The unpleasant-in-all-respects — morally, mentally, physically — Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the Palestinian Authority’s Executive Council, who along with the late Saeb Erekat was the “moderate” and “acceptable” face of the Palestinians, has just announced her resignation. The report is here: “Longtime Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi resigns,” by Aaron Boxerman, Times of Israel, December […]
Palestinian Authority Prime Minister condemns Pompeo’s planned visit to ‘settlement’ as ‘dangerous precedent’
The peace process is a delusion. The Palestinian leadership is a jihadist operation which seeks a one-state solution, that is, a Palestinian state in which no Jews live. Anything that offends jihadists is regarded as an unacceptable provocation. The Palestinian National Charter states: Israel is a constant source of threat vis-a-vis peace in the Middle […]
Tlaib retweets “Palestinian” propagandists’ tweet blaming Israelis for death of boy who apparently drowned
Rep. Tlaib has nearly 900,000 followers on Twitter. Hundreds of thousands likely saw her initial tweet before she took it down. She did not retweet the retraction. “Tlaib deletes retweet blaming Israelis for death of boy who apparently drowned,” Times of Israel, January 26, 2020: Rep. Rashida Tlaib retweeted then removed a tweet falsely blaming […]
Hanan Ashrawi Enraged by Secretary Pompeo, and She Has Some Democratic Company
Hanan Ashrawi, the unpleasant-looking Palestinian propagandist and apparatchik, for decades a member of the PLO’s Executive Committee, who has somehow managed to amass several million dollars on her Palestinian salary, and describes herself modestly as “Fiercely independent. Totally Palestinian & human,” has been sent off the deep end by Secretary Pompeo’s announcement that the American […]
“Palestinian” spox Hanan Ashrawi: “No way there can be talks with the Americans. Peace process is finished.”
“There is no way that there can be talks with the Americans. The peace process is finished. They have already pre-empted the outcome,” said Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi. “They cannot take us for granted.” What brazen hypocrisy. Of course, the “Palestinians” have always been masters at that. When was the “peace process” ever anything but […]
Hugh Fitzgerald: Ten Things to Think When Thinking of Muslim “Moderates”
Note from Robert Spencer: The “moderate” Muslim never dies, and I thought that this 2004 Hugh Fitzgerald discussion of the “moderate Muslim” bears re-posting now. There are some references clearly reflecting the year of composition, but not a word has been changed, for it has stood, we think, the test of time — certainly compared […]