‘Moderate’ Palestinians: Cheers for a Murderer
No sooner had a Palestinian terrorist broken into a Jewish family home in Kiryat Arba Friday and stabbed a sleeping 13-year-old girl to death than the PA began hailing the killer as a martyr. Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik of Palestinian Media Watch report that the PA and the “moderate” Fatah leadership announced that the family of the terrorist, who was killed by Israeli police, will immediately begin receiving a government stipend. And local Palestinian media widely carried his mother’s chilling praise: “My son is a hero. He made me proud.”
Tehran turmoil: Obama Can’t Save the Regime
The mullahs’ war in Iraq and Syria is not going well and has become widely unpopular, says Michael Ledeen at PJMedia. Moreover, “the Iranian people know that the country is failing” because the financial bonanza of President Obama’s nuclear deal “has not reached the workers or the lower middle class” — a point workers’ spokesmen “repeatedly have driven home.” Where is the money going? “Into the accounts of the corrupt leaders” and “for Russian weapons.” The regime now “no longer trusts the Iranian people” — which is why Supreme Leader Ali Khaminei has banned all demonstrations, even to mourn the dead. “The people hate this hollow regime more than ever,” says Ledeen, and with good reason: “It’s a failed regime whose stability is in considerable doubt.”
Summit finale: 3 Amigos’ Handshake From Hell
It may have been the most awkward triple handshake in history when President Obama, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto tried to join hands at the close of their North American Leaders Summit on Wednesday. Frankly, says Brian Koerber at Mashable.com, “the entirety of North America should be incredibly embarrassed.” That’s because no one seemed to know whether they should be grasping a left or right hand. “While some argued that this was clearly a failed Illuminati handshake,” he snarked, “others basked in the awkwardness, releasing a fury of Twitter jokes.”
From the left: O Still Censoring Those 9/11 Pages
Through frustrated and stonewalled, former Democratic Sen. Bob Graham refuses to end his years-long quest to force the release of those 28 classified pages from the 9/11 report, which he co-wrote, reports Eleanor Clift at The Daily Beast. “The deadline a White House official gave him has come and gone,” she writes. “An official, who had been corresponding with Graham — whose name he did not disclose — is no longer returning his phone calls.” The material, he says, “contains information the public has a right to know about foreign assistance, mainly from Saudi Arabia, to the hijackers.” And “letting yet another [9/11] anniversary pass without coming clean with the American people would be morally indefensible.”