[size=4]Requiem for a terrorist[/size=4]
© 2001 WorldNetDaily.com
After decades in power, it would appear that the rule of Mohammed Yasser Arafat may well be coming to an end. The regime of the old terrorist is being consumed by the new terrorists created by Arafat himself in the school classrooms of the new Palestinian Authority.
Arafat has worked against Israel since the days before it was born. As an 18-year-old fighter, Arafat organized a gun-smuggling ring that was tasked with smuggling weapons into Israel for use by the Arabs who fought against the establishment of the Jewish state. When Israel was attacked by the combined might of the Arab world in an effort to annihilate the Jewish state at birth, Arafat was there, fighting the Jews from within their new borders.
When the Arabs were defeated, Arafat fled to Egypt where he enrolled in Cairo University. In 1956, he formed al Fatah as an underground terror organization. Fatah competed with the Palestine Liberation Organization that was backed by Syria, Egypt and Jordan. In 1967, the Arabs attacked Israel again in the third effort to annihilate the Jewish state in 19 years. [b]When Egypt lost the Gaza Strip, Syria the Golan Heights and Jordan the West Bank, the Arabs living there ceased to be Jordanians, or Syrians, or Egyptians, and they all became "Palestinians."[/b] Arafat combined al-Fatah with the PLO in 1968 and declared himself chairman.
Arafat has been called the "father of modern terrorism." It was Arafat who discovered the value in hijacking American and Israeli airplanes. Between 1968 and 1973, Yasser Arafat oversaw at least nine international aircraft hijackings. Arafat outlined the goal of his organization and his view of a "peace process" with Israel in an interview with the El Mundo newspaper in Caracas, Venezuela, on Feb. 18, 1980. "Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all out war which will last for generations. We shall not rest until the day we return to our home and until we destroy Israel." Note that Arafat's vow is in two parts. He vows not to rest until, first, he returns to his "home" – presumably fulfilled when he returned to Israel following the signing of the Oslo Agreement. And from that moment forward, he has devoted his attention to the second part of his vow – the destruction of Israel.
To that end, Arafat has spared no effort. The Oslo Agreement in 1993 gave the Palestinian Authority autonomy over the Palestinian educational system. Arafat promptly ordered a curriculum for young Palestinians that taught hatred of all things Jewish, taught that all of Israel was really the Palestinian homeland, that martyrdom was good and that the peace process was really just a delaying tactic. Arafat's indoctrination of a people, complete with the textbooks (financed by U.S. dollars) used to brainwash every Palestinian now under the age of 25, has been carefully documented.
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