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...speech by Tom Paulin, who advocated the murder of Israelis. I defended, pro bono, a virulently anti-Israel Stanford professor who was fired for inciting violence. I opposed Harvard’s attempt to prevent students from flying the Palestinian flag to commemorate the death of mass-murderer Yasser Arafat...
Thousands mark anniversary of Arafat's death...
Three years after his death, Yasser Arafat still has the capacity to conjure up violence. At a huge memorial rally in Gaza on Monday, at least six people were killed and 80 wounded when supporters of the Palestinian chairman's successor, Mahmoud Abbas, clashed with Islamic militants of Hamas. Arafat's Fatah organization, now headed by Abbas, has been in the middle of a virtual civil war with Hamas since June. Indeed, they have divided up the two Palestinian enclaves between them, with Hamas dominating the Gaza Strip and Fatah controlling the West Bank...
Hamas commanders saw the 200,000-strong Arafat memorial rally by as a provocation, a challenge to their rule in the Gaza Strip by rivals of the Fatah movement, loyal to President Abbas. Hamas routed Fatah fighters in Gaza last June, but Arafat's old militia still has many followers in Gaza, judging from the rally's size. Gaza sources also said that many Palestinians attended the memorial as a protest against Hamas's tightening control over Gaza, which has triggered international sanctions by Israel and the international community on Gaza's 1.5 million residents. Palestinians in Gaza face constant...
Since taking over Gaza, Hamas has banned opposition rallies, but they relented for Arafat's memorial ceremony. A controversial figure among many Palestinians, Arafat nonetheless maintains a strong following for his leadership during the decades-long fight against Israel. On Monday, Fatah claimed that Hamas gunmen opened fire as a wave of Fatah supporters approached the Islamic University, and chaos ensued as the marchers fled between buildings draped with giant murals of Arafat's grizzled visage. But Hamas insists that Fatah snipers on the rooftops were the first to shoot...