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Watching the Media: Beware of Prepositions
150 150 Steven M. Albert

The lowly preposition can be a potent agent of spin. Here’s a case in point. On August 24, 2004 undercover Israeli troops captured Adnan and Rateb Abayat, a commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades and his brother. All sources agree on this point. Adnan Abiyat had been sought by Israel’s Shin Bet for some time…

Soroka saves two Gaza children in one week By Judy Siegel-Itzkovich
150 150 SPME

Twice in one week, humanitarian gestures at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba have saved Palestinian children from Gaza who have no medical insurance. A seven-year-old girl suffered second- and third-degree burns over a third of her body after she was left alone at home and a large pot of boiling water overturned on her. Her…

Mansdorf, Canadian J Psychiatry exchange
150 150 Irwin J. Mansdorf

Q. Rae-Grant, MDEditor-in-chiefCanadian Journal of PsychiatryMay 30, 2004 Dear Editor: In “The prevalence of psychological morbidity in West Bank Palestinian Children”, [1] serious omissions presenting the data were present. Moreover, clearly biased and undocumented statements attributing causality on the basis of political, rather than scientific considerations were made. Notwithstanding the rate of emotional and behavioral…

Response to IHLRI
150 150 SPME

Dear Prof. Bloom,In the first paragraph of your response to my inquiry, you wrote “I have examined the issues, namely: the relation of IHLRI to the mission of the Program, the procedures and scope of input into IHLRI content, and its responsiveness to comments and criticism.” Unfortunately, the rest of your letter and the references…