Posted on 11/13/2004 10:18:58 AM PST by quidnunc
At his death, Yasser Arafat was viewed in Europe — always his most important constituency outside the Middle East — as the humble and pitiable leader of the dispossessed Palestinian people. But this image does little justice to the magnitude of his achievements. Arafat was the father of modern terrorism, and leaves behind a people ruined almost beyond salvation, a West divided against itself, and a global conflict that may last generations.
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If Arafat failed again in Palestine, he was still successful in supposedly enlightened quarters in the West. Al Qaeda's successful recruiting in the mosques and universities of Europe would have been unthinkable without the governing elites' generation-long love affair with Arafat, but al Qaeda, thankfully, has never absorbed the deep lesson of Arafat's career — that a nod in the direction of diplomacy and a friendly demeanor make terrorism more powerful, not less. Arafat so thoroughly hypnotized Europe's elites — blame the victims, blame the Jews — that it may take them a generation to recover. Fifty years after General de Gaulle understood that terrorism was a religion of murderers pure and simple, Jacques Chirac now shamelessly proclaims that the sources of terrorism are the Israeli and American occupation of Arab lands. And it's not calculated for advantage, like almost everything else he says. He actually believes it.
For Europe's leaders to so deeply confuse cause and effect bodes ill for the struggle against terrorism. In Europe little effort has been made to integrate large Muslim populations. Those populations are growing increasingly resentful of Western culture, and are easily attracted to the ideology of violence that is today freely taught in all the best universities of Europe. …
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Arafat got nothing for those people. He robbed them.
They were stupid to follow him. He used them for cannon fodder.
He even supported Saddam's invasion of Kuwait.
..."..."Violence," he wrote, "is a cleansing force. It frees the native from his inferiority complex..."...
So that's why Muslim parents teach their children to throw rocks at tanks? Islam teaches its youth early to have an inferiority complex when before the Imams and when before the Mullahs. Women live in eternal inferiority. Therefore, in Islam, violence is ALWAYS justified.
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George HW Bush, Bill Clinton, and Yitzhak Rabin made terrorism respectable by dealing with Arafat the terrorist, after all of his murders and after he had sided with Saddam Hussein in the 1991 Gulf War.
Somehow I don't think he had to swing the watch back and forth very long to accomplish that particular feat of hypnosis.
And made "The Bomb Belt" fashionable in terriorist's circles.
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He was a murdering terrorist, a disease. And he died of a disease. "Vengence is mind and I will repay, saith the Lord." The wicked old witch is DEAD. Hallujah!
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Arafat didn't make mass murder of the innocents by acts of Islamofascist terrorism.
It was the left wing MSM from the NY Slimes to BBC to ABCNNBCBS which made a hero of this vile POS.
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