Mahmoud Abbas: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

BY VICTOR SHARPE, FAMILY SECURITY MATTERS— Current PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas was a trusted member of Yassir Arafat’s inner circle responsible for developing Fatah’s networks and raising funds for PLO operations at the time, including the Munich Massacre in 1972. So Osama bin Laden has been killed by the American military. His friend and second…

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The PLO's desperate defenders

BY CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— By most accounts, the Fatah-Hamas unity deal signing ceremony Wednesday was a grand affair. Hamas terror-chief Khaled Mashaal jetted in from Damascus. PLO/Fatah/Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas flew in from Ramallah. The ceremony was held under the auspices of the newly Muslim Brotherhood-friendly Egyptian intelligence services. UN representatives and Israeli Arab…

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How much do Hamas and Fatah really trust each other?

BY EDMUND SANDERS AND PAUL RICHTER, JWR— Rival Palestinian factions celebrated the signing of a reconciliation pact they hope will end their four-year split and accelerate efforts to form an independent state. But the agreement faces fierce opposition from Israel, complicates American-led efforts to forge a peace agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians, and still…

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Israel's increasing vulnerability

BY JOHN BOLTON, WASHINGTON TIMES— Although Osama bin Laden’s well-deserved death has demonstrated America’s re- solve to vindicate our national security, the world is still far from safe. In the Middle East, optimistic predictions that authoritarian regimes would fall like dominoes, ushering in new democracies and greater prospects for peace, are rapidly disappearing. Not only…

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The Hamas and al-Qaida Parallel

BY MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— With the demise of Osama bin Laden, Israel and the Western world can breathe a collective sigh of relief. After nearly a decade of dead ends and false leads, America finally succeeded in tracking down and eliminating al-Qaida’s charismatic and evil founder, setting a commendable example of counterterrorism at its best.…

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Video: National Anthem Hatikva

The words to Israel’s national anthem Hatikva were written around 1878 by Naphtali Herz Imber, an English poet.  Samuel Cohen, an immigrant from Moldavia, put the lyrics to a folk melody from his home country.  In 1898, the Jewish newspaper in Israel (before the state was established) ran a competition for an official national anthem.  There were no winners from…

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