Posted on 04/09/2002 7:48:56 AM PDT by Sir Gawain
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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 YASSER ARAFAT came before the U.N. General Assembly in 1972 with an Arafat was born in 1929 to a successful merchant father and a religiously devoted "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 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" === 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.
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I'll bet you just made my Mom's day.
Rotfl. You really are something else, Askel :)). Your words.
Might be helpful to have your and others' lists of "Who's Who" as well. (You know ... the way you guys are able to discern the reincarnation of banned posters and such.) You guys do some amazing sleuthing in this regard and I'm always impressed by your keen attention to keeping the forum free of imposters.
Did Cachelot apologize to you for claiming the JDL is not a terrorist org., after you showed it was by chronicling a sample of their murderous activities?
Because I certainly don't see his apology here...
Given the vein of our discussion on this thread, I was thinking in terms of my more serious inquiries ... not my smartass remarks.
Sorry ... =)
Did Cachelot apologize to you for claiming the JDL is not a terrorist org., after you showed it was by chronicling a sample of their murderous activities?
Not only did he not do that, when I expressed some support for the ADL he called me a "terrorist sympathizer." Is the dude a schizo?
Settlement of the occupied terriotories began after the 1967 war. Since that time, the only US president who considered the settlements illegal was Jimmy Carter. Neither Johnson nor Nixon opposed them and, in fact, favored using them as bargaining chips in a negotiated peace process. Even UN resolution 242, authored principally by Arthur Goldberg, adopted this concept. During both the Reagan administrations, official State Department policy was that the settlements were perfectly lawful. Even Clinton's proposals for the 2000 Barak/Arafat peace talks included provisions for continuing Israeli settlements beyong the "Green Line."
As usual, you don't know what you are talking about.
Ah. Which murders? Did I miss something? :) Lots of allegations of the "anonymous phone call" type connected with shenanigans thirty years back, but not much that I would use as evidence. Maybe you have some joo-commited murders up your sleeve, senator?
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.
Here, here!
Ancient JDL history
Ah yes, the late 1990s: how long ago they seem:
February 26, 1992: A bomb exploded at 2:07 a.m. outside the Syrian Mission to the United Nations. Damage to the building included a shattered plate glass window near its entrance and a two foot hole in its entryway. There were no injuries. Several hours later, an identical bomb was found inside a cardboard box within a telephone booth on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. A note found with the first bomb was destroyed by the blast, but the second note read, "Free Syrian Jews." Later in the day, a man identifying himself as a member of Kahane Chai contacted the Associated Press and claimed responsibility for the bombing. Subsequently, the group made a statement denying responsibility for the bombing but did not condemn it. Binyamin Kahane, the director of Kahane Chai, made a written statement which declared: "We hope this incident will serve as a warning and a deterrent to Syria and to Syrian- acked terrorists that the long arm of Jewish vengeance can reach them too."
January 5, 1994: Between 2:30 and 3:30 a.m., a bomb was placed outside a New York building that houses Americans for Peace Now, Habonim, Israel Horizons, and the Progressive Zionist Caucus. The bomb did not explode but was later defused by police . A second bomb, placed outside the building which houses the New Israel Fund, exploded but there were no injuries. Notes left with the bombs declared that an Jewish "civil war has begun. " The notes also spoke of the "spilling of blood in Israel" and criticized the Israeli Government as being "too liberal. " The notes were signed by the "Shield of David" and the "Maccabee Squad." A press release issued by Kahane Chai provided its traditional response subsequent to such incidents: the organization "denied responsibility" for the attacks, but "refused] to condemn the act."
February 10, 1994: JDL member Robert Manning was convicted of complicity in the 1980 letter-bombing death of a secretary in Los Angeles. He was sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of parole for 30 years. The letter-bomb incident had no connection to JDL activities but was instead an attack contracted by William Howard Ross, a fellow JDL member who had a long drawn out business dispute with the owner of the firm where the secretary worked.
March 8, 1994: The Israeli High Court of Justice rejected a petition by Rochelle Manning, wife of Robert Manning and both JDL members, to block her extradition to the United States in order to face murder charges. Rochelle Manning is to be re-tried on murder charges relating to the 1980 letter-bomb attack on a California secretary. On March 19 1994, Rochelle Manning died of a heart attack in an Israeli prison while awaiting her extradition to the United States.
June 9, 1995: Los Angeles, California - William Howard Ross, a member of the Jewish Defense League, was sentenced to life imprisonment for having enlisted Robert and Rochelle Manning to construct and mail a booby trap bomb to a local computer company with whom Ross had had a personal dispute. (See June 1988 and February 10, 1994 regarding the trial and sentencing of Robert Manning.)
Amusing to see how excited you get over this kind of material.
Who's excited? Your buddy got all ga-ga about the JDL and Kahane, I pointed out that they are illegal in Israel and are considered a terrorist group by the US State Department, your buddy challenged me and I posted information from the Anti-Defamation League. Would you prefer that I do not back up my assertions with facts? No...don't answer that.
They may not be for much longer. The Israeli public is well aware that their "illegal" status is the work of the Clintonite left. And that the "terrorist" status in the US is the work of Clinton holdovers in the State Dept.
Lol. Perhaps you're not as "conservative" as you claim :).
Neither is *Brillant*.
Gah. That sounds like a hair oil, or something to make wrestlers more slippery :).
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