Kashmiri demonstrators hold up Palestinian flags and a flag of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during a demonstration against Israeli military operations in Gaza, in downtown Srinagar on July 18, 2014. (Photo: TAUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP/Getty Images)
Barbara Opall-Rome, Defense News: Keeping ISIS Out of Palestine
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas insists the authority he heads will survive to see the rise of a sovereign state alongside Israel
... however, those closest to Abbas warn that without world intervention to revive prospects for a two-state peace, that future state bordering Israel could very well bear the black banner of the Islamic Caliphate.
RAMALLAH, The West Bank — Other than unswerving loyalty to Mahmoud Abbas and a shared commitment to nonviolent resistance of the Israeli occupation, the top two advisers and potential successors to the 80-year-old Palestinian leader couldn’t be more different.
Saeb Erekat, secretary-general of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and longtime chief negotiator, is an erudite, Western-educated political animal as comfortable in English-language television studios and international symposia as he is glad-handling the constituents he represents in the Palestinian parliament from his hometown of Jericho.
WNU Editor: Desperate people do desperate things .... and for many Palestinians that is the state of mind that they are in.
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the many sub leaders within isis are of palestinian decent.
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