The Arafat Apologists

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[Sir Gawain]

The Arafat Apologists
By Marti Stapp © 2002
Published 04. 8. 02 at 17:54 Sierra Time

I am fatigued with the inconsistencies of the apologists for Palestinian terrorists. On the one hand, a group of people are deliberately strapping bombs on young people and encouraging them to kill innocent civilians. On the other hand, an army that represents an elected Democratic government is striving to protect their nation from suicidal bombers. To deny that Palestinian terrorists are just as much terrorists as the 9-11 murderers is sophistry. To pretend that any Nation, including the Nation of Israel, has no right to protect its borders is lunacy. What do we expect from Israel? Suicide from inaction?

Iraq is now offering twenty-five thousand dollars to any family willing to sacrifice a kid to be a suicidal bomber. Where is the equation between military personnel (on meager salaries) trying to interdict terrorism in THEIR country and suicidal maniacs who think they are going to get 72 virgins for murdering Jews? The apologists can call them proponents of a Jihad or even "freedom fighters" if they wish. I shall call what they are doing exactly what it is - a reign of terror perpetrated by terrorists bent on driving every Jew in Israel into the sea.

Never mind that these cockroaches were offered ninety-five to ninety-seven percent of their "wish list" and they turned it down. Their public protestations are lies. They obviously do not want what they tell they world they want and anyone who subscribes to their propaganda is naive. According to portions of Arafat's biography (in an online report by Good Morning America), this is the REAL Yasser Arafat, the leader of the militant Palestinians:

Yasser Arafat
President of Palestinian Council

YASSER ARAFAT came before the U.N. General Assembly in 1972 with an
olive branch and a gun. The symbolic juxtaposition of peace and violence
defines Arafat's political life....

Arafat was born in 1929 to a successful merchant father and a religiously devoted
mother. His birth name was Mohammed, but he was quickly nicknamed Yasser,
which means "easy." Arafat's mother died when he was 4, and his father sent him to
live with a married uncle in Jerusalem. As a teenager in the 1940s, Arafat became involved in the Palestinian cause. Before the Arabs were defeated by Israel in 1948, Arafat was a leader in the Palestinian effort to smuggle arms into the territory.

"For our part, we will honor our commitments. ... [O]ur participation in the great peace process means that we are betting everything on the future." Arafat, on the signing of an accord in September 1995 to extend Palestinian Rule in the West Bank

After the war, Arafat studied civil engineering at the University of Cairo. He headed the Palestinian Students League and, by the time he graduated, was committed to forming a group that would free Palestine from Israeli occupation. In 1956 he founded Al Fatah, an underground terrorist organization. At first Al Fatah was ignored by larger Arab nations such as Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, which had formed their own group - the Palestine Liberation Organization. It wasn't until the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, when the Arabs lost the Gaza Strip, Golan Heights and West Bank, that Arab nations turned to Arafat. In 1968 he became the leader of the PLO.

"I don't know anyone who has as much civilian Jewish blood on his hands as Arafat since the Nazis' time." Former Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, October 1995

For two decades the PLO launched bloody attacks on Israel, and Arafat gained a reputation as a ruthless terrorist. But by 1988, when he told the United Nations that the PLO would recognize Israel as a sovereign state, Arafat had warmed to diplomacy. Then in 1993, the unthinkable happened. The terrorist leader, who had rarely been seen without his signature ghutra and scruffy beard, met with his avowed enemies. The secret peace talks in Norway led to the Oslo Peace Accords with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin. The agreement granted limited Palestinian self-rule and earned Arafat, Rabin and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize. In January 1996 Arafat was elected the first president of the
Palestinian Council governing the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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For those who believe the leopard has changed his spots and that he is not the architect of the current terrorist attacks in Israel, let me quote an excerpt from an essay written by Rabbi Meir Kahane:

The following essay was written in 1988, only a couple of years Before the murder of Rabbi Kahane by an Arab terrorist, Egyptian-born El Sayyid Nosair, who not only was convicted of the murder but also of conspiracy in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

Israel Today & Always: Dear World

by Rabbi Meir Kahane

"....You are upset that we repress the poor Palestinians. You are deeply angered over the fact that we do not give up the lands of 1967, which are clearly the obstacle to peace in the Middle East. Moscow is upset and Washington is upset. The Arabs are upset and the gentle Egyptian moderates are upset. Well, dear world, consider the reaction of a normal Jew from Israel. In 1920, 1921 and 1929, there were no territories of 1967 to impede peace between Jews and Arabs. Indeed, there was no Jewish State to upset anybody. Nevertheless, the same oppressed and repressed Palestinians slaughtered hundreds of Jews in Jerusalem, Jaffa, Safed and Hebron. Indeed, 67 Jews were slaughtered one day in Hebron - in 1929.

Dear World, why did the Arabs - the Palestinians - massacre 67 Jews in one day in 1929? Could it have been their anger over Israeli aggression in 1967? And why were 510 Jewish men, women and children slaughtered in Arab riots in 1936-39? Was it because of Arab upset over 1967? And when you, World, proposed a U.N. Partition Plan in 1947 that would have created a Palestinian State alongside a tiny Israel and the Arabs cried and went to war and killed 6,000 Jews - was that upset stomach caused by the aggression of 1967? And, by the way, dear world, why did we not hear your cry of upset then?

The poor Palestinians who today kill Jews with explosives and firebombs and stones are part of the same people who - when they had all the territories they now demand be given them for their state - attempted to drive the Jewish State into the sea. The same twisted faces, the same hate, the same cry of "idbah-al-yahud" - "Slaughter the Jews!" that we hear and see today, were seen and heard then. The same people, the same dream - destroy Israel. What they failed to do yesterday, they dream of today - but we should not 'repress' them.

Dear World, you stood by the Holocaust and you stood by in 1948 as seven states launched a war that the Arab League proudly compared to the Mongol massacres. You stood by in 1967 as Nasser, wildly cheered by wild mobs in every Arab capital in the world, vowed to drive the Jews into the sea. And you would stand by tomorrow if Israel were facing extinction. And since we know that the Arabs-Palestinians daily dream of that extinction, we will do everything possible to remain alive in our own land. If that bothers you, dear world, well - think of how many times in the past you bothered us. In any event, dear world, if you are bothered by us, here is one Jew in Israel who could not care less.

Back To Israel Today & Always"

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The slaughter of innocent Jewish civilians continues while apologists in the United States urge either restraint or even "backing down." I think the Jews in Israel have suffered enough and I, for one, don't give a damn if they deny every Palestinian entrance into their country. Deprive the terrorists and all their sympathizes and their relatives and offspring any "right to work," any shelter and any sustenance. And, while they're at it, all Jews should insist that the Nobel committee members that awarded Arafat the "Nobel Peace Prize" should be extradited to Israel and forced to live with the murder and terror he and his minions are inflicting upon the tiny and beleaguered nation of Israel.

It is past time for Israel to take the measures necessary to halt terrorism in their own country. The price of doing any less may be the death of the nation of Israel. Survival as a nation is the only option for the Jews and to hell with what the rest of the world thinks.

Remember the Jordanian response to Palestinian terrorism? They made no apologies to the world for their war on the nasty, murderous Palestinian cockroaches. They had it right and it is time for Israel to emulate them.

[bribriagain]

The slaughter of innocent Jewish civilians continues while apologists in the United States urge either restraint or even "backing down." I think the Jews in Israel have suffered enough and I, for one, don't give a damn if they "deny every Palestinian entrance into their country. Deprive the terrorists and all their sympathizes and their relatives and offspring any "right to work," any shelter and any sustenance. And, while they're at it, all Jews should insist that the Nobel committee members that awarded Arafat the "Nobel Peace Prize" should be extradited to Israel and forced to live with the murder and terror he and his minions are inflicting upon the tiny and beleaguered nation of Israel. "

Yes indeed, kill all those Palis!

How about we just declare war against 300 million arabs so that 5000 or so Jews can have a nice ocean view? How many Americans are willing to die for that?

[Texasforever]

Why is Arafat still alive?

[bribriagain]

The slaughter of innocent Jewish civilians continues while apologists in the United States urge either restraint or even "backing down." I think the Jews in "Israel "have "suffered enough and I, for one, don't give a damn if they "deny every Palestinian entrance into their country. Deprive the terrorists and all their sympathizes and their relatives and offspring any "right to work," any shelter and any sustenance. And, while they're at it, all Jews should insist that the Nobel committee members that awarded Arafat the "Nobel Peace Prize" should be extradited to Israel and forced to live with the murder and terror he and his minions are inflicting upon the tiny and beleaguered nation of Israel. "

For the love of God, keep the US out of these tribal conflicts.

[dennisw]

He is more useful alive than dead. He is becoming a funny cartoon character and will remain so as long as he is trapped in his trashed Rahmallah compound. No toilet paper deliveries I hope.

If a Pallie kills him then fine. But Israel will not be giving him the martyrdom he wants. Aftermath is just too messy.

[Cachelot]

Nothing more slippery than you, in my opinion.

Opinions are like a$$holes, Butterball - everyone has one. And some of them are more brown than normal ;).

[Texasforever]

Then I have a serious question for you. If Arafat is more valuable alive than dead and if Arafat will have to be dealt with, why the uproar over Bush's request to start a pull-out? Why all the yelling that Bush does not label Arafat a terrorist?

[bribriagain]

Is this a personal attack?

[dennisw]

If Arafat is more valuable alive than dead and if Arafat will have to be dealt with, why the uproar over Bush's request to start a pull-out?

Israel wants to take care of business. Now more than ever due to the high IDF toll in Jenin of 23 killed. Such events take on a life of their own and GWBush (Colin Powell too) has been left in the backwash. Israel may not have another chance to take such dramatic/effective action against Muslim Jihadists. Right now the dead IDF boys are more important in Israel than GWBush's commandments. 
When was the last time Israel took the battle to where the Pallie terrorists live? It's about time and Israel is feeling the exhilaration and morale booster.

Why all the yelling that Bush does not label Arafat a terrorist?

You are asking for 100% constant propaganda by the Israelis. 98% of people who pay attention to news do not notice or care about such inconsistency. But then you already knew this. :)

[bribriagain]

I have seen your consistent attacks on FR regulars, and I find it offensive. Your inability to understand the US point of view smacks of a bigoted point of view. Let's check resumes. I'm a US Navy vet. You?

[bribriagain]

and veronica is like a past tense barby doll!

[Cachelot]

Is this a personal attack?

Does it feel like one? And if so, did you find it in the quoted line or the answer? Think about this as fast as you can. Teraflops, teraflops.

[bribriagain]

I fail to see your point.

[Cachelot]

Your inability to understand the US point of view smacks of a bigoted point of view.

Geez. A hysteric. E** off, Brian.

*PLONK*

[bribriagain]

Israel wants to take care of business. Now more than ever due to the high IDF toll in Jenin of 23 killed. Such "events take on a life of their own and GWBush (Colin Powell too) has been left in the backwash. Israel may not have another chance to take such dramatic/effective action against Muslim Jihadists. Right now the dead IDF boys are more important in Israel than GWBush's commandments. When was the last time Israel took the battle to where the Pallie terrorists live? It's about time and Israel is feeling the exhilaration and morale booster."

Amazing. Jews advocating more jewish deaths. Looks like dennisw may have more in common with the palis than what he realizes.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Yes indeed, kill all those Palis!

CORRECTION: YES INDEED, KILL ALL THOSE PALI TERRORISTS.

We agree!!!

[bribriagain]

*PLONK*

Huh?

[Nuke'm Glowing]

"1) Israel built settlements in the mist of savages and expected these nut cases to accept it. Every single American President, UN, and all the European leaders think it is illegal, and MUST be dismantled. "

So according to your logic, we should give Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and California back to Mexico. And since we were not "fair" Russia should get Alaska back. And the Indians (Native Americans for those of you in Rio Linda or West Palm Beach) should get all of the Louisiana Purchase, Florida, and Canada back. Hmmm, guess that gets us back to the original 13 colonies which we won from the British, and since our founding fathers used violence to get that territory, we should give those back to the Brits. You're right, the hell with it. Conquering nations should give back all of their territory back after each war.

And while we're at it, that means that Palestine should be given back to the Roman Empire, er Italy. This kind of retarded logic is what created political correctness and supports the dialectic of the communist mind. Might I suggest that this board get over it's anti-Semitic rants, and remember we are at war also. Without Israel in our corner, we will lose. Because the EU, as usual, is sitting on it's hands (sans England), waiting on us to do the dirty work.

[bribriagain]

Is this a war to kill all Arabs? If so, where does the US fit in all of this?

[Nuke'm Glowing]

I respectfully disagree. They should impose a Palestenian state. And as a condition, hold free elections banning any of the PLO's former terrorist leaders. It must be done as the PLO leadership responsible for all the terror must be exiled at the same time, and banned from ever returning. Fence off the border, restrict the re-armament of their police force. And start over. Without the outside or Arab world's help. It's the only solution beside total war in the region, and the slaughter of all of the Arab armies one more time.

[Nuke'm Glowing]

No Americans have to die. Israel can take care of itself. We just need to stay out of the way.