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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...

Sometimes you really can tell a book by its cover. Former president Jimmy Carter’s decision to title his new anti-Israel screed Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid tells it all. His use of the loaded word “apartheid,” suggesting an analogy to the hated policies of South Africa, is especially outrageous, considering his acknowledgement buried near the end of his shallow and superficial book that what is going on in Israel today “is unlike that in South Africa—not racism, but the acquisition of land.” Nor does he explain that Israel’s motivation for holding on to land it captured in a defensive war is...

Tunisian president revokes Suha Arafat’s citizenship following rumors of affair with married brother-in-law, business disputes with Tunisian partners Roee Nahmias Published: 08.14.07, 09:45 / Israel News Suha Arafat, widow of former Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, has had her Tunisian citizenship revoked, according to recent reports by several Arab media channels. Arafat, widow of former Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, was said to have fled to Malta with her daughter last month. Presidential sources kept Arafat’s hasty departure secret, and the Tunisian government was vague about the reason behind her losing her citizenship. According to the London based al-Quds al-Arabi,...

Yasser Arafat's widow Suha lost her Tunisian citizenship, the London-based al Quds alArabi reported Monday. According to the paper, in a special decree published last week, Tunisia's president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali announced the withdrawal of Arafat's naturalized status. The news was not reported by the Tunisian media. The Tunisian government did not state a reason for revoking the citizenship, but sources in the local justice system said Arafat lost her "moral and material rights." Arafat, who has been living with her daughter in Tunisia since the death of her husband in 2004, was naturalized in September 2006. Al...

Wife of former PA chairman met in Tunis with Abbas, both agree to strengthen relations Suha Arafat, the widow of former PA Chairman Yasser Arafat, has made up with the current chairman, Mahmoud Abbas. The two bridged their divisions on Thursday when Abbas met Suha during his visit in Tunis, and the two agreed to strengthen relations. Abbas and Suha Arafat cut ties when Arafat was lying at Paris hospital. Suha mobilized the Arab press and claimed that Abbas and other Palestinian leaders were attempting to replace Arafat while he was still alive. The declaration was highly embarrassing to the...

MIDI - AND THEN HE KISSED ME There was Suha proclaiming the evil Jews had used poison gas How could Hillary Clinton sit there and just let those words pass The translation's in her ear...she had heard it crystal clear Then she got up off her rear...oh my, she kissed her When she got home to New York some Jews were giving her heat And then suddenly she was thinking this could lead to defeat Yes, the translation's in her ear...she had heard it crystal clear Then she got up off her rear...oh my, she kissed her She had...

Dear Friend, This mail may not be surprising to you if you have been following current events in the international media with reference to the Middle East and Palestine in particular. I am Mrs. Suha Arafat, the wife of Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader who died recently in Paris. Since his death and even prior to the announcement, I have been thrown into a state of antagonism, confusion, humiliation, frustration and hopelessness by the present leadership of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and the new Prime Minister. I have even been subjected to physical and psychological torture. As a widow that...

I, Yassir Arafat, leader of the Palestinian people, being of corrupted mind and runty filthy little body do bequeath the following: To my wife Suha I leave all the jewelry, purchased with United Nations relief funds, stashed in safe deposit boxes throughout The Grand Caymans, The Channel Islands and the First Syrian Bank of Damascus. To the Mullahs' in Iran I leave the anthrax, nail-filled vests and detonators stashed away in the basement of my estate on the West Bank. I want the $880 million in cash hidden away is Swiss bank accounts to be divided equally between Suha and...

Late PA Chairman Yasser Arafat's nephew has as much right to the late Palestinian leader's widely sought medical records as his widow, a French Defense Ministry spokesman said Saturday, amid a simmering family tug-of-war over whether to make the information public. Arafat's widow, Suha, took possession of his medical records Friday and was deciding whether to release the information publicly to "stop all these false ideas" of what caused the Palestinian leader's death, her lawyer said. After receiving the report, Suha flew to Tunis, where she and her daughter Zahwa are temporarily living. A Palestinian official in Ramallah expressed outrage...

Is it me or is there a resemblance?

I saw this on Leno's show from a few days ago. Yassir Arafat's wife was seen mourning on the West Bank...also in Citi Bank, World Bank and French Bank....

Although the tense relationship between Suha Arafat, wife of the late Palestinian leader, and PA leaders is a well-known fact, new details that have reached NRG Maariv reveal just how volatile the situation really is. A delegation of Palestinian leaders, including Abu Mazen, Abu Ala, Nabil Shaath and Rawhi Fath, arrived in Paris on Wednesday to visit their dying leader. Hours before their visit, Suha told al-Jazeera, almost hysterically, that their trip was "a conspiracy to bury her husband alive". Senior Palestinian officials spared no time and lashed out at the Palestinian First Lady. As soon as the delegation arrived...

Jordan Max says he discovered it. But is it authentic? You decide! I, Yassir Arafat, Excellency the President for Life of the State of Palestine, being of more or less sound mind and body, declare this to be my official Last Will and Testament, replacing last week's version. Upon my death, as medically verified by a trustworthy Jordanian, Egyptian or Tunisian licensed physician, and not a second beforehand, that the following actions be taken on my behalf and under my exclusive orders; 1.That the contents of my offices be immediately shredded and burned by my most trusted advisors and my...

Suha Arafat's rant against leaders of the Palestinian Authority and Yasser Arafat's heirs apparent was revealing in many ways. On a basic level, it showed much about the nature of the PA and the PLO which Arafat has built and led. Arafat's wife, who had been estranged from him more or less since they were married, has thrown down the gauntlet. Her beef with everyone is over the loot that Arafat amassed over all these years – money he made by bilking the international community for aid and shaking down Palestinians in Judea, Samaria, Gaza and around the Arab world...

Yasser Arafat's widow, Suha, is expected to receive a sum of $22 million a year out of the Palestinian Authority budget, according to the Italian newspaper Corriere De La Serra. The paper said Suha reached an agreement about the money during a meeting with Mahmoud Abbas, the PLO's newly elected chairman, who visited while she was staying next to her husband's bed in the French military hospital outside Paris. It said Abbas personally promised Suha that she would receive $22 million a year to cover her expenses in Paris. The paper noted that in July Arafat transferred to his wife...

French prosecutors are looking into alleged multi-million dollar transfers into the bank accounts of the wife of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Officials have confirmed reports of an inquiry into the financial transactions of Paris-based Suha Arafat. They acted after the Bank of France alerted them to transfers of nine million euros ($11.5m) from Switzerland to two of Mrs Arafat's accounts. Prosecutors say the investigation is at a preliminary stage. It was launched by the Paris public prosecutor last October after the Bank of France reported that nearly $1.27m was being transferred on a regular basis from Switzerland to Mrs Arafat's...

The bizarre story of Suha Arafat, wife of comatose Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat, is one more example of how a movement which has combined bloody terrorism with brilliant public relations for so many years proves itself impossible to deal with. Suddenly, Suha literally holds in her hands the future of the Arab-Israeli conflict and hence of the Middle East and international politics more generally. For only she can pull the plug in the Paris hospital which would end her husband's life and let the Palestinians choose a new leadership. But she's not pulling yet.She was born in 1964 to a...

Tuesday, November 11, Suha Arafat's French lawyers and former Palestinian prime minister Mahmoud Abbas struck a deal.The settlement allowed a funeral to be arranged on 'Orphans Friday' of Ramadan, November 12--unless a new crisis pops up. Our sources have seen some of the principal terms of the Palestinian accord with Suha Arafat. The widow will attend the funeral. Abu Mazen insisted on her following the Palestinian leaders bier for sake of appearances.Last July, Yassir Arafat sent his wife $11 million to cover her 'living expenses' and those of her daughter for six months-$1.8 million per month. The new accord guarantees...

Mrs Arafat's bank accounts probed Suha, who married the Palestinian leader in 1992, lives in Paris French prosecutors are looking into alleged multi-million dollar transfers into the bank accounts of the wife of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. Officials have confirmed reports of an inquiry into the financial transactions of Paris-based Suha Arafat. They acted after the Bank of France alerted them to transfers of nine million euros ($11.5m) from Switzerland to two of Mrs Arafat's accounts.Prosecutors say the investigation is at a preliminary stage. It was launched by the Paris public prosecutor last October after the Bank of France reported...

Bon Jour, Mrs. Arafat… From time to time, the name Suha Arafat resurfaces in various media reports – usually as part of some controversial story, aimed at discrediting Palestinian leader Arafat. Obviously, such reports largely emanate from either Israelis or Israel supporters, but at times, also from sources in the Arab world who don't see eye to eye with Yasser Arafat's policies on different issues. Jean-Claude Gaudin, Mayor of the French city of Marseilles recently disclosed that Palestinian First Lady Suha Arafat received French citizenship. During a recent visit to Israel, Gaudin, considered a supporter of Israel, said that when...

Last update - 01:34 10/11/2004 Sources: Suha Arafat rejects $2 million settlement from Palestinian Authority By Arnon Regular Suha Arafat has rejected a $2 million financial settlement from Palestinian figures acting on behalf of the Palestinian Authority, according to French sources, who are becoming increasingly impatient with the wife of the deeply comatose Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat. The settlement was aimed at persuading Suha Arafat to allow completion of the tests that would finally determine the chairman's death. Contacts between Suha Arafat and the Palestinian financiers began as soon as it became clear that Arafat would have to be flown...

MIDI - IT MUST HAVE BEEN LOVE It is over...for dear Yasser...hourglass is...out of sand I've had fun in Paris...with all that money...he lived in that stinking land...stinking land As he lay...on his deathbed...I will act I found his account...time to pull the plug...I found his account...say goodbye to the slug I found his account...time to pull the plug...I found his account...I will not miss his mug I could not stand...goat smell breathing...it had gagged me...every time I'm a high-priced hooker...that's what they called me...and a partner in his crimes And as he lay...on his deathbed...I've got to act...

Suha Arafat, his wife of 13 years and mother of his daughter, seems to have aligned herself with hard-liners who apparently seek to take over the Palestinian leadership in a post-Arafat era, though some Palestinian officials said her motives are more financial. According to a senior official in Arafat's office, she has received monthly payments of $100,000 from Palestinian coffers and is widely believed to have control of vast funds collected by the PLO. This year, French prosecutors launched a money-laundering probe into transfers of $11.4 million into her accounts. She has refused to talk to reporters about Palestinian finances....

The reason that Suha had such a big SUUUUHAAA today, "they are going to bury my husband alive" She doesn't know all the bank account numbers and neither does the PLA, all want the money, reason why Arafat is being kept alive. But will he ever tell? I am reposting this, I tried to Bump it up, but it didn't work, so no complaints, the night readers need to see this too.

Arafat's Top Lieutenants Head to Paris 18 minutes ago Middle East - AP By LARA SUKHTIAN, Associated Press Writer CLAMART, France - Palestinian leaders rushed to Paris on Monday to check on the critically ill Yasser Arafat, but hospital officials said visiting rights were restricted — setting the stage for a dramatic showdown between the delegation and Arafat's wife. Early Monday, Suha Arafat accused the leadership — including top lieutenants Ahmed Qureia and Mahmoud Abbas — of coming to the French capital with the sole intention of usurping her husband's role as head of the Palestinian Authority. "I tell you...

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - Yasser Arafat's wife Suha, long dismissed by Palestinians as a spoiled socialite, had not even seen her husband for years until he fell sick last month. But she has suddenly emerged as a major player in the succession struggle for Palestinian power. In a one-minute telephone call to the Arab satellite network Al-Jazeera, she set off a political storm Monday, accusing her husband's top aides of conspiring to replace the 75-year-old leader in a behind-the-scenes power grab. The 41-year-old Mrs. Arafat, who until now remained largely outside the political scene, said top officials aimed to...

11/08/2004 - 11:47:49 The caretaker Palestinian leadership decided today to travel to Yasser Arafat’s bedside, reversing a decision to call off the trip after being lambasted by the ailing 75-year-old leader’s wife (Suha Arafat, pictured). The caretaker Palestinian leadership decided today to travel to Yasser Arafat’s bedside, reversing a decision to call off the trip after being lambasted by the ailing 75-year-old leader’s wife. Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath said he would be travelling with Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia and former Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday. The trio had been scheduled to travel to Paris today, but postponed the...

Palestinians have said the ailing leader wants to be buried in Jerusalem JERUSALEM - Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz told the Israeli Cabinet on Sunday that security officials have completed preparations for Yasser Arafat to be buried in the Gaza Strip, meeting participants said. The plans include busing Palestinians from the West Bank through Israel to the coastal Gaza Strip and flying in Arab leaders who don’t have diplomatic relations with Israel, security officials said. Palestinian officials have said Arafat, who is ailing in a French hospital, wants to be buried in Jerusalem. Israel has rejected that outright, signaling the first...

'Image is all' for PLO leader's fashion-loving young wife By Kim Willsher in Paris and Charlotte Edwardes(Filed: 31/10/2004)If anything was guaranteed to annoy the Palestinians, it was a comment made by Yasser Arafat's wife after the birth of their daughter, Zahwa. As Suha Arafat proudly showed off the Palestinian leader's only child at the £1,100-a-night hospital in Paris in July 1995, she declared: "Our child was conceived in Gaza, but sanitary conditions there are terrible. I don't want to be a hero and risk my baby."Her remarks highlighted the widening gulf between the Palestinian "first lady" and her people...

Thu Oct 28, 2:05 PM ET Suha Arafat, wife of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, talks on the phone at Allenby Bridge after crossing from Jordan to the West Bank on her way to Ramallah.(AFP/Sebastian Scheiner)

Suha Arafat, Yasser Arafat's wife will be allowed to visit her husband on Thursday. Shaul Mofaz has allowed Mrs. Arafat's entry into Ramallah, Israel Radio reported. Mrs. Arafat, who lives in Paris, made the request directly to the Israeli Ministry of Defense on Wednesday night. The request was granted.

Pity Mister Palestine. He is looking less the tragic King Lear these days than the mad King Canute, standing on the sea shore and ordering the tide to turn back. Even his most admiring devotees are having difficulty discerning the Mandela struggling to emerge from his trademark olive drab. So, while the world leaders take off for their lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer, Yasser ("what crisis?") Arafat remains entombed in Ramallah, beset by dissent in Gaza, threats of revolt in the West Bank, and reform-or-else ultimatums from his former security chief. And, to top it all, there are renewed...

Dear Maariv Newspaper Editor, Please Publish... The following is a translation of a letter written in the Online Forum of one of Israel's major newspapers, Maariv, by a female reader named  Rachel. The letter was in response to the major online headline about The Bodies of the Six Soldiers that had died in a Gaza security offensive and how their remains had been defiled by the Palestinian terror groups. See: Palestinians Parade Israeli Soldiers’ Remains (DEBKAfile) (05/11/04) http://www.debka.com/article_print.php?aid=843 This letter  may be one of the most popular letters ever written in this widely read forum receiving unanimous and unequivocal...

Dozens of internal United Nations audits of the troubled oil-for-food program in Iraq were routinely shown only to the U.N. official now at the center of an international scandal over kickbacks from the regime of Saddam Hussein, a congressional investigator said yesterday. Joseph A. Christoff, director of international affairs and trade at the General Accounting Office, told a House hearing that U.N. auditors had refused to release the internal audits to GAO investigators probing the scandal that poured an estimated $10.1 billion from secret oil sales and inflated contracts into Saddam's coffers under the U.N. program. "We sure asked for...

<p>In the last few weeks, CNN has suffered a series of embarrassing incidents calling into question its news judgment and ability to meet the most basic standards of fairness in reporting on Israel. CNN boss Ted Turner made the following statement about the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. "I would make the case that both sides are engaged in terrorism," he told the Guardian newspaper. Although Mr. Turner subsequently apologized for suggesting that Israel was behaving this way, the damage had been done.</p>

Arafat's $Billions in Assets and Investments (Mideast Newswire Archive) Arafat's Wife's Spends Millions While Palestinian Children Starve (Irish Blog Via FR Forum) (02/11/04) ------------------------------------------------------------- On the eve of the famous "hand shake" on the White House lawn which rewarded Rabin and Arafat with the Nobel Prize for Peace, the PLO made Britain's most dangerous terrorist/criminal organizations list. The British National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) also reported that the PLO had world-wide assets approaching $10 billion and an additional annual income of about $1.5 to 2 billion, generated from illegal activities. Surprisingly, the report was not picked up by the media....

ALSO SEE: Arafat's Wife on a Luxury Trip NY DAILY NEWS (11/06/03)---------------------------------------------Last week we were told that "Malnutrition in the Gaza Strip and West Bank is as bad as in sub-Saharan Africa because the Palestinian economy has all but collapsed under Israeli restrictions." (Irish Times February 6, 2004) A report by the cross-party International Development Select Committee also called on Britain to press the European Union to impose trade sanctions on Israel until it lifts its restrictions on Palestinian trade. The World Bank said last year that the Palestinian economy was in steep decline after the Israeli army blockaded and...

"There will be peace in the Middle East when the Arabs love their children more than they hate the Jews." – Golda Meir In Suha Arafat's case, she must hate Jews more than she loves men who shave, bathe and speak with a reasonable measure of articulation. The combination of Suha's physical appearance and choice in men brings two words to mind: mad cow. Yeah, I'll concede that's a sexist term, but how could I resist applying it to her? Long overdue, Suha is being subjected to a money-laundering investigation – part of four developments that expose just how sleazy...

<p>No other potential candidate broke out of single digits, while 14 percent said they were unsure.</p> <p>Clinton, elected to the Senate two years ago, has also said she will not be a candidate in 2004.</p> <p>9 percent and Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina at 8 percent.</p>

Arafat, PA transferring tens of millions of dollars overseas: Israel [Corrected 07/14/02]   07/14/2002 Agence France-Presse (Copyright 2002)   CORRECTION: ATTENTION - ADDS dropped word in lead   JERUSALEM, July 14 (AFP) - The Palestinian Authority has transferred tens of millions of dollars overseas in case of a long- term Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, an Israeli newspaper reported Sunday. An Israeli document, quoted by Yediot Aharonot newspaper, accuses Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat of having transferred 5.1 million dollars into the Parisian bank account of his wife Suha.   The document also refers to a transfer of 70...

Caption this Picture - Arafat and Suha, Terrorist tools of evil. Arafat's wife and Arafat's daughter live in luxury and comfortas they send other children to die murdering other innocent children. Before: After: Meanwhile: