Arafat Takes on bin Laden
By Joseph Farah
Well, if we're to believe what we heard last week, Yasser Arafat is angry
at Osama bin Laden. Arafat says he doesn't want the al-Qaida terrorist
hiding behind "the Palestinian cause."
He denounced the Sept. 11 terror attacks on the United States, and
explained how his struggle against Israel is different than the one being
waged by bin Laden against the West. It was all very persuasive if you
didn't know a thing about Arafat's history.
· For years, Arafat has attended meetings with terrorists from all
over the world including bin Laden.
· He has used his Palestinian Authority subsidized by taxpayer
dollars from the United States, to whip up hatred among his people for not
only Israelis, but for all Jews and for all Americans. (Just recall the
celebrations in the streets of Ramallah and Gaza as the World Trade Center
collapsed.)
· Arafat is a professional liar and con man (aside from being a
bloody murderer).
· Arafat has forged unholy alliances with many Islamist terror
groups and individuals throughout his career while proclaiming to be at war
with those forces.
To understand what I am telling you, you have to have some knowledge of
Marxist principles particularly the Hegelian dialectic. An idea or event
generates its opposite, leading to a reconciliation of opposites, or a
synthesis. That is how progress is achieved through conflict, whether
it's real conflict or phony conflict, manufactured by two or more conspirators.
When you see a schism develop between Arafat and some other terrorist group
be ot Hamas or Hizbollah or al-Qaida understand what is at work. There
is no schism. It's not real. They are play-acting. They are reading off
the same page. It's the dialectic at work. The fix is in.
Arafat received training in these principles not only in the old Soviet
Union, but from his friends in Vietnam, his friends in China, his friends
in the hideously repressive Stalinist regime of Romania under Nicolae
Ceausescu and others. He may not be a Marxist, but he has learned the
lessons that made the discredited ideology a force in the world.
Arafat is playing a shrewd game - shrewd enough to have fooled top
diplomats in the United States and leaders in Israel for the last 10 years
or more. Whenever he's on the ropes, whenever he is about to lose power,
because he has gone too far on his bloody terrorist campaign, whenever he
is about to relegated to the ash heap, he resurrects himself and reinvents
himself as a peacemaker and moderate in the Arab world. That is what he is
attempting to do, once again, by distancing himself from bin Laden. He
sees the handwriting on the wall.
One of his best friends in the Arab world, Saddam Hussein also one of bin
Laden's steadiest supporters, is about to become pita toast. He doesn't
want to join Hussein in exile,in hiding or in hell. He knows the U.S. is
amassing a military force in the Middle East that is capable of overrunning
the entire region - if that was a desire of U.S.policy.
He knows the map of the region is about to be redrawn. Iraq could be as
pacified and as liberated as Afghanistan within 90 days. Where will that
leave Arafat?
If Arafat is as supportive of Hussein and Iraq as he was in the first
Persian Gulf War, it would leave him irrelevant. He made that mistake
once. He won't make it a second time.
Let's remember that it was Arafat who came before bin Laden. There would
be no bin Laden without Arafat. Arafat is the godfather of Arab
terrorism. He invented it. It was under his orders that the first
commercial airliners were hijacked. It was under his orders that U.S.
diplomats and other civilians were murdered. It was under his orders that
Olympic athletes were killed. It was under his orders that hundreds of
innocent Americans and thousands of innocent Israelis have perished.
There is no difference between bin Laden and Arafat. Let me repeat that
for emphasis: There is no difference between bin Laden and Arafat.
Arafat led the way, set the example and benefited from his 40-year campaign
of terrorism. Bin Laden just took it a step further. He executed it with
more precision, more daring, and higher death tolls. But he still learned
from Arafat and they both serve the same master.
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