When I walked out of a polling booth after voting in one of the US Senatorial elections in New York City several years ago, I was accosted by a reporter and a cameraman for the Qatar-based Middle Eastern TV network Al Jazeera.The woman reporter, who was also a UN correspondent at that time, thrust the mike before me for my comments on the elections. Al Jazeera ran a story with my comments. And when I visited my neighbouring Palestinian-run...