From Nazism to Islamism, they have backed the wrong side in every global conflict.

A Palestinian gadfly.

The credit, rather, goes to Osama bin Laden and Yasir Arafat.

Anything but bring peace and democracy.

In taking his case to the UN, Mahmoud Abbas is hoping to force an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank. But what could Abbas possibly. . .

Yasir Arafat, who died ten years ago today, inflicted enormous suffering not only in Israel, Jordan and Lebanon but on the Palestinian people. Elliott Abrams. . .

Hamas’ leaders, like Yasir Arafat before them, have made the mistake of believing their own lies. And so they, again like Arafat, will prosper, while their people suffer.

How will today’s Israel-Palestinian negotiations fare? Break out the storyline from the Oslo Accords of the 90s. America has the same failed strategy now.  

Yasir Arafat never truly accepted the validity of a Jewish state; his successor Mahmoud Abbas is merely following suit. 

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas insists on denying a fact that even his murderous predecessor Yasir Arafat admitted.

Only in the 1960s, with the rise of Yasir Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organization, did the term “Palestinian” begin to exclude Palestinian Jews.

Why did Israel ever expect that the PLO—a terrorist front with no democratic mandate, no governing experience, and nothing to lose—would help secure a lasting peace?