Thanks for the info. I also noticed that The Boston Globe, which is also a liberal paper but has less at stake in wishing a Mideast peace process to work (despite all available evidence), mentioned the rally, giving the correct total of 60,000 attendees, at the end of an article on Israeli politics, where one would expect to find it.
I have the impression that Arafat has the Europeans eating out of his hand, as there have been photos of them visiting him in his house arrest, Arafat pointing at those horrid Merkavas outside his office.
You're not kidding. Let me see, don't the civilized Europeans usually object to the death penalty? But having given Arafat a free pass on terrorism, how can they object to his killing accused collaboraters out of hand? (Our treatment of the Al Quaeda prisoners at Gitmo, on the other hand, remains an 'outrage') Worse than the moral support, they continue to pay him, as do the Saudis and Saddam Hussein.
There's an interesting column by Anne Applebaum on Slate, called How the Mideast Peace Process Killed Itself, which is a review of Amira Hass' new book. Hass thinks the the design of the peace process guaranteed its failure. Worth a look.
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