Epstein Secrets

weak. Dahlan has since spent his time between Egypt and the United Arab Emirates. Dahlan grew up poor in a Gaza refugee camp, but as a top aide to Arafat became the territory's strongman in the 1990s, jailing leaders of rival Hamas which was trying to derail Arafat's negotiation with Israel through

t U.S.-led talks "will bring nothing for the Palestinian EFTA00684337 people," alleging Abbas has made concessions that his predecessor, the late Yasser Arafat, would not have. Abbas aide Nimr Hamad and senior Fatah official Jamal Muhaisen declined to comment Thursday on Dahlan's statements. Last week, Mu

now there was a decade of Jewish power!—is quite shocking. (His Abba Hillel Silver is just an early version of Howard Kohr, in consonance with his AIPAC-centric view of the world.) The truth is that no amount of sympathy for Palestinians requires this amount of antipathy to Israelis. Remember Rosa L

. TIME Palestinian Official Says `Armed Resistance' an Option if Peace Talks Fail Karl Vick Feb. 11, 2014 -- The Palestinian official who headed Yasser Arafat's security force at the start of the second intifadeh is warning that armed conflict may well follow the failure of current peace talks with Israel.

ittee, said he had a "very direct conversation" with Ron Dermer, Israel's ambassador to the United States, on the sanctions bill early last month. "AIPAC and Israel are in different places on this issue," Corker said of his conversation with Dermer, who he said supported the sanctions bill now and no

to oblige. Not just some of them. All of them. On crucial Capitol Hill votes, measures favored by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, often pass unopposed. Last week was different. Very, very different. First, AIPAC was forced, in the wake of Democratic opposition, to retreat for

cally wants to define the boundaries of the main settlement blocs where construction would be allowed. Remember that as far back as the 2000 Barak-Arafat negotiations, the Palestinians had expressed a willingness to allow Israel to annex the large settlement blocs as part of a land swap. :2Vlyths &

s effort to form a lobby was in 1972. The National Association of Arab Americans (NAAA) was consciously patterned after its pro-Israel counterpart, AIPAC. In fact, the NAAA even duplicated AIPAC's stationery, changing only the name. More brazen, however, was the nascent lobby's request for help from