Around the Web

I posted the following over at “Instapundit”:http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/ today while Glenn Reynolds is goofing off at the beach:
THE TALIBAN abduct up to “hundreds of students in Pakistan”:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/01/AR2009060102953.html.
PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY President Mahmoud Abbas: “No, no, and no”:http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/trager/67961. Even the _New York Times_ is “losing patience with him”:http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_spine/archive/2009/06/01/even-the-new-york-times.aspx.
JOSHUA MURAVCHIK: “Islamists Lose Ground in the Middle East”:http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124381143508370179.html#mod=rss_opinion_main
YAACOV LOZOWICK: “High-quality Political Cynicism Galore”:http://yaacovlozowick.blogspot.com/2009/05/high-quality-political-cynicism-galore.html.

[N]o matter how childish the politicians-media-NGO activists are, the foreign reporters who eagerly take only part of the story and use it to damn Israel shouldn’t be exonerated. They could tell the same story I’ve just told you, but scrupulously won’t, ever.