The war that Arafat called forth (FOUAD AJAMI)

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

[colorado tanker]

"It seems that all the scum are attracted to each other." Sad, but true.

[foreshadowed at waco]

Thanks for those links...I have several very liberal Jewish friends here in NYC...have been letting them in on some of the facts behind the Palestinian/ Israeli War since 9/11...not too much too fast...just an occasional nudge now and then.

[Redcloak]

You have it exactly backwards. Israel is irrelevant.

[The Great Satan]

A devastating indictment of Palifat. Oh well, he's history now.

[montag813]

It was true to Arafat's way and to his history that he would try to hold America's campaign against terror hostage to his war against Israel. America is unloved in Arab lands, this argument runs, and its campaign can proceed only if Palestinian claims are satisfied. But this argument is supreme illusion.

This is no argument. It is Administration policy.

[montag813]

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

The the best of my knowledge, he was not Arafat's blood uncle. Arafat has referred to Al-Husseini as "his spiritual uncle", which is worse. You can disavow an uncle who embraced Hitler and espoused the "Final Solution". But Arafat embraced such a man as if he was his uncle. Very revealing of the evil of this man who Colin Powell apparently considers to be a Palestinian George Washington.

[cicero's_son]

Agreed. The Arabs seem to be the last group on Earth whose racism is not merely tolerated but positively encouraged.

Imagine if the Europeans had gotten together before the action in Kosovo to say that they would tolerate no attack on a "white nation." Yet the Arab nations have no shame in basing their entire foreign policy on naked racial solidarity. It is disgusting.

[Buckeroo]

BTTT!

[tictoc]

Fouad Ajami hits another one out of the ballpark.

We should collect him and the other 99 sane Arabs scattered around the world, bring them to a safe house, and kill the 299,999,900 others.

No, I don't really mean this.

But what is our strategy in this war? No enemy before - not the Nazis, not the Soviets, not the Japanese - has been so dangerous. Even the coming conflict with the Chinese, 50 or 100 years down the road, will not be as vicious.

We are prisoners of our conscience, weakened from within by self-hating proponents of cultural relativism. Maybe I will start feeling more optimistic in six months after Saddam Hussein is overthrown. But if our own people don't "get it", we have no hope of winning this war.

[kapn kuek]

We have come to the inevitable conclusion that the peace of Oslo that plucked Yasser Arafat from his exile in Tunisia nearly a decade ago and brought him to the Palestinian territories is now a thing of the past.

Great read! I would like to see a photo of Arafat’s head about 200 feet from his body due to about 5 bomb belts being detonated on his body. Of course he would have been surrounded by his personal security guards before the blast.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I was not aware of such a direct connection between German fascism and Arab nationalism

I was not aware of a link either. But see this :

Muslim cleric calls for death of Arafat Says Israel should continue offensive until he's executed

See the Bold area of the article for detail : Such a false transformation of Islam was in fact made by the late Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin el-Husseini. .....
Husseini ended his woeful life by putting his perverted religious teachings at the service of the evil and pagan Nazis.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Good find!

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[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Be sure and read this:

Muslim cleric calls for death of Arafat Says Israel should continue offensive until he's executed

and this:

Fouad Ajami: Don't Let Arafat Distract Us ^

And on the oil Embargo:

Oil embargo suicidal for Arabs: Saudi oil experts

[timestax]

bttt