PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat is accusing the Israeli Mossad (foreign intelligence service) of carrying out the October 17, 2001 assassination of Israeli Tourism Minister Rechavam Ze\'evi. Arab terrorists from the Islamic Jihad organization shot Ze\'evi dead that morning as he returned from breakfast to his Jerusalem hotel room. In an interview broadcast last week on Israeli television, Arafat also accused Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak of conspiring with current Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to \"provoke\" the Palestinians into violence, in order to provide Israel with an excuse to attack the local Arab targets.
The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has recently published a special
report, alerting the public to similar conspiracy theories launched by Arafat
and the Palestinian leadership. Such theories say that Israel poisons
Arab food in order to harm male virility, and that Israeli planes have dropped bags of
poisoned candy into PA areas as part of its \"genocide\" plan. ZOA National
President Morton Klein commented on Arafat\'s theories: \"If any other international political figure spouted these kinds of insane and hate-filled conspiracy theories, he would be dismissed as a lunatic, as was Ugandan president Idi Amin. Instead, the world continues to treat Arafat as an international statesman and negotiating partner. Arafat\'s anti-Israel conspiracy theories are part and parcel of the constant torrent of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic hate material on official PA television and radio, the PA\'s newspaper, in the text books used in PA schools, in the summer camps that the PA runs, in the speeches given by PA officials and in the religious sermons delivered by PA-appointed clergymen… After eight years of promoting terrorism, promoting hatred and the murder of Jews, and continuing human rights abuses, the time has come for the United States to end all relations with Arafat and his terrorist regime.\"
The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has recently published a special
report, alerting the public to similar conspiracy theories launched by Arafat
and the Palestinian leadership. Such theories say that Israel poisons
Arab food in order to harm male virility, and that Israeli planes have dropped bags of
poisoned candy into PA areas as part of its \"genocide\" plan. ZOA National
President Morton Klein commented on Arafat\'s theories: \"If any other international political figure spouted these kinds of insane and hate-filled conspiracy theories, he would be dismissed as a lunatic, as was Ugandan president Idi Amin. Instead, the world continues to treat Arafat as an international statesman and negotiating partner. Arafat\'s anti-Israel conspiracy theories are part and parcel of the constant torrent of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic hate material on official PA television and radio, the PA\'s newspaper, in the text books used in PA schools, in the summer camps that the PA runs, in the speeches given by PA officials and in the religious sermons delivered by PA-appointed clergymen… After eight years of promoting terrorism, promoting hatred and the murder of Jews, and continuing human rights abuses, the time has come for the United States to end all relations with Arafat and his terrorist regime.\"