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  1. Next up in the Globe: Larry Gowan on senate reform

    → Macleans.ca » Blog Central | 2 Sep 2010 | 4:42 pm MDT

    Oh, good lord.

  2. Londonistan continues to provide British hospitality to genocidal fanatics

    → The Spectator.co.uk Melanie Phillips Blog | 2 Sep 2010 | 4:37 pm MDT


    Here     is another example of how, despite everything that has happened, Britain is continuing in its appalling role as the western hub of Islamic terrorism – the pre-eminent western nation providing the most hospitable environment for the enemies of civilisation:

    In May 2010 Amjad al-Salfiti, a lawyer with British citizenship who serves as head of the British branch of the Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR), visited Judea and Samaria. He met with Dr. Mahmoud al-Ramahi, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and a senior Hamas activist in Judea and Samaria. Speaking for Hamas, Al-Ramahi requested legal assistance against the Palestinian Authority for what he termed "persecution" of Hamas activists.

    2. Hamas' use of the British lawyer and his human rights organization is one example of how it exploits anti-Israel organizations and activists operating in Britain, which is a hub of Hamas' political, propaganda and legal activity in Europe.1 Most of its routine activities are directed against Israel, including initiatives for boycotting Israel, smearing it in the media and trying its senior officials in court. However, on occasion it turns its activities against the Palestinian Authority and



  3. Inconsistency, like Canada’s government, knows no borders

    → Macleans.ca » Blog Central | 2 Sep 2010 | 2:25 pm MDT

    Two developments that make a mockery of the Harper government’s hotly-defended positions on two emotional debates this year: • Bev Oda’s blogging from Mozambique! She’s blogging about what makes good policy in some of the poorest parts of the world. She’s blogging about how to ensure the very finest in maternal and child health. She’s [...]

  4. Where were we? We were confused

    → Macleans.ca » Blog Central | 2 Sep 2010 | 1:34 pm MDT

    A coalition government was last a tangible possibility some 21 months ago. In early December 2008, with the drama at its peak, polls showed Conservative party support surging and mixed (at best) numbers for the coalition. On December 4, the day Mr. Harper’s request for prorogation was accepted, Leger claimed 43% of Canadians preferred another [...]

  5. The unavoidable issue (II)

    → Macleans.ca » Blog Central | 2 Sep 2010 | 12:46 pm MDT

    Elizabeth Payne talks to International Cooperation Minister Bev Oda and detects some ambiguity in the government’s position on funding abortion overseas. [It] seems more likely that Canada’s direct aid to Mali, Mozambique and other countries will take the form of help to build more rural health centres and train badly needed caregivers as well as [...]

  6. Happy 90210 Day

    → Macleans.ca » Blog Central | 2 Sep 2010 | 11:43 am MDT

    You may have heard that today is considered to be “90210 Day.” Actually, since the date works out to 09-02-10, it would more accurately fit a show called “Beverly Hills 090210,” but that’s too long for a zip code, so let’s just go along with the conventional wisdom. The original 90210 is eternally addictive in [...]

  7. The new drinking game

    → Macleans.ca » Blog Central | 2 Sep 2010 | 11:12 am MDT

    The PM's pitch to Quebec sounds a lot like his pitch to Ajax, which sounds a lot like his pitch to southern Ontario

  8. The unavoidable issue

    → Macleans.ca » Blog Central | 2 Sep 2010 | 10:34 am MDT

    The Globe’s Geoffrey York finds an unnamed aid organization which has received funds from the Canadian government and performs abortions in African countries where the practice is illegal. The financing that it has received from the Canadian government in recent years is not for its abortion services, but for other health services that it provides. The [...]

  9. MS liberation: in defence of Saskatchewan

    → Macleans.ca » Blog Central | 2 Sep 2010 | 9:05 am MDT

    COSH: "There's no unitary global Science Court where hypotheses can be hauled in for exoneration or hanging"

  10. More Busybody Obama Czars

    → Eagle Forum Blog | 2 Sep 2010 | 9:00 am MDT

    The term czar has come to mean a presidential crony appointee who was never vetted by the Senate and who exercises sweeping regulatory authority without congressional oversight. President Obama has appointed at least 35 czars. They are paid by the U.S. taxpayers, but they were never interrogated and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. The latest Obama czar is Donald Berwick, who will have vast

  11. One more for the no side?

    → Macleans.ca » Blog Central | 2 Sep 2010 | 8:56 am MDT

    On the basis of his comments last night to the CBC and CP, the NDP’s Charlie Angus would seem at the moment to be moving in the general direction of preparing to maybe vote against Bill C-391. Dennis Bevington, meanwhile, repeats his intent to vote to scrap the registry.

  12. Bestsellers

    → Macleans.ca » Blog Central | 2 Sep 2010 | 7:00 am MDT

    Top-selling fiction and non-fiction titles (week of August 30th, 2010)

  13. The west's bloodstained hands

    → The Spectator.co.uk Melanie Phillips Blog | 1 Sep 2010 | 6:03 pm MDT



    Obama has called it

    senseless slaughter.
    On the contrary, the cold-blooded murder of four Israeli civilians near Hebron was not senseless at all. Just look at the reaction in influential parts of the western media, in which the dead have effectively been blamed because they were ‘settlers’ and thus are deemed to have brought the atrocity upon themselves. Now two more Israelis in the West Bank have been shot and wounded, one seriously, in what has been described as another drive-by shooting which riddled their car with bullets. This was the obscene reaction by Hamas supporters to the murders. They rejoice because they glory in the killing of Israeli civilians. Yet as Just Journalism observes, in the Guardian Harriet Sherwood used the atrocity to blame the settlers for being the principal obstacle to peace, while providing
    no discussion of the relevance of Hamas, or any background information on its history of violence aimed at civilians as exemplified by yesterday’s killings;
    while the New

  14. More Unaccountable Obama Czars

    → Eagle Forum Blog | 1 Sep 2010 | 10:00 am MDT

    Barack Obama has appointed another Czar from Chicago: the new Food Czar Sam Kass. Officially, he is labeled Senior Policy Adviser for Healthy Food Initiatives. He's joining the list of more than 35 Czars given broad and unaccountable power over our lives, habits and spending. Everybody laughed when Senator Tom Coburn asked Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan if it would be constitutional for

  15. Elko GOP chief has meltdown over ‘Republicans for Janine’

    → Eagle Forum Blog | 1 Sep 2010 | 8:56 am MDT

    A growing number of conservative Republicans have opted to support the independent conservative candidacy of longtime conservative activist Janine Hansen in Elko-area Assembly District 33 race instead of the moderate GOP nominee, John Ellison. As such, they recently formed an informal group called “Republicans for Janine.” And Elko County GOP chief Charlie Myers is having a cow over it. After

  16. Support Worthy Candidates This Year

    → Eagle Forum Blog | 31 Aug 2010 | 4:11 pm MDT

    In this vital election year, hundreds of worthy candidates are running for office. Running for office is much like caring for children: it’s based on a lot of tedious, time-consuming, repetitious chores, but in the end you can produce an important and worthwhile result. I urge all my friends to find a candidate you admire and volunteer your services for office work, making phone calls, or even

  17. Bringing Up Girls

    → Eagle Forum Blog | 30 Aug 2010 | 4:49 pm MDT

    This may be the most challenging time to raise girls in modern history, according to psychologist Dr. James Dobson, but parents can still raise confident girls with commendable character. It's been ten years since Dr. Dobson wrote his best-seller called Bringing Up Boys, so it's time for him to give good advice about girls, which he does in his new book, entitled Bringing Up Girls.Always a

  18. Interview: Ian Fletcher — Free Trade Doesn't Work

    → Eagle Forum Blog | 30 Aug 2010 | 10:46 am MDT

    America is running huge trade deficits with strategic rivals and bleeding jobs to cheap laborers in China and India. Is our free trade policy helping or hurting us? An economist will join us to explain why Free Trade Doesn¹t Work. Book: Free Trade Doesn't Work Listen to Eagle Forum Live Radio Program aired on 8-28-10 Part 1: Part 2: Listen every Saturday (11-Noon CST): Bott Radio Network

  19. Educators Under Fire for Test Tampering

    → Eagle Forum Blog | 27 Aug 2010 | 7:47 am MDT

    In several states, student test scores have gone up, but so have suspicions of test tampering by teachers and administrators. Six states have announced investigations into cheating this year. Three teachers, the principal and assistant principal resigned from an elementary school near Houston after it was discovered they provided students with a detailed study guide of questions on the state

  20. Chris Matthews promotes the mosque

    → Eagle Forum Blog | 26 Aug 2010 | 7:30 pm MDT

    Chris Matthews of MSNBC just said on his TV show: I have just cited a major national poll that says most Republicans don't like Islam, period. I have just quoted Rush Limbaugh from today's broadcast where he is making it sound like we elected a guy who is Islamic and therefore we are not anti-Islamic. Playing that old game again, that canard again, that he's really not a Christian. I would think

  21. Name-Calling

    → City Journal Eye on the News and Books and Culture | 26 Aug 2010 | 6:00 pm MDT

    "Islamophobia": the latest charge to try to stifle legitimate debate

  22. The Storyteller

    → City Journal Eye on the News and Books and Culture | 26 Aug 2010 | 6:00 pm MDT

    A Norman Rockwell exhibit captures the artist's deep understanding of America.

  23. Mosque of conquest?

    → Eagle Forum Blog | 26 Aug 2010 | 12:09 pm MDT

    By William J. Federer Muslim groups are proposing a 13-story $100 million mosque in the most prominent spot in America – the heart of downtown New York City near the World Trade Center site. Is this mosque a sign of America's tolerance, or is it a sign of Muslim conquest? The past may hold answers: In 630, Muhammad led 10,000 Muslim soldiers into Mecca and turned the pagans' most prominent

  24. Unpaved, Good Intentions, 8-25-10

    → Eagle Forum Blog | 26 Aug 2010 | 8:43 am MDT

    The dream: a Canada-to-Mexico superhighway. The reality: haggling. In the 1980s, David Graham, a fifth-generation native of Daviess County in southwestern Indiana, started thinking about how to reverse the economic slide that since mid-century had beset what was once a dynamic agricultural and manufacturing region. He was too late to help his own family—his eight children were grown, and they

  25. Now I’ve got to worry about flies, too

    → Macleans.ca » Opinion | 26 Aug 2010 | 8:00 am MDT

    Going Gaga: Today’s extreme and celebrity culture has even affected the Animal Channel

  26. So you want to be a member of Parliament?

    → Macleans.ca » Opinion | 26 Aug 2010 | 6:34 am MDT

    It takes a dazzling set of skills to be an MP. Like having a hand, to pound things with.

  27. Grading Teachers in Los Angeles

    → City Journal Eye on the News and Books and Culture | 25 Aug 2010 | 6:00 pm MDT

    Value-added measurement shows that many of the city's teachers don't belong in the classroom.

  28. Manhattan's Other Building Controversy

    → City Journal Eye on the News and Books and Culture | 23 Aug 2010 | 6:00 pm MDT

    Plans to construct a high-rise near the Empire State Building have sparked opposition.

  29. Using a mosque to prey on U.S. fears

    → Macleans.ca » Opinion | 20 Aug 2010 | 7:00 am MDT

    People like to hear they’re right to worry. There will always be politicians willing to tell them that.

  30. People willing to endure what the Tamils did are just the kind we want

    → Macleans.ca » Opinion | 20 Aug 2010 | 4:00 am MDT

    COYNE: Call it the 'bottom of the boat' test

  31. An FBI History of Howard Zinn

    → City Journal Eye on the News and Books and Culture | 18 Aug 2010 | 6:00 pm MDT

    Did the historian lie about his Communist Party affiliation?

  32. Immanuel Kant vs. Israel

    → Daniel Pipes :: Writings | 17 Aug 2010 | 8:00 am MDT

    As someone who deeply appreciates what Western civilization, for all its faults, has achieved, I puzzle over the hostility many Westerners harbor toward their way of life. If democracy, free markets, and the rule of law have created an unprecedented

  33. Aliens like us? I don’t think so.

    → Macleans.ca » Opinion | 17 Aug 2010 | 7:55 am MDT

    Whether alien culture resembles our own depends on one big question: do they have sex?

  34. A know-nothing strain of conservatism

    → Macleans.ca » Opinion | 17 Aug 2010 | 4:00 am MDT

    COYNE: The PM once was viewed as rigid but upright; doctrinaire, but with a certain integrity

  35. Reflections on an Islamic Center in Lower Manhattan

    → Daniel Pipes :: Writings | 15 Aug 2010 | 11:00 pm MDT

    Some observations: Cordoba House (or Park51) was announced in early April; that it remains an item of debate over four months later, and not just locally but nationally, points to Islam in the United States becoming a populist issue. Politicians who

  36. We get the feeling you’re tuning out, Steve

    → Macleans.ca » Opinion | 14 Aug 2010 | 12:17 pm MDT

    FESCHUK: It's year four as PM. Do you know where your cabinet ministers are?

  37. How Europe was saved

    → Macleans.ca » Opinion | 13 Aug 2010 | 7:00 am MDT

    WELLS: The work of historian Tony Judt, who lost all but his ability to speak, pays heed to the power of words

  38. Thankfully summer will soon be done

    → Macleans.ca » Opinion | 12 Aug 2010 | 7:20 am MDT

    Subtropical Florida: ‘I’d go there to die in perfect physical condition because there isn’t much else to do’

  39. Harper is on to something in cutting aid

    → Macleans.ca » Opinion | 11 Aug 2010 | 7:00 am MDT

    POTTER: "A rare case of Tory ideology actually aligning itself with sound public policy"

  40. The Unsustainable Declinism of Greg Sandow

    → City Journal Eye on the News and Books and Culture | 10 Aug 2010 | 6:00 pm MDT

    More on classical music's new golden age

  41. Intermission

    → The Spectator.co.uk Melanie Phillips Blog | 8 Aug 2010 | 3:04 pm MDT


    This blog is going to put its feet up for the next few weeks – so unless events drag me back, I wish everyone a good summer and look forward to returning when the holidays are over.



  42. Britain today

    → The Spectator.co.uk Melanie Phillips Blog | 8 Aug 2010 | 12:28 pm MDT

     


    The following message was sent to me by a reader who had occasion to visit the police station in Lancaster. I reproduce it without further comment.

    I was astonished at the chief decorative feature of the reception zone. Right behind the receptionist’s desk, hanging by chains from the lintel of the back window, was a stained glass work of art, a 2ft x2ft (approx) panel consisting of a schematic depiction of four Islamic green-topped domes upon arches, each crowned by a crescent. The upper two were facing upright, the lower two were inverted, as though mirroring the upper two.

    I did take the time unobtrusively to make a handwritten copy of the legend on the front window panel right in front of my nose. It read thus: ‘The stained glass arts project was designed and produced by Misbah Young Women’s Group to celebrate their identity as young Muslim women. The importance of mosques and their significance in bringing Muslim communities together has been illustrated using the minaret which is a key feature of a mosque.’ Below this English legend was a legend in an Asian



  43. 'Jihadiwood' and America's auto-immune disease

    → The Spectator.co.uk Melanie Phillips Blog | 8 Aug 2010 | 8:10 am MDT


    As the days have passed, it has become ever clearer that the deadly ambush laid by the Lebanese army for the IDF, in which Israeli Lt Col Dov Harari was killed (his funeral is pictured here) along with three Lebanese soldiers and one Lebanese journalist, was a Hezbollah operation.

    In the Washington Post, Israel’s ambassador to the US Michael Oren wrote:

    Although the maintenance work was fully coordinated with the U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, and the fatal shot was fired by the nominally independent Lebanese Armed Forces, Hassan Nasrallah, the head of Hezbollah, sent a television crew to film the ambush. He applauded the murder as a ‘heroic confrontation’ and threatened to ‘cut off the arm’ of Lebanon's enemies, ostensibly by firing his Iranian- and Syrian-supplied arsenal of more than 42,000 rockets at Israeli cities and towns.

    It is hardly surprising that the ambush turns out to have been another staged performance from the Jihadiwood Production Company, since blogger Emet m’Tsiyon reports that the Lebanese ‘village’ of Adeissa, where the ambush took place, is not a functioning village at all but a Hezbollah

  44. The jihad of the word erupts in Denmark yet again

    → The Spectator.co.uk Melanie Phillips Blog | 8 Aug 2010 | 4:43 am MDT

     


    A chilling development in Denmark illustrates just how ‘hate speech’ laws, which were introduced by deluded western liberals, are being used to stifle and criminalise the expression of legitimate opinion and essential debate -- the prerequisite of a liberal society. Lars Hedegaard is president of Denmark’s International Free Press Society, which is devoted to fighting to preserve freedom of expression -- particularly against the threat from radical Islam to shut it down on the spurious grounds of ‘Islamophobia’. The inevitable has now happened: as Nathaniel Sugarman writes at The Legal Project, Hedegaard finds himself facing prosecution for ‘racism’ over remarks he has made about Islam.

    The basis for Hedegaard's prosecution was an interview from December 2009 in which he made controversial statements about Islam. These assertions included critiques of what Hedegaard saw as Islam's permissiveness regarding child abuse and bearing false witness, as well as Islam's general intolerance concerning apostacism and critical speech. Snaphanen, a Danish blog, published the original interview, and Hedegaard has since clarified some of his remarks.

    Hedegaard's statements earned him a hate speech charge



  45. Um... who needs protecting from whom here?

    → The Spectator.co.uk Melanie Phillips Blog | 8 Aug 2010 | 3:58 am MDT


    An illuminating post on the excellent Muqata blog (backed up also here) reveals what western pro-Palestinian war (aka peace) activists don’t tell us what happens -- it would seem frequently -- to the women amongst them when they sally forth to protect the ‘defenceless’ Arabs against Israeli ‘aggression’. They get sexually assaulted by the defenceless Arabs.

    Back in July, Ha’aretz reported the story of a former Arab convict named Alladin who would find these young female peace activist staying in nearby villages, he would tell them he was on the run from the Shabak (Israel security), and ask them to hide him. These young female dupes would of course be happy to help an Arab on the lam from the Israeli authorities and let him sleep in their rooms.

    So far one girl initially came forward about the attempted rape against her. She was found wandering the village of Umm Salmuna (near Bethlehem) in a state of shock, so who knows if the attempt actually failed. But in the end [she] retracted her story due to pressure to ‘not hurt the cause’. Haaretz had learned that



  46. Bell's Debt Tolls

    → City Journal Eye on the News and Books and Culture | 5 Aug 2010 | 6:00 pm MDT

    The California city's problems go beyond a $787,637 man.

  47. American Movies, Foreign Minds

    → City Journal Eye on the News and Books and Culture | 5 Aug 2010 | 6:00 pm MDT

    Hollywood no longer honors our nation's uniqueness.

  48. Here we go again...

    → The Spectator.co.uk Melanie Phillips Blog | 4 Aug 2010 | 8:39 am MDT


    Yesterday, an Israeli reserve battalion commander, three Lebanese soldiers and one Lebanese journalist were killed when Lebanese forces opened fire on IDF soldiers performing routine maintenance work by the security fence near the border.

    The Israelis were using a crane on their side of the border with Lebanon to remove a tree in order to improve the line of sight and thus prevent Hezbollah terrorists from hiding in the undergrowth and carrying out attacks or kidnapping. The routine work had been cleared in advance with UNIFIL. The Israelis did not cross the Lebanese border. This was confirmed at an early stage by UNIFIL. Ha’aretz also reported the Lebanese confirming they had fired first:

    The Lebanese Army was first to open fire in the recent fatal border clash with Israel Defense Forces soldiers, a Lebanese source told the Lebanese newspaper A-Nahar on Wednesday.

    So this was an unprovoked attack by Lebanese forces upon the Israelis, with the salient facts of the incident confirmed by UNIFIL yesterday.

    Of course, it was not reported as such. Many if not most media outlets reported the incident merely as ‘Israeli claims versus

  49. Britain's New Export: Islamist Carnage

    → Daniel Pipes :: Writings | 3 Aug 2010 | 8:00 am MDT

    Britain's largest and longest-running terrorist investigation ended last month with the conviction of three British Muslims. Their 2006 plot involved blowing up trans-Atlantic airliners with the hope of killing up to 10,000 people. That near-disaster

  50. 'Israel is the cause of Islamic terror'... oh wait...

    → The Spectator.co.uk Melanie Phillips Blog | 3 Aug 2010 | 6:40 am MDT


    Those who persist in the delusion that the Middle East conflict is a fight over ‘Palestine’ between Israel and the ‘Palestinians’ should look at what happened last weekend, when terrorists fired Grad missiles from Egyptian territory not merely at Eilat, Israel’s tourist resort but also at Aqaba, Jordan’s tourist resort, where one Jordanian was killed and three others injured. This is not the first time Aqaba has been targeted along with Eilat: exactly the same thing happened last April. Ha’aretz reports:

    ... the perpetrators, apparently members of the group known as Global Jihad, intended to hit Aqaba no less than Eilat. They consider the Hashemite kingdom to be as legitimate a target as Israel, if not more so.

    ... Sinai was and still is a hotbed for Global Jihad. Weapons are being smuggled from Sinai into Gaza, including Grad missiles. Some of these missiles presumably remain in Sinai, waiting to be launched... Global Jihad activists have come to the Gaza Strip, trained there, armed themselves and returned to Sinai to commit acts of terror against tourist targets in Sinai and elsewhere in Egypt. That may be the case



  51. Niqab Security Outrages at Canadian Airports

    → Daniel Pipes :: Writings | 2 Aug 2010 | 11:00 pm MDT

    I visited Toronto in early March 2010 and as I left the country I passed through the usual security check at Pearson International Airport. What made it different is that the next passengers after me in line were a man, a small child, and a person in

  52. Who will floor whom in the welfare wrestling match?

    → The Spectator.co.uk Melanie Phillips Blog | 2 Aug 2010 | 10:17 am MDT

     


    There has been much speculation that an early casualty of Britain’s coalition politics (by which I mean the fractious coalition within the Conservative party between Cameroon Whigs and Real Tory dissidents) may result in the early exit from the government of the Defence Secretary, Dr Liam Fox -- who appears to be heavily embattled over defence cuts, Afghanistan exit strategy and doubtless also the Prime Minister’s imaginative approach to the defence of the west.

    I am even more intrigued, however, by the position of the Work and Pensions Secretary, Iain Duncan Smith. Stories have been circulating of an on-going fight between him and the Treasury, which is refusing to stump up the not-inconsiderable funds for the wholesale reform of the welfare system upon which IDS has embarked to ‘make work pay’. Now as the Times (£) reports today the Centre for Social Justice, the think-tank founded by IDS and where all the thinking behind his welfare reform strategy took place, has heavily criticised the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, for a ‘blunderbuss’ approach in seeking spending cuts across the board of an eye-watering

  53. Operation Desert Storm Plus 20

    → Daniel Pipes :: Writings | 1 Aug 2010 | 11:00 pm MDT

    It was twenty years ago on this day, that Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, initiating a crisis that lasted half a year and beginning the slow turn of events that led eventually to his own overthrow and execution, followed by the American-led occupation.

  54. My Website Furthers Computer Science / Linguistics

    → Daniel Pipes :: Writings | 31 Jul 2010 | 11:00 pm MDT

    On the grounds that "danielpipes.org is clean, consistently formatted, carefully edited and larger than WSJ," a team of three authors from Google and Stanford University have used my website to explore a possible connection between linguistic syntax and

  55. France vs. Niqabs and Burqas

    → Daniel Pipes :: Writings | 22 Jul 2010 | 11:00 pm MDT

    National Review Online asked several writers: "Is France really banning the burqa? What does this mean? What could other Western nations learn from it?" My reply follows. For those of Raymond Ibrahim, Judith Apter Klinghoffer, Melanie Phillips, James V.

  56. Turkey in Cyprus vs. Israel in Gaza

    → Daniel Pipes :: Writings | 20 Jul 2010 | 8:00 am MDT

    In light of Ankara's recent criticism of what it calls Israel's "open-air jail" in Gaza, today's date, which marks the anniversary of Turkey's invasion of Cyprus, has special relevance. Turkish policy toward Israel, historically warm and only a decade

  57. Farrakhan Demands Reparations from Jews

    → Daniel Pipes :: Writings | 13 Jul 2010 | 8:00 am MDT

    Louis Farrakhan recently sent a three-page letter along with two books to the heads of sixteen Jewish organizations. Dated June 24, 2010, the letter is resplendent with a crescent-and-moon flag and Farrakhan's impressive-sounding title ("National

  58. Trust the Palestinian Authority?

    → Daniel Pipes :: Writings | 6 Jul 2010 | 8:00 am MDT

    Under Yasir Arafat, the Palestine Liberation Organization notoriously said one thing to Arab/Muslim audiences and the opposite to Israeli/Western ones, speaking venomously to the former and in dulcet tones to the latter. What about Arafat's mild-mannered



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