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L’espresso publishes 19 volumes of Arafat’s secret journals

Italian magazine publishes PLO leader’s diaries, exposing the arch-terrorist’s methods of maintaining plausible deniability after carrying out global terror attacks, while demonstrating his satisfaction to his underlings after they were carried out.
– Arafat also chronicled his planned perjury at former Italian PM Berlusconi’s corruption trial, for a significant financial payoff.

By Binyamin Tobias and Daniel Bettini

 

Nineteen volumes of journals written by former Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat over the course of nearly 20 years were divulged Sunday in the Italian L’espresso news magazine, shedding light on both the personality and life of the former Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) chief. Continue Reading »

Protesters demand Metropolitan Opera cancel pro-terrorism ‘The Death of Klinghoffer’

Demonstrators claim that the production is hostile to Israel, sympathetic to terrorists, and feeds anti-Semitism.

By Raffi Wineburg

 

JTA – As with many exclusive events, the Metropolitan Opera House’s Opening Night Gala on Monday had a few uninvited guests.

Protesters demonstrate outside the Metropolitan Opera.

Protesters demonstrate outside the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, September 22, 2014.- Photo: AFP

But these weren’t your typical party crashers.

Thousands of demonstrators gathered outside the Met chanting “Shame on the Met!” and “Say no to the show!” in protest of the Metropolitan Opera Company’s decision to produce the controversial opera “The Death of Klinghoffer.”

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The John Adams opera, which debuted in 1991 and is set to premiere at the Met on October 20, depicts the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro by Palestinian terrorists and the murder of Leon Klinghoffer, a 69-year-old Jewish-American passenger in a wheelchair.

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NY Met reconsiders, cancels anti-Semitic broadcast Klinghoffer opera

Critics say the broadcast “The Death of Klinghoffer” glorifies murder & terrorists, centers on the death of an American Jew at the hands of Palestinian militants is an anti-Jewish and anti-Israel opera.

 

The New York Metropolitan Opera announced Tuesday that it had canceled plans to broadcast the opera “The Death of Klinghoffer,” following an outpouring of criticism that the opera glorifies murder and could fan global anti-Semitism.

While 69 year old disabled World War II Veteran Leon Klinghoffer sat in his wheelchair aboard the Achilles Lauro cruise ship on October 7, 1985, four Palestinian terrorists shot him in the head and threw him overboard as his wife watched in horror. Leon and Marilyn Klinghoffer had been celebrating their wedding anniversary by taking this cruise.

While 69 year old disabled World War II Veteran Leon Klinghoffer sat in his wheelchair aboard the Achilles Lauro cruise ship on October 7, 1985, four Palestinian terrorists shot him in the head and threw him overboard as his wife watched in horror.

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NY’s Metropolitan Opera plans to telecast anti-Israel, anti-Semitic opera to millions

An open letter to the New York Metropolitan Opera general manager concerning “The Death of Klinghoffer,” an anti-Jewish and anti-Israel opera: reasons to reject it and viable replacements for it in HD transmission.

By Myron Kaplan/JNS.org

 

Peter Gelb
General Manager
The Metropolitan Opera
Lincoln Center
New York, NY 10023

 

Dear Mr. Gelb,

As a longtime fan of grand opera, I have attended numerous superb live Met performances both at Lincoln Center and via live Saturday matinee performance HD transmissions to theaters (not to mention listening to numerous Met Saturday matinee live radio broadcasts)—and have greatly admired your accomplishments at the Met.

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