What Al-Jazeera thinks of me

I don't spend a lot of time at Al-Jazeera.

It's the kind of quasi-news, quasi-propaganda news service that isn't terribly useful – until and unless al-Qaida or some other terrorist group has a communiqu? or a new beheading video they want to distribute worldwide.

In fact, it was when Al-Jazeera got its latest "scoop" last week – the beheading of Kim Sun-il, the South Korean businessman kidnapped by terrorists in Iraq – that I went to check out the details on the Arab new site.

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Imagine my surprise, after poking around a bit, when I found Al-Jazeera had recently attacked me by name.

It seems I am plotting with a group of people, most of whom I don't know, to bring about a Nazi-like "final solution" to the problem of those pesky Palestinians.

But it wasn't all that bad. It seems Al-Jazeera appreciates the success of WorldNetDaily. Given its own reliance on Arab oil money, I guess it's understandable that the practitioners of the Big Lie assume I have my own "sponsors."

"Joseph Farah's unique success in the Internet media may well result from being an Arab who has supported both Bush 'wars' and every act of Israel, sometimes overtly and sometimes with sly cleverness," the article says.

Well, that's funny. While it's true I supported the campaigns to liberate Afghanistan and Iraq of Al-Jazeera's friends, WorldNetDaily was well-established as the No. 1 independent Internet news site long before that. In fact, long before anyone even noticed that I was an Arab-American or before I had written famously about the Middle East beginning in 2000, WorldNetDaily's success was set.

Further, just for the sake of clarification, I don't support every act of Israel. I don't support its wacky idea to give up the Gaza Strip to the thugs of Hamas. I didn't support its retreat from south Lebanon. I don't support its retreat from Judea and Samaria. I happen to think Israel is far too accommodating to Al-Jazeera's friends in Hezbollah and the Palestinian Authority.

"Farah recently spoke at the University of Colorado campus sponsored by several Jewish student associations," Al-Jazeera continues.

Imagine that. Speaking to Jews!

"This author's friend who attended witnessed his shocking remarks about Iraq and Palestine, with horror," the article continues.

No specifics are provided as to those shocking remarks – all of which are a matter of public record in my daily columns over the years. But if Al-Jazeera is shocked that an Arab-American speaks to Jewish-Americans, you can be sure it wouldn't take too much rhetorical controversy to send its friends writhing in horror.

The article then goes on to quote a column I wrote urging U.S. Marines to pound Fallujah – that hotbed of Sunni terrorism in Iraq.

"Over 900 Iraqis are known to have died since Farah said this, but it is not hard to see that the Zionist-friendly U.S. media would support Farah's Internet business, and why financing for his costly WorldNetDaily does not seem to be a problem," the Al-Jazeera article continues.

In conclusion, Al-Jazeera says: "Farah is the No. 1 Zionist Arab in the world today."

I guess that's supposed to be an insult. For Jew-haters, you can't get much lower than that. When an anti-Semite bigot calls you a "Zionist," that's the insult of insults.

As for me, as long as I'm No. 1, I'll accept the condemnation from Al-Jazeera as the highest form of flattery.

Of course, with Al-Jazeera's famed connections with Islamist terrorists around the globe, I'm also aware of what it means to be in this media organization's cross hairs.