Bingo. Someone has the quote from Arafat to the Palestinians that says to ignore what he says unless it's in the form of writing directly to them.
"Al-jihad,al-jihad, al-jihad, al-jihad, al-jihad, al-jihad": "Holy war, holy war, holy war, holy war, holy war, holy war."
Michael Widlanski:
ONE KILLED, 150 WOUNDED IN NEW TERROR ATTACK IN JERUSALEM
BY ARAB WOMAN SUICIDE BOMBER
Sunday, January 27, 2002
An 81-year-old man was murdered and more than 150 people were wounded when a
young Palestinian woman set off a huge bomb in front of a clothing store on
Jaffa Road, Jerusalem's busiest street.
The huge force of the explosion damaged more than 60 stores along the
shopping thoroughfare in the second terror attack on almost the exact same
site, in Israel's capital city, within five days.
It was the fourth Palestinian suicide assault in ten days, prompting
contradictory statements from "the Palestinian Leadership"-the term used by
the Palestinian Authority for its official communiques.
Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority issued a short condemnation of the
attack on Israeli civilians on both its state radio and its internet outlets
several hours after the bombing, but only 24 hours after Arafat himself had
called for "more martyrdom" and for "holy war" in Jerusalem.
"To Jerusalem we will march - millions of martyrs. And, O God, Master of the
Universe, please let me be one of the martyrs." shouted Arafat to an adoring
crowd of Palestinians outside his headquarters in Ramallah yesterday
(Saturday Jan. 27).
Arafat's words in Arabic were broadcast across the Arab world by
"Al-Jazeera," the Arab satellite television service which also showed
Arafat, waving his right hand as he led the crowd in a chant-"Al-jihad,
al-jihad, al-jihad, al-jihad, al-jihad, al-jihad": "Holy war, holy war, holy
war, holy war, holy war, holy war."
"There's a definite connection between the attack in Jerusalem and the words
of Arafat in Ramallah praising martyrs and martyrdom in Jerusalem," asserted
an advisor of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.
One of Arafat's advisors, Yasser Abd-Rabbo, refuted Israeli criticism of
Arafat, saying "The Israelis are experts at twisting words and at pinning
quotations on someone."
Still, Arafat's mixed message to different audiences was underscored by his
statement to an American reporter, broadcast today on Arab television, that
he was acting no different than America's Founding Fathers.
''Did you ever accept the British occupation of the United States?''
declared the Palestinian leader, adding, ''Didn't George Washington fight,
along with his people, until they freed the United States?''
There was no confirmed identification of the woman suicide bomber in
Jerusalem today, but Palestinian sources said the bomber was a 20-year-old
woman from Nablus. There was also no official claim of responsibility by any
Palestinian organization for today's attack which caused at least two and a
half million dollars in damages, according to Israeli officials.
The three earlier suicide attacks of the last ten days were carried out by
Arafat's Fatah Tanzeem militia, the third apparently a joint operation with
the Islamic Jihad.
Israeli security sources confirmed today that they had captured one of the
partners of the Friday suicide attack on a Tel Aviv coffee house. The man, a
member of the Islamic Jihad organization, had been assigned to fire his
Soviet-style Kalaschnikov assault rifle into the rescue workers as they came
to help the victims of the bombed-out coffee house.
But the Palestinian terrorist's rifle apparently jammed before he could even
fire a bullet and he fled the scene, leaving his rifle and his six unused
bullet clips with more than 20 bullets in each.
Israeli authorities refused to give details on the man's identity or on the
exact methods used by the terrorists in the Tel Aviv attack, but the
involvement of a woman suicide bomber in today's Jerusalem attack might mean
several things:
*--That counter-terror "profiles" constructed by Israeli security
forces-concentrating on young, unmarried Palestinian Arabs-might have only
limited validity;
*--That the Palestinian strategic situation was desperate enough that the
Arab organizations were now willing ignore the usual Islamic traditions
against employing women as fighters.
© 2002 Michael Widlanski, www.themedialine.org