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Excerpts from \"WHAT \'PEACE\' MEANS TO ARAFAT,\' by Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe, Feb. 10, 2002
\"Last Sunday, Yasser Arafat published an 1,100-word op-ed column, \"The Palestinian Vision of Peace,\" in The New York Times. In it, he wrote that the Palestinian people yearn to live \"as an equal neighbor alongside Israel with peace and security for both.\" And he made a point of denouncing the murderers who have spilled so much innocent Jewish blood: \"Let me be very clear. I condemn the attacks carried out by terrorist groups against Israeli civilians. These groups do not represent the Palestinian people or their legitimate aspirations for freedom. They are terrorist organizations, and I am determined to put an end to their activities... No degree of oppression and no level of desperation can ever justify the killing of innocent civilians.\"
That was Sunday, in English.
On Wednesday, in Arabic, Arafat addressed a rally in Ramallah, firing up the crowd with his call for \"a million martyrs marching on Jerusalem.\" (A \"martyr\" in Palestinian argot is a terrorist who dies while killing Jews.) Later that night, a Palestinian terrorist donned an Israeli uniform, infiltrated the small agricultural community of Hamra, and murdered three people - Moshe Makonan Majus, a 33-year-old immigrant from Ethiopia, and an unarmed mother and daughter, Miri Ochana, 45, and 11-year-old Yael.
The next morning, Arafat\'s Voice of Palestine radio jubilantly reported the attack. \"The man carrying out the operation,\" declared senior news anchor Nizar al-Ghul, \"became a heroic martyr.\" He said the killer was from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Squad, which is a division of Fatah, the PLO faction led by Arafat... On Thursday night, Arafat again addressed a rally in Ramallah. \"We will make the lives of the infidels Hell!\" he swore, and once more raised the battle cry, \"Millions of martyrs marching to Jerusalem!\"
...So ended another week in the \"Palestinian Vision of Peace.\" ...
Excerpts from \"WHAT \'PEACE\' MEANS TO ARAFAT,\' by Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe, Feb. 10, 2002
\"Last Sunday, Yasser Arafat published an 1,100-word op-ed column, \"The Palestinian Vision of Peace,\" in The New York Times. In it, he wrote that the Palestinian people yearn to live \"as an equal neighbor alongside Israel with peace and security for both.\" And he made a point of denouncing the murderers who have spilled so much innocent Jewish blood: \"Let me be very clear. I condemn the attacks carried out by terrorist groups against Israeli civilians. These groups do not represent the Palestinian people or their legitimate aspirations for freedom. They are terrorist organizations, and I am determined to put an end to their activities... No degree of oppression and no level of desperation can ever justify the killing of innocent civilians.\"
That was Sunday, in English.
On Wednesday, in Arabic, Arafat addressed a rally in Ramallah, firing up the crowd with his call for \"a million martyrs marching on Jerusalem.\" (A \"martyr\" in Palestinian argot is a terrorist who dies while killing Jews.) Later that night, a Palestinian terrorist donned an Israeli uniform, infiltrated the small agricultural community of Hamra, and murdered three people - Moshe Makonan Majus, a 33-year-old immigrant from Ethiopia, and an unarmed mother and daughter, Miri Ochana, 45, and 11-year-old Yael.
The next morning, Arafat\'s Voice of Palestine radio jubilantly reported the attack. \"The man carrying out the operation,\" declared senior news anchor Nizar al-Ghul, \"became a heroic martyr.\" He said the killer was from the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Squad, which is a division of Fatah, the PLO faction led by Arafat... On Thursday night, Arafat again addressed a rally in Ramallah. \"We will make the lives of the infidels Hell!\" he swore, and once more raised the battle cry, \"Millions of martyrs marching to Jerusalem!\"
...So ended another week in the \"Palestinian Vision of Peace.\" ...