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Born in Cairo (Egypt) in 1929 Yasser Arafat – the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem (Haj Amin Al-Husseini, Hitler’s bosom buddy) niece’s little boy – soon became known as a “moderate” to the peace loving West. He was regarded as someone who was generally interested in ending the fighting with Israel while ensuring the rights of Palestinians. In spite of his murderous deeds against the Zionist Entity and the West (airplane hijackings, Achille Lauro, Munich, murdering American diplomats, etc.) in spite of wreaking havoc in Jordan and Lebanon (both countries had to throw him out!) somehow he was regarded as the...

Could this be the most unvarnished insult to someone's intelligence in the recent annals of major network television? Here was Zbigniew Brzezinski, speaking to Joe Scarborough on today's "Morning Joe." [H/t reader Melody.] "You know, you have such a stunningly superficial knowledge of what went on that it's almost embarrassing to listen to you." It was Scarborough's exposition of the widely accepted view—shared by Bill Clinton himself—that Yasser Arafat was to blame for the failure of the 2000 Camp David summit, that prompted Brzezinski's remarkable display of disdain. View video here.

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...

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...

The author of the attack on Rue Copernic identified. 27 years after the explosion that killed 4 persons in Paris, justice is on the trail of a Palestinian living in Canada. The head of the team that perpetrated the attack on a synagogue on Copernic Street on 3 October 1980 was living peacefully in Canada after long years spent in the United States.

If you want to stay on the good side of racist David Duke, be sure you don't cross the beloved memory of the godfather of terrorism, Yasser Arafat. That was the lesson WND learned Thursday when Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein reported one of Arafat's confidantes, Ahmed Jibril, confirmed a French medical report on the cause of his death cited AIDS. That was enough to set off the Duke machine, which came to the rescue of Arafat's manhood. "The WND article by Aaron Klein, which came out of the Jerusalem office of WorldNetDaily, couldn't possibly be ZIONIST PROPAGANDA, could it?"...

Disclosure: Arafat Paid Off Neturei Karta Leader 23:58 Dec 13, '06 / 22 Kislev 5767 (IsraelNN.com) Documents disclosed by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Center for Special Studies (CSS) reveal that former arch-terrorist and Arab leader Yasser Arafat paid tens of thousands of dollars to Rabbi Moshe Hirsch, the "foreign minister" of the anti-Zionist Neturei Karta sect. CSS stated that documents uncovered during Operation Defensive Shield in Jenin show that Arafat paid $25,000 and $30,000 in January and February 2002 for "expenses for activities." Neturei Karta frequently supported Arafat and served as a propaganda tool for him,...

Abdelhaleem Ashqar is facing trial in Chicago, accused of funding terrorists, and is under house arrest in Virginia. But he said Thursday that won't keep him from seeking to replace Yasser Arafat as the next Palestinian leader. Proclaiming that he detests bloodshed, Ashqar said he will run in the Jan. 9 Palestinian election as an independent and was able to collect 7,000 to 8,000 election petition signatures in less than 36 hours from his district of Putulkarm, in the northern part of the West Bank. Under house arrest at his home in Alexandria, Va., the former Howard University professor said...

Isn't it interesting that the same people infesting our intelligence agencies who have been trying to undermine President Bush for 5 1/2 years would now leak a document claiming our policies have increased terrorism and made us less safe at the same time as this performance by former President Clinton? Isn't it interesting that Nancy Pelosi would simultaneously make this statement: "Five years after 9/11, and Osama bin Laden is still free and not a single terrorist who planned 9/11 has been caught and brought to justice. President Bush should read the intelligence carefully before giving another misleading speech about...

Plast-inian, the PLASTIC language of the Arab Muslim 'Palestinians' - PLASTINIAN - Whether the (so called) 'Palestinian' Arab Muslims are a "nation" that is 39 years old (since 1967) or a bit more than that or even if you believe that they are just another group of Arabs, one thing is certain, they have contributed some vocabulary, Take some PLASTINIAN lessons: Hamas' terrorists greed for higher salaries (2006) = "starving Palestinians". Killing it's own people (like Muhammad Al Dura 2000, Rafah 2002 in a cave & now Gaza beach 2006) = "israeli aggression". Arab settlers (at the 1800's and their...

In the fall of 2002 Iraq crossed an unacceptable threshold, supplying operational weapons of mass destruction (WMD) to bin Laden's terrorists. These developments were confirmed to the Western intelligence services after several terrorists -- graduates of WMD training programs -- were captured in Israel, Chechnya, Turkey, and France, along with documents related to their activities. On the basis of pure threat analysis, the United States should have gone to war against Iraq, as well as its partners Syria and Iran, in fall 2002. By then there was already unambiguous evidence indicating the urgency of defusing the imminent danger posed by...

Wednesday, March 15, 2006Jericho and Justice / Kidnapping and Chaos Let's put this widely reported story in context: On 17 October 2001 members of the Popular Front For The Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) gunned down Israeli Tourism Minister Rehevam Ze'evi in a Jerusalem hotel. Five Palestinian terrorists were eventually charged in the murder. In April, 2002 Israel was besieging the Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in his Muqata compound in Ramallah after still more terrorist attacks the previous month. The United States brokered an agreement between Arafat and the government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to end the siege. The IDF...

When asked by the media for his thoughts on the Hamas triumph in the Palestinian parliamentary elections, former President Jimmy Carter replied that while they have a terrorist past, at least they're not corrupt. One of the complaints by many in the Middle East was the corruption within the Palestinian Authority and Yasser Arafat's Fatah Party. Arafat himself squirreled away millions of dollars from aid packages that were intended to help the Palestinian people. However, Carter's comment appears to dismiss the years of death and destruction perpetrated by Hamas on the Jewish State. One of the first statements made by...

Israel: Spielberg "Munich" Dangerous; Rationalizes TerrorismThere is no excuse for terrorism, no rationalization for the murder of innocent civilians.By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency Jerusalem----December 28......Steven Spielberg has made a very big mistake. And rather than admitting it: "you know it was an error, I overreached, I am going to pull it - my movie on the Munich Massacre," Spielberg hires a spin doctor from Israel. But Steven, no amount of PR spin will pull you out of this mess. You cannot ask Israel to hesitate for one tenth of one second on our war against terrorism. Many in Israel...

International Law: Everyone has the right to an attorney. But as Ramsey Clark rushes to the side of Saddam Hussein, this may be a case where both the defendant and his counsel can plead insanity...."Clark has been using and aiding mass murders and other American enemies for the last 30 years," conservative pundit David Horowitz said in 2003 of a Clark trip in Iraq. "He should give it a rest." But that is unlikely. ...Clark has defended the who's who of mass murderers — not just Milosevic, but also Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, also accused of war crimes, as...

When former Attorney General Ramsey Clark isn’t defending Saddam Hussein, or giving speeches for the crypto-Stalinist International ANSWER, he’s acting as counsel for the Palestine Liberation Organization, trying to prevent families of murdered Jews from collecting on judgments against the PLO. Today he lost:... WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court refused Monday to overturn a $116 million judgment against the Palestine Liberation Organization in the deaths of a Jewish couple near the West Bank. The PLO, and its governmental entity, had been sued in federal court in Rhode Island over the 1996 drive-by shooting of Yaron Ungar, an American citizen, and...

Dozens of armed Palestinian gunmen storm house of Moussa Arafat, Yasser Arafat's cousin, Wednesday morning and shoot him to death. Arafat removed from post earlier this year amid corruption charges News agencies Dozens of Palestinian gunmen stormed Wednesday morning the house of former Palestinian security chief in Gaza Moussa Arafat, took him out to the street and then shot him to death. Arafat, 65, the cousin of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, was taken to a Gaza hospital following the attack but doctors said he arrived there dead. Palestinian police officials said Arafat's eldest son, Nimhel, was either killed by...

A New York Times article, today, confirms everything I've written (here and here) and worse regarding Steven Spielberg's upcoming "Vengeance" movie. It is now a certainty that Mr. "Schindler's List" will expend the capital he earned on that film to now HUMANIZE(!) Palestinian terrorists who murdered the Israeli Olympic athletes in Munich in 1972. It's bad enough that Spielberg ran the script by Arafat-fan Bill Clinton--Arafat ordered the Olympic athlete massacre--and other assorted Clintonistas who drooled over Arafat, like Mike McCurry and Dennis Ross. Worse is the revelation that playwright Tony Kushner (a self-avowed socialist and gay activist) is praised...

Early on the morning of March 16th, 1984, William Buckley left for work at the American embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. Officially, Mr. Buckley, a decorated veteran of the Special Forces, served as the political officer at the embassy. In reality, however, Mr. Buckley was the embassy’s CIA station chief. On his way to the compound, Buckley’s car was stopped by a group of masked men, who forced him from his car at gunpoint. His assailants would later be identified as terrorists from the group Islamic Jihad, which served as an alias for the real perpetrators, Hezbollah. The circumstances surrounding the...

We did it... We protested churchill. There was a collection of pro-Churchill moonbats that showed up, and we protested them as well.

TROUBLE SPEAK Ward Churchill copied 'original' art piece Takes a swing at TV reporter who confronted him -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: February 26, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com Professor Ward Churchill Adding to a growing list of allegations, controversial University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill appears to have violated copyright law by claiming a reknowned artist's work as his own. Churchill, whose integrity has been challenged since news broke earlier last month of his paper blaming victims of 9-11 for the attacks, made an Indian-theme serigraph in 1981 called "Winter Attack" and printed 150 copies. But one of the buyers,...

Ward Hill as a member of the schismatic Boulder/Denver branch of AIM [American Indian Movement] as spent his whole life trashing the FBI and police. Here is what he said in his "Roosting Chickens" article. He is an anarchist who publishes his books through anarchist publishers. He wants to trash our law enforcement and intelligence organizations so that we will be destroyed. He doesn't want to make them better. He want the USA off the planet. He has often depicted the FBI and CIA as terrorist organizations.

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...

After Arab terrorist Yassir Arafat died on November 11, USA Today, among other outlets, talked about how "enraged" the Arabs in the territories in Israel were. You may ask, "How could they be enraged?" USA Today supplied no answer at the time, but I can. Many of Arafat's supporters have spread the blood libel that the Mossad, in league with some of Arafat's own goons, poisoned him. All over again, "The Jews did it!" Hamas leader Khaled Mesha'al said, "I do not hesitate accusing Israel of killing Yasser Arafat and I call on my brothers in Fatah and in the...

The all-news MSNBC, which recently got the go-ahead for unrestricted access to Canada's digital dial, may have run afoul of our hate laws when its Imus In The Morning advocated dropping a bomb on Palestinians to "kill 'em all." Both the RCMP and the federal broadcast watchdog are on the case, investigating complaints from some two dozen Canadians. They include Paul Jay, best known as the independent producer behind CBC Newsworld's recently cancelled counterSpin. "I watched (Imus) and immediately I was outraged," he told me yesterday. Morning jock Don Imus, whose syndicated shock-talk radio show is simulcast on MSNBC, was...

RAMALLAH, West Bank -- A senior Hamas leader indicated Monday that the militant group is halting attacks on Israelis while the Palestinians prepare to choose a new leader, the latest sign of change following the death of Yasser Arafat. Sheik Hassan Yousef, the group's top leader in the West Bank, said Hamas also would consider a formal truce with Israel. Hamas has carried out dozens of suicide bombings and other attacks, killing hundreds of Israelis during four years of fighting. Since Arafat's death Nov. 11, there has been a sharp drop in violence. The Palestinians have turned their attention to...

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It might seem odd to compare and contrast two news stories from last week – the resignation announcement of Attorney General John Ashcroft and the Paris death of Palestinian terrorist Yasser Arafat. But an examination of the two demonstrates the degree to which the "news" media’s compass of objectivity is so terribly misaligned. To read the coverage, you’d think Ashcroft was the tyrant, and Arafat the liberator. On November 10, the New York Times front page put the two stories side by side in the top left-hand corner. Reporter Elisabeth Bumiller told readers the "polarizing" Ashcroft was resigning after a...

Ironically, Arafat was expelled from every Arab nation where he set up terrorism shop. The Hashemite King of Jordan expelled Arafat forcibly in what is known as bloody ''Black September'' because Arafat attempted to overthrow him and become ruler over the only legal Arab ''Palestine" ever. More Arab Jordanians/Palestinians were killed by the king of Jordan during this battle than by the entire time period the squatters stayed in Israel. Lebanon got rid of him because of his crimes against its Christian population whose people were murdered and women were raped in another attempted coup and rise to power. Libya...

The deepest and darkest joke I’ve heard in a long time goes like this. Osama bin Laden prays to the spirit of Yasser Arafat who then appears before him. “Yasser, please help me understand something,” requests Osama. “We’re both fellow terrorists. You’ve even killed more infidels than I have. Yet you get the Nobel Peace Prize, your funeral is attended by heads of state from around the world, and European newspapers compare you to Moses – while I am the world’s most hunted and hated man, reduced to hiding in inaccessible mountain caves. How did you do it? What is...

When news of Yasser Arafat's death broke, I smiled and applauded. Then I went to bed. While most opinion columnists were rushing to their computers and wedging the event as best they could between their agendas and their general thoughts on the Jewish people, there seemed no point in repeating the things all reasonable people have been saying for the last four decades. (Or, for that matter, the New York Post, which put it brilliantly: "Arafat Dead / And He Won't Be Missed.") Mankind is better because the evil old bastard finally died, but stretching the point out to 750...

For a variety of reasons, there is a lot of enthusiasm and optimism surrounding the death of Palestinian Authority (''PA'') leader, Yasser Arafat, and how his demise might advance an expeditious resolution of the Palestinian/Israeli conflict. To be sure, I would love to jump on this bandwagon, and offer another in a litany of cheery op-eds issued internationally since the passing of the former leader of the PLO. However, though I agree that Arafat has been a huge stumbling block to peace in this region that has now been removed, it is unquestionably much more than just him that has...

PARIS, 15 November 2004 — With the date of the Palestinian presidential election fixed for Jan. 9, one might expect it to be the hottest topic in the West Bank and Gaza. It is not. What most Palestinians are talking about with most interest is the mystery that still surrounds the cause of Yasser Arafat’s death. “Arafat is a man of history’” says his personal physician Dr. Ashraf Al-Kurdi. “It is incomprehensible that such a leader could be pronounced dead, honored in a funeral, and buried without announcing what he died of.” The refusal of the French authorities to reveal...

On November the 11th, 2004, Judith Miller of the New York Times wrote an article about the death of the infamous terrorist leader Yasser Arafat titled "Yasir Arafat, Father and Leader of Palestinian Nationalism, Dies at 75". Her inane, eight-page obituary began with the following words: "Yasir Arafat, who died this morning in Paris, was the wily and enigmatic father of Palestinian nationalism who for almost 40 years symbolized his people's longing for a distinct political identity and independent state. He was 75." She went on to opine that "No other individual so embodied the Palestinians' plight: their dispersal, their...

The pope's disgraceful tribute to Arafat Posted: November 13, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern From the way world leaders reacted to the death of Yasser Arafat, you could be forgiven if you had mistakenly believed that Mother Theresa had died. Kofi Annan, a man whose diplomatic career has been dedicated to friendship with tyrants and contempt for their victims, declared himself "deeply moved" by Arafat's death and ordered the U.N. flag flown at half-mast. This is not all that surprising given that Annan is the same man who overruled U.N. Gen. Romeo Dallaire in April 1994 and ordered him not to...

The first of the two parts of arch-terrorist Yasser Arafat's funeral has ended in Cairo, and the second part - the actual burial - began at 2 PM in Ramallah. The PA security services had difficulty enforcing order. The unruly and volatile funeral continues as this report goes to press. Some 40 political leaders from around the world, including U.S. Assistant Secretary of State William Burns, attended the Cairo ceremony. It lasted only a few minutes, and no speeches were delivered. Several non-Arab nations, such as Brazil and South Africa, joined Syria, Yemen, Jordan, Malaysia and others in sending their...

Yasser Arafat would be harshly judged by history and did not do enough to curb terrorism, the Prime Minister said yesterday. John Howard made his damning assessment just hours before Arafat's death was announced, showing how much his view has changed since he embraced Arafat as "a man who is searching for peace" during a visit to the Gaza Strip. The April 2000 visit came amid optimism that Israel and Palestine were on the verge of peace, but the deal foundered and Howard blames Arafat, who, he says, would have got "90 per cent" of his demands. "History will judge...

JERUSALEM, 12 November 2004 — A group of Palestinian lawyers called on the new Palestinian leadership yesterday to order a full investigation into alleged misuse of Palestinian Authority funds under the late Yasser Arafat. No one knows how much money may be involved but various sources put Arafat’s personal fortune at between $4.5 billion and $6.5 billion. Arafat’s nephew Nasser Al-Qudwa, however, has said that the late leader’s fortune did not exceed $250 million, mostly invested in real estate and two mobile phone companies in North Africa. While most Palestinians insist that Arafat did not personally benefit from corruption, all...

Palestinian parents of newborn twin boys in Gaza City name their sons Yasser and Arafat

I have e-mailed Secretary of State Colin Powell to say that I do not wish to have ANY U.S. representation at the funeral of the terrorist Yasser Arafat in Cairo. I said, however, that if someone from the U.S. government MUST attend the funeral, please send someone at no higher level than that of Ambassador. This is what Colin Powell has already been advised to do by the National Security Agency (NSA). Yet, currently, Colin Powell is instead planning to send an Assistant Secretary of State to Arafat's funeral and I truly believe that would send the wrong message. That...

The Jewish Talmud makes the following observation: There is no beauty like Jerusalem, no wealth like Rome, no depravity like Arabia. The Jewish Talmud makes the following observation: There is no beauty like Jerusalem, no wealth like Rome, no depravity like Arabia. This was written in the 3rd century A.D. – three hundred years before the Arabs embraced Muhammad's Islam. But neither the adoption of Islam nor all the intervening centuries since has decreased the addiction Arab men have to pederasty. Arab pederasty was personified in Yasser Arafat, one of the vilest human beings to ever infest the earth. During...

PLO chief reportedly refuses to leave money to spouse, millions could go toward terrorism. Suha Arafat, wife of ailing Yasser Arafat, requested her husband this week draft a will leaving his multimillion dollar fortune to her, but Arafat refused, a Palestinian source told WorldNetDaily. Meanwhile, Israel security sources said they're worried the PLO chief's money could be passed on to terrorists to continue the intifada. Arafat is said to be worth hundreds of millions, mostly from money Israel says he secretly shifted to bank accounts in his name by allegedly plundering financial aid, mostly from European countries, sent to help...

RAMALLAH: Ailing Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's powers have been temporarily passed to two veteran associates - both have served under him as prime minister - until he recovers or dies, officials said yesterday. But they emphasised that Arafat, 75, remained president and no major policymaking was likely while he was ill and undergoing treatment in France. Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie will run the day-to-day affairs of the Palestinian Authority, the Palestinian governing body in areas of the West Bank and Gaza in which limited self-rule was established under interim peace deals with Israel a decade ago. Former Prime Minister Mahmoud...

Look Inside Kerry's Mind and You Find a "False Personality" Written by Joan Swirsky Wednesday, October 20, 2004 There's a term to explain why the clearly haughty and self-important John Kerry repeatedly calls George Bush "arrogant." In psychology, it’s called projection: attributing to others what, in fact, perfectly describes the person hurling the insult. Similarly, there’s a term to explain why Kerry, a lifelong pacifist after his four-month foray in Vietnam, is now trying to convince the public that he would fight the war against terrorism more effectively than President Bush. It’s called self-delusion. Another term explains why Kerry has...

WorldNetDaily: Yasser Arafat endorses Kerry This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40988 Monday, October 18, 2004 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COUNTDOWN TO ELECTION DAY Yasser Arafat endorses Kerry Thinks Democratic senator 'better for Palestinian cause' -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: October 18, 2004 8:35 p.m. Eastern By Aaron Klein -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat is hoping John Kerry wins the presidential election in November, several Palestinian leaders told WorldNetDaily. Arafat deputy and chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat told WND in an exclusive interview that while "we do not involve ourselves...

Quick: you are a government official and you have to respond to a question on the spot, but you don't know the actual answer. Is it better to (1) make up an answer that fits your world view, or (2) say "We'll unearth the truth and then let you know"? The world press in the Middle East has rewarded the morally wrong answer to that question time after time. And the reading and listening public rewards the liars by valuing rapid responses over verifiable truths. Yasser Arafat has had a starring role as an on-the-spot-and-unabashed-liar for about a dozen years....

Israel Remembers 9/11 Terror Attacks By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency http://www.israelnewsagency.com/israel911september91104.html Jerusalem-----September 11......My four-year-old Israeli daughter was the first to wake up today. She stood up smiling in bed, pulled the sheets over herself and declared: "let's hide." Hide and seek has become a favorite game of hers as it is with many children who are just discovering the world. I immediately noted the day. "It's September 11." I wanted to explain more to her but why inject so much evil on a girl who is so young. "It's a special day for your father," my wife responded. But...

NEW YORK – Israel will accelerate construction of the West Bank security fence after a double suicide attack in the southern city of Beersheba Tuesday left 16 people dead, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Dan Gillerman told WorldNetDaily. "We will step up our construction of the fence," said Gillerman, after speaking yesterday at a reception welcoming the Republican National Convention to New York City. "This latest suicide bombing, which took place in a town where the fence has not yet been built, only strengthens our resolve to complete construction. If the U.N. wants to blast someone for the fence,...

Arafat celebrates 75th birthday Officials estimates that Palestinian leader would continue to lead his people for several more years, in which no drastic change in situation foreseen.Amir Rapoport and Ben Kaspit Arafat and his birthday cake. Chairman of the Palestinian Authority Yasser Arafat is celebrating his 75th birthday on Wednesday. However, there weren’t any real celebrations in the Mukata in Ramallah, where Arafat’s HQ are located. The Palestinian leader settled for a flower delivery from the Palestinian youth organizations. The relatively low number of greetings in the press also indicated the unresolved power struggle in Palestinian territories. According to Israel’s...