Eugene, the 17-year old Israeli who made a media sensation by blogging from inside a bunker during the Israel-Hezbollah War, returns to Haifa after the war. In this podcast interview with Roger Simon, he speaks of the scene in Haifa now and the problems of Israeli society and political life in this new era. Eugene is now a Special Correspondent for Pajamas Media.

Stockholm Syndrome: The Fox-Gaza Variations — Here’s how it seems to work these days.

You’re “The Press.” You’re working night and day to get “The Palestinian Story” told the Palestinian way out of Gaza. Your reward? You’re kidnapped by Palestinian killers, threatened with death and forced to convert to Islam with a gun to your head. “We were forced to lay face down again in the dirt with blindfolds on.” After 13 days you are released.

In response to this ordeal, you say concerned, kind and sensitive things about your abductors.

“I hope that this never scares a single journalist away from coming to Gaza to cover the story because the Palestinian people are very beautiful and kind hearted.”— Steve Centanni, Fox News.

What’s going on in your head? This week the PJM Sanity Squad of 4 mental health professionals takes an indepth look at the Islamic tradition of forced conversions.

“My job is to—is to find the talent and develop the talent, work with the talent, and try and make the scripts for that talent work, find the film-makers who can deliver to an audience that we think is defined by what Channel 4 stands for and make those movies happen by putting my money on the table.” — Tessa Ross, producer of the Oscar-winning The Motorcycle Diaries, Touching the Void, The Road to Guantanamo and head of film and drama at England’s Channel 4. Here she talks with PJM’s Special Correspondent Andrew Keen of AfterTV and The Great Seduction.