Epstein Secrets

y last week, specifically to ward off accusations that he too might have been accomplice to Arafat's murder. In June 2011, Dahlan was expelled from Fatah because of repeated claims by President Abbas that he had murdered Arafat. In September, his house was raided by the Palestinian police and his pri

onent--he has to figure out how much power the interim military government has actually ceded to him. Just weeks before he took the oath of office, the Supreme Court, stacked with holdovers from the Mubarak regime, effectively dissolved the country's first freely elected Parliament. Then the Supreme Council of t

ied by the extinction of Israel. In the 16 years since the Oslo accords turned the West Bank and Gaza over to the Palestinians, their leaders — Fatah and Hamas alike — built no schools, no roads, no courthouses, no hospitals, no institutions that would re- lieve their people's suffering Instead

13 — considerably earlier than Republicans wanted — saying the date pres- ents a "fair and adequate" schedule in line with the timeline for past Supreme Court nominees. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., called the Demo- crats tactics "heavy-hand- ed" and urged them to reconsider the schedule. President Obama

aker than they've been in a long time.=President Obama's relationship with Netanyahu, to put it mildly, is not wa=m, and the continued split between Fatah and Hamas complicates matters fur=her. The administration has also publicly signaled a "pivot to Asia", a declaration that foreign =olicy prioritie

te mo=her. It's demeaning of the institution of the government that allows thi= kind of ticket touting to govern access to Congress or Parliament or the =upreme Court. It's demeaning of representative government to put access up for auction in this way.<=p> We've seen these long queues where people pay for someon