Quiet release of a 33-year-old US State Dept. cable

Jewish World Review ^ | Jan.2, 2007 | Caroline B. Glick

[Colquhoun]

Jewish World Review Jan. 2, 2007 / 12 Teves, 5766

With the quiet release of a 33-year-old US State Department cable, a good chunk of the edifice of the longest-running big lie was destroyed

By Caroline B. Glick

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Time for world to admit it was duped to the tune of billions of dollars

http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Yasser Arafat was a master of the big lie. Since he invented global terrorism with the founding of the Fatah terror organization in 1959, Arafat successfully portrayed himself as a freedom fighter while introducing the world to passenger jet hijackings, schoolhouse massacres and embassy takeovers.

To cultivate the myth of his innocence Arafat ordered his Fatah terror cells to operate under pseudonyms. In the early 1970's he renamed several Fatah murder squads the Black September Organization while publicly claiming that they were "breakaway" units completely unrelated to Fatah or to himself.

In 2000, as he launched the current Palestinian jihad, he repeated the process by renaming Fatah terror cells the Aksa Martyr Brigades and then claiming that they were completely unrelated to Fatah or to himself. This fiction too, has been successful in spite of the fact that all Aksa Martyr Brigades terrorists are members of Fatah and most are members of Palestinian Authority official militias who receive their salaries, guns and marching orders from Fatah.

Last week, with the quiet release of a 33-year-old US State Department cable, a good chunk of the edifice of his great lie was destroyed.

[Colquhoun]

Truth revealed at last.

[saganite]

Reminds me of the so called breakaway factions of Sadr's militia currently operating in Iraq. He says he has no control over them. Guess he learned to lie from the master.

[Dreagon]

The truth is useless to those who don't want to be inconvienenced by it. And the people who start shouting that truth are only resented. The media isn't interested in this because it means their whole narrative all this time has been a lie.

[PGalt]

Great comments bump! Hooray Caroline Glick! Mohammed's Mob MO! Why isn't Nasrallah dead yet?

[OldFriend]

No wonder slick willie and bubba were big supporters of the PLO decades ago.

[texas_mrs]

By not availing the American public to the knowledge that Fatah and the PLO have been specifically targeting Americans for 33 years, the media has denied the American people basic knowledge of the world in which they live.

Yes, our media is our own enemy within.

[the_Watchman]

Carter should be made to publicly comment on this!

[ishabibble]

I think this kind of says it all about Yasser and the U.S.


http://gradualdazzle.blogspot.com/2005/01/disgusting.html

[Dahoser]

Seems like the State Dept is right there with them.

[Delta 21]

Arafat a terrorist !! ?? !!

Someone tell Jimma Carta !!!

[stumpy]

I'd say we probably need to execute about 80% of the people employed at foggy bottom for treason and start over.

[Ditto]

Why this can't possibly be true. He was a man of Peace and has the Nobel Prize to prove it.

< / sarcasm >

[RedStateRocker]

Classification and secrecy are ALWAYS evil.
Sometimes a necessary evil but there should be an automatic declassification and publication of everything that cannot be shown to still need protection after 20 or 25 years.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

By not availing the American public to the knowledge that Fatah and the PLO have been specifically targeting Americans for 33 years, the media has denied the American people basic knowledge of the world in which they live.

Let's reword that correctly:

Big Journalism's monolithic silence on the issue does not merely raise red flags abut their objectivity. By not availing the American public to the knowledge that Fatah and the PLO have been specifically targeting Americans for 33 years, monolithic Big Journalism has denied the American people basic knowledge of the world in which they live.

Big Journalism claims that (each individual part of it claims that all of the other parts of it are) Big Journalism is objective, and tells us the significant facts about our world. But then, anyone with any realizing sense at all knew before Eason Jordan came clean about it that CNN wasn't hanging out Saddam Hussein's dirty laundry when CNN was the only Big Journalism outlet Saddam allowed to have a Baghdad bureau. Just like anyone with any willingness to see the truth in front of their face knows that the 60 Minutes "TANG Memos" were crude forgeries - but no Big Journalism outlet will say that in so many words even today. Big Journalism is the Establishment in America, and it coheres as a single entity around the go-along-and-get-along concensus that Big Journalism is more important than the organizations which provide us with food, clothing, shelter, fuel, security - Big Journalism is the be-all and end-all for journalists, as much as the Mafia is for the mafioso.

[Publius6961]

BUMP!

[Chode]

please...

[Enterprise]

"In contravention of US law, for the past 13 years, the State Department has been denying that Fatah, the PLO and the Palestinian Authority are terrorist organizations, and has been actively funding them with US taxpayer dollars."

A couple of things.

Too bad that the State Department could not have been completely cleaned of these terrible people. Americans knowingly funding terrorists who have murdered other Americans.

I have suggested as much here at FR that the United States has supported terrorist organizations and people have argued with me.

It is an atrocity that the Government prosecutes people like Scooter Libby, Martha Stewart and the two Border Patrol Officers while people who have enabled murder walk free.

This is ghastly.