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Israel and Hamas are fighting on two fronts in Gaza - a military battle, and a battle for public opinion.
SOURCES: Future TV, Lebanon; Al Arabya, U.A.E.; Saudi Arabian Television, Saudi Arabia; Al Jazeera English, Qatar; Press TV, Iran; Israel National News, Israel; TV5, France; BBC, U.K.; NBC News, U.S.; Russia Today, Russia.
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This week, Global Pulse will be examining global media coverage of the Israeli war in Gaza. One relevant production we're looking forward to seeing is the Israeli film "Waltz With Bashir," which treats memories of a previous military campaign, the 1982 invasion of Lebanon that included an epic massacre of Palestinians in two refugee camps. Gary Kamiya at Salon makes a compelling case for the parallels between Israeli tactics - and their numbing consequences - then and now.
Gay sex in Iran can mean a government paid sex change. A rocky, and sometimes violent road in the struggle for justice and tolerance in Iran, East Europe, India and Singapore.
SOURCES: BBC, U.K.; Al Jazeera, Qatar; Russia Today, Russia; Deutsche Welle, Germany; Southeast Asia Newsline, India; NDTV, India; CBC, Canada; CNN, U.S.; ABC, U.S.
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Now 34 days from retirement, President Bush this week narrowly avoided taking a shoe to the head. But in a period where the incoming Obama administration dominates the news, the incident inspires Global Pulse in our upcoming episode to take one more look at the legacy that our current president leaves behind.
In the blogosphere, a heavy dose of skepticism reigns. At the Washington Post, Dan Froomkin writes that this weekend, "one rebellious Iraqi reporter -- and two flying items of footwear -- punctured Bush's historical revisionism and offered a powerful metaphor for the counter-argument that the war was a disastrous mistake and is far from over." Adam Serwer at the American Prospect asks, "Can there be a president who has behaved more recklessly or disrespectfully in proportion to the sacrifice he asked of the men and women under his command?" Andrew Sullivan worries that Bush's shoe-throwing assailant could be tortured in US custody, "a public relations and military crisis -- one that manages to bring all the idiocy and dumb cruelty of the Bush-Cheney years together."
But how will Bush be remembered beyond Baghdad and Washington? We search for clues in this week's Global Pulse.
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