Here are some kapos:
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Posted on 09/18/2003 7:39:45 AM PDT by yonif
When Yasser Arafat was staying in Frankfurt, Germany, in the second half of the 1960s Mossad agents gained access to his bedroom. Arafat was then already engaged in directing murder and terror operations against Israel.
While he was conducting a wild adulterous affair with the widow of one of the heads of the Moslem Brotherhood in Egypt, some Mossad officers maintained it was essential that Arafat be eliminated. The Israeli leadership was opposed, not understanding that this was one of the most dangerous carriers of the terror plague, a menace to innocent citizens.
But Yitzhak Rabin, in his first period of office as prime minister (1974-77), understood it very well. In his office in Tel Aviv's Kirya, Rabin proudly showed me a top-secret document he had received from the US secretary of state and his personal friend, Henry Kissinger. In it the US undertook not to agree to the establishment of a Palestinian state or recognize the PLO.
The PLO is a terrorist organization established by Arafat, Rabin had explained to Kissinger. During that same off-the-record conversation he had added that "the establishment of a Palestinian state would be a sentence of death for Israel."
It was therefore natural that prime minister Menachem Begin would order the Mossad to eliminate Arafat during the siege of Beirut in the summer of 1982. Begin knew that you make peace with an enemy but not with a murderer, whom you must pursue to his bunker.
However, the Mossad failed abjectly. It did not carry out Begin's order. Already it had more diplomats speaking fine English, people like Efraim Halevy, than imaginative agents in its ranks.
Most of the Mossad representatives who initiated the cooperation with the Christian Phalangists submitted generous expense accounts over the years for their stay in Lebanon and ate a great deal of houmus and tehina. But they did not prepare a single agent capable of killing Arafat when the war broke out in 1982.
In the absence of an alternative, Col. Uzi Dayan was appointed to direct, from a hilltop in Lebanon, the IAF aircraft that would bomb western Beirut in the hope of hitting Arafat or his comrades. A former senior Mossad officer, Zvi Malchin, intervened at the last moment to prevent Dayan from directing such a bombing mission, because it was valueless. He phoned me at the defense minister's office from that Lebanon hilltop asking that I bring the matter to defense minister Sharon's notice. Sharon immediately canceled the sortie.
Because of the Mossad's failure Arafat's life was saved, and Sharon expelled him from Beirut. In his second term of office, 10 years ago, prime minister Rabin fell into the trap cunningly laid for him by Shimon Peres and Yossi Beilin. In Washington he shook Arafat's hand and brought him to the gates of Jerusalem at the head of thousands of armed terrorists.
It comes as no surprise, therefore, that Peres is now once again defending his Nobel Prize partner, Arafat, and, together with the same media people who supported the Oslo Agreement, opposing his expulsion and elimination.
It is typical of the Israeli Left that it is prepared to support the US in killing Osama Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein; but Arafat, the murderer of their own countrymen, they are still prepared to regard as a partner even when they themselves may well be among his next victims.
Even Sigmund Freud would have been incapable of curing such people as Uri Avnery. There exists no vaccine against the psycho-political mental illness that has afflicted part of the Jewish nation over all generations, an illness manifested by the wish to cooperate with its potential murderers.
In the government's decision last week "to remove Arafat since he is an obstacle to peace" it opened a window of opportunity for both Israelis and Palestinians.
With Arafat it is impossible to progress toward an agreement between the two nations; without him there's a chance, a hope that the process of reconciliation can begin.
ONLY PEOPLE lacking in imagination, or the usual fools from the Left, immediately started explaining that the decision to remove Arafat was damaging, and how much damage his expulsion or killing would bring.
There are other ways to neutralize Arafat. The glass cell constructed for Adolf Eichmann still exists, and it could be used for Arafat's trial in Jerusalem. There is sufficient evidence linking him to acts of murder, not only of innocent Israelis but also of Americans and holders of other citizenships. The evidence is so categorical that it could be used to bring Arafat to trial for war crimes.
The time has come for the heads of the intelligence services, the military establishment, and the police to collect all the material into a single file, which would be submitted to international jurists for study. In the US, Britain, even France, there are jurists prepared to defend the Jews. This will help Israel as it takes steps "to remove Arafat."
Consequently, the decision of the Israeli government was a good one in principle, and it is important that it was publicized. In historical and moral significance, even before implementation, it is equivalent to the secret decision to bring Adolf Eichmann from Buenos Aires to trial in Jerusalem in 1960, and to the expulsion of Arafat from Beirut in 1982.
The writer is Israeli correspondent for the New York Post.
The PLO is a terrorist organization established by Arafat, Rabin had explained to Kissinger. During that same off-the-record conversation he had added that "the establishment of a Palestinian state would be a sentence of death for Israel."
You don't put someone on trial until you have neutralized him as a threat. As a leader and promulgater in an ongoing conflict he will be a threat as long as he is alive. He is an enemy combatant in a current battle. Kill him!
Here are some kapos:
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"[Moses] went out the next day and behold! two Hebrew men were fighting. He said to the wicked one, 'Why would you strike your neighbor?' He replied, 'Who appointed you as a dignitary, a ruler and a judge over us? Do you propose to murder me, as you murdered the Egyptian?' Moses was frightened and he thought, 'Indeed, the matter is known!' Pharoah heard about this matter and sought to kill Moses; so Moses fled from before Pharoah and settled in the land of Midian." Exodus 2:13-15
The rude Hebrew was the one who informed on Moses to Pharoah.
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