that they love publically licking sputum directly from the lips of the murderer of Americans and Israelis.
Posted on 08/29/2002 11:27:11 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
You probably heard recently about the latest negotiated deal between Israel and Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority.
It is supposed to provide for an orderly withdrawal of Israeli military forces from positions in Bethlehem, the Gaza Strip and Hebron – where they have moved in response to terrorist attacks. All Israel got for agreeing to remove its troops from the Palestinian territories is yet another commitment from Arafat's negotiating team to stop the terrorist attacks on Israel.
Like all deals brokered between the two parties to date, this one is doomed to failure. It won't work. It's not worth the paper on which it is written. Before the ink was even dry on the latest security initiative, new terrorist attacks were being launched within the territories and inside Israel.
Of course, that's not surprising. We all know, if we read the international press, that Arafat is a moderating force with the Palestinian Authority. He's trying his very best to rein in the "militants." But he's got a tough job because of the support within the Arab population for groups such as Islamic Jihad and Hamas.
That's the way this story was repeatedly told by the international press – even within the last few days.
There's only one problem with this analysis: There's not an ounce of truth in it.
Sure, Hamas and Islamic Jihad rejected the agreement hammered out by Arafat's Interior Minister Abdel Razak Yehiyeh. But what most of the international news agencies – including the largest news-gathering organization in the world, the Associated Press – failed to mention is that the agreement had already been rejected by al-Fatah, Arafat's own party within the Palestine Liberation Organization.
In other words, this agreement is one more example of a strategic deception pulled off by Arafat. Once again, he has managed, with Israel's help, to establish for himself "plausible deniability" as a terrorist mastermind. He negotiates peace with one hand, while directing terrorist operations with the other. Publicly, especially for consumption of Western media, he sends negotiators to talk to Israel and to make commitments to halt terrorist violence. Behind the scenes, he is ordering new attacks.
In fact, the very first breach of the newly brokered pact occurred when three armed Arabs disguised as Israeli soldiers tried to infiltrate a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip. Two of them were killed in the process. Were they Islamic Jihad members? Were they "militants" from Hamas? No, they were members of the Al Aksa Brigade, the militia unit tied directly to Arafat and Fatah.
Arafat's duplicity is hardly a surprise for those who have watched him carefully over his 40-year career as an international terrorist. Yet, what is surprising, is that the international press and the world's diplomatic elite apparently fail to see this old scam for what it is.
While this latest phony peace deal was being hammered out between Israel and Arafat, the Palestinian Authority was not just planning a new wave of violence against Israelis, it was carrying out a systematic campaign of terror against its own people.
The Jerusalem Post reports at least 200 Palestinians suspected of collaborating with Israel are currently being held in prisons, while others are just being shot dead in the streets.
Last Saturday, Ikhas Yasin, a 39-year-old mother of seven, was found dead in the main square of Tulkarm. She had been kidnapped a day earlier and became the first woman to be killed by Arafat's forces as a collaborator. But dozens of men and boys have been executed like this since the uprising of September 2000. At least 14 Arabs have been killed in Tulkarm like this just in the last 90 days.
Few of these men and women ever receive a trial. But, next month, two such cases will be heard before the Palestinian Authority's state security court. Haidar Ghanem, 39, is accused of aiding Shin Bet. Akram Zatmeh, 23, is accused of helping Israel find a top Hamas leader who was targeted for assassination.
They both face the death penalty and there is little doubt that Arafat will approve it.
But you won't read much about this elsewhere. Why? Because it doesn't fit the old media paradigm – Arafat as peacemaker, moderate, negotiator. Imagine the kind of government this man will establish if he is ever given a real state? We don't have to imagine. Just observe.
This is a side of the story we don't see enough of on FR. There are people on this forum who continue to insist that the people of the Middle East are to blame for the terror against us, but facts like this show that our rage needs to be directed exclusively against the thugs in charge, not the people.
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