[Alberta's Child]

People who point to the Arafat incident as evidence of his credentials as an "anti-terror" candidate ought to remember that this incident occurred shortly after Giuliani hosted Irish Republican Army spokesman Gerry Adams at an official city event.

If Arafat had been Irish or Italian, Giuliani would have been sitting next to him in Lincoln Center that evening.

[Clemenza]

Besides, telling Arafat to go to hell in a city where Jews are one of the largest voting blocks (and the key to his second run/win against Dinkins in '93) and Arabs are is not remarkable.

Reminds me of how former Mayor LaGuardia would go to rallies denouncing Hitler, yet then attend Italian-American pro-Mussolini rallies the same day.