Posts Tagged: Yasser Arafat
Abbas’ Fatah Praises Hamas’ Call For Israel’s Demise
Much of the world appears to believe that Israeli/Palestinian peace is there for the making. As a consequence, many believe that Israel should negotiate with...
10 Lies About the Israel-Hamas Conflict
A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas may have been reached on paper, but evidence already indicates that it is unlikely to hold. A top Palestinian Islamic...
Israel’s Greatest Mistake, Repeated Six Times, Will It Act Differently This Time?
Israel is, thank G-d, a strong country, with an exceptional military that combines courage, skills and profound moral standards. Israel will fight back in the...
Radical Muslims Up to Their Old Tricks; Reformist Muslims Exist and Need Our Support
On Tuesday, September 11 Islamist extremists murdered U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three staffers in Benghazi, Libya, and others attacked the...
PA Official: Palestinian Hands Contributed to Arafat’s Death
A former Palestinian Authority intelligence chief is confident that a Palestinian contributed to the death of PLO chairman Yasser Arafat according to a news report today...
Arafat Poison Story: Another Palestinian Libel
The Arabs, as the late Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban famously said, never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. Last week's furor over allegations that...
Did Arafat Die of AIDS, Poisoning, or Something Else?
Al-Jazeera reported this week that a Swiss lab hired to examine the clothes of Yasser Arafat found high levels of radioactive polonium. According...
Rewarding Moments: Prizeworthy vs. Praiseworthy
Awards and prizes appear to be the ultimate credential, from the Oscar to the Grammy. But in complex matters—foreign policy, national security, terrorism—the...
Time for New Thinking on Israel’s Sovereignty
 Roughly 20 years ago Israel made a decision to bring back from exile in faraway Tunisia its most bitter enemy, Yasser Arafat, and deposit him...
Betraying Ben-Gurion
It is ironic that Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), Israel's only university bearing the name of the Jewish state's founding father, and established in...
The Palestinians Resurrect the Partition Plan
Whoever thinks that U.N. General Assembly Resolution 181 - the famous Partition Plan - from Nov. 29, 1947, is for historians of...
The Most Endangered Species
It's a sad reality of the Middle East that moderates have short life spans. In the summer of 1951, rumors began circulating that Lebanon and...
Senior Palestinian Official Backtracks on “End” of Israel Remarks
JERUSALEM- A senior Fatah official, speaking on pan-Arabic satellite network Al Jazeera this Friday, seemingly reiterated the PLO's continuing support for its 1974 "phased plan"...
Is Israel Truly Isolated?
These words were not stated by a frustrated minister in the current Israeli government, but rather were written a little less than ten years ago...
