Despite the controversial prisoner swap two weeks ago and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's ongoing trial, this has been a relatively quiet summer of Israeli news coverage in American papers. Surely this is because of the ongoing, if shaky, cease-fire. Although we all have our own opinions of Israeli politics (and it isn't for us at Moment to editorialize), certainly we can all agree that it is nice to see articles about anything other than acts of violence. Without having to run around the scenes of bombings or shootouts, reporters have time to write more in-depth, wide-lensed stories. For example, the Post ran diplomatic correspondent Glenn Kessler's article about Arab states' unfulfilled aid to Palestinians. (Also see the graphic that ran alongside.) Says Kessler: Out of 22 Arab nations that made pledges, only three—Algeria, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab...

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