[quimby]

America indeed is unloved. In truth, the hatred for it is bottomless. Even if we cast Israel adrift, Arab opinion will cut us no slack.

Some will never accept the above statement, no matter how many times the lesson is repeated.

[quimby]

Clear thinking from Fouad.

[swarthyguy]

Not only that, there will then come demands for chechnya, kashmir, additional parts of india, Brixton(london), Jersey City. On the tape of OSama & co last fall, Zawahiri even spoke of al-andalusia...how many centuries ago did they leave Spain?

[HockeyPop]

General Ian Pacepa, head of Rumanian Intelligence under the former Ceaucescu regime, had this to say when Arafat visited Bucharest:

"I've never before seen so much cleverness, blood, and filth altogether in one man."

Yes, Arafat's hosts shook his hands, but Pacepa reports they could hardly wait to repair to the lavatory!

[dyed_in_the_wool]

BTTT

[d4now]

good article bump

[cicero's_son]

Slowly, the war is coming into focus.

It is NOT a war against Islam, as some have called for.

It is a war against a particular brand of Arab Fascism that shamelessly perverts Islam.

[Redcloak]

America indeed is unloved. In truth, the hatred for it is bottomless. Even if we cast Israel adrift, Arab opinion will cut us no slack.

The US is not hated for its association with Israel; Israel is hated for its association with the US.

[thucydides]

Ajami does not mention that the Grand Mufti, who spent WWII in Berlin, urging the murder of jews, was Arafat's uncle.

[Ancesthntr]

When statehood was first offered the Palestinians in the 1930s and 1940s, their leader was a terrible man, Hajj Amin al-Husseini, the mufti (religious judge) of Jerusalem. He abandoned reason, moved to Hitler's Berlin, and hoped the Nazis would grant him a political world.

Irony of ironies - Arafag is the nephew of the mufti of Jerusalem. Arafag continues the work that his uncle started: that evil SOB not only moved to Berlin, but he gave Hitler advice to kill all the Jews in Europe, instead of Hitler's previous preference to deport them. This was before the Wannsee Conference, so it may have played a role in Hitler's decision. I'm surprised that Fouad didn't mention it. Otherwise, this is his usual hard-hitting and accurate report on things as they really are in the Arab world.

[dennisw]

I'll send an SOS to the world
I'll send an SOS to the world
I hope that someone gets my
Message in a bottle

PINGING!   ) )  ) )  ) )  

If you want on or off me Israel/MidEast ping list please let me know.  Via Freepmail is best way.............

[aculeus]

FOUAD AJAMI ping.

[The Great Satan]

A devastating indictment of Palifat. Oh well, he's history now.

[montag813]

It was true to Arafat's way and to his history that he would try to hold America's campaign against terror hostage to his war against Israel. America is unloved in Arab lands, this argument runs, and its campaign can proceed only if Palestinian claims are satisfied. But this argument is supreme illusion.

This is no argument. It is Administration policy.

[Buckeroo]

BTTT!

[tictoc]

Fouad Ajami hits another one out of the ballpark.

We should collect him and the other 99 sane Arabs scattered around the world, bring them to a safe house, and kill the 299,999,900 others.

No, I don't really mean this.

But what is our strategy in this war? No enemy before - not the Nazis, not the Soviets, not the Japanese - has been so dangerous. Even the coming conflict with the Chinese, 50 or 100 years down the road, will not be as vicious.

We are prisoners of our conscience, weakened from within by self-hating proponents of cultural relativism. Maybe I will start feeling more optimistic in six months after Saddam Hussein is overthrown. But if our own people don't "get it", we have no hope of winning this war.

[kapn kuek]

We have come to the inevitable conclusion that the peace of Oslo that plucked Yasser Arafat from his exile in Tunisia nearly a decade ago and brought him to the Palestinian territories is now a thing of the past.

Great read! I would like to see a photo of Arafat’s head about 200 feet from his body due to about 5 bomb belts being detonated on his body. Of course he would have been surrounded by his personal security guards before the blast.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Good find!

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