Burak Bekdil is a brave and humorful Turkish journalist who dares, while living in Ankara, to highlight the political follies of President Erdogan in articles he writes for foreign websites. A recent column of interest from him is here. Neither the Ottoman nor the modern Turkish language has ever been short of racist proverbs denigrating […]
Palestinian Prime Minister Calls for ‘Reconsidering’ Palestinian Authority’s Ties to the Arab League
The Palestinians continue to display an unreal sense of their own importance. Now they have taken on the Arab League and “threaten” – as if anyone would much care – to sever their own ties to the League. That story is here. The Palestinian Authority on Monday called on its leader, Mahmoud Abbas, to “reconsider” […]
Arab League Turns Down Palestinian Draft Resolution
The Palestinians can feel the ground shift under their feet, as they begin to recognize how little they now count for in the Arab states. The story is here. The Arab League on September 9 refused to endorse a Palestinian draft resolution condemning the United Arab Emirates for its normalization agreement with Israel, a move […]
Palestinians Complain That Some Arab States Are Not Following Their Orders
The Palestinians are enraged that the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain are attempting to block their resolution, to be voted on at the upcoming Arab League meeting, that condemns the UAE’s “normalization” of relations with Israel. The story is here. The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and other Gulf states are trying to foil a Palestinian […]
Palestinians Are “Disappointed” In Initial Arab Response — Arab League Then Rejects the Trump Plan (Part 1)
There was deep disappointment among the Palestinian leaders with the initial response of the Arabs to the Trump peace-and-prosperity plan. Their complaint can be read here. A senior official in the Palestinian Authority has spoken of Ramallah’s disappointment in Arab nations’ muted and sometimes-supportive response to the contentious US proposal for solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, […]
Arab League aids Palestinian jihad, pledges $100,000,000 per month to PA to make up “pay for slay” shortfall
The Palestinian jihad against Israel (and Zionism) has received a boost from the Arab League. Just as Israel has begun withholding funds to the Palestinian Aithority in the form of owed taxes and tariffs, specifically because of the jihadist “pay for slay” program, the Arab League has stepped in to make up the shortfall by […]
Arab League: “We strongly condemn attempts to link terrorism and Islam”
At the 29th Al-Quds Summit, the Arab League declared: We strongly condemn attempts to link terrorism and Islam. Until the Arab League openly rejects the overtly violent texts of the Quran and Sunnah, and condemns its member, the Palestinian Liberation Organization, for its mandate to destroy Israel, its words about terrorism are obvious deceit. The […]