ISRAELIS QUOTE ARAFAT: 'WHY NOT KILL MORE?'

February 1, 2003 -- JERUSALEM - Yasser Arafat asked, "Why haven't you killed more Israelis?" and said, "You know what needs to be done," in a meeting with Palestinian terrorist chiefs, it was revealed last night.

Defense ministry sources told The Post that Arafat called for stepping up attacks on Israelis during the meeting in February 2001, according to transcripts that Israeli officials say they have obtained.

While Israelis have long suspected Arafat of involvement in attacks, this is among the most powerful evidence to date showing that he has personally incited more terror killings.

According to the transcript, Arafat asked the terror group leaders why so few Israelis had been killed six months after the start of the intifada.

The transcript, revealed this week to foreign diplomats, said one of the commanders asked what Arafat wanted done, sources said.

Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz told the diplomats that the information about Arafat had been withheld until now because revealing it would have endangered confidential sources.

He said the United States and other countries were made aware of Arafat's outburst.

Israeli officials believe Arafat's strategy was to inflict a huge number of casualties at the beginning of the Palestinian uprising in order to win concessions from Israel.

I guess this does not mix well with all the "secret" peace meetings the Media is trumpeting as an example, at last, that the Palestinians want peace.

For an entire generation the Arabs have been calling peace, peace where there is no peace. Their blood soaked hands do not match their words so well, but the sheeple bleat on...

To think the U.N. gave legitimacy to this terrorist and even invited him to speak before them. Time to make him pay for the thousands of deaths caused by this scum.

First, these days people are discussing the UN sliding toward irrelevance. I started paying attention to the UN for the first time during the Arab-Israeli war of 1967. It was irrelevant then. It's been irrelevant ever since. If someone could point out any occasion of relevance, I'd like the details.

The only relevancy in international discussions since the Fall if Imperial Japan has been the opinion of the US. Even that relevancy would be better if the US would tend to always act in terms of self interest. This has not always been the case.

Second, the thing that amazes me most is that apparent functioning adults feel any deference should be paid to Arafat or any other terrorist. So often is seems like liberals sit in relative security somewhere and pontificate in ways that seem so reasonable yet end up getting so many people killed. Then it's always left to men, real adults that is to try to clean up the mess that these nonsense liberal ideas created. For so long even blind men could see that Arafat was either THE problem, or utterly helpless in dealing with is. Why, then, did anyone care what he had to say or why he was ever invited to the table?

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