One unfortunate but enduring truth of the Middle East is that the act of making peace with Israel, for an Arab leader—whether Christian or Muslim—is also the act of instantly becoming a target for assassination.
Bashir Gemayel didn’t even get as far as signing Lebanon’s peace treaty with Israel before the Syrians erased him. One man who did get that far was Anwar Sadat, and the legend of his assassin, the Islamist Khalid Islambouli, has been treated as the saga of a hero by Iran’s Islamist leadership ever since.
That reverence has been a point of contention between Iran and Egypt to this day—but that may be changing. Here is Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty yesterday:
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Seth Mandel | April 28, 2011 | Posted in
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It’s the Arab Spring and love is in the air. After a torrid on-and-off affair, rival terrorist political factions Hamas and Fatah are on again. According to mutual best-friend Egypt, things are red-hot.
Hamas’s thirst for power can never be quenched.
Egyptian extremists and Hamas are gaining strength and momentum, in the face of Obama’s ridiculous “leading from behind.”
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Jeff Dunetz | April 27, 2011 | Posted in
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Palestinian terrorists have no reservations about targeting the children of Israel. They have a long history of turning the innocent into statistics.
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Duane Lester | April 18, 2011 | Posted in
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Today’s NY Times carries an obit for terrorist collaborator Vittorio Arrigoni, and celebrates him as a peace activist.
Ray Hanania and his fellow “contemptible scoundrels.”
Hamas is now deliberately targeting Israeli school children with rocket attacks against clearly marked school buses. They know no shame, yet they continue to play the victim, pleading with the international community for protection from Israel’s reprisals. Terrorists in Gaza fired an anti-tank missile at an Israeli school bus on Thursday, injuring two people, one [...]
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Joseph Klein | April 11, 2011 | Posted in
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With the American intervention in Libya we see the beginning of an “Obama Doctrine”: It hasn’t really been identified as such, but the outline has been formed. Based on the doctrine championed by the President’s anti-Israel adviser Samantha Power, we now know the United States will follow the lead of Europe, the United Nations and/or the Arab League and intervene in any military action where they perceive civilians are being targeted.
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Jeff Dunetz | April 11, 2011 | Posted in
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