http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/arafat/ en-us Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:27:15 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1958065/posts Barack Obama's real thinking about Israel and the Middle East continues to be an enigma. The words he chose in an address to AIPAC create a different impression than the composition of his foreign policy advisory team. Several advisors have evidenced a history of suspicion and worse toward Israel. One of his advisors in particular, Robert Malley, clearly warrants attention, as does the reasoning that led him to being chosen by Barack Obama. A little family history may be in order to understand the genesis of Robert Malley's views. Normally, one should be reluctant in exploring a person's family background... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1958065/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:27:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098958/posts In the end, the global jihad, and the West's fickle response to radical Islam's assault on its civilization, is about hating Jews. This truth, never wholly hidden from view, was exposed in all its ugliness in recent months with startling disclosures by former Italian president and Senator-for-life Francesco Cossiga. In a letter to Italy's Corriere della Serra in August, Cossiga acknowledged that during the early 1970s, then Italian prime minister Aldo Moro signed an agreement with Yassir Arafat's PLO and affiliated organizations that enabled the Palestinians to field terrorists, operate bases and store weapons in Italy in exchange for immunity... Caroline Glick.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098958/posts#comment Mon, 6 Oct 2008 20:58:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2067107/posts Arab Muslim Palestinians' Persecution of Christians DHIMMITUDE, ISLAMIC APARTHEIDArab "Palestinian" Christians have been suffering and STILL suffer from Arab "Palestinian" Muslim majority.Just like the Arab Christian Lebanese in "Damour" (Yasir Arafat´s Planned Christian Genocide http://www.chretiens-et-juifs.org/article.php?voir%5B%5D=594&voir%5B%5D=3532 , Hobeika - Damour http://www.free-lebanon.com/LFPNews/hobeika_damour/hobeika_damour.html), where "Palestinian" Muslims massacred Christians senselessly, which brought the reprisal by Arab Christians upon Arab "Palestinian" Muslims in Sabra & shatila. The Islamization of Bethlehem that has started by Yasser Arafat has forced Christians out.The "Palestinian" Christians are forced to join the senseless criminal violence against Israeli victims, otherwise they are threatened. Some Arab "Palestinians" that might be Christian won't... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2067107/posts#comment Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:27:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064520/posts A former Italian president says his country had allowed Palestinian terror groups to roam free in exchange for not attacking Italian targets. Francesco Cossiga's admission confirmed claims of such a deal revealed last week in an interview in the Corriere della Sera newspaper with Bassam Abu Sharif, the former chief of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. In a letter published Aug. 15 in Corriere della Sera, Cossiga described a "secret 'non-belligerence pact' between the Italian state and Palestinian resistance organizations, including terrorist groups" such as the PFLP. The deal, he said, had been devised by Prime Minister... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064520/posts#comment Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:44:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063840/posts Why Terror Thrives ...It was the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, however, that trailblazed attacks on airliners with its September 7, 1970 hijacking of three planes "to call special attention to the Palestinian problem." Sure enough, the Palestinian cause has since became synonymous with anti-civilian warfare, from the Munich Olympics' massacre in September 1972 to the Arab fratricide inside Gaza this weekend. And the slaughter of innocents is now part of the Islamists' struggle against "infidels." What the Palestinians began in the early 1970s is now paying "dividends."http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1215331127098&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull jpost http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063840/posts#comment Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:05:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061445/posts The Obama campaign's conference call yesterday on Republicans who back the presidential bid of the Democrat from Illinois showcased quite a crew. There was Rita Hauser, the PLO apologist whose law firm, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, racked up millions of dollars in legal fees over the years as a registered foreign agent of Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority. Ms. Hauser met with Mr. Arafat as early as 1988, when America still considered him a terrorist and refused even to allow him access to the United Nations headquarters in New York. Though the meeting may have had the tacit approval of... nysun.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061445/posts#comment Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:02:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2053035/posts Is it beyond our capacity to define attacks against civilians as a crime against humanity? Someone set out to kill a lot of people on Sunday night in Istanbul, Turkey - and did. Two bombs were exploded, 10 minutes apart, along a pedestrian mall in a residential neighborhood. The first explosion attracted a crowd; the second, which could be heard a mile away, was intended to kill those drawn to the site of the first attack. Some 17 people lost their lives and over 150 were wounded. Turkish president Abdullah Gul said the attack showed "the ruthlessness of terrorism." Indeed... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2053035/posts#comment Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:21:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/583275/posts <p>December 4, 2001 -- COMING from the territory for which Yasser Arafat is responsible, terrorists last weekend killed 26 Israelis, a portion of Israel's population that is equal to 1,240 Americans. America is projecting power halfway around the world to collapse the Taliban regime because it harbors terrorists.</p> New York Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/583275/posts#comment Tue, 4 Dec 2001 07:37:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/589346/posts Just announced on KABC radio, Los Angeles 790. ABC Radio http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/589346/posts#comment Thu, 13 Dec 2001 00:02:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2001855/posts Jimmy Carter Lays A Wreath at Arafat's Tomb By Julie Stahl CNSNews.com Jerusalem Bureau Chief April 15, 2008 Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter laid a wreath of red roses at the grave of Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat during a visit to the West Bank City of Ramallah on Tuesday. "He and Mrs. Carter and his son Jeff wanted to pay their respects to President Arafat," Carter's trip director Rick Jasculca told Cybercast News Service. But the former president didn't make any comments there, he said. Dubbed the "godfather of terrorism," Arafat was linked to the... CNS News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2001855/posts#comment Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:47:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1991896/posts Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, in a wide-ranging interview today with Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reporters and editors, said she would have left her church if her pastor made the sort of inflammatory remarks Sen. Barack Obama's former pastor made. "He would not have been my pastor," Clinton said. "You don't choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend." (edit) Clinton said she was "sleep-deprived" and "misspoke" when she said last week that she landed under sniper fire during a trip to Bosnia in 1996, when she was first lady. The Clinton campaign had refrained from getting involved in... The Pittsburgh Gazette, American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1991896/posts#comment Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:58:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990951/posts I am longing for an American president who will have the courage and the honesty to tell Israeli leaders: Dear friends, you are drunk with power! You are speeding along a highway that leads to an abyss! The US is now the only super-power on earth. It will remain so for quite some time to come. The decisions of the President of the United States affect every human being on this planet. Unfortunately, the citizens of the world have no part in these elections. But they may, at least, voice an opinion. Availing myself of this right I say: I... Daily Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1990951/posts#comment Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:24:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/588232/posts American mediator Gen. Anthony Zinni, who met with Yasser Arafat yesterday, said about him, "I have never encountered such lack of trustworthiness in my life." He said it was a "waste of time to try to reach a serious agreement with Arafat," and will concentrate on talking with other top figures in the PA - probably a reference to Muhammad Dahlan, Jibril Rajoub, and others. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon breakfasted today with the European Union's Javier Solana, expressing his satisfaction with the EU's call for the dismantling of Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The EU's statement of yesterday also called upon ... IsraelNationalNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/588232/posts#comment Tue, 11 Dec 2001 14:54:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1959928/posts My good friend Scott Johnson, who in real life may be one of the most unassuming people you'll ever meet, is a tiger when it comes to documenting media shenanigans and Palestinian terrorism. In the upcoming issue of the Weekly Standard, the Power Line heavyweight delves into one of the more reprehensible media-fueled urban legends of 9/11: Yasser Arafat and his blood donation. Recall the shrieking adulation in the streets of Ramallah when al-Qaeda killed 3,000 people in New York City and Washington DC as the context for this event. Americans, already with our blood boiling, saw the images of... Captain's Quarters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1959928/posts#comment Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:48:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1956829/posts HEBRON, West Bank — Like many Palestinians of his generation, 76-year-old Yasser Hirbawi felt a new-found pride when a young Yasser Arafat began to campaign for an independent homeland half a century ago. He also sensed a business opportunity. As Mr. Arafat vaulted into the international spotlight as the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Mr. Hirbawi realized there was money to be made by manufacturing the kaffiyeh, the checkered black and white scarf that became Mr. Arafat's trademark headgear. Today, though, in what many see as a metaphor for the failing state of the Palestinian economy, foreign competition threatens... London Sunday Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1956829/posts#comment Sun, 20 Jan 2008 23:11:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1956150/posts Keith Weissman and Steven Rosen Are PhDs and Middle East Experts Who Did Some Lobbying. They Thought They Were Doing What Washington Insiders Always Do. Thomas O’Donnell didn’t reveal his job when he phoned Keith Weissman in 2004 and got the policy analyst’s wife. He says he didn’t want to scare her. When Weissman returned the call and found out O’Donnell was an FBI agent, his first reaction was to attempt a joke: “What did I do?” “I’m sure you didn’t do anything,” O’Donnell told him. He wanted to meet that day, for five or ten minutes, and get Weissman’s... Washingtonian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1956150/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jan 2008 05:46:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1946796/posts (IsraelNN.com) Forty-three years ago on Tuesday, the Fatah terrorist group carried out its first attack on Israel. The group attempted to bomb the National Water Carrier on January 1, 1965, but the attack was foiled. The group continued its bombing attacks throughout the year. A group of future Fatah leaders, including Yasser Arafat, decided to form the group in 1959. However, the group celebrated 43 years since its founding on Monday in honor of the first attack on Israel. Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas spoke at celebrations in Ramallah. Celebrations in Gaza led to a shootout with Hamas in which... Israel National News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1946796/posts#comment Tue, 1 Jan 2008 17:43:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1946771/posts Bush won't visit Yasser Arafat's tomb Khaled Abu Toameh , THE JERUSALEM POST Jan. 1, 2008 Palestinian Authority officials on Monday expressed deep disappointment after learning that US President George W. Bush, who is expected to visit Ramallah soon, does not intend to lay a wreath at Yasser Arafat's tomb. Bush, who is also expected to visit Jericho and Bethlehem, does not even plan to pass near the tomb. On the eve of Bush's visit, the PA announced that its security forces in the West Bank had thwarted a suicide bombing in Israel. PA Information Minister Riad al-Malki said a... jpost.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1946771/posts#comment Tue, 1 Jan 2008 16:37:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1945285/posts The latest edition of the Egyptian magazine Al-Ahram Al-Arabi has confirmed what many in the West have suspected for a long time: that Yasser Arafat personally directed the Black September terrorist organization that claimed responsibility for the 1971 murder of Jordanian Prime Minister Wasfi at-Tal, the 1972 massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics, and other atrocities. The Cairo newspaper quotes a new book by PLO leader Marwan Kanafani, “Years of Hope,” to be published soon. There have also long been claims that Arafat’s longtime deputy Mahmoud Abbas, who is still widely known in the Middle East by his... National Review Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1945285/posts#comment Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:25:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1944599/posts Brainchild of the KGB As Ion Mihai Pacepa, onetime director of the Romanian espionage service (DIE), later explained, the PLO was conceived at a time when the KGB was creating “liberation front” organizations throughout the Third world. Others included the National Liberation Army of Bolivia, created in 1964 with help from Ernesto “Che” Guevara, and the National Liberation Army of Colombia, created in 1965 with help from Fidel Castro. But the PLO was the KGB’s most enduring achievement. In 1964, the first PLO Council, consisting of 422 Palestinian representatives handpicked by the KGB, approved the Soviet blueprint for a Palestinian... FrontPageMag http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1944599/posts#comment Thu, 27 Dec 2007 04:32:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1940199/posts JIMMY CARTER THE CRIMINAL   Jimmy Carter - infamous worst ex US president that is largely at fault for the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran (by putting extra pressure on the Shah), ultimately resulting in 1) Islamic Republic of Iran's oppression of millions of Persians, and 2) the planet in peril at the hands of that nation's mullahs' nukes.   Jimmy Carter has his hands blooded in every single violent action being perpetrated by that Islamic republic on a daily basis since 1979, including the crimes against humanity like the massacres in the 1980's, the terrible persecution on minorities such as:... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1940199/posts#comment Sun, 16 Dec 2007 09:40:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1939429/posts JERUSALEM - In spite of longstanding denials by top officials here, the Israeli government in 2000 agreed to relinquish the Temple Mount - Judaism's holiest site - to the Palestinians during U.S.- backed negotiations, according to declassified documents made public today. The information comes as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert earlier this month denied talks started at November's Annapolis summit would lead to Israel giving up its sovereignty over the Temple Mount, while chief Palestinian negotiators tell WND the Jewish state already agreed to forfeit Judaism's holiest site to a coalition of Arab countries... WorldNetDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1939429/posts#comment Fri, 14 Dec 2007 15:02:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1939322/posts Quiz yourself on the Israeli Arab ["Palestinian"] conflict       1) When was the Arab immigration to [the historic Jewish land of] Israel -"Palestine" boosted?   A When they wanted to see Jewish holy sites. B When [anti French and anti British] Arab nationalism spread across the middle east. C When the Zionists Jews came and cultivated the deserted land.     2) What's [Arab "Palestinian" highest "national" icon] Yasser Arafat's country of origin?   A Israel ["Palestine"]. B Jordan. C Egypt.     3) Why were there --initially-- more Arab immigrants ["residents"] than Jewish immigrants (Arab majority)?   A Because... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1939322/posts#comment Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:02:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1936035/posts "Innocent Palestinians", say what? who? Hmm, a tiny fringy minority - maybe!     Don't you "love" it, to hear the term 'innocent Palestinians'? another great production of the 'Palestinian' propaganda greased by international monstrous Arab oil [not to be confused with helping any Arab 'Palestinians, which the Arab world never thought nor seeks to, of course, on the contrary, the Arab leaders have an "interest" & often 'help' in Arab Muslim 'Palestinians' kept down, amazing as it is, it serves them an anti Zionist bashing front and a diversion from their oppression, corruption and crimes on their own people] and Arab-Muslim political power worldwide.... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1936035/posts#comment Fri, 7 Dec 2007 11:49:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1932695/posts   A Byrd's eye look at the historic 'Israeli - Arab conflict' towards Annapolis 2007    Around 2,000 years ago, the Romans that have conquered Israel, the Jewish people, the Jewish land, (after killing Jesus) destroy Jews' second temple, massacre hundreds of thousands after a rebellion against Rome's oppression and prohibition on practicing Judaism and mass torture [an armed rebellion which was disapproved by the rabbis & any religious leaders], and expell majority of Jews out of the land [as was expected throught the Jewish prophets, because God expects from his people - the Jews much more than from other... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1932695/posts#comment Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:48:49 GMT