Jan McGirk

Jan McGirk

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Have laptop, will travel. Californian Jan McGirk yo-yos between the Middle East and America's Left Coast. Based in Jerusalem for the past two years, the freelance writer and investigative journalist has voted by absentee ballot in all Presidential elections since the 1976 Bicentennial. She worked as a foreign correspondent for the British press, filing dispatches from Asia and Latin America for over a decade, and now has evolved into a cyberpundit, blogger, and citizen reporter.

Blog Entries by Jan McGirk

Phony Biden Broadcast And Disturbing Palin Church Sermon Raise Alarms Among Jews

Posted September 4, 2008 | 09:40 AM (EST)


While the American media obsess about whether Alaska Governor and aerial wolf-sniper Sarah Palin is ready for prime time and national office, many Israeli political buffs have been scrutinizing the 2008 vice presidential candidates in light of foreign policy issues.

Today, Sen. Joe Biden's photo was splashed on the front...

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The Abominable Snow Job Of "The Obama Nation"

3 Comments | Posted August 20, 2008 | 05:57 PM (EST)


The anti-Obama rhetoric of the first stages of the McCain-Obama race has been laced with falsehoods, unfair innuendos, and sneaky appeals to religious fundamentalists. One of the worst examples is Dr. Jerome Corsi's abominable snow job on Barack Obama: his book "The Obama Nation." Unfortunately this fallacious book seems to...

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Huckabee Campaigns For McCain In Israel

9 Comments | Posted August 19, 2008 | 08:45 AM (EST)


JERUSALEM -- In the wake of the evangelical Saddleback presidential faith forum and just as the veepstakes heat up for the Republican campaign, 2008 presidential candidate ex-Arkansas governor and Baptist minister with a grin Mike Huckabee turned up for his tenth trip to the Holy Land. The timely invitation came...

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Obama In Ramallah

27 Comments | Posted July 23, 2008 | 08:26 PM (EST)


RAMALLAH, West Bank -- The Barack Obama roadshow kept up its grueling pace Wednesday. The usual delays and frustrations that typify life in the "Muddled East" were effectively excised for the senator's 36-hour visit to the Holy Land. He kept to a strict timetable with about 100 war-zone-weary journalists...

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Obama In Jerusalem

Posted July 21, 2008 | 06:36 PM (EST)


JERUSALEM -- Excitement is mounting as Senator Barack Obama and his entourage approach Israel and the West Bank. This trip is much higher profile than his junket
here as a junior senator in January 2006. As America's first mixed-race candidate for the presidency, the presumptive Democratic nominee...

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