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Harvey Stein: Rabbi Froman and Hamas -- a Marriage Made in Heaven

It wasn't enough that Froman was longtime friends with Yasser Arafat. His most notorious outreach activities to Palestinians were with several leaders of Israel's most hated enemy, Hamas.

Geraldo Tells Rudy Giuliani That Arafat’s Like George Washington

Noah Rothman of Mediaite reported on Friday that Fox News host Geraldo Rivera compared the late Palestinian terrorist leader Yasser Arafat to George Washington on Fox & Friends, as hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade took turns criticizing that co...

Ich bin ein Israeli

It behooves every freedom-loving individual to remember the legacy of master terrorist Yasser Arafat -- and why Barack Obama should not have had a single word to say under Arafat's picture.

Shhh! Don't Tell Anyone Obama Spoke in the Shadow of a Huge Yasser Arafat Banner

Searches at the Associated Press, New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times done at 9:30 p.m. on "Obama Arafat" (not in quotes) returned nothing relevant to the matter I am about to note. A Google News search on the same...Show More Summary

Obama Denounces American History to Palestinians Below Giant Picture of Arafat

Obama wouldn’t give a speech at Catholic Georgetown until a holy Christian symbol had been blacked out. In contrast, he didn’t have a problem speaking under the giant visage of dead-of-AIDS, boy-molesting terrorist Yasser Arafat: InShow More Summary

Geraldo Struggles To Defend Palestinian ‘George Washington,’ Yasser Arafat, To Baffled Fox Hosts

2 months agoNews : Mediaite

Fox News Channel host Geraldo Rivera appeared on Fox & Friends on Friday where he struggled to defend the late Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, as well as the decision by President Barack Obama to stand beneath his portrait during a joint press conference with Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on Thursday. Show More Summary

Arafat and Us

Today, the president of the United States spoke under a big, smiling picture of Yasser Arafat. I just want to say a quick word about this — there are many things to say, but here is one: An American ambassador, Cleo Noel, was killed on direct orders from Arafat. Show More Summary

Barack Obama’s Arafat blunder is an embarrassment for the leader of the free world

As Daniel Halper at The Weekly Standard has reported, Barack Obama took part in a joint press conference with President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank this morning under a beaming banner of Yasser Arafat, also known as the “father of modern terrorism”. The Standard piece quotes from an extensive timeline of Arafat’s reign of terror, drawn [...]

Pablo Neruda to Be Exhumed

Pablo Neruda is about to get the Yasser Arafat treatment. Neruda chauffeur Manuel Araya has been claiming for years that agents of Augusto Pinochet poisoned the acclaimed poet while he was being treated for cancer. Next month, authorities will dig up his corpse to see if that's true. Judge Mario...

How did Arafat get away with murder?

(Scott Johnson) Yasser Arafat was responsible for the 1973 Black September operation in Khartoum that resulted in the murder of the American ambassador to Sudan (Cleo Noel) and his departing aide (Curt Moore). I read everything I could...Show More Summary

Greg Heisler BTS Series: Yasser Arafat

3 months agoArts / Photography : Strobist

For part two of his four-part BTS series for Profoto, photographer Gregory Heisler walks us through his Time cover of former PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat. I really enjoyed this video. Not so much for the lighting tidbits, as it is a pretty straightforward photo in that regard. Show More Summary

Arafat Planned the Intifada

Yasser Arafat, who was celebrated by much of the world as a visionary leader and statesman for the Palestinian people, had one vision: destroy the Jewish state of Israel and replace it with a Palestinian one. As his wife, Suha Arafat,...Show More Summary

Arafat's Widow: Terror Campaign in 2000 was Premeditated

In an interview earlier this month, Suha Arafat admitted in a televised interview that the 2000 Palestinian terror attacks were premeditated and not a spontaneous intifada as is widely claimed. “Yasser Arafat had made a decision to launch...Show More Summary

The Swiss Afterlife of Yasser Arafat

Nothing in the appearance of the four-story building with a Hyundai dealership downstairs suggests that it is particularly special in the commercial section of Lausanne. But on its secure upper floors, a highly sensitive examination is taking place, one with potential international ramifications. Show More Summary

Results of Tissue Tests from Arafat's Corpse Will Take Three Months

The tissue samples forensic experts extracted from Yasser Arafat's corpse on Nov. 27 will take weeks to examine, and it will be months after that before results are known. Abdullah al-Bashir, a Jordanian doctor and head of the Palestinian...Show More Summary

Meeting Mrs. Arafat

With the body of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat being exhumed as part of an investigation into whether he was murdered eight years ago, it was pretty clear that we were going to need some reaction from his widow Suha.

CP World Report: Yasser Arafat, Gaza-Israel Fatwa, Uganda Jubilee Prayer, Angus T. Jones

The remains of Yasser Arafat was quietly dug up in the middle of the night, to test a suspicion that the PLO leader was poisoned with a radioactive substance.

Palestinians Take Needed Arafat Samples Without Exhuming Corpse

After all the back and forth between Yasser Arafat's widow and his extended family over whether the fallen PLO leader's body should or should not be exhumed, it seems "forensic experts managed to take samples from the corpse withoutShow More Summary

Polonium: Marie Curie's Stepchild Discovery, Now In Spotlight As Lethal Weapon

6 months agoNews : The Two-Way

Curie much preferred her "beautiful radium." Polonium was much too unstable and uninteresting, finding its place helping in the dull task of removing static. But with the exhumation of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, the element has found the spotlight as a lethal, almost perfect weapon.

Why Is Polonium Used in Assassinations?

The body of Yasser Arafat was exhumed briefly on Tuesday so medical examiners could attempt to determine whether he was poisoned. Arafat’s widow, Suha, requested a murder investigation, and high levels of polonium-210 have been found on the Palestinian leader’s personal effects. Explainer readers have asked a series of polonium questions, which are answered below.

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