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Yasser Arafat and Garibaldi Street, national |
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 Wednesday September 25, 2002 19:07 by Omar OmarSarid at yahoo dot com
 Good article below Garibaldi Street, Ramallah BY MICHAEL FREUND Sep. 24, 2002 After two years of relentless Palestinian terror, there is something refreshingly ironic about Yasser Arafat's current plight.Holed up in what remains of his Ramallah compound known as the Mukata, Arafat now finds himself surrounded by Jews in uniform, members of the very same people he has devoted his career to mercilessly killing and destroying. This is a moment we should all be relishing.Indeed, not since May 1960, when Israeli agents apprehended German mastermind Adolf Eichmann outside his Buenos Aires home on Garibaldi Street, has a mass murderer of Jews been so close to being captured. In his account of the operation, The House on Garibaldi Street, Mossad chief Isser Harel explained the reason behind his determination to bring Eichmann to justice: "In everything pertaining to the Jews, he was the paramount authority and his were the hands that pulled the strings controlling manhunt and massacre this man was pointed to as the head butcher." It is Arafat's hand that signed the checks to fund Palestinian terror attacks against Israel. And it is Arafat's voice that gave the green light to Hamas, Islamic Jihad and his own Fatah movement to launch suicide-bombing attacks against innocent men, women and children. And it is Arafat's mind that plotted and oversaw the present wave of Palestinian terror. "His were the hands that pulled the strings..." As a result, more than 600 innocent Israelis have been murdered in the past two years by Palestinian terrorists. That is 600 compelling reasons to bring Arafat to justice. Which is not to mention the Munich Olympics massacre, Damour Lebanon massacre, trying to overthrow King Hussein's goverment, the Achille Lauro hijacking or other various atrocities perpetrated over the years by the PLO. The French are said to be "appalled," and the rest of Europe is hopping mad, that Israel now dares to turn up the heat on the leader of the Palestinian revolution. LET THEM fume all they wish. They stood by silently as Eichmann's henchmen murdered Jews half a century ago, and they spoke out in protest only when Israel hunted him down and brought him to trial. It was a lesson that guided the state in its early years, giving rise to the daring operation that brought Eichmann to a courthouse in Jerusalem. But that lesson was largely brushed aside over much of the past decade, when the government chose to court Arafat rather than haul him before a court. The Palestinian leader, of course, is no Eichmann, and it would be wrong to compare the Palestinians to the Nazis. The point here, quite simply, is this: anyone who murders Jews, as Arafat has done, must be made to pay for his actions. In his last address to his men before the end of the Second World War, Eichmann is reported by one of his close associates to have said these chilling words: "I shall leap into my grave laughing, because the feeling that I have the deaths of Six million people on my conscience will be for me a source of extraordinary satisfaction." Israel's task now is to ensure that Arafat knows no similar sense of contentment. After pursuing him on and off over the past four decades for his lethal anti-Jewish terror, Israel now has Arafat in its sights, in the modern-day equivalent of the house on Garibaldi Street, in the heart of Ramallah. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4three to one palestinians vs Israelis killed during thelatest intifada!
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This line of argument makes my stomach turn
If you wish write polemic
especially that which is thinly veiled
vitriol against the plaestinian people
it is your still right under free speech.
Though I wonder how much you consider it a right worth defending.
Eichmann you appear to have learnt much of.
Tell us how much do you know of Mengele´s pathway from Auschwitz to CEO of a paharmaceutical company and the development of his genetic theory?
And certain collusion between the state of Israel and Aparthied South Africa developing that technology and theories for weapon programs?
-a little knowledge is a dangerous thing
drink deep or not of the perian spring
for there shallow drafts intoxicate the mind
and drinking deep brings you back again.
(Alexander Pope)
hear from you when you´ve chased up those clues.
UNDER YOUR FEET
SHALOM=SALEEM
To suggest that Yasser Arafat, could be in any way whatsoever be held in any way responsible for the "final solution" is absurd. Those responsible for that crime were the countries who engaged in a policy of appeasing the German Fascists and also refusing to allow Jewish refugees to enter their countries.
To attempt to use the memory of those totally innocent Jewish people to excuse the crimes of ethnic cleansing and massacres directed against the Palestinian people since 1948 is obscence.