The war that Arafat called forth (FOUAD AJAMI)

US News ^ | 4-8-02 | BY FOUAD AJAMI

[quimby]

America indeed is unloved. In truth, the hatred for it is bottomless. Even if we cast Israel adrift, Arab opinion will cut us no slack.

Some will never accept the above statement, no matter how many times the lesson is repeated.

[quimby]

Clear thinking from Fouad.

[swarthyguy]

Not only that, there will then come demands for chechnya, kashmir, additional parts of india, Brixton(london), Jersey City. On the tape of OSama & co last fall, Zawahiri even spoke of al-andalusia...how many centuries ago did they leave Spain?

[HockeyPop]

General Ian Pacepa, head of Rumanian Intelligence under the former Ceaucescu regime, had this to say when Arafat visited Bucharest:

"I've never before seen so much cleverness, blood, and filth altogether in one man."

Yes, Arafat's hosts shook his hands, but Pacepa reports they could hardly wait to repair to the lavatory!

[dyed_in_the_wool]

BTTT

[Nonstatist]

I've never before seen so much cleverness, blood, and filth altogether in one man

Finally. The gig is up.

[d4now]

good article bump

[cicero's_son]

Slowly, the war is coming into focus.

It is NOT a war against Islam, as some have called for.

It is a war against a particular brand of Arab Fascism that shamelessly perverts Islam.

[Redcloak]

America indeed is unloved. In truth, the hatred for it is bottomless. Even if we cast Israel adrift, Arab opinion will cut us no slack.

The US is not hated for its association with Israel; Israel is hated for its association with the US.

[miamimark]

The US is not hated for its association with Israel; Israel is hated for its association with the US.

I think you got that backwards. Although it's true that if not for the US-there would be no Israel.

[thucydides]

Ajami does not mention that the Grand Mufti, who spent WWII in Berlin, urging the murder of jews, was Arafat's uncle.

[Ancesthntr]

When statehood was first offered the Palestinians in the 1930s and 1940s, their leader was a terrible man, Hajj Amin al-Husseini, the mufti (religious judge) of Jerusalem. He abandoned reason, moved to Hitler's Berlin, and hoped the Nazis would grant him a political world.

Irony of ironies - Arafag is the nephew of the mufti of Jerusalem. Arafag continues the work that his uncle started: that evil SOB not only moved to Berlin, but he gave Hitler advice to kill all the Jews in Europe, instead of Hitler's previous preference to deport them. This was before the Wannsee Conference, so it may have played a role in Hitler's decision. I'm surprised that Fouad didn't mention it. Otherwise, this is his usual hard-hitting and accurate report on things as they really are in the Arab world.

[Redcloak]

Backwards? Which is "The Great Satan" and which is "The Little Satan"?

[Ancesthntr]

Damn, you beat me by a minute!

[dennisw]

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[onedoug]

Islamism, with its heart in Wahabbi Saudi Arabia.

[pgkdan]

Not only that, there will then come demands for chechnya, kashmir, additional parts of india, Brixton(london), Jersey City. On the tape of OSama & co last fall, Zawahiri even spoke of al-andalusia...how many centuries ago did they leave Spain?

Agreed, it will never end. Although I wouldn't mind giving them Jersey City...that would show them.

[dennisw]

FOUAD AJAMI is major Muslim (Shiite from Lebanon) truth teller and must be friends with Mort Zuckerman..... That's why he is in US News and World Reports

[Ancesthntr]

I guess that his family and friends must've gotten really screwed by the hard-line Islamicists - otherwise he'd be on the other side. I've admired him for many years, and keep getting rewarded with gems like this.

[dennisw]

Yep. Adjami was big talking head during Gulf War. Was seen a lot back then.