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Bravo for Joseph Farah.

Joseph Farah: Many westerners... don't comprehend that there are truly evil people in the world

Sure, they do. They just think that the Jews are evil. Nothing new about that. The Jews are like the Blondes and Conservatives -- still fair game for shallow, narrow-minded "jokes" and prejudices.

Joseph Farah: Arafat "condemned" a bombing attack in Tel Aviv that killed one and injured some 20 others... suggested the attack was actually an act of provocation carried out by Israelis. So, while Arafat was in effect condemning the attack, he was in fact blaming the victims.

There's nothing new about that. Even the condemnations declared or suggested by various entities, of the decades (millennia, for that matter) of the mass-murder of Jews (and anyone else within reach) by Arabs and Moslems, usually include an equivalent condemnation of Israel's attempts to defend itself.

Joseph Farah: Lately, I've noticed other news organizations reporting that Al-Aqsa is "linked" with Arafat. Yes, linked – like the Japanese were "linked" with Pearl Harbor, like Adolph Hitler was "linked" with the Holocaust, like al-Qaida was "linked" with Sept. 11.

It's not as bad as all that -- after all, Al-Aqsa is just an "insurgent" organization.

Joseph Farah: The Arabs contend Israel oppresses them – that the Jewish state doesn't respect their human rights. Yet it is in the Arab states that Arabs have no rights. Israel represents the only state in the Middle East that protects the rights of Arabs to vote, to speak out, to publish newspapers, to protest government policies, etc. The Arabs of the Palestinian Authority, however, maintain an official policy that excludes any Jews from living within the territory or future state. It's an official policy of ethnic cleansing. It's an official policy of genocide. Again, the words the Arabs use are simply a kind of verbal camouflage to hide their own murderous activities.

Even before 9/11, liars like Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky blamed the US for the activities of such mass murderers as the 9/11 mass murders carried out by Arab Moslems, and funded by Saudi Arabia.

Joseph Farah: The Arabs say Israel created a refugee crisis. This is revisionist history, because it's certainly not what most Arabs believed in 1948. It was the Arab leaders who urged the Arabs to leave upon their declaration of war. It was the Arab leaders who whipped up a frenzy of fear in the Arab populace. It was the Arab leaders who promised they would quickly "liberate" the Jewish state. And, most importantly, it has been the Arab leaders who have kept the Arab refugees in perpetual squalor ever since...

The world media -- which Islamic Jihad would have everyone believe is controlled by the Jews (it's in their charter) -- props up the fiction by referring to Arab ("Palestinian") towns as "refugee camps". Just because every able-bodied alleged man in the town would rather sit around figuring out how to murder and recruit murderers than, oh, say, pick up a paintbrush, rake, or hammer, doesn't mean that three or more generations of occupation makes a site is a "refugee camp". Reminds me again of P.J. O'Rourke's commentary in the June 2002 Automobile ("If We're At War, Why Is Gasoline So Cheap", pp 56-57):

[G]asoline, some recent price hikes notwithstanding... adjusted for inflation... was the lowest gasoline price, ever... [I]n 1970, we imported 22.7 per cent of our crude oil. Now we import 59 per cent, and almost a third comes from the Middle East... U.S. oil consumption went from more than 20 million barrels a day in August 2001 to about 18.8 million a day in January 2002... But the best thing we have going for us at the gas pump is the no-account, bone-idle, useless bums sitting on 65 per cent of the world's oil... [T]he total nonpetrochemical exports of the Arab world do not equal Finland's.

"Bone-idle, useless bums" -- heh heh...

Joseph Farah: The truth is that 68 percent of the Arab Palestinians who left in 1948 – perhaps 300,000 to 400,000 of them – never saw an Israeli soldier.

And in the past 56 years, I'm sure most of them have died. Arafat -- who is Egyptian-born, as were his predecessors in the precursor organizations to the PLO -- hasn't died, but that will be remedied either by time or by bullet.

God Has Ninety-Nine Names:
Reporting from a Militant Middle East
by Judith Miller
hardcover