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Pennsylvania Democrat John Fetterman recreated the classic 1979 Coca-Cola advertisement featuring football legend ‘Mean’ Joe Greene in a bizarre video during his failed 2016 U.S. Senate campaign. The original Coca-Cola advertisement began with Greene, a Pittsburgh Steelers legend, hobbling down the tunnel after a game when a child approaches him to offer a coke. Greene accepts it and tosses this child his jersey, saying, “thanks, kid.”

Be Prepared for angry Kerry thugs and thug-ettes after Kerry's defeat.

IDF halts demolition work inside Muqata By Amos Harel, Amira Hass and Arnon Regular, Ha'aretz Correspondents, Ha'aretz Service and Agencies The IDF has halted is demolition of buildings inside Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Ararat's Ramallah compound. The decision to cease the bulldozer work was taken on Sunday afternoon, after senior defense establishment figures met in Jerusalem, and the bulldozers will leave the compound within the next few hours. Senior security sources told Ha'aretz that the decision was based on several considerations, including the wave of protests that swept the West Bank and Gaza Strip, in which five Palestinians were killed,...

Politically, Arafat is a dead man walking By David Landau, Ha'aretz Correspondent Yasser Arafat, the seemingly immortal leader of the Palestinian national movement, was politically assassinated Monday by President George W. Bush. His role as Israel's prospective partner in any future diplomatic process was effectively snuffed out by a stern-sounding American president, delivering his verdict on two years of violent intifada and his recipe for a turnabout towards peace in this war-torn region. Bush's verdict: Arafat is the guilty party. "Today," he asserted, "the Palestinian authorities are encouraging, not opposing, terrorism." The Palestinian Authority, he added, had "rejected [Israel's] offered...

Lights Out for Arafat (IsraelNN.com) Electricity to Yasser Arafat's Mukata headquarters in Ramallah and the surrounding area was cut off on Saturday night, Israel Radio reported. No additional information is available at this time.

4 American and 2 British peace activists sneak into Arafat`s compound; 8 French already inside

PA Editorial: Jews are Tatars, Mongolians, Nazis and WASPs Combining gutter anti-Semitism, implied denial of the Holocaust, innuendo and wild exaggeration, a recent Palestinian Authority editorial accused the Jews of having “brought back the Tatar, the Mongolians, the Nazis and all the invaders throughout the dark history of mankind… they are the descendants of Hulagu [grandson of Genghis Khan – NR] and Hitler…” The PA news agency, WAFA, also had something to say to “the Americans and to the British, who are the admirers of our holocaust and ongoing disasters…” “The Israelis, backed by the USA are attacking the Palestinians,...

Israeli Defense Forces Uncover Document Linking Arafat Directly to Palestinian Multi-Casualty Suicide Campaign against Israel It Was Found in Ramallah – in Files of His Personal Accounting Department at Palestinian Authority Government HQ Document Is Dated September 16, 2001, Five Days After Suicide Attacks on New York and Washington Costs of Bombs, Bullets, Martyrs’ Posters Are Meticulously Itemized for Arafat’s Approval and Books Read DEBKAfile’s Full Translation of Document Below Arafat’s Book-Keeping Department Yields Bill Linking Him to Suicides 2 April: This piece of correspondence was discovered by Israeli troops who went through the files in Yasser Arafat’s personal accounting...

Intifada Command Calls to Target US Interests (IsraelNN.com) An unofficial body in the Palestinian Authority, known as the United Intifada Command of the National and Islamic Forces, has published a communiqué calling on “Palestinians and the Arab masses to strike at American interests throughout the world.” While not an official organ of the PA, the United Command is made up of the vast majority of terrorist groups operating against Israel from the PA territory, including Yasser Arafat’s own Fatah organization. The other groups making up the United Command are the Islamic Jihad, Hamas, the Popular Front for the Liberation of...

Sharon: Arafat Is the Enemy of the Entire Free World By Aluf Ben, Ha'aretz Correspondent and Agencies Prime Minister Ariel Sharon deemed Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat "Israel's enemy and the enemy of the entire free world," in a brief televised address to the nation Sunday evening. Sharon accused Arafat of leading a campaign of "terror" against Israel and vowed to wage an "uncompromising war" to crush it. He said that Israel is "at war, a war against terror. We must fight this terrorism, in an uncompromising war to uproot these savages, to dismantle their infrastructure because there is no...

16:40 IT: Intense Secret Diplomatic Moves Are Afoot Sunday for Arafat to Go Into Political Exile Terms are in Negotiation with Israeli Prime Minister Sharon on Behalf of UN Secretary, Arab and European Governments Moroccan King Muhammad V Leads Contacts for Arab Governments Alongside UN and European Mid East Envoys Larsen and Moratinos Parallel Negotiations with Palestinian leaders over Arafat’s Successor and Fate of Wanted Terror Chiefs Failing Successful Conclusion of These Moves, Israeli Troops Poised to Enter Arafat’s Private Office After Latest Suicide Attack in Haifa “Matsa” Restaurant Sunday Claims 14 Lives, Leaves 38 Injured, 5 Critically, and Guts...

Israeli Troops Only a Door Away From Arafat Office March 30, 2002 09:29 AM ET By Mohammed Assadi RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Only a door separated Israeli soldiers from Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's private office on Saturday after a night of continuous shelling and shooting around his headquarters, aides said. Arafat spent the night in darkness after Israeli troops besieging his West Bank compound cut off the electricity and telephone and conditions there were steadily worsening, they said. The aides said Israeli troops have been gradually tightening their siege around Arafat and a handful of close aides inside the...