News Brief15:30 PM

(IsraelNN.com) Anti-Defamation League (ADL) director Abe Foxman said Tuesday afternoon that mainstream media are turning against Israel. One of the guests at the three-day Presidential Conference in Jerusalem, he told Voice of Israel government radio, "Painting Israel as the cause of the nakba [catastrophe] has taken root in the mainstream."

Foxman pointed out that both The New York Times and the Washington Post published front-page articles on Israel's Independence Day that focused on Arab suffering as well as Jewish celebrations instead of describing the miracle of the re-establishment of the Jewish state.

He added that American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, when asked why American President George W. Bush is visiting Israel to help celebrate Israel's existence, stated that the American government is dealing with the consequence of the re-establishment of the State of Israel.