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Posted on 09/18/2001 9:04:21 AM PDT by Starmaker

It's revolting listening to the Arab and Muslim world shedding crocodile tears of sympathy — and yet blaming the US policies for the attack on America.

Has America ever hijacked any planes full of innocent civilians and turned them into flying bombs designed to kill thousands of innocent civilians?

Does our giving Afghanistan hundreds of million dollars of aid each year for the past two years deserve such a response? Do the dancing Palestinians feel like returning the millions of dollars in aid that we pour into their country each month?

Before some of you start believing this gigantic propaganda machine, first get acquainted with the facts.

Fact One: This was an attack on American civilians and the whole American, Judeo-Christian way of life. Emphasis on Judeo-Christian way of life. Radical Islam has a saying:

"First (destroy) the Saturday people, then (destroy) the Sunday people."

Fact Two: Radical Islam and much of the Arab world (including Yasser Arafat´s father) worked with the Nazis to exterminate the Jews. They have never recognized the right of Jews to live and breathe, let alone to have their historic homeland. This is a homeland recorded in the Bible, going back many thousands of years. Their goal was, is, and always will be, the eradication of Israel, all Jews, and all their supporters. They are also actively working to destroy any historical evidence — not just of Judaism — but of Christianity, by plundering holy, historic, and archaeological sites. They have also rewritten the textbooks they give their children, textbooks that we pay for, to deny the State of Israel and to demonize Jews and deny Christian holy sites.

Fact Three: There is no such thing as ‘Palestinians’ — or even Palestine. Palestine is the name given to Judea by the conquering Romans. It is a bastardization of the word ‘Philistine’ and was meant as an insult to the Jews.

The only peoples to ever have a continuous government in the area known as Israel has been the Jews. And this history goes back for thousands of years. Yasser Arafat himself is a native Egyptian. His father was an upper-middle class intellectual and Nazi collaborator who voluntarily moved his family to Egypt.

The people who erroneously call themselves Palestinians are not, and never were a part of a country called Palestine. There never was such a thing. Historically, most of the Middle East had been referred to as Palestine at one time, but never was established as a separate, self-ruling entity. The so-called Palestinians are merely Arab descendents of some other Arabs who used to live in the area and voluntarily moved out of that area to resettle in other Arab countries.

A good comparison would be if an American living in Clifton, NJ were to move to Pennsylvania. Then that person, with the backing and support of other states and former Clifton residents, was to demand that the state of NJ give him and other former Clifton residents the entire town of Clifton, because they were the relatives and descendents of former Cliftonites who chose to move out. The Arabs and Muslims are using the Palestinians themselves as an excuse to wipe Israel off the map, eradicate the Jews, and then eradicate the history of Christianity.

Fact Four: The leaders — both political and religious — of the Arab and Muslim regimes live in, not mere comfort, but luxury. They systemically siphon off the aid that America and other western nations have given them to ease the suffering of their people. The poverty and desperation of these people is due to their own leaders. We have given them billions of dollars, and the majority of it has ended up in the private bank accounts of these despots.

One example is the millions of dollars poured into the Palestinian Authority for the support and maintenance of Orient House in Jerusalem, the unofficial headquarters of the Palestinian government. This money was specifically given to help the Palestinian people. After Israel took over Orient House and began going through its papers, they found that most of the money never reached the Palestinian people. Instead, it was squirreled away into the private bank accounts of the Palestinian Minister for Jerusalem Affairs, Faisal Husseini.

And Yasser Arafat himself is worth millions of dollars, money he stole from aid given to help his people. Also, Osama bin Laden is estimated to be worth a quarter of a billion dollars. How come he is not using his money to help ease the suffering of his own people? Do not think for an instant that our country has been indifferent to the plights of those people. It hasn´t. Perhaps our greatest fault has been not to follow up on where the financial aid went.

So now it is time to decide who is the real enemy. Osama bin Laden is just the tip of the iceberg. He has very strong ties to Yasser Arafat and the Palestinians, having been trained by a Palestinian cleric. He and Yasser Arafat also have strong ties to Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Hezbollah. Many of the governments condemning these attacks and offering sympathy to America have supported and embraced these terrorist groups.

News is just coming in from all over the Middle East, in countries that are supposedly our friends and the enemies of terrorism, that there were celebrations and dancing in the streets over the attacks on America. The videographers and reporters who tried to bring us this news had their lives threatened by government officials. Much of the information and material was also confiscated by the 'friendly-to-America' governments. And last week, at the UN Conference on Racism in Durban, all the Arab and Muslim governments lined up, shoulder-to-shoulder, against America and Israel.

Don´t be fooled by the crocodile tears.

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