24 years since the PLO fooled Clinton into thinking they amended their charter

On this day in 1998, President Bill Clinton was bamboozled by Yasir Arafat into believing that the PLO had changed its charter. The very moment of the sham was captured in the photo above, as a roomful of Palestinians in Gaza pretended to vote to rescind the articles of the charter that called for the destruction of Israel.We know that the charter never changed. The 1968...

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A Western media outlet notices that Mahmoud Abbas is a dictator

France's Liberation news site has an article on Mahmoud Abbas that agrees, in the headline, that he is an authoritarian.This has been obvious for years, but Western media has resisted saying it. It is based on an AFP interview from Monday of Nasser Kidwa, Yasir Arafat's nephew who was pushed out of Fatah by Abbas last year. “He does what he wants, without consideration...

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Palestinians know that Abbas is a dictator. Why doesn't the West?

On Monday, hundreds of Palestinian lawyers protested Mahmoud Abbas' sweeping powers:Hundreds of Palestinian lawyers held a rare street protest Monday against what they described as the Palestinian Authority's "rule by decree", condemning president Mahmud Abbas for governing without a parliament.The Palestinian Legislative Council -- created under the Oslo Peace Accords with...

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