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them as leaders.
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The Enemy of Their
Enemy
This open hostility to America
is not a recent development. For most of the twentieth century, the Palestinian
movement aligned itself with the enemies of the United
States . In the 1930s, as described at length
in The Nazi Roots of Palestinian Nationalism 2, the founder of the Palestinian
“movement,” the Hajj Amin al Husseini, working in alliance with the Muslim
Brotherhood, formed an alliance with Hitler, served Nazi Germany by recruiting
and deploying hundreds of thousands of Bosnian Muslims into the Nazi war
machine, and planned to transplant the “final solution” to Palestine as soon as
Hitler was finished with Europe’s Jews.
By the 1960s, after America
and its allies had vanquished Nazism and faced a new enemy in Soviet Communism,
Ahmed Shuqairy, the first leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization,
was a protégé of the KGB, as was Yassir Arafat. Both Palestinian terrorist
leaders aligned themselves with the U.S. ’s
most powerful global enemy as willing puppets of the Soviets during the Cold
War. Arafat in particular became an enthusiastic instrument of the USSR
by training and deploying Palestinian terrorists throughout the world to serve
Soviet strategy by fomenting violence against America
or its allies, and to destabilize pro-American regimes through terrorism and
intimidation.
`The Soviets not only armed and trained Palestinian
terrorists but also used them to arm and train other professional terrorists by
the thousands. Palestinian terrorists were identified in Havana
as early as 1966. In fact, Cuba
became a base for Palestinian terrorist training and Marxist indoctrination. In
late April 1979, an agreement was reached for the guerrilla group Popular Front
for the Liberation of Palestine to have several hundred of its terrorists
trained in Cuba ,
following a meeting between PFLP chief George Habash and Cuban officials.
Teflon Terrorism
The USSR ’s
contribution to the Palestinian movement was to transform what had been an
inchoate program of violence, terror, and Jew hatred into a “Third
World liberation front.” Endowing the Palestinians with a
fictitious narrative of nationalist aspiration and a quest for
self-determination created the facade of morality and legitimacy that Arafat’s
terrorists needed to curry favor with the EU, the UK, and the U.S., even while
attacking Western as well as Israeli targets.
By re-branding the Palestinians as a people struggling
against a colonialist Israeli oppressor for statehood, for inalienable human
rights and freedom from occupation, the USSR
was able to use Palestinian terrorism for its own anti West Cold War
strategies; and the Teflon terrorists could claim an almost miraculous immunity
from any accountability for their crimes. Arafat may not have invented political
skyjacking, for instance, he made it into the guerrilla action of choice for
many Arab and other Muslim terror groups after he staged the first (and only)
successful Arab terrorist hijacking of an El Al plane in 1968. There followed a
long series of sky-jackings, mostly by Arab terrorists. For America ,
skyjacking culminated in the seizure of United and American Airlines planes on
9/11.
Although the operations staged by Arafat in the 1960s and
1970s involved the murder of hundreds of innocents, the endangerment of
thousands, and the destruction of hundreds of millions of dollars of property,
the Arab terrorist perpetrators were almost never condemned by the press, the
UN, or any major government, or by world public opinion.
Palestinian leaders and much of their rank-and-file have
been consistent for decades in not only declaring their hatred of the US and in
charging that America is the great Satan, but also in mounting attacks against
American targets abroad. Since 1993, more than 700 Americans have been killed
in Palestinian-related terror attacks. Among the Americans attacked by the
Palestinians have been Christian pilgrims and clergy, American soldiers,
American embassy personnel, military attaches, and, perhaps most famously, the
wheelchair bound elderly American Leon Klinghoffer on the Achille Lauro cruise
ship on October 7, 1985. 3
Perhaps the most egregious example of this enmity toward
Americans came in 1973 when the PLO orchestrated the murder of two American
diplomats in Sudan .
Cleo A. Noel, Jr., U.S. ambassador to Sudan, and George C. Moore, another U.S.
diplomat there, were among a group of men seized and held hostage by Yassir
Arafat’s Black September terrorists during a reception at the Saudi Embassy in
Khartoum, Sudan, March 2, 1973. The terrorists demanded the release of Sirhan
Sirhan, the Palestinian assassin of Robert Kennedy, as well as of terrorists
being held in Israeli and European prisons. President Nixon refused to
negotiate. Noel Jr. and Moore were then murdered, Arafat having given the
execution order in a phone conversation recorded by the Israelis who gave the
tape to the State Department and President Nixon. The authenticity of the tape
was verified in U.S.
laboratories by both the State Department and the White House.
Investigative reporter Jack Anderson wrote a comprehensive
expose of Arafat’s role in these murders in the Washington Post (July 29,
1980), demonstrating irrefutably that he had personally ordered these murders.
Arafat’s code name for this attack was “nahar el-bard” (“cold river,” also the
name of an Arab refugee camp in Lebanon ).
Perhaps the most horrifying testimony to Arafat’s Teflon status is the fact
that the U.S. State Department hid the facts of these murders for decades, to
maintain the façade that Arafat was a force for peace and stability within the
Arab terrorist forces in the Middle East . When James J.
Welsh, the National Security Agency’s Palestinian analyst, attempted to go
public, he was intimidated into silence. 4
Palestinian Terrorism
After the Cold War
With the eclipse of the USSR ,
Arafat needed new financial backing and found it in Saddam Hussein. Money from Iraq
allowed Arafat to maintain his terror forces even during his exile in Tunisia .
In exchange, Arafat became a loyal supporter of Saddam, and stood by him in
both Gulf wars.
Coincidental with the fall of the Iron Curtain, however, Fattah
and the PLO faced a crisis even more serious than funding their operations.
This was the rise of organizations such as Hezbollah and Hamas. To maintain his
hold over the Palestinian movement and to prevent these new, religiously
inspired terrorist upstarts from stealing his thunder, Arafat, previously an
extreme secularist, adopted the worldview of radical, America-hating Islam. How
deeply committed to the objectives of the Jihadists the Palestinians were was
clearly demonstrated by the spontaneous popular response on Palestinians to the
al-Qaeda attacks on September 11, 2001 .
For Western consumption, Arafat televised his donation of blood to the
survivors of 9/11. But while this was taking place, there were spontaneous
outbreaks of public celebration over the attack on America
in a number of Palestinian communities on the West Bank
and Gaza which he was unable
entirely to suppress. Coverage of these celebrations, especially CNNs detailed
broadcasts, were met with shock and outrage in the United
States . Although pro Palestinian
commentators were at pains to describe these Palestinian outpourings of support
for Mohammad Atta’s band of killers as scattered and anomalous and Arafat
himself tried to confiscate the footage, a variety of British newspapers, for
instance, reported that thousands of Palestinians poured in to the streets of
Nablus and Jerusalem, giving out candy, firing celebratory shots in the air,
cheering Osama and rejoicing at the blow dealt to the U.S.
Realizing that the Palestinians’ hatred of America ,
the dirty little secret of his regime, was in danger of exposure, Arafat
ordered his security forces to open fire on street demonstrators when they
refused to stop their celebrations. He arrested European photographers and
journalists, and threatened their lives if film footage of the Palestinian
post- 9/11 celebrations were broadcast. 5
Palestinian Islamo
Fascism
While Arafat and his PA leaders were busy trying to silence
the eye-witness reports of Palestinians cheering the death of Americans, Hamas
(at that time not yet in a position of political leadership in the Palestinian
Authority) had no qualms about voicing its true feelings. In response to the
9/11 attack, Hamas leader Dr. Atallah Abb as- Subh wrote an “open letter to America ”
in the Hamas publication ar-Risala (“The Prophecy”), published in Gaza .
Speaking the language of political correctness, he asked: “Have you [America ]
asked yourself about your actions against your original inhabitants, the
Indians, the Apaches? Your white feet crushed them and then used their name for
a helicopter bearing death...(and)... Allah has answered our prayers; the sword
of vengeance has reached America
and will strike again and again.” 6
Hamas’ origins in the Muslim Brotherhood, and its meteoric
rise to power and prominence both in the Palestinian terror war against Israel
and among the international Islamo-fascist organizations fighting the West, are
by now well known. Less so are the specifics of Hamas’ message to its
followers, who now comprise a majority of Palestinians, including most of those
once thought to be moderate.
Hamas’ charter describes in detail the plan for an Islamic
conquest of the world, one step at a time. This dire struggle against the
entire non-Muslim world begins with Jews and with Israel ,
which the organization sees as a puppet state of America .
Hamas is now the only democratically elected political power in the world whose
foundation agenda includes the genocide of the world’s Jews (and by extension
Americans), and whose sole defining paradigm is terrorism. It is also the only
democratically elected regime in the world which seeks total world domination,
with the obliteration of all national, political, social, and religious
organizations whose ideologies are at variance with that of Islam.
Indeed, with Hamas we now have the bald-faced and undiluted
promise of “Islam uber Alles.” This ideology of hatred and destruction,
genocide and mass murder, world conquest and the obliteration of all
non-conforming ideologies and societies, has been at the forefront of Hamas’
appeal to the Palestinian people since its inception in the Gaza Strip as a
subsidiary of the Muslim Brotherhood twenty years ago. When they voted Hamas in
to power, the Palestinian people knew the destructive and genocidal intentions
of the Hamas leaders. And they supported those intentions, de facto, with their
vote.
Deadly Alliances
Just as the Palestinians were once in alliance against the
U.S. with the Nazis and Stalinists, so now they are in alliance with groups
such as Hezbollah, whose leader Hassan Nasrallah has said, “`Death to America’
is not a slogan. Death 6 7 to America
is a policy, a strategy and a vision.”
Pursuant to Iran ’s
goals and strategies, Hezbollah has attacked many U.S.
targets over the past 25 years. Iran ’s
use of Hezbollah as its proxy gives Iran
“plausible deniability” in these actions. Of Hezbollah’s terror attacks against
U.S. targets,
the most deadly were the April 18 and October
23, 1983 suicide bombings against American targets in Beirut ,
killing 63 and 241 Americans respectively, and wounding hundreds of others.
Hamas also supports al-Qaeda. After the Israeli unilateral and unconditional
retreat from the Gaza Strip in August, 2005, al-Qaeda cells, under the
leadership of Abu Mus’ab al-Zarqawi, entered the Strip and began to work
alongside of Hamas and the dozen other terror groups at large. Until his death
in Iraq at the
hands of coalition forces in 2006, Zarqawi recruited Gaza Strip Palestinians
with family members in the West Bank for his terrorist
efforts because they could more easily cross the Israeli check points under the
guise of “family reunions.” Palestinian reporter and documentary film producer
Khaled abu- Toameh, during an interview with “The Spotlight Group,” noted that
Hamas, no matter how much it is pressured by Israel
and the U.S. ,
cannot abandon its basic goal of destruction of Israel .
“If it did so,” abu-Toameh said, “it would lose its constituency.” 7 In other
words, some significant plurality, or perhaps a majority, of the Palestinian
people share Hamas’ goal of Israel ’s
destruction, the genocide of Israel ’s
Jews, and the targeting of the U.S.
as an enemy of Islam and an appropriate object of terror attacks. The shift in
support from Abbas and the PLO to Hamas, the defection of a large part of Fattah
man-power, and the apparently strong and growing popular support for al-Qaeda
in the Gaza Strip, all bespeak the same priorities among the Palestinian people.
Al-Qaeda, Hamas and
Hezbollah in the USA
The threat to America
by the Palestinians is not merely rhetorical, nor does it emanate only from
foreign soil. In fact, operatives from the major Arab and Iranian terror groups
have infiltrated our own homeland with the intent to attack us from within.
Palestinian terror groups and individuals are a key part of this operation. 8
Very little of this information has ever appeared in our mainstream media. The
task of informing the American public of the dangers posed to us by Iranian and
Palestinian terrorist jihad falls, with very few exceptions, to more highly
specialized (and apparently more honest and courageous) media outlets. A survey
of information provided by these media discloses discomforting evidence that
Palestinian and other terrorists are thoroughly and comfortably ensconced in
downtown America, right under the noses of law-enforcement and Homeland
Security officials; that they number in the thousands 9 and are training for
war in secret camps in the USA 10 in part by infiltrating the U.S. own military
11 and penetrating Washington DC with political influence, staffers, and spies.
Meanwhile, evidence accumulates of jihadist sleeper cells abound with
Hezbollah, Hamas and al-Qaeda terrorists hidden within the Islamic American
community, waiting for the call to action from Tehran or Damascus 12 Recently
declassified CIA documents reveal that as early as March, 1973, the Palestinian
terrorist group, Black September (a PLO sub-group created by Arafat), tried to
detonate three car bombs in New York City, timed to coincide with Israeli Prime
Minister Golda Meir’s visit. The powerful bombs, which might have killed or
wounded hundreds, failed to explode due to improper wiring of the timing
mechanisms 13. Later, Palestinian Arabs in Brooklyn
prepared a terror attack on a Brooklyn bus and a subway
station, which was thwarted only by an almost unbelievable stroke of good luck.
The Palestinians involved in the explosion in the World
Trade Center Lincoln
and Holland tunnels, and the United
Nations building. And many more attacks have been planned. Especially after
9/11, al-Qaeda commanders and officials stationed in Western countries,
including the United States ,
have recruited Hamas operatives and volunteers to carry out reconnaissance or
serve as couriers. In August 2004, two suspected high-level Hamas operatives,
Mohammed Salah and Abdelhaleem Ashqar, were detained in the U.S.
and charged with providing material support to Hamas, racketeering and money
laundering. In November 2003, Jamal Aqal, a Gazan who immigrated to Canada ,
was arrested in Israel
under suspicion of receiving weapons and explosives training from Hamas for use
in future terror attacks in Canada
and New York City . Aqal pleaded
guilty in 2004 to planning to kill American and Canadian Jewish leaders and
Israeli officials traveling in the U.S.
Also in 2004, Ismail Selim Elbarasse, a long-time Hamas money man, was arrested
in Maryland , reportedly after
authorities witnessed his wife videotaping Maryland ’s
Chesapeake Bay Bridge Middle East and in the US
because of America ’s
support for President Abbas and the PLO after Hamas’ election victory 14
A 75 Year War
During the week of June
13, 2007 , Hamas forces soundly defeated the much larger and better
armed Fattah forces in Gaza ,
killing at least 160 Arab Palestinian Fattah loyalists,
effectively destroying the Palestinian Authority, and
establishing complete control over the Gaza Strip. This new development affords
Hamas a prime strategic asset for escalating its violent campaign against Israel
15. The rebellion against Abbas, and Hamas’ rejection of any form of
moderation, and its opposition to U.S.
goals in the Middle East conflict, also reveal something
else-- that the Palestinian people are at war with America .
This war has been going on for three quarters of a century, beginning in the
1930s with the alliance between the Mufti and Hitler, developing from the 1960s
through the present with Arafat’s actions as an agent for Soviet policy and a
supporter of Saddam Hussein in the first Gulf War, and Hamas’ overt anti-
American threats and attacks and its backing of Hezbollah’s attacks against
Americans today. It cannot any longer be argued that hatred of America
is restricted to only a small minority of Palestinians--the leaders, the
fanatics, the extremists. Hundreds of thousands adored the Mufti in the 1930s
and yearned for his final solution. Millions followed Arafat, cheering and
celebrating when he hit both Israelis and Americans. Tens of thousands flocked
to his banner to join his terror forces (Fattah, PLO, PFLP, PFLP-GC, DFLP, the
abu-Nidal group, Tanzim, Force 17, el-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, the Black
September Group, among others) and create a full-fledged terrorist army 16.
Moreover, in 1996 the Palestinian people voted Arafat in to office with a
landslide victory. When his mandate expired in January of 2000, there was no
opposition to his continued illegal control of the Palestinian Authority. After
Arafat’s death, the voters’ loyalties shifted not to his supposedly more
moderate successor, Mahmoud Abbas (nor to any of the other moderate parties on
the 2006 PA ballot), but to the terrorist army offering the most extreme agenda
of terrorism and mass murder and endless war against Israel and against the USA
-- Hamas.
Why Hatred?
One reason commonly offered for this animosity toward America
is that Palestinian hatred comes from U.S.
support for Israel .
But while the U.S.
does support Israel ,
it has also done much to support the Arab world, and the Palestinians, Yasser
Arafat, and the PLO in particular. On a regular basis from Roosevelt to
Clinton, the U.S. has given almost as much money to Egypt as to Israel, has
given billions more over the years to many other Arab states, and has given
billions more to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for support of Arab
refugees. This despite the fact that UN representatives acknowledge that UNRWA
refugee camps have become havens for terrorists whose targets include Americans
and who have been complicit in the development of worldwide terrorism. In
addition to being a consistent source of financial support for the
Palestinians, America has for almost 60 years has consistently and
intentionally turned a blind eye to the fact that at least some of that money
is used to recruit, train, equip, arm and deploy terrorists against Israel, and
at times against American targets as well. As president, Jimmy Carter played a
crucial role in Arafat’s makeover from terrorist to statesman and as ex-President
has slavishly supported the Palestinians ever since. In this regard, Carter
established a tradition. Arafat was an honored guest at the White House more
than any other head of state during Bill Clinton’s presidency. President
Clinton hosted the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993, which brought Arafat
out of exile and set in to motion what should have been the creation of a
Palestinian state. He presided as well over the Camp David II talks, in which
Arafat was offered the state of Palestine
on a silver platter. Presidents Clinton and Bush have authorized hundreds of
millions of dollars of aid to the PA since the Oslo Accords (1993).
President George W. Bush was the first American president to
make a public commitment to the creation of a Palestinian state (June, 2002);
and he led the international group formulating the “Road Map” whose main goal
was getting peace negotiations back on track so conflict could be resolved and
a Palestinian state could emerge (April, 2004). And most recently, President
Bush exerted enormous political influence to convene the first ever pan-Arab Middle
East peace conference at Annapolis
in November of 2007. Leaders from every major Arab country, including all the
Arab confrontation states and the Palestinian Authority, gathered in Annapolis
to watch President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arm-twist the
Israeli representatives to agree to ignore Hamas terrorism and threats of
genocide, and to re-start negotiations with Mahmoud Abbas, even though
President Abbas himself refused to acknowledge the existence of Israel as a
Jewish state. President Bush and Secretary Rice went so far in accommodating
the Arab representatives’ sensibilities that they obliged Israeli
representatives to enter the conference room via a back door so that they would
not be seen by Middle East press representatives walking in to the meeting hall
together with the Arab delegates. If getting a state were indeed what the
Palestinian leadership wanted, that leadership would see the U.S.
as an ally, and President Bush, like his predecessors Carter and Clinton, as a
strong and committed friend. But they continue to see the U.S.
as an enemy. Why? Because the Palestinians’ most profound dreams do not involve
national self-determination or a state of their own. They instead dream of what
the most extreme of the world’s terror armies say they can deliver: the
destruction of Israel ,
the creation of Palestine from the
River to the Sea, and “Death to America .”
Appendix I Some of the most prominent and lethal attacks
against America
by Palestinians: February 23, 1970 ,
Halhoul, West Bank. Palestinian Liberation Organization terrorists open fire on
a busload of pilgrims killing Barbara Ertle of Michigan
and wounding two other Americans. March
28-29, 1970 , Beirut , Lebanon September 14, 1970 ,
En route to Amman , Jordan Zurich , Switzerland Amman .
Four American citizens were injured. March
2, 1973 , Khartoum , Sudan U.S.
ambassador to Sudan ,
and George C. Moore, also a U.S.
diplomat, were held hostage and then killed by terrorists at the U.S. Embassy
in Khartoum . Investigative reporter
Jack Anderson wrote a comprehensive expose of Arafat’s role in these murders in
the Washington Post (July 29, 1980), demonstrating with pretty much irrefutable
evidence that Yassir Arafat personally ordered these executions. Events later
proved him correct, when declassified State Department documents revealed that
State Department personnel had known of, and hidden, Arafat’s role. For
detailed discussion, cf. Johnson, Scott, W., “Who Murdered Cleo Noel?” Front
Page Magazine, Nov. 18, 2003 ;
Freedman, Daniel, “Declassified State Department Document: Arafat Responsible
for Storming Embassy and Murder of Americans in 1973,” New
York Sun,
Dec. 28, 2006 ; Moore, Art, “American diplomats murdered by Arafat?”
WorldNetDaily, March 2, 2003 ;
and Farah, Joseph, “Is U.S.
hiding Arafat murders?” WorldNetDaily, Jan.
17, 2001 . June 29, 1975 ,
Beirut , Lebanon U.S.
military attaché to Lebanon ,
Ernest Morgan, and demanded food, clothing and building materials for indigent
residents living near Beirut
harbor. The American diplomat was released after an anonymous benefactor
provided food to the neighborhood. January
1, 1977 , Beirut , Lebanon U.S.
ambassador to Lebanon ,
and Robert O. Waring, the U.S. economic counselor, were kidnapped by PFLP
members as they crossed a militia checkpoint separating the Christian from the
Muslim parts of Beirut. They were later shot to death. May 4, 1979 , Tiberius ,
Israel New Haven , Connecticut Israel .
March 16, 1983 , Beirut ,
Lebanon Beirut
International Airport September 20, 1984 ,
Aukar , Lebanon U.S.
veto September 6 of a U.N. Security Council resolution. October 7, 1985 , Between Alexandria ,
Egypt Haifa ,
Israel Alexandria , Egypt Israel . The
squad murdered a disabled U.S.
citizen, Leon Klinghoffer, by throwing him in the ocean. The rest of the
passengers were held hostage for two days and later released after the
terrorists turned themselves in to Egyptian authorities in return for safe
passage. But U.S. Navy fighters intercepted the Egyptian aircraft flying the
terrorists to Tunis and forced it
to land at the NATO airbase in Italy ,
where the terrorists were arrested. Two of the terrorists were tried in Italy
and sentenced to prison. The Italian authorities however let the two others
escape on diplomatic passports. Abu Abbas, who masterminded the hijacking, was
later convicted to life imprisonment in absentia. March 30, 1986 , Athens , Greece Rome
as it approached Athens airport.
The attack killed four U.S.
citizens who were sucked through a hole made by the blast, although the plane
safely landed. The bombing was attributed to the Fattah Special Operations
Group’s intelligence and security apparatus, headed by Abdullah Abd al-Hamid
Labib, alias Colonel Hawari. September
5, 1986 , Karachi , Pakistan Karachi ,
Pakistan Frankfurt ,
Germany New
York with 379 passengers, including 89 Americans. The
terrorists forced the plane to land in Larnaca ,
Cyprus Washington grand
jury in 1991. March 6, 1989 ,
Cairo , Egypt Cairo .
Three organizations were believed to be responsible for the attack: The January
15 organization, which had sent a letter bomb to the Israeli ambassador to London
in January; the Egyptian Revolutionary Organization that from out 1984-1986
carried out attacks against U.S.
and Israeli targets; and the Nasserite Organization, which had attacked British
and American targets in 1988. November
8, 1991 , Beirut , Lebanon American
University Beirut ,
killing one person and wounding at least a dozen. February 23, 1997 , New York ,
United States Empire
State New
York , killing a Danish national and wounding visitors
from the United States ,
Argentina , Switzerland
and France
before turning the gun on himself. A handwritten note carried by the gunman
claimed this was a punishment attack against the “enemies of Palestine .”
June 21, 1998 , Beirut ,
Lebanon Beirut .
No casualties were reported. June 21,
1998 , Beirut , Lebanon Beirut ,
causing no casualties and little damage. August
7, 1998 , Nairobi , Kenya Nairobi .
The attack killed a total of 292, including 12 U.S.
citizens, and injured over 5,000, among them six Americans. The perpetrators
belonged to al-Qaeda, Osama bin Ladin’s network. October 12, 2000 , Aden Harbor ,
Yemen October 15,
2003 : Bombing of American convoy in the Gaza Strip: John
Branchizio, 37, Mark Parson, 31, and John Martin Linde, 30, were on contract to
the U.S.
embassy in Tel Aviv through the defense contracting company Dyncorp. U.S.
citizens injured: One as yet-unnamed U.S.
citizen (reportedly a diplomat). Appendix II Interactions between Arafat and
other PLO leaders with Saddam Hussein: A Palestinian Authority delegation met
in Baghdad in September 1997 with
Udai Hussein, son of the Iraqi dictator, “in a warm and friendly atmosphere.”
(Khaled Abu Taomeh, reporting in the Jerusalem newspaper Yerushalayim,
September 5, 1997) In July 1997, according to the official Iraqi News Agency,
in Baghdad (July 10, 1997), Arafat sent a message which “conveyed the greetings
of the Palestinian president to President Saddam Hussein and reiterated the
Palestinian people’s pride in their close relations with the Iraqi people and
in the principled and firm Iraqi positions in the face of the challenges and
conspiracies implemented by the enemies of the Arab nation.” The PLO’s
Palestinian Legislative Council denounced the U.S.
missile strike in western Iraq
(in response to Iraqi attacks on Kurds there last year), as “American
aggression against the sister state, Iraq .”
The PA also urged Arab states to provide Iraq
“any form of financial aid and moral support...so that sister Iraq
can recapture her natural place in the taking of the national and pan Arab
responsibility.” (An Nahar, Sept. 5, 1996) Arafat visited Iraq
in 1993, met with Saddam, and hailed “the greatness of the Iraqi people and
their leader.” (Jerusalem Post, Feb. 3, 1993)
In 1991, the PLO representative in Washington, Hassan Abu
Rahman, circulated a fabricated transcript of a radio interview in which U.S.
General Norman Schwarzkopf supposedly “admitted” that “the war that our men
fought against Saddam Hussein was for Israel ,
our men fought to destroy Israel ’s
main enemy in the region.” (Jerusalem Post, June 5, 1991) During the 1990-1991
Persian Gulf crisis, PLO chairman Yasir Arafat was Saddam Hussein’s closest
Arab ally. After the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait ,
the PLO denounced America ’s
opposition to the occupation, accusing Washington
of “beating the drums of a destructive war and raising tension toward a
complete explosion.” (Jerusalem Post, Aug. 14, 1990). This Palestinian support
for Hussein presents an interesting conundrum. Kuwait
was one of the earliest supporters of Arafat and Palestinian nationalism.
300,000 Palestinians had found shelter and refuge in Kuwait
after the 1948 and 1967 wars with Israel .
They enjoyed a high standard of living and professional success. Yet they
rioted in the streets in support of Saddam on the eve of his invasion and
joined with his forces when they entered the country that had hosted them and
supported them for decades. Their hatred of the West, hatred of the USA ,
overrode any sense of gratitude for the hospitality offered them by their host
country. As a result, all 300,000 were expelled by the Emir, without money or
property, as soon as the Iraqi army had retreated. They ended up as penniless
refugees in Arabia , Jordan West Bank . According to the London Independent,
“much of the logistical planning for the Iraqi invasion was based on
intelligence supplied by PLO officials and supporters based in Kuwait .”
(Jerusalem Post, Aug. 8, 1990) According to Yossef Bodansky, The Secret History
of the Iraq War, Arafat was closely involved with Saddam in training special
Iraqi terrorist forces for attacks against Israel
and the USA
using chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction. Arafat’s PLO
trainers worked in Syria
and in Iraq in
partnership with both Saddam and al-Qaeda to train and deploy Iraqi and
Palestinian terrorist cells to infiltrate Israel ,
Europe and the USA
for such attacks.
Appendix III
Hezbollah attacks against the USA ,
since the organization was created by Iran
in 1982 (taken from Jewish Virtual Library): July 19, 1982 , Beirut , Lebanon American
University Beirut .
After a year in captivity, Dodge was released. Rifat Assad, head of Syrian
Intelligence, helped in the negotiation with the terrorists. March 16, 1983 , Beirut ,
Lebanon Beirut
International Airport April 18, 1983 ,
Beirut , Lebanon Beirut , killing 63 employees,
including the CIA’s Middle East director, and wounding
120. Hezbollah, with financial backing from Iran ,
was responsible for the attack. October
23, 1983 , Beirut , Lebanon Beirut , killing 241
soldiers and wounding 81. The attack was carried out by Hezbollah with the help
of Syrian intelligence and financed by Iran .
January 18, 1984 , Beirut ,
Lebanon American
University Beirut ,
was killed by two gunmen outside his office. Hezbollah said the assassination
was part of the organization’s plan to “drive all Americans out from Lebanon .”
March 7, 1984 , Beirut ,
Lebanon Beirut
bureau chief of Cable News Network (CNN). Levin managed to escape and reach
Syrian army barracks. He was later transferred to American hands. March 8, 1984 , Beirut ,
Lebanon Beirut ’s Manara neighborhood.
Weir was released after 16 months of captivity with Syrian and Iranian assistance.
Footnotes 1.] Hamas official newspaper, al-Risala [The
Prophecy], Sept. 13, 2001, quoted in MEMRI, Sept. 17, 2001, #268,
http://www.memri.org/bin/ articles.cgi?Area=jihad&ID=SP26801 2.] Meir-Levi,
David, The Nazi Roots of Palestinian Nationalism and Islamic Jihad, David
Horowitz Freedom
Center Nov. 18, 2003 ;
Freedman, Daniel, “Declassified State Department Document: Arafat Responsible
for Storming Embassy and Murder of Americans in 1973,” New
York Sun,
Dec. 28, 2006 ; Moore, Art, “American diplomats murdered by Arafat?”
WorldNetDaily, March 2, 2003 ;
and Farah, Joseph, “Is U.S.
hiding Arafat murders?” WorldNetDaily, Jan.
17, 2001 . 5.] A German investigation raised doubt as to the motives
of the celebrations, suggesting that journalists had incited pedestrians to
“whoop it up” in front of cameras. See Erdmann, Von Lisa, in SPIEGEL ONLINE -
21. September 2001,” Die Macht der TV-Bilder: Was ist die Wahrheit?” URL:
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,158625,00.html. This report never
gained wide credence or circulation; nor did it ever explain what might have
been the motives of European journalists to engage in such mendacious maneuvers
which would serve only to make Palestinians look bad, and the journalists’
hosts, the Palestinian Authority, enraged at them. The UK Times (September 11,
2001) and other British newspapers and French news services aired full reports
of Palestinian celebration, as well as Arafat’s attempts to squelch it.
6.] cf/ Supra, note #1. 7.] Mr. Abu-Toameh was interviewed
by “The Spotlight Group” (April, 2007) and the interview was broadcast on
Public Access Cable Television, channel 27, Palo Alto, CA, USA during the month
of May, 2007. 8.] In-depth exposure of this infiltration in to the USA by
Palestinian and other Arab terrorist groups can be found in Bodansky, Yossef,
Target The West: Terrorism in the World today, 1993; also Diaz, Tom, &
Newman, Barbara, Lightning out of Lebanon (terrorists in USA); and Emerson,
Steven, American Jihad. 9.] : “Northern Virginia stan,” Investors Business
Daily, February 26, 2007 ,
and cf. http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?se cid=1501&status=article&id=257386735556435&view=1
10.] “HOMELAND INSECURITY: Probe finds terrorists in U.S.
‘training for war,’ Neighbors of Muslim encampment fear retaliation if they
report to police” World Net Daily, 2.19.06 11.] Pipes, Daniel “Pentagon
Jihadis,” New York Post, September 29,
2003 , and cf. www.danielpipes.org |
www.danielpipes.org/article/1259 12.] : Asman, David, “Does any terrorist
organization pose a greater threat to Americans than al-Qaeda?’ aired on Fox
News, January 20, 2007, as “Smokescreen: Hezbollah Inside America”; Gaubatz,
Dave, “Sleeper Cells in the United States and Canada, American Thinker,
February 5, 2007, and cf. http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/02/sleeper_cells_
in_the_united_st.html; and Lathem, Niles, “N.Y. Hezbollah Hunt,” New York Post,
May 22, 2006 15.] Kushner, Harvey ,
Holy War On The Home Front: The Secret Islamic Terror Network In The United
States 16.] Klein, Aaron, “Hamas threatens
attacks on U.S. ”
World Net Daily, Dec. 22, 2006 )
17.] Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook, Palestine Media Watch, May 29, 2007 ; and cf. also DEBKAfile,
May 29, 2007 18.]
Palestinian terrorist groups number more than a dozen. The following brief
summary of the history of three of them (the PFLP, the PFLP-GC, and the DFLP)
will give the reader an idea of the complexity of the development of these groups.
The PFLP is the more radical, more Marxist-Leninist, less
Islamic partner of Fatah in the PLO. The Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine (PFLP) (Arabic: ةهبجلا ةيبعشلا ريرحتل نيطسلف, alJabhah al-Sha`biyyah
li-Tahrīr Filastīn) is a Marxist-Leninist, secular, nationalist Palestinian
political and military organization, founded in 1967. It has consistently been
the second-largest of the groups forming the Palestine Liberation Organization
(the largest being Fattah). It has generally taken a hard line on Palestinian
national aspirations, opposing the more moderate stance of Fattah. It opposed
the Oslo Accords and was for a long time opposed to the idea of a two-state
solution to the Israeli Palestinian conflict, but in 1999 came to an agreement
with the PLO leadership regarding negotiations with Israel .
The PFLP grew out of the Harakat al-Qawmiyyin al-Arab, or Arab Nationalist
Movement (ANM), founded in 1953 by Dr. George Habash, a Palestinian Christian,
from Lydda/Lod in Palestine . After
the Six Day War of June 1967, this group merged in August with two other
groups, Youth for Revenge and Ahmed Jibril’s Syrian-backed Palestine Liberation
Front, to form the PFLP, with Habash as leader. It had the financial backing of
Syria , and was
headquartered there, and one of its training camps was based in as-Salt, Jordan .
In 1968, Ahmed Jibril broke away from the PFLP to form the Syrian backed
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command (PFLP-GC). In
1969, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) formed as a
separate, ostensibly Maoist, organization under Nayef Hawatmeh and Yasser Abd
Rabbo, initially as the PDFLP. In 1972, the Popular Revolutionary Front for the
Liberation of Palestine was formed following a split in PFLP.
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