Muhammad Idrees Ahmad

For all its failings, Al Jazeera International still remains a head and shoulders above CNN, BBC etc. On most occasions it airs real debate (unlikely the narrowly circumscribed differences in nuance that passes for ‘debate’ on BBC and CNN) with both poles of the political spectrum genuinely represented. Here a Mustafa Barghouti, a Palestinian; Clifford May, a neocon; and Uri Avnery, an Israeli, debate the meeting between Khalid Mish’al and Jimmy Carter, the man Robert Fisk has called ‘the first American President approaching sainthood’ .