Posted on 06/30/2003 5:53:46 AM PDT by SJackson
To all those cheering the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel, please join me in a trip down memory lane.
Let´s see what happens when Yasser and Friends take over a neighborhood. Some of us may have forgotten.
As we travel through time, here we are in the 1960s, where we find Yasser Arafat and the rest of his Palestinian gang in Jordan. King Hussein has welcomed them in and expects them to behave. Instead, they run wild, killing, raping, pillaging, and, through terror, threaten to take over the entire nation of Jordan.
They´re not happy being neighbors. They want the whole thing.
Enough of this! says King Hussein, and thereby begins what is still known as Black September. Hussein´s troops kill thousands of Yasser´s Merry Men, and out go the thousands who survived.
Where to next? The leader of Lebanon says, Hey Yasser, come on down! (Big mistake.) This is your new home. Lebanon loves you. From here, from Beirut and environs, you are free to launch attacks against Israel, which is right across the street. Only this: leave your fellow Arabs alone. In other words, behave. Be a neighbor.
This compact between Lebanon and the PLO becomes known as "a-State-Within-a-State." Peace-loving Palestinian Arabs (again!) sharing a state; what could be more perfect?
(This is exactly what is being demanded of Israel. Or, as Bush and Powell put it, two states living side by side in peace and security.)
From their base in Lebanon, Yasser and his buddies do indeed launch raids against Israel, but... can´t seem to get the hang of this neighbor thing. In addition to fighting Israel, they begin fighting among themselves, and even take the fight to their hosts, the Lebanese. Now it´s war between the PLO and Lebanon and things get so bad that the Lebanese begin fighting among themselves. It´s feud upon feud upon feud.
Old grudges (tribal and family disputes) lead to chaos, and soon, most of Lebanon is in ruins, thanks to Yasser and Friends.
Beirut, once known as the glittering Paris of the Middle East, is wasted into rubble and becomes a synonym for Hell on Earth.
Exactly how did this State-Within-a-State work out? For this, we turn to the Palestine Facts website and read the following:
“For Arab residents of South Lebanon, the PLO rule was a nightmare. Countless Lebanese, interviewed by Western journalists, told harrowing tales of rape, mutilation and murder committed by PLO forces. Palestinian and Lebanese leftists sacked Damour, a Christian village near Beirut, and massacred hundreds of its inhabitants.
“Father Mansour Labaky of the Church of St. Elias in Damour gave this description -- ‘The PLO came and bombed the church before entering it. They kicked open the door and threw in the grenades. An entire family had been killed, the Can´an family, four children all dead, and the mother, the father, and the grandfather. The mother was still hugging one of the children. And she was pregnant.
“‘The eyes of the children were gone and their limbs were cut off. No legs and no arms. It was awful.’”
After brutally killing 582 people in the town and terrorizing the rest of the 25,000 residents into fleeing, the PLO forces took over Damour.
These are the people being welcomed to share Israel -- and did you catch the name of that family that was mutilated and wiped out? Can´an.
Those with short memories who forget the past are doomed.
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Jack Engelhard is the author of the international bestseller Indecent Proposal (ComteQ Publishing) and is completing his latest novel, The Uriah Deadline, a fictional thriller involving Mideast news manipulation.
More evidence against the establishment of a PLO-Terrorist State.
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