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  Learn about the Middle East & counter the Arab-bashing. September 9, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This excellent journal has been doing courageous and informative work for years. They are countering waves of anti-Arab and anti-Muslim bigotry that is being churned out by authors like Robert Spencer Religion of Peace?: Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn't and radio hosts like Dennis Prager.
One can only hope that this magazine gets money from the Saudi monarchy, as it would be a much better expenditure of money than funding the Saudi Arabian National Guard (trained by U.S. military corporations like Vinnell, and supported by the US establishment).
Unfortunately, WRMEA doesn't get big donations from Saudi royalty; rather, they get their money from the hundreds of people whose names are periodically listed in the magazine, my name included. Also, WRMEA gets money from subscribers and advertisers, and from the sales of all sorts of great books, CDs and movies they offer.
It all amounts to only a fraction of the money that advocates and apologists for US/Israel aggression have to work with, but WRMEA changes a lot of perspectives with what they are able to produce and distribute. They also have enough people donating money that they are able to send sample copies to people who want to get an idea for themselves what the good people at the Washington Report are about.
With informative articles, moving photos, a lively letters section, and a professional layout, WRMEA provides a voice to a people who have suffered not only from military assaults and economic warfare; but also from an obscene propaganda campaign against them. Subscribing to WRMEA will not only help people cut through the distortions of US media (Israel's media are actually more fair than that of the US. Ha'aretz is far better than Fox or the NY Times), but is also an important act of solidarity with the victims of generations of the West's uncivilized behavior in the region.
Some of the DVDs WRMEA has alerted me to include:
Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land: U.S. Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Arabs and Terrorism
and "Occupation 101" (not yet available on Amazon)
 A Saudi funded propaganda journal masking as a scholarly publication September 1, 2006
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
The Saudis have bought up a lot of things in America, including whole university Middle Eastern studies departments. Their Wahahabi propaganda is filling the mosques of America with a poisonous anti- Western message. This glossy would- be scholarly news magazine is just one item in their rich basket. Its main task is defaming and working at the destruction of Israel, while promoting what used to be called , 'the Palestinian cause' But now that the Palestinians themselves have gone over to Islamism, and that little piece of the Middle East called the 'Holy Land' is not big enough for their ambitions there might be a change in focus, to another central propaganda item of the magazine. i.e. how wonderful for humanity is the Islamic world.
This is a magazine which should fool none of the people none of the time, but people being what they are, and money and influence being what they are, will certainly have a certain negative effect.
Spam January 10, 2005
6 out of 11 found this review helpful
This nifty-looking publication in fact merely churns out antisemitic propaganda in an attempt to fight against human rights in general and Jewish rights in particular. Still, I have to admit that the magazine does approve of some things once in a while, particularly wasteful and oppressive Arab regimes, especially the Saudis.
The serum for our Pro-Israeli corporate media spin machine! July 30, 2004
7 out of 13 found this review helpful
I am not a Democrat or Republican. I am not an Arab or a Muslim. I am not a racist or a moral relativist bearded fruit-juice drinker. I am however an American citizen who wants to know why we have mortgaged our country, lives, and government to a tiny despotic rogue state in the Middle East at the core of the world's struggle with terrorism. If you want to know "why they hate us", why the rest of the world empathizes and supports the Palestinian struggle, why our Congress is at the financial mercy of Pro-Israeli lobbyists, why our credibility in the world is extinct, why we are fighting ongoing wars in the Middle East with countries that would otherwise be happy to sell us their oil as they do to all other nations, what the "terrorists" rationale is, how Israel and its "friends" in our country thoroughly dominate ownership of corporate media, shield Israel's terrorism and genocide while sensationalizing Palstinian resistance as "terrorism" and set US foreign policy as well as ignore and violate international laws, treaties, norms, and the morals & ideals they claim to uphold, then this is the journal of record for you. Be warned: The more you peel the US foreign policy onion vis-a-vie the Middle East, the more it stinks and the more you'll cry! The only pre-requisite is an open mind and a cognitive appetite for the truth. This fantastic and empirically accurate journal will give meaning to the saying, "If you want to know who is really running your nation, just look at the group you are not allowed to criticsize."
Outstanding and thorough. January 7, 2004
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
If you want to know what's really going on in the Middle East, read this publication religiously. Some prospective readers may not understand that this is directly care of Middle Eastern primary sources, not AP- distributed generic spin. Official government reports (namely care of the Sharon administration) will obviously be contradictory if they don't want the information to get out. Most everything else tends to report only the other side... it's about time someone started to level the playing field. One publication down, thousands to go.
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