http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/arafat/ en-us Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:37:06 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2384118/posts In Ramallah on Wednesday thousands of Palestinians gathered to mark the five-year anniversary of Arafat's death and to express support for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who announced last week that he will not seek to hold office again in next year's elections. Five years ago today the world became a much better place. Today November 11 is the day that Terrorist/ Pedophile Yassir Arafat finally succumbed to AIDS. Yasser Arafat is considered a hero by most Arab Palestinians, a Statesman by many EU and African Governments, family friend by Obama adviser Robert Malley and a Terrorist by rational thinking people.... The Lid/Front Page http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2384118/posts#comment Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:37:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2309509/posts The sixth General Assembly of Fatah unanimously adopted on Thursday a proposal calling for the establishment of a committee which would investigate the death of former Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat while abiding by the following guidelines: that Israel bears full responsibility for his death, that the issue continues to remain open, and that the investigation enlists international support. The proposal was raised by Bassam Abu Sharif, Arafat's former political advisor, and was motivated both by demands from a number of Fatah delegates at the gathering, and also by estranged PLO leader Farouk Qaddoumi, who in an interview in mid-July... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2309509/posts#comment Thu, 6 Aug 2009 12:47:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2309503/posts The Fatah party, which is meeting in Bethlehem, beat the incitement drum Thursday and accused Israel of being responsible for the “assassination” of Yasser Arafat, who died in 2004. Arabs have routinely accused Israel of having poisoned Arafat, but the statement in Ramallah by former Arafat advisor Bassam Abu Sharif is the first time the party officially has outright blamed Israel. Israel National News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2309503/posts#comment Thu, 6 Aug 2009 12:38:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2303487/posts An IDF military court in the West Bank has convicted Yasser Arafat's former financial aide Fuad Shubaki of illegal arms dealing, as well as organizing and financing the Karine A weapons boat, which the IDF caught carrying advanced weaponry in the Red Sea as it was making its way to the Gaza Strip in 2002. Shubaki, who was arrested three years ago, was also convicted of bankrolling terror attacks and providing funds for the al-Aksa Martyrs' Brigades terror group during the second intifada. According to the court, Shubaki coordinated the purchase and subsequent shipment of the arms from Iran, and... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2303487/posts#comment Wed, 29 Jul 2009 13:19:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2293575/posts Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas [ Abu Mazen] ordered Al-jazzera in the PA area be shut down. Charging that the  Arab network station was being "unbalanced" and "inciting" against the Fatah PA government: "Abbas's security forces have been systematically targeting journalists over the past few years. In the past year, at least seven Palestinian journalists and writers were arrested and held without trial in PA detention centers for allegedly criticizing the performance of Abbas and his prime minister, Salaam Fayad." Now when the Abbas Palestinian Authority controlled media engages in the glorification of terrorists and murderers as "heros" [Samir Kuntar], and incitement against Israel, they... Amerisrael http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2293575/posts#comment Thu, 16 Jul 2009 01:13:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2292404/posts Farouk al-Kaddoumi, a senior Palestine Liberation Organization leader, claims that Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas was directly involved in the murder of former PA chairman and terrorist leader Yasser Arafat. IsraelNationalNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2292404/posts#comment Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:59:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266984/posts While in Cairo, President Obama had a roundtable interview with a group of Mideasts reporters, one of whom asked him about Arafat and why Clinton's Camp David summit ended in failure.  Here's Obama's reply: "Let me just say this.  One of the things that I've learned about being President is I always read about things that I don't remember happening, even though I was in the room -- probably because they didn't happen.  So I don't try to guess or speculate on what happened a decade ago with respect to why a peace deal was not completed.  What's more important from... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2266984/posts#comment Mon, 8 Jun 2009 05:05:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2220050/posts Yasser Arafat's official Web site posted pictures Monday that it said showed the late Palestinian leader's modest bedroom, offering a glimpse into the way he lived under Israeli siege during the final two years of his life. The spartan room included a single bed, a lamp and a narrow closet containing Arafat's iconic wardrobe: five military-style suits and four checkered black-and-white Palestinian scarfs. AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2220050/posts#comment Wed, 1 Apr 2009 18:52:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2195179/posts Whenever I point out the fact that Hillary Clinton was the first person on any White House staff EVER to publicly call for the establishment of a Palestinian state, or that famous hugging incident with Mrs Arafat my more liberal friends point out that the Junior Senator from NY had a spotless record on Israel since she was elected to the Senate. Well of course she did, she is the senator from New-freaking-York. A major part of but as Secretary of State she no longer has to worry about the Jewish vote, so why is everyone surprirsed that she has... CBS News, Yidwithlid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2195179/posts#comment Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:27:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2188158/posts Made in Israel VS Made in "Palestine"     Made in Israel - CREATIVITY IN ISRAEL   Let's see, what we got in the Israel "Palestine' region.   You are probably aware of some of Israel's great achievement, not only in great efforts of seeking to minimize civilian casualties - inventing low range precision missiles targeting terrorists only, but in agriculture for example, where many countries around the world come to see how this young re-established democracy has managed to advance. Or in medical fields, in which with Israelis' kindness and compassion many poor/less advantaged foreigners (including Arabs, Muslims) enjoy free treatment.... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2188158/posts#comment Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:47:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2165557/posts If you listen to the liberal version of American History, you will learn that by befriending the wold Bill Clinton made the world safer, and by acting unilaterally George Bush made the world more dangerous. Of course I have never been one to suggest that we listen to the liberal version of anything. Allow me to suggest that when it comes right down to it, the difference between the past two US Presidents comes down to two events, almost ten years apart, September 13, 1993 and March 20,2003 Yidwithlid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2165557/posts#comment Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:45:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2165542/posts RAMALLAH, West Bank (ELCA) -- Israel is targeting the small Palestinian Christian community here, threatening a key connection to the West and worrying Christian leaders, said Dr. Rafiq Husseini, chief of staff to the president, Palestinian National Authority (PNA). He made the comment Jan. 13 in a meeting here with seven North American Lutheran bishops. The bishops were part of a group of 44 bishops representing the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC), who visited the West Bank and Israel Jan. 6-13. The bishops met with religious, political and community leaders, and... ELCA News Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2165542/posts#comment Fri, 16 Jan 2009 04:12:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1126062/posts Does America need a terrorist financier to secure its “freedom”? Sami al-Arian thinks so. His National Coalition to Protect Political Freedom poses as a watchdog for the Constitution, but he has focused his lobbying efforts on repealing anti-terrorist legislation. While Sami al-Arian himself has been arrested for being a prime financier for Palestinian Islamic Jihad (and likely one of its three founders), his political movement continues to threaten homeland security. Al-Arian founded the National Coalition to Protect Political Freedom (NCPPF) in 1997 as a reaction to the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1996. The coalition’s stated goal “is to help change the... Front Page Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1126062/posts#comment Wed, 28 Apr 2004 18:02:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2149195/posts An article in yesterday’s New York Times by Public Editor Clark Hoyt, “Separating the Terror and the Terrorists,” is a nauseating example of the paper’s moral relativism applied to the war on terrorism. Hoyt tries to rationalize The Times’ reluctance to apply the “terrorist” label to people who take hostages, blow up bystanders and shoot 5-year-old girls in their beds. Hoyt admits “The Times is sparing in its use of ‘terrorist’” when reporting on Palestinian atrocities. In an effort to be even-handed, the paper has decided to call the murder of Jews inside the 1948 boundaries of Israel “terrorist,” but... Boycott The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2149195/posts#comment Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:45:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2130711/posts In a speech marking the fourth anniversary of Yasser Arafat’s death, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas told those gathered in Ramallah on Tuesday that they must continue on the path blazed by some of the world’s most notorious terrorists over the past few decades. Cross Action News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2130711/posts#comment Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:41:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2129044/posts (IsraelNN.com) According to a report on Middle East Newsline, President-elect Barack Obama has dispatched his "senior foreign policy adviser", Robert Malley to Egypt and Syria to outline Obama's policy on the Middle East. Malley reportedly relayed a promise from Obama that the United States would seek to enhance relations with Cairo and reconcile differences with Damascus. "The tenor of the messages was that the Obama administration would take into greater account Egyptian and Syrian interests," an aide to Malley was quoted as saying. The aide said Obama plans to launch a U.S. diplomatic initiative toward Syria. Malley met both Egyptian... arutz 7 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2129044/posts#comment Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:08:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2126777/posts (IsraelNN.com) Rahm Emanuel, President-elect Barack Obama's new Jewish Chief of Staff, was active in the Oslo negotiations and choreographed the Rabin-Arafat handshake at the White House. "It was an emotional moment for him," according to public relations consultant Richard Mintz, who worked with Emanuel. "He would like nothing more than to participate in another peace agreement signing." Israeli media Thursday morning celebrated the appointment of Emanuel, a Chicago, Illinois Jewish Congressman who was born to former Israelis. His father was a member of the Jewish resistance Irgun movement during the British mandate and the Emanuels named him after an Irgun... israelnationalnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2126777/posts#comment Thu, 6 Nov 2008 06:40:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2119390/posts The Kenya family of US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has halted all media engagements until after the US presidential election on November 4. The move has been taken to give Obama's paternal grandmother, Mama Sarah Onyango Obama a break, according to a family member Mr Said Obama. In the recent past, a battery of local and international journalists have been visiting the home on a daily basis to seek interviews from the 85-year old granny. But Mr Said Obama said the family would open up to the media on November 5, a day after the elections. And on Wednesday,... The Nairobi Daily Nation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2119390/posts#comment Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:35:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2119346/posts We’re utterly fascinated by this. In 2004, we don’t remember hearing about anyone scared Kerry was going to take their guns away - and we worked Pennsylvania for Kerry (Pittsburgh area). There were a lot of gun shops and firing ranges there, and we never heard anything about people stocking up on guns because they were scared Kerry was going to try to take them away. Obama is perceived as more liberal than Kerry, and in fact the most liberal Democrat that’s run for president in as long as anyone can remember. Biden as VP makes this the most liberal... HillBuzz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2119346/posts#comment Thu, 30 Oct 2008 05:04:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2119068/posts Rashid Khalidi, the Columbia University professor whose friendship with Sen. Barack Obama is raising questions, says he was never a spokesman for the PLO, but his strong PLO leanings were evident at a time when Yasser Arafat’s group was mounting terror attacks in Israel and causing mayhem in Lebanon. And while Khalidi may not have been speaking on behalf of the PLO, during interviews he occasionally used the word “we” when speaking of the organization. In one 1981 interview, Khalidi referred to the exiled PLO’s growing standing among Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, saying “we have built up... CNS News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2119068/posts#comment Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:21:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2117415/posts Barney Frank will not soon be named secretary of defense or, insha'Allah, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. So there's really no reason to fear that his recent call to cut defense spending by 25% is a harbinger of what to expect in an Obama administration. Then again, maybe there is. When it comes to defense, there are two Barack Obamas in this race. There is the candidate who insists, as he did last year in an article in Foreign Affairs, that "a strong military is, more than anything, necessary to sustain peace"; pledges to increase the size of... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2117415/posts#comment Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:21:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2117418/posts Obama: Constitution is 'Deeply Flawed' Monday, October 27, 2008 8:20 PM By: David A. Patten Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama described the U.S. Constitution as having “deep flaws” during a September 2001 Chicago public radio program, adding that the country’s Founding Fathers had “an enormous blind spot” when they wrote it. Obama also remarked that the Constitution “reflected the fundamental flaw of this country that continues to this day.” Obama’s statements came during a panel discussion that aired on Chicago’s WBEZ-FM on Sept. 6, 2001, titled “Slavery and the Constitution.” ... NewsMax http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2117418/posts#comment Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:24:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2117352/posts Jeremiah Wright returns to the campaign via an ad that questions the Illinois senator's judgment. The ad is brought to you by The National Republican Trust PAC that told reporters that it is putting $2.5 million behind this spot featuring Rev. Jeremiah Wright in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida The Pittsburgh Tribune Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2117352/posts#comment Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:04:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2116751/posts EXCLUSIVE: Michigan Cops Say Diva Michelle Obama "Won't Be Seen With Us, Allow Us in Her Presence" By Debbie Schlussel I thought that we were about to elect a President, not a queen. But Michelle Hussein Obama has other ideas. Some Michigan cop friends of mine sent me this, about how Michelle Obama has treated them throughout Michigan, ie., like the plague.... First Hand from a Clinton Township Police Lieutenant [DS: Clinton Township is a Detroit suburb.] ....I am not trying at all to dissuade your vote, but Obama has really cheesed me off. . . . I have heard... Debbie Schlussel blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2116751/posts#comment Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:58:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2116423/posts Back in 2001, Barack Obama gave an interview to a Chicago public radio station in which he talked about using the Supreme Court, the most undemocratic of the three branches of government (nonelected, lifetime terms), to "spread the wealth." Some rough excerpts: If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to invest formal rights in previously dispossessed peoples so that I would now have the right to vote, I would now be able to sit at a lunch counter and order, and... US World and News Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2116423/posts#comment Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:23:16 GMT