opposite end of the state, southeastern Connecticut.

The "dance troupe" had been brought into the schools under false pretenses and rather than simply giving the billed cultural performance, they followed it with a message of hate, telling the students they hated Israel, hated America and the United States government was evil. They also talked about killing the children's fathers if they ventured into the disputed territories, something that was particularly upsetting to one student whose father had already been murdered by Palestinian Arabs.

There were some complaints from parents, but additional performances were cancelled by school officials even before they heard from parents.

Food For Thought

"Israel is the only country whose very right to stay on the map is constantly questioned.

"The true reason is simple: Israel is a Jewish state. This is the reason it is loved by many, and this is the reason it is hated by so many as well. Democracy and human rights are just the popular ways to justify the hatred, since Western society seems to be sensitive to these two issues nowadays."

Posted to the Jewish Faculty Roundtable discussion list by George Kaminski (kamin1ga@cmich.edu).

UConn Daily Campus

The University of Connecticut's Daily Campus ran an heavily biased, error filled commentary entitled Israeli Atrocities Should Not Be Masked By Friendship in its October 11 issue.

PRIMER has created a Comment & Analysis of the column which may be helpful in writing responses.

Qumsiyeh's Inconvenient Truth

Perhaps it was a bit of his conscience bothering him when he and a handful of other Anti-Israel fanatics protested a lecture at the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA), but Mazin Qumsiyeh inadvertantly told the truth during his protest.

After human rights activist Alan Dershowitz stopped by for a few minutes before his lecture, Qumsiyeh addressed the half-dozen or so fanatics who were protesting with him and were the only ones, aside from the video photographer and the reporter shown in the video, who didn't leave with Dershowitz.

The video shows Qumsiyeh saying "he [apparently referring to some unmentioned critic] then claims that Dershowitz lies" before clearly defending the human rights activist by saying "I urge you to get Dershowitz' book and read it because [undecipherable] one of the best documented."

At that point, he gets distracted until one of his shills who had noticed Qumsiyeh had accidentally told the truth prompts him with the words "Finkelstein, Finkelstein." At that point, Qumsiyeh changes his tune and starts praising the screeds of Norman Finkelstein, the mediocre former DePaul University faculty member.

The PRIMER Blog

PRIMER recently began a blog. PRIMER members are invited to contribute. The entries represent the personal views of the writers and are not necessarily endorsed by PRIMER.

Bias in the Waterbury Observer

The Waterbury Observer published a highly biased, error-filled anti-Israel commentary by Marilyn Aligata in its September, 2006 issue. This led to a series of reasoned responses followed by repetitions of the same error-filled anti-Israel propaganda accompanied by ad hominem attacks, including an irresponsible letter accusing respected attorney and human rights advocate Alan Dershowitz of plagiarism and fraud. The series may be viewed by clicking here.

Biased Letters in the Waterbury Republican-American

There has been a series of editorials, op-eds and letters in the Waterbury Republican-American relating to Jimmy Carter's recent heavily biased and error-filled book, with some of the letters defending Carter's errors. The series may be viewed by clicking here.

Biased Conferences Used to Spread Venomous Anti-Israel Propaganda Don't Promote Peace

The First Congregational Church of Old Lyme held a second of its so-called "Tree of Life" conferences on December 3, 2006. Like the first, this conference was heavily biased against Israel. PRIMER-Connecticut issued a statement about the conference.

Media bias and misinformation frequently characterize what is reported about the state of Israel in the American press and around the world.

This practice, when left unchallenged, negatively molds public opinion, which steers public policy, and can adversely affect Israel's well being and continued existence.

PRIMER — Promoting Responsibility in Middle East Reporting — is dedicated to countering media bias and misinformation on a regional basis. PRIMER-Connecticut focuses on generating LETTERS TO THE EDITOR and periodically publishing TREND REPORTS in which PRIMER analyzes a newspaper's coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Each year, PRIMER publishes its Media Review, a "critical review and analysis of print and other media reports."

PRIMER also maintains a list of spokespersons able to speak knowledgeably to the media on matters relating to the Middle East.
The reality about civilian casualties generally ignored by the press.

Collectively, Regional Groups Can Make a Difference!

Using a small group of dedicated activists, over a period of years PRIMER-Connecticut has been responsible for approximately three-quarters of the pro-Israel letters published in Connecticut's flagship newspaper, the Hartford Courant.

Regional groups with as few as a half dozen active members can help promote the shared interests of America and Israel and can make a big difference. PRIMER-Connecticut anticipates the creation of a network of regional monotoring and response groups across the country and is eager to assist in establishing other regional groups for effectively Promoting Responsibility in Middle East Reporting.

PRIMER-Connecticut also generates op-eds promoting the pro-Israel viewpoint and annually publishes Media Review, a critical review and analysis of print and other media reports.

Of Current Interest

Israel falsely accused of distractor's sins By Alan Stein — Response written to a vicious anti-Israel letter in The Hour. It was published as an op-ed. (August 22, 2010)

We are onto your lies and distractions! By Don Morris (June 22, 2010)

Why is the West Ignoring the Facts? By Don Morris (June 16, 2010)

Free Gaza-from what, from whom-do you mean from the autocratic control by Hamas? By Don Morris (June 15, 2010)

Borders Do Not Exist By Don Morris (June 11, 2010)

Understanding the Fourth Geneva Convention By Don Morris (June 5, 2010)

Free Gaza - From Its Arab Oppressors By Alan Stein — Published in the Manchester Journal-Inquirer on June 2, 2010 (June 1, 2010)

Only word-smithing has changed from May 2005-November 2009 By Don Morris — The West Bank, i.e. Judea and Samaria, to this day remain disputed, not occupied, territories. (November 18, 2009)

Settlers-rights and/or wrongs-another look By GS Don Morris (September 6, 2009)

It's not only about Yaalon's Comments, it's much more that is in the balance By Don Morris (August 21, 2009)

And now, the Unspoken Truth By GS Don Morris — Don Morris analyzes Barack Obama's Cairo speech, including exaggerations, misconceptions and misrepresentations. (June 6, 2009)

What's in a name? By GS Don Morris — Don Morris on the inappropriate and counterproductive acquiescence in the use of the term "settler." (May 25, 2009)

Solution: Implies common agreement on the problem and … By GS Don Morris (May 20, 2009)

Entitlement Thinking: We are paying for it now! By GS Don Morris (April 16, 2009)

Settlers By GS Don Morris (September 9, 2008)

Time for Some Plain Talk By GS Don Morris (July 17, 2008)

Some thoughts-do with as you like! By GS Don Morris — The Return of Israel's Abducted Soldiers (July 15, 2008)

It's not only the barbaric act, it is their aberrant social behavior! By GS Don Morris — Yes, the world should condemn the attack on Jerusalem's Mercaz Harav Yeshiva and there should be moral, social outrage with this evil act, but it's even worse than that. (March 6, 2008)

Showing Good Faith In The Arab-Israeli Conflict By Alan Stein — Events such as the annual Israel-bashing at the First Congregational Church of Old Lyme are counterproductive to any efforts to bring about an Arab-Israeli peace and an end to the death and destruction resulting from the Arab effort to destroy Israel. Published by The Day of New London. (November 25, 2007)

Misdirection is a mystery unless you know the truth By Don Morris (November 12, 2007)

What Version of the Road Map? By Don Morris (November 5, 2007)

Incomprehensible Negligence By Don Morris (October 29, 2007)

Ignorance is NOT bliss By Don Morris (October 17, 2007)

Too weak to govern-use the weakness as a weapon-it works in the West! By Don Morris (October 14, 2007)

Let's not get ahead of ourselves By Don Morris — Analysis of the gross distortions in the reports claiming the Palestinian Arabs are ready to use the "Taba Draft" as a basis for talks (October 12, 2007)

"I'll take my ball and go home if you don't let me ..." By Don Morris — Israel wants a genuine, authentic peace. This requires negotiations, not a repeat of failed, concessions-based diplomacy (October 7, 2007)

The Paradox here in Israel By Don Morris — The range of emotions in Israel on Erev Rosh Hashanah (September 12, 2007)

At the end of the day whose values do you want to live by? By Don Morris (September 10, 2007)

Abdicate All Responsibility-It's Their Fault! By Don Morris — Israel's enemies continue to engage in public relations practices that serve only their own special interests. Their playbook is the same as it has been for the last decade: obfuscate the truth, redirect the reader's focus, abdicate all responsibility and resort to name calling and placing blame upon Israel for one's own intentional behavior. (September 1, 2007)

The Devil is in the Details By Don Morris — Generally ignored details of the new defense agreement between the United States and Israel. (August 17, 2007)

For the Record By Don Morris — The new ten year defense agreement between the United States and Israel comes at a steep price to Israel. (August 16, 2007)

Connect the Dots By Don Morris — If you believed the media, Israel is acting responsibly and independently in opening talks with Abbas. Think again. (August 7, 2007)

Too Long in Iraq-Get Out Now! By Don Morris (August 2, 2007)

Change the Paradigm of Bias, Part II By Alan Stein — It's Time for our government to adopt a truly balanced approach to the Arab-Israeli conflict. (June 22, 2007)

'Islamophobia'-Example of Irresponsible Behavior By Don Morris (June 1, 2007)

Change the Paradigm of Bias, Part I By Alan Stein — It's time for our government to adopt a truly balanced approach to the Arab-Israeli conflict. (May 18, 2007)

Political Correctness is Killing Us-Part Three By Don Morris (May 12, 2007)

Political Correctness is Killing Us-Part Two By Don Morris (April 22, 2007)

Political Correctness is Killing Us-Part One By Don Morris (March 26, 2007)

What Hypocrisy? By Don Morris (February 24, 2007)

Time To Gather Our Courage By Don Morris (January 21, 2007)

Peace, Not Propaganda By Alan Stein — Comment & Analysis of biased essay by Marilyn Aligata in the Waterbury Observer (January 7, 2007)

Hillel Halkin's Good News By David Basch — A harsh critique of Hillel Halkin's perspective of the Arab-Israeli conflict (December 14, 2006)

Review of Jimmy Carter's book Palestine Peace Not Apartheid — Mitchell Bard, author of The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Middle East Conflict and of Myths and Facts: A Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict, has written a comprehensive review of the book, pointing out many of the core contradictions, distortions and falsehoods written by the former president.

Rockets' Red Glare By Joel Abramson — Commentary on Hamas kidnapping of Gilad Shalit and launching Kassam rockets at Israeli towns (July 14, 2006)

Definition of a Terrorist — The widespread use of the term "militant" rather than the more accurate term "terrorist" is one of the widespread aspects of subtle bias in the media. PRIMER was sent an unpublished commentary describing the difference.

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