Wizbang Pop! (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Actually, Max Frudd of the UK is pretty dead-on lookalike for Ringo Starr in many ways. However, the runner-up always has to be the late Yasser Arafat...... Frudd To Get...
International Solidarity Movement (Free subscription) | yesterday
20 November 2009 Residents of Bil’in gathered in a demonstration today, commemorating the 21st anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and condemning the ongoing expansion of illegal Israeli settlements. After the Friday midday prayers, about 150 Palestinian, Israeli and international activists raised dozens of Palestinian flags and posters with the picture of the late Yasser Arafat [...]...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
John Lyons, Middle East correspondent AS the shock departure of Mahmoud Abbas sinks in for Palestinians, Ahmad Aweidah is rising fast in the new generation of leaders. Mr Aweidah, 39, insists he is not interested in politics, though he's rarely shy about entering the major debates. He argues that Mr Abbas's successor be Nasser al-Qudwa, nephew of the late PLO chief Yasser Arafat, rather than the contender...
Truthdig (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Uri Avnery remembers Yitzak Rabin, Yasser Arafat and the historic Oslo agreement that has since turned to mush. “The public memory,” Avnery warns, “is trying nowadays to obliterate” Rabin’s “inner revolution” toward peace with the Palestinians. Rabin was assassinated 14 years ago this November. Uri Avnery in Gush-Shalom: MORE THAN anything else, I respected...
Israel & Palestijnen Nieuws Blog (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Dit is het gevolg van het met EU geld gefinancierde 'vredesonderwijs' van de Palestijnse Autoriteit. A televised memorial ceremony for Yasser Arafat included a video clip of Palestinian children delivering messages in honor of Arafat. It is noteworthy that even though this clip was prerecorded and edited, the organizers of the PA's official ceremony chose to include hate speech and libels that demonized...
Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
By As'ad Abu Khalil Al-Jazeera "The hooliganism and viol ence that have accompanied the football matches between Egypt and Algeria as they each seek to qualify for the 2010 World Cup have brought something new to Arab sports and political cultures . The vehemence, fanaticism, and recriminations that were blatantly expressed in the media and on the streets of Algeria, Egypt, and Sudan [the host...
Jewish Internet Defense Force (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
By Samuel Sokol and David Bedein, WND A U.S. organization has been receiving money from perhaps unsuspecting Jewish donors to support blatantly anti-Israel groups. American Jews wishing to donate money to Israeli causes routinely utilize local city Jewish federations as a middleman. Hundreds of millions of dollars per year are sent to Jewish federations across the country with the expectation contributions...
Antony Loewenstein (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Tariq Abu Dia, owner of the late President Yasser Arafat souvenir shop in the Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City, said: “Today we put out 50 keffiyehs made of white fabric with the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem and the name ‘Goldstone’ embroidered on them, to honor his work.”
Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
By Donald Macintyre The Independent ( Left: A cartoon by Emad Hajjaj showing that the Palestinian "cause" has become just a game for Palestinian "leaders.") "As so often in the Middle East, we have been here before . The latest suggestion – that a frustrated Palestinian leadership would unilaterally declare a state and invite international recognition for it – is...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
As so often in the Middle East, we have been here before. The latest suggestion – that a frustrated Palestinian leadership would unilaterally declare a state and invite international recognition for it – is not new. It was made a decade ago by Yasser Arafat when Benjamin Netanyahu, then as now, was Prime Minister. It was made again after the collapse of the Camp David talks a year later,...
Seaspook's Rants (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Fear of offending won't permit defense. Liberals consider offending a Muslim a more serious crime than mass murder. Fox News , by Cal Thomas: By now, the script should be disturbingly familiar. Whether in the Middle East, or increasingly in America, a fanatical Muslim blows up or goes on a shooting spree, killing many. This is quickly followed by "condemnations" from "Muslim civil rights...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) is working to get the UN recognition of a Palestinian statehood on territories Israel captured in 1967 Middle East war, an official said on Sunday. "We are now seeking to get a resolution recognizing a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital," said Saeb Erekat, a senior Palestinian negotiator. His remarks were made on the occasion of Palestine's...
Brian's Study Breaks (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Omran Risheq addresses and important question: what is Hamas up to in the West Bank? "Sources inside Hamas say that the movement has frozen its activities, in line with a 1989 strategy delineating how the movement should handle crises. Hamas followed this course in 1992, for example, when Israel exiled 416 activists from Hamas and Islamic Jihad to southern Lebanon following the kidnapping and...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Hamas authorities did an about face on Saturday and dropped a plan to keep schools in the Gaza Strip open on a Palestinian holiday founded by the rival Fatah faction. An official with Gaza's Education Ministry said schools would shut down on Sunday, designated as an "independence day" for Palestinians, "in order to avoid misinterpretation of the decision to keep it a regular school day"....
Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Kamal did not agree with my suggestion to name the former Ben-Gurion Airport after George Habash. I worry that it would be named after the lousy Yasser `Arafat. Kamal and I are discussing some alternative names and we shall let you know. We are leaning to Kamal `Udwan International Airport, but other names are mentioned too. Israel's years are numbered.
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ssonuagarwal | 10/10/2009
The Nobel Peace Prize committee has decided to award its Prize this year to President Obama. He said he’s “humbled” and the world says it’s stunned. Does Obama deserve the surPRIZE? There are more “no”s than “yes”es, but it is safe to say the Peace Prize – 2009 has divided the world. Ask: Is the Nobel Prize given for achievements? If yes, Obama himself has admitted he hasn’t achieved anything. He doesn’t...
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