Rootless Cosmopolitan (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
‘Who lost China?” was the battle cry of a witch-hunt conducted in the US State Department following the 1949 victory of Mao Zedong’s communists. The department’s “China hands”, critics charged, had been woefully ignorant of the dynamics at work on the ground in China after the Second World War, and undermined the US ally Chiang Kai-shek. While the purge that followed...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal urged Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Friday to stop seeking compromise with Israel but offered him an olive branch, saying Palestinians must end their divisions. Sounding conciliatory after raising the political ante against Abbas following his call for national elections last month, Mashaal said the Islamist group Hamas "stretches its hand" to Abbas' Fatah...
What Really happened (Free subscription) | yesterday
Following Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' announcement that he would not run for another term, a senior Fatah official told Ynet that if serious progress was not made soon in peace talks, the organization would consider reverting to popular warfare. The source said Saturday that more and more Fatah operatives were calling for a return to violent resistance. WRH permalink
GayandRight (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Gee, they have some of the world's best strategic thinkers, no? Following Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' announcement that he would not run for another term, a senior Fatah official told Ynet that if serious progress was not made soon in peace talks, the organization would consider reverting to popular warfare. The source said Saturday that more and more Fatah operatives were calling for a return...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH Mahmoud Abbas's decision to hold new presidential and parliamentary elections at the beginning of next year is seen by some of his aides as one of the strangest moves he has made since he was elected to succeed Yasser Arafat five years ago. These aides are now trying to persuade Abbas to find an honorable way to come down from the high tree he climbed when he issued a "presidential...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
&$ &$Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (C) receives grapes from supporters during a Fatah gathering in the West Bank village of Halhul near Hebron November 8, 2009. Thousands of Palestinians turned out in the West Bank on Sunday to urge Abbas to run again for the presidency following his announcement that he did not want a second term in the job. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)&$ &$ A majority...
LaurenceJarvikOnline (Free subscription) | yesterday
Was the alleged Ft. Hood assassin named after Abu Nidal, "Father of the Struggle?" Sounds like a chip off the old block to this observer, but if not, who is Nidal Hasan named after? More on Abu Nidal on Wikipedia : Abu Nidal (Arabic: أبو نضال) (May 1937 – August 16, 2002), born Sabri Khalil al-Banna (Arabic: صبري...
Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | yesterday
Al-Manar "08/11/2009 Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is considering dissolving the PA and declaring the failure of the peace process with Israel, PA officials in Ramallah said over the weekend [ He will never do that. Puppets do as they are told and the tail never wags the dog .] Abbas was now waiting to see if the US and other parties would exert enough pressure on Israel to stop...
The Blog of Walker (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
Not my headline. Does that sound like a headline I would put together? It's more Binks' style, who writes, over at Canucki Jihad : ~ WE’VE COVERED stealth-Jihadist Tariq Ramadan a fair bit here on CJ: but he’s coming to Canada again (having lost some of his honky payoffs in the EU), to spread his unique brand of undercover badness. What the Fort Hood Shooter is to the violent side of the...
Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
"On Friday, modest groups of Fatah members and others marched in Ramallah and elsewhere in the West Bank to voice support for continued leadership by Abbas. Local Palestinian media continued running news headlines about various organizations or politicians discouraging him from retirement." I in fact watched footage of some of the "demonstrations" on Arab TV stations. They were...
A Blog For All (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
During the past week, there were reports that Mahmoud Abbas, head of Fatah and the Palestinian Authority President, did not want to run for reelection and would not seek another term. Media reports flailed about wondering what it would mean for President Obama's peace process plans and the Palestinian-Israeli relations.All of these reports gloss over inescapable facts. Abbas was never in a
Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
By Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem "....Washington is said to be quietly working on possible negotiating parameters but meeting resistance from Israel. Used to pressure from Israel, but much less so from the Palestinians , the US may be disinclined to harden its line in those discussions. Of course, there are Fatah alternatives to Mr Abbas, most enticingly the more charsimatic Marwan Barghouti who...
Memri Latest Blogs (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Fatah centeral Committee member Nabil Sha'th has warned that the U.S.'s stance on renewing negotiations gives the Palestinian people two options: either a cycle of violence, or an Israeli takeover of all the territories. Then, he said, ... November 6, 2009, 12:47 pm
Ahlul Bayt News Agency (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Palestinians from Gaza set off for Mecca on Friday for the annual haj pilgrimage after Fatah and Hamas agreed on a list of 4,500 participants from the strip.2009/11/6
Winds Of Jihad (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Dr Daniel Pipes, Internationally Renown Expert on Islam discusses radical Islam and the Middle East with Allan Jones, you can listen here…. Meanwhile, in Cauckistan: Tarek Fatah: Montreal...
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