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John Ivison: Cotler's version of Durban doesn't wash

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:04:12 GMT

Irwin Cotler is a man of the highest integrity, so the only explanation for his contention that Canada participated in the Durban conference on racism at the request of the Israeli government is that his memory is playing tricks on him.
Source: National Post

If Mahmoud Abbas steps down, Dweik will be next in line

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:28:19 GMT

If Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas of the mainstream Fatah party makes good on his threat to resign, the man constitutionally assured his post is from the rival Hamas faction.
Source: Taiwan News

"We will have to kill them all": Effie Eitam, thug messiah

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:15:12 GMT

Jim Holstun and Irene Morrison, The Electronic Intifada, 25 November 2009 Colonel Efraim (Fein) Eitam was only following orders when he told his troops to beat Ayyad Aqel in 1988. They beat him to death.
Source: The Electronic Intifada

The 'Palestinian' strategy

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:49:08 GMT

This is from an article by Richard Schnee attacking Richard Goldstone for his participation in the Commission that bears his name.
Source: Israel Matsav

A 'Teabagger' Summa -- By: Jay Nordlinger

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:55:39 GMT

Once upon a time, I wrote a heck of a lot about Jimmy Carter, and how outrageous he was as an ex-president: ghostwriting speeches for Yasser Arafat and so on. (Yes, he did.) I was something of a Carterologist. But then I got somehow. .
Source: The Corner

Opinion Line (Nov. 22)

Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:33:53 GMT

Yasser Arafat got a Nobel Peace Prize. That should show you it's good for nothing but a doorstop. So let Barack Obama keep his. He could use it for a presidential paperweight.
Source: Kansas.com

For the Palestinians, all roads now lead to the UN

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:41:36 GMT

It is hard to take seriously the threat by the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas to declare a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza and demand recognition by the UN Security Council.
Source: The National Newspaper

Obama's tough Mid-East conflict lessons

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 11:40:55 GMT

The BBC's Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen considers how the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians has taught US President Barack Obama hard and humiliating lessons. The land between the river Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea has great sunsets.
Source: BBC News

Quoted in 'Is imam a terror recruiter or just an incendiary preacher?'

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:03:18 GMT

said in Ventura County Star:

The American position is flexible and changes a lot. During most of his life, Yasser Arafat was considered a terrorist, but then he received the Nobel Peace Prize

Quoted in '"Playing in Airtel CLT20 an honour"'

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:31:14 GMT

Yasser Arafat said in ESPN STAR Sports:

My father Mohd Idreez admired Yasser Arafat and named me after him and he christened my elder brother so because he admired Imran Khan as well

Photo from AP Photo

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:42:57 GMT

Palestinian carry pictures of late leader Yasser Arafat, right, late George Habash, center, founder of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, left, as they march to the Sabra and Shatila mass g...

Photo from AP Photo

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:11:48 GMT

A Palestinian woman holds a poster of late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, left, as others holds a poster of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, right, during a demonstration in support of the Fatah movement in Balata refugee camp, in the West Bank c...

RIP yasser arafat

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 05:01:15 GMT