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● Who is Yassir Arafat? Why is he so secretive about his origins?

● How did Arafat deserve the honor of a red carpet treatment in the U.
S. and the Nobel prize for peace?
● How has Arafat improved the lives of his people since he became
leader of the PA?
● How did Arafat further peace in Lebanon?
● Is peace Arafat's primary goal?
● Why were people upset when Arafat was invited to the US Holocaust
Memorial?

Who is Yassir Arafat? Why is he so secretive about his origins?

● Mohammed Abder Rauf Arafat al-Kudwa al-Husseini was born in

Jerusalem in 1929 of Egyptian parents. He adopted the name Yasser
meaning 'easy-going' adding ABU AMAR after a companion of the
Prophet Muhammad. He is a practising Muslim, has performed the
Haj to Mecca and wears a pendant engraved with a verse from the
Qur'an.

- History.Net

● Mohammed Abd al-Rahman Abd al-Raouf Arafat, Palestinian political

leader born in Cairo on August 24, 1929 into a prominent Jerusalem
family, the Husseinis.

- MEDEA, Belgium, January 1999

● Yasser Arafat was born in Cairo in 1929. It was there that he met his
future aides, Khalil al Wazir (Abu Jihad) and Salah Khalaf (Abu Iyad),
with whom he founded Fatah (an acronym formed from the initial
letters of the Arabic words for national liberation movement) in
Kuwait in 1958.

- Le Monde diplomatique, France

● Arafat, Yasir (vero nome Mohammed Abdel Rauf al Qudwa al

Husseini, detto Abu Ammar) (Il Cairo 24.8.1929 -) presidente
dell'Organizzazione per la liberazione della Palestina (OLP), e dal
1996 capo del governo dei territori autonomi palestinesi.

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- IPERMONDO, Italy

● Arafat, Yasir
1929-, Palestinian commando and political leader; b. Cairo. Head of
the guerrilla group Al Fatah, he became (1969) leader of the
PALESTINE LIBERATION ORGANIZATION (PLO).

- The Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Third Edition,

Columbia University Press

● The PLO chair once declared Jerusalem his home town: "This is my
city ... This is where I was born." But he was not born in Jerusalem,
not even - as some of his comrades claimed - in the Khan Younis
refugee camp in Gaza, but in Cairo in 1929, the fifth of seven
children of a Palestinian merchant called Abdul Raouf al-Qudwa al-
Husseini who was killed fighting the Israelis 20 years later.

...The PLO leader still maintains an obsessive secrecy about his early
life. His followers are supposed to remember the symbol rather than
the reality, the image rather than the substance, the words rather
than their meaning - which might explain the rhetoric.

- Weekly Mail & Guardian [Angella Johnson, August 14, 1998]

● Yasser Arafat, Fatah's leader, has claimed that he was born in

Jerusalem. That may or may not be true. What is known is that he
was brought up and educated in Egypt after his parents had
emigrated from Palestine. It is important to note that they were NOT
"refugees" or "exiles." They had simply moved to Egypt in the
1920s ... more than twenty years BEFORE the State of Israel came
into existence! So if Yasser wants to fix blame where it belongs, he
should be cursing on his parents' graves for making the choice to
leave Palestine and stop blaming the Jews of Palestine who chose to
stay and create a Jewish State.

- Zion2000

● Arafat's actual name was Abd al-Rahman abd al-Bauf Arafat al-Qud
al-Husseini. He shortened it to obscure his kinship with the notorious
Nazi and ex-Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Muhammed Amin al-Husseini."

- Howard M. Sachar, A HISTORY OF ISRAEL (New York: Knopf,

1976).

● BIOGRAPHY

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1929, August 24 (?): Born in Cairo, Egypt. Place of birth is not

certain, other sources state Jerusalem or Gaza. During his childhood
Arafat lived in both Cairo and Jerusalem. 1947: In the wars with the
Jews, Arafat fought on the side of the grand mufti of Jerusalem.

- Encyclopaedia of the Orient

● Let us consider Yassir Arafat, so carefully cleaned up by the West,

particularly by the Clintons, from a well-documented terrorist into a
diplomat and world statesman. Yassir Arafat also claimed to be born
in Jerusalem but was actually born in Cairo, August 29, 1929, named
Mohammed Abdel Rahman al Qudwa al-Husseini. Nor as he has
claimed, is he related to the late Grand Mufti of Jerusalem (Amin al-
Husseini) or Faisel Husseini or any other Husseini clan of Jerusalem.
There are 4 Husseini clans in the Land of Israel, none related. The
Grand Mufti spent World War II in Berlin, urging Hitler to bring his
killing machine to kill the Palestinian Jews to cleanse the land of Jews
for the Arab people and Islam. Arafat learned with the Mufti about
the politics of Arab nationalism in Palestine during that brief period.
Clearly, Arafat desperately wanted to emulate the Grand Mufti and so
invented his lineage, completing the fabrication.

- by Emanuel A. Winston, a Middle East analyst & commentator,

September 2, 1999

● Born in Cairo Aug. 24, 1929, he took part in battles between Arabs
and Jews in the emerging Israel in 1948. He set up a successful
engineering business in Kuwait before devoting himself to the cause
of gaining a Palestinian homeland in 1965.

- 1996 Reuter Information Service and Nando.net

● According to CNN, Cairo-born Yasser Arafat devoted his teen years to

"a study of Jewish life, associating with Jews and reading the works
of Zionists such as Theodor Herzl."

One can only wonder where in the Cairo of 1946 Arafat found Arabic
translations of Zionist writings (he spoke no other language).
Perhaps they were distributed by the Moslem Brotherhood as
Samizdat. These writings must have had a positive impact on young
Arafat, for in the mid 1950s he and others formed Fatah, "dedicated
to reclaiming Palestine for the Palestinians."

There is an unintended poignancy to this sentence. It was indeed in

those years that the Arab leadership realized how much more
effective they could make their efforts to "throw the Jews into the

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sea" if they became Palestinians rather than Arabs. By then, the Jews
of this country (the only people called Palestinians before the War of
Independence) were named Israelis. Even The Palestine Post became
The Jerusalem Post. By adopting the name 'Palestinians' the Arabs
succeeded in converting the Arab-Israeli conflict from a war of
annihilation against the Jewish population to a struggle of
dispossessed natives against colonialist invaders. It was a
spectacularly effective canard, eventually adopted by Israel's own
fiction weavers, the 'new historians.'

- David Bar-Illan, The Jerusalem Post, 'Eye on the Media',

November 5, 1999

● While Mr Sharon can justifiably brag that he has walked every wadi
and hilltop of "Judea and Samaria", Mr Arafat, who was born in Cairo,
is unfamiliar with the terrain and has surrounded himself with aides
who also lack first-hand knowledge of the land.

- The India Tribune, 23-Oct-1998

● The unshaven old man is no longer "the arch-terrorist", as he used to

be called by Voice of Israel, but he will forever remain an arch-
terrorist in retirement. We must therefore not allow his horrific past
to be forgotten by using the respectable title "Chairman", but we'll
rather call him just "Arafat".

- Arutz-7

● MUHAMMAD{ayn}ABD AR-RA`UF AL-QUDWAH AL-HUSAYNI (b. Aug.

24?, 1929, Cairo?, Egypt), president (from 1996) of the Palestinian
Authority, chairman (from 1968) of the Palestine Liberation
Organization (PLO), and leader of Fatah, the largest of the
constituent PLO groups. In 1993 he led the PLO in a peace
agreement with the Israeli government.{ayn}Arafat and Yitzhak
Rabin and Shimon Peres of Israel were jointly awarded the Nobel
Prize for Peace in 1994.

- Encyclopædia Britannica

● On countless occasions, Yasser Arafat has regaled listeners about his

Jerusalem birth and childhood. He fondly recalls his birthplace in a
stone house abutting the Western Wall, then how he lived with his
Uncle Sa'ud in Jerusalem. Like [another fraud, Edward] Said, Arafat
presents himself as a victim of Zionism - someone who lost his
wordly belongings and his place in the world due to Israel's coming
into existence. But in fact, as two intrepid French biographers,

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Christophe Boltanski and Jihan El-Tahri revealed a few years,

ago (in their 1997 book, Les sept vies de Yasser Arafat), "Mr.
Palestine was born on the shores of the Nile."

The French researchers tell an amusing story of discovery. They went

to the University of Cairo and innocently asked for the registration of
one Muhammad Abd ar-Ra'uf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husayni at the
School of Civil Engineering in 1956.

This, Arafat's birth name, means nothing to the Egyptian clerk, who
"sits down behind a rickety wooden table, almost completely hidden
by the pile of dusty files bound in black leather" and "blows off a
layer of grime in a most professional way," then hands over the
records. In a blue ink faded by time, the researchers find that their
man, living at 24A Baron Empain Street, Heliopolis, "was born on
August 4, 1929, in Cairo." With this information in hand, they dashed
over to the State Registry and found Arafat's actual birth certificate,
which confirms the date and place.

Arafat then lived in Cairo until the age of 28 and identified as an

Egyptian. His first political affiliation was an Egyptian student
organization closed to Palestinians. He fought for an Egyptian group
against Israel in 1948-49 and subsequently served in the Egyptian
military. He first traveled to Moscow, in 1968, on an Egyptian
passport.

Arafat all his life has spoken Arabic like an Egyptian, something that
has sometimes impeded his career; on first encountering him in
1967, a biographer recounts, "West Bankers did not like his Egyptian
accent and ways and found them alien."

How is it that [Arafat became a "Palestinian"]? The answer probably

lies in the fact that for a politically ambitious activist, Palestinian
politics has far more to offer than Egypt's. ...a politician finds the
path to power far more open; had Arafat made Egypt his life's work,
he might today be a retired deputy from that country's rubber-stamp
parliament.

Being Palestinian, in other words, is a good career move.

- by Daniel Pipes, director of the Philadelphia-based Middle East

Forum, in an article first published in The Jerusalem Post of
September 7, 1999

● Yasser Arafat was born in 1929 in Jerusalem. His full name is:
Mohammed Abad Arouf Arafat. He studied civil engineering at Cairo
University.

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- The Nobel Foundation

How did Arafat deserve the honor of a red carpet treatment in the
U.S. and the Nobel prize for peace?

● "I don't know anyone who has as much civilian Jewish blood on his
hands as Arafat since the Nazi times ."

- Former Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, October 1995

● According to the Jewish Press (March 14 1997) a tape of Arafat

recorded by the Israeli Secret Service, ordering the execution of 2
American diplomats (Cleo Noel and George Moore) was given to
the State Department. Sid Zion in the New York Daily News wrote:

"To treat Arafat like a statesman when you have him

taped ordering the killing of American diplomats makes
one wonder what John Gotti is doing in jail, forget
about Jonathan Pollard!"

● On the night of March 2, 1973, PLO gunmen pumped 40 bullets into

the bodies of the US ambassador to Sudan and two other diplomats
held hostage at the Saudi embassy in Khartoum.

Almost exactly 24 years later, the man who ordered the killings was
warmly received in Washington DC by the leader of the American
people.

US ambassador Cleo Noel, US charge d'affaires George Curtis

Moore, and Belgian charge d'affaires Guy Eid were among a group
of diplomats held hostage by eight members of Yasser Arafat's Black
September a faction of the PLO during a reception at the Saudi
embassy in the Sudanese capital. The terrorists demanded the
release of Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, the Palestinian assassin of Robert
Kennedy, as well as other Palestinians being held in Israel and
European prisons.

After President Richard Nixon refused to negotiate, Arafat's

commander, Abu Iyad, in touch with the terrorists by high-frequency
transmitter from PLO headquarters in Beirut, gave the instruction
"Remember Nahr al-Bard. The people's blood in the Nahr al-Bard
cries out for vengeance. We and the rest of the world are watching
you." The radio messages were intercepted by Israeli intelligence,
and transcripts later handed to the US State Department and Nixon.

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"Nahr al-Bard", a reference to a terrorist training facility in Lebanon

which had been attacked by Israeli troops 11 days earlier, was the
code phrase ordering the gunmen to execute their hostages. At 9:06
pm on March 2, Noel, Moore and Eid were taken to the embassy
basement, lined up against the wall and shot. "The terrorists fired
from the floor upward, to prolong their agony of their victims by
striking them first in the feet and legs, before administering the coup
de grace," wrote Neil Livingstone and David Halevy in Inside the PLO
(New York: Quill/William Morrow, 1990).

A few minutes later, Beirut PLO headquarters again radioed the

terrorists. This time it was Arafat himself at the microphone. The PLO
chairman asked whether the "Nahr al-Bard" code word had been
understood. He was assured the instruction had already been carried
out.

Arafat then contacted senior Sudanese officials, and asked that they
take no precipitous action, such as storming the embassy.

Soon afterwards, the US embassy in Beirut intercepted another radio

transmission from Arafat to the terrorists in Khartoum. "Your mission
is ended," he told his men. "Release Saudi and Jordanian diplomats.
Submit in courage to Sudanese authorities to explain your just cause
to [the] great Sudanese Arab masses and international opinion. "We
are with you on the same road ..."

The other diplomats being held were subsequently released, the

gunmen surrendered to the Sudanese, who released two of them for
"lack of evidence". In June of that year, the other six were found
guilty of murdering the three diplomats. During the trial, the
commander, Salim Rizak (Abu Ghassan), told the court:

"We carried out this operation on the orders of the

Palestine Liberation Organisation and should only be
questioned by that organisation."

After the six were interrogated, Sudanese vice president Mohammed

Bakir said of them: "They relied on radio messages from Beirut Fatah
headquarters, both for the order to kill the three diplomats and for
their own surrender Sunday morning." (In June of that year, the six
were sentenced to life imprisonment for the three murders. Twenty-
four hours later, they were quietly flown out of Sudan and handed
over to the PLO.)

A 1985 effort by US lawmakers and other interested groups to get

the American Justice Department to indict Arafat for the murders
failed.

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As they gave Arafat the red carpet treatment in the US capital last
month, Clinton and his government representatives including his
chief diplomat, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright insulted the
memories of Cleo Noel, George Moore and Guy Eid.

The Founding Fathers must have turned in their graves.

- from Remember Khartoum, by the Canadian Friends of the

International Christian Embassy in Jerusalem

How has Arafat improved the lives of his people since he became
leader of the PA?

● The Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has salted away billions of

pounds for the Palestinian Liberation Organisation in secret foreign
bank accounts and investments, including property in London. The
disclosure about the hidden wealth of his PLO comes amid deepening
economic hardship in his Gaza and West Bank fiefdoms.

...The disclosures are also likely to prompt international donors,

including the European Union countries, to ask why Mr Arafat is still
demanding aid for his Palestinian authority. Nor will they have been
impressed by his decision to invite Slobodan Milosevic, Yugoslavia's
president, to Bethlehem.

- Tom Gross, London Sunday Telegraph, December 5, 1999

● Five years after Oslo, unemployment has risen, freedom of

movement has been restricted, Jerusalem has been practically
severed from the West Bank, while corruption and human rights
abuses under the P.A. have increased. A number of friends have
commented to me that they would rather live under Israeli rule than
that of the P.A.

- Dan Cork, Bir Zeit University Student (1998-1999), the West

Bank, published in The Oak Tree, AOL Hometown

● "... because of Yasser Arafat's tyrannical regime they [Palestinians]

live without any democratic freedoms at all."

- Egyptian writer Edward Said (New York Times, Jan 21, 1997)

● We have a long struggle ahead of us. I call upon each and every one
of you to bring into this world at least twelve children and to give me

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ten of them in order to continue the struggle [jihad].

- Yassir Arafat, October 21, 1996, at a refugee camp in the West

Bank, quoted in Arafat and the Uses of Terror, Commentary
Magazine, by Jonathan Torop

How did Arafat further peace in Lebanon?

● See Lebanon

Is peace Arafat's primary goal?

● They [Palestinian rioters] will fight for Allah, and they will kill and be
killed, and this is a solemn oath. . . . Our blood is cheap compared
with the cause which has brought us together and which at moments
separated us, but shortly we will meet again in heaven. . . . Palestine
is our land and Jerusalem is our capital.

- Yassir Arafat, quoted in Arafat and the Uses of Terror, Commentary

Magazine, by Jonathan Torop, a Soref research fellow at the
Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

● The sheer number of jihad speeches given by Arafat since the signing
of Oslo I in September 1993 is nothing short of astonishing. One of
the most notorious occurred at a mosque in South Africa in 1994.
During an event closed to the media, the chairman proclaimed:

The jihad will continue. . . . You have to understand

our main battle is Jerusalem. . . . You have to come
and fight a jihad to liberate Jerusalem, your precious
shrine. . . . No, it is not their capital. It is our capital.

Arafat echoed the South Africaspeech literally dozens of times in

1995 and 1996. On June 19, 1995, he was filmed at Al-Azhar
Universityin Gaza:

We are all seekers of martyrdom in the path of truth

and right toward Jerusalem, the capital of the state of
Palestine. The commitment stands and the oath is firm
to continue this long and arduous jihad in the path of
martyrdom and sacrifices. . . . The commitment still

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stands and the oath is still firm to continue this difficult

jihad, this long jihad, this arduous jihad in the path of
martyrs, the path of sacrifices, but this is a path of
victory and glory.

Shortly after the violencecommitted by PA police in September 1996,

Arafat announced again:

We will be willing to die as martyrs until our flag flies

over Jerusalem. No one should believe they can
frighten us with weapons. We have much stronger
weapons, the weapon of belief, the weapon of sacrifice,
the weapon of jihad. . . . We shall continue the jihad,
the long jihad, a complex jihad, a jihad of attrition, of
holy death. Warfare is our only way to victory. The
path of glory, the path of jihad.

- quoted as above

Why were people upset when Arafat was invited to the US

Holocaust Memorial?

● SHOULD THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM HAVE REJECTED ARAFAT'S

VISIT? by Emanuel A. Winston, a Middle East analyst &
commentator

Under International Law, deliberate failure to arrest and prosecute

terrorists is a serious violation. President Clinton's formal invitation of
the world's principal terrorist, Yassir Arafat, to visit the White House
is illegal under our domestic law. The Allies established the
Nuremberg Tribunal in August 8, 1045, reaffirming the ancient
principle of Nullum Crimen Sine Poena, "No Crime Without a
Punishment" The Nuremberg Principles were later formulated by the
UN in 1950 stipulating: "Offenses against the peace and security of
mankind...are crimes under international law, for which responsible
individuals shall be punished". (1)

Would President Clinton honor Saddam Hussein at the White House?

Remember that units of Arafat's Palestine Liberation Army (PLA)
actually served with Saddam's forces in occupied Kuwait, making the
PLO Chairman (who physically embraced Saddam in Bagdad)
complicit in multiple crimes of extraordinary horror and ferocity.
Should our Commander in Chief dis-honor our American Gulf War
veterans and dead by hosting Saddam's terrorist ally? You will hear
the argument: "Whether we like Arafat or not, the US will have to

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deal with him for the sake of peace in the Middle East. Therefore,
justice will have to yield to peace". However, a realistic peace can
never be founded upon injustice Most Palestinian rallies include the
burnings of American and Israeli flags. Is this the man we should
give honors as a VIP?

Arafat ought to be arrested in America and tried for murder. Would

President Clinton honor Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, mastermind of
the World Trade Center bombing and other planned bombings and
assassinations of American officials? Arafat has killed or ordered the
murder of Americans. His voice is on tape ordering the murder of
American Amb. Cleo No<8A>l and his American charges d'affaires in
Khartoum in 1984. He refuses to extradite the 34 known terrorist
murderers of almost 300 Israelis since Oslo, including 9 American
citizens. Arafat is videotaped at a recent rally in Gaza, exhorting the
Palestinians to follow in the footsteps of Yechya Ayyash, the
infamous "engineer" of many recent bus bombings. Arafat praised all
"Palestinian Martyrs" including those terrorists who had slain Israeli
women and children in schools, buses and homes. His most senior
advisor, Ahmad Tibi said (7/13/94) stated: "The person responsible
on behalf of the Palestinians people for everything that was done in
the Israel-Palestinian conflict is Yasser Arafat..."

The NEW YORK TIMES (1/20/98) reported that Aaron D. Miller,

deputy to Dennis Ross, was the first to recommend to Arafat that he
visit the US Holocaust Museum. How poignant to see a Leftist Jew
recommend to a Jew-killing terrorist that he view the death of six
million Jews, including 1 million children. Miller must have thought it
would make good propaganda and help President Clinton.

Dennis Ross, Aaron Miller, Daniel Kurtzer (formerly served the anti-
Semite Sec. of State James Baker) have earned the title of Jewish
Arabists. Having done what they could to advance the cause of
Arafat and other hostile Arab nations, they were re-hired after Bush
and Baker were voted out of office. Not surprisingly, former Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin also requested their return. The purpose was
to continue the covert assistance these men provided the secret
Rabin/Peres team to evolve Oslo in a way that excluded the wishes of
Israeli and world Jewry.

Arafat claims that the infamous Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al

Husseini is his uncle. Perhaps you will recall that it was this monster
of Islam who went to Hitler in Berlin, requesting that the Nazi killing
machine be brought to Jerusalem to kill off all the Jews there. Yes,
indeed, Arafat closely resembles his uncle in word and deed.
Nevertheless, such Americans as Ross, Miller and Martin Indyk back
him, regardless of his atrocities.

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Clearly, the propaganda Photo Op at the Holocaust Museum prepared

by our Jewish Arabists will show Arafat with a serious expression but
inside he will be thrilling to the number of dead Jews and the
brutality against them. Would Arafat chuckle to himself as walked
down the aisles of the Holocaust Museum and saw the piles of
women's hair, rooms of eyeglasses and childrens' shoes kept in
Hitler's warehouses for use after the war to commemorate his
annihilation of an entire people? Arafat would also chuckle to himself
as he observed such Jews as Ross, Miller and Indyk abase
themselves in licking his shoes in abject submission. I have little
doubt that this devil incarnate might pick up a few ideas of improved
methods to kill off the Jews of Israel.

For the US State Department sycophants to use the Holocaust

Museum as flattery for a terrorist is simply another vulgar Clinton
action. Mayor Rudy Guiliani wouldn't honor Arafat. He had the
courage to refuse him any honor. Why should Arafat be given the
welcome due a head of State. Even though he has emblazoned ALL
of the State of Israel on his flags and stationary as the "State of
Palestine" it is not a state - yet. If the Netanyahu government and
the world Jewish leaders use their heads (and their hearts), the "New
State of Palestine" won't replace the Jewish State of Israel.

The other part of the story is the way it's being played out in the
media. "Everyone"(the NEW YORK TIMES) says the "Holocaust
Museum Rebuffs Arafat on Visit, Adding Irritant to Mideast Talks"(2)
But the body of the story tells it differently. Miles Lerman, chairman
of the Holocaust Memorial Council, told the WASHINGTON POST that
"Arafat was free to tour the museum like any other visitor but would
receive no special treatment". Hardly a rebuff, although he should
not have been invited in the first place by the State Department. But
Edward Djerejian, former US Ambassador to Israel and Syria is now
director of the Baker (as in Jim) Institute for Public Policy at Rice
University says an Arafat visit would represent "a reaching out on the
part of the Palestinians".

What do the Palestinians have to say about the Holocaust? Following

are excerpts of Holocaust-Denial Statements by Palestinian Authority
Figures as reported by Arutz7.

*This past week a Palestinian Radio interviews said: "There is no

choice but to begin a widespread solidarity campaign with
philosopher Roger Giraudy, on trial in France for Holocaust-denial".
Dr. Iye Sitar Kassem stated that "part of the Holocaust story is made-
up".

*Abu Mazen, PLO architect of the Oslo accords, is author of a book

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claiming "the Nazis may have really killed less than one million Jews"
On Sep. 3, 1997, the official PA newspaper, Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah,
featured an article calling the Holocaust "the forged claims of the
Zionists regarding the alleged acts of slaughter perpetrated against
the Jews the same period".

*PA Television, 8/25/97, broadcast: "It is well-known that every year

the Jews exaggerate what the Nazis did to them. They claim there
were 6 million killed, but precise scientific research (sic)
demonstrates that there were no more than 400,00". A featured
guest accused the Jews of having "profited materially, spiritually,
politically and economically from talk about the Nazi killings. This
investment is favorable to them. They view it as a profitable activity
so they inflate the number of victims all the time".

*"The July 1990 issue of Balsam, published by the Palestinian Red

Crescent, printed an article asserting that "the lie concerning the gas
chambers enabled the Jews to establish the State of Israel".

*"In an address to the Palestinian Council in Ramallah on 5/10/97,

the eve of Israeli Independence Day, Arafat said that the anniversary
of the creation of Israel is "Palestine Holocaust Day" and "the
Palestinian people were submitted to the worst holocaust in
history" (HA'ARETZ 5/11/97)

*As recently as 12/10/97, the PA's Ministry of Information declared

that "Israeli practices in many aspects are equal with, if not more
brutal than, those practiced by occupying Nazi soldiers" in Europe.
*Arafat aide Bassam Abu Sharif has said that Israeli treatment of the
Palestinian Arabs is "worse than that of the Nazis in Auschwitz".
(JERUSALEM POST, 2/15/97)

*Comparison of Israel to the Nazis has been made by, among

others: Nabil Ramlawi, Arafat's representative to the UN in Geneva
(JTA 12/2/94); PA official Affif Safiah (YEDIOT AHRONOT 1/25/96);
PA Health Minister Riyad al-Zaanoun (AP, 5/17/97). The PA
newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah charged on 8/17/97 that "Israeli PM
Netanyahu is acting in the European style of the German armies so
that he will be able to impose greater Israel and establish their
superiority of the Hebrew race".

Does Arafat and the world forget 6 Arab wars against Israel - of
attempted annihilation of all Jews, by years of murders, suicide
bombings, kidnappings, and Arafat's orders to attack children,
schools, buses, airplanes - and more. How many murders is Arafat
directly responsible for? How can a visit to the Holocaust Museum by
Arafat, grinning for the press, possibly atone for his past murders.

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"Arafat, Yassir", Yasser Arafat - The Peace FAQ

Mahmoud Darwish, the famous Muslim poet, recently said: "Leave

our land and take your dead bones with you". Most Jews feel a visit
to by Arafat to the Holocaust Museum would be spitting and walking
on the graves of the all those who died and all of their loved ones
and all their Jewish children who will never be.

### 1. "President Clinton's Invitation to Arafat Violates US Law" by

Prof. of International Law, Louis Rene' Beres 1/18/98 2. "Holocaust
Museum Rebuffs Arafat on Visit, Adding Irritant to Mideast Talks" by
David Rosenbaum NEW YORK TIMES 1/20/98

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