Posted by flemishlion on Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:17 | #
Yasser Arafat may be dead, but Arafatism lives on. Arafat’s principal legacy is hate, his gift to the world a kind of terrorism whose techniques have been aped from Indonesia to Iraq. Arafat was resolute in refusing to prepare his people for peace. He used every platform—radio, TV, newspapers, the mosques, schools, even summer camps for kids—to inculcate a hatred of Jews, Israel, and the West. The Jews, Arafat declared, “never lived in or ruled Palestine… They were relying on false mythological sources,” i.e., the Bible. Canaan, for Arafat, was not the Promised Land for Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and their descendants; it was the land of banishment. For good measure, he added that “there was no temple in Jerusalem,” thus denying that Jesus ever walked there, preached there, or was crucified there. A pox, in other words, on everyone’s house! Pure Arafat.
The Palestinians who mobbed his coffin represented as much the hate he had fostered as grief. A Palestinian poll in Gaza asked whether rockets and mortar attacks on Israeli towns should continue even after Israel’s full withdrawal: 51 percent approved of more attacks. Only 42 percent said no. A couple of years ago, another poll found only 26 percent of Palestinians favoured stopping terrorist attacks—even if they were to receive all of the West Bank and Gaza, East Jerusalem, and sovereignty over the Temple Mount. No wonder any successor to Arafat will have trouble breaking with Arafat’s rejectionist policies.
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Posted by Braveheart on Sun, 28 Nov 2004 16:16 | #
Note the difference of assessment with Vlaams Belang (legal successor of legally assassinated Vlaams Blok).
And even worse, what a pity that in Belgium opinions are afterwards even adopted by judges to make them official…
Posted by flemishlion on Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:17 | #
Yasser Arafat may be dead, but Arafatism lives on. Arafat’s principal legacy is hate, his gift to the world a kind of terrorism whose techniques have been aped from Indonesia to Iraq. Arafat was resolute in refusing to prepare his people for peace. He used every platform—radio, TV, newspapers, the mosques, schools, even summer camps for kids—to inculcate a hatred of Jews, Israel, and the West. The Jews, Arafat declared, “never lived in or ruled Palestine… They were relying on false mythological sources,” i.e., the Bible. Canaan, for Arafat, was not the Promised Land for Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and their descendants; it was the land of banishment. For good measure, he added that “there was no temple in Jerusalem,” thus denying that Jesus ever walked there, preached there, or was crucified there. A pox, in other words, on everyone’s house! Pure Arafat.
The Palestinians who mobbed his coffin represented as much the hate he had fostered as grief. A Palestinian poll in Gaza asked whether rockets and mortar attacks on Israeli towns should continue even after Israel’s full withdrawal: 51 percent approved of more attacks. Only 42 percent said no. A couple of years ago, another poll found only 26 percent of Palestinians favoured stopping terrorist attacks—even if they were to receive all of the West Bank and Gaza, East Jerusalem, and sovereignty over the Temple Mount. No wonder any successor to Arafat will have trouble breaking with Arafat’s rejectionist policies.