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A Bloody Record of the Terrorist Gang That Horrifies
the Middle East and Ignites Murderous Acts Globally
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WZO Expose of Arafat-Led PLO and the Doctrines of Hate

By Philip
Slomovitz

The Horrors That Emanate Under PLO Label, Menacing the Entire Middle East

Who are the trusted in the Middle East confusions?
Why is so much credence being given the role of King
Hussein of Jordan?
What about such leaks as the quotation attributed to
Hussein about President Reagan's comments on'the Jewish
Vote and his alleged dismissal of it as a danger to his
re-election?
Perhaps it is all a matter of conjecture. Nevertheless, it
is of public concern, and certainly of deep interest to Ameri-
can Jewry — and Jews DO vote massively in all elections.
Of continuing concern is the platform gained globally
by the PLO, with marked impressiveness in the American
media and therefore with an immensity in official circles.
It's a great pity that a terrorist movement continues to
receive so much attention, with great danger that the ter-
rorists and their leaders may, as they often do, receive
credibility.
This is what compels resumption of attention to the
PLO, often to the exclusion of more vital matters affecting
the peace and the Arab-Jewish relationships.
Therefore, out of compulsion, because the menace is so
great, the PLO must be reconsidered when its activities
keep gaining attention.
An expose of the PLO just published by the World
Zionist Organization must not be ignored. At the expense of
giving it priority, what the WZO has assembled as a fact
sheet must be credited as vital to all who have any concern
at all about the distressing situations existing as a chal-
lenge not only to the Middle East but to mankind at large.
Basic facts exposing the organization of the PLO, the
arming of the terrorist . movement whose aim is Israel's
destruction, the manner in which it is funded, its tactics,
that movement's incursions in Lebanon, the aims and
means of its propaganda on an international scale are in-
corporated in the extensively-illustrated WZO volume
entitled "PLO — Now the Story Can Be Told."
Eli Eyal, as editor of this compilation, has written a
summary, "A Sober Appraisal," in which the story is told in
great detail. It merits this space and it is presented here as
an evaluation, as a revealing record, hopefully to be shared
by media, statesmen, especially the heads of our govern-
ment:

A Sober Appraisal
of PLO Terrorism
On a summer night in 1964, three years before
the Six-Day War, Yasir Arafat forded the River
Jordan, climbed a hill near Nablus, fired one shot
from his pistol and declared: "The Jihad (holy
war) has begun."
Ten years later, in New York in November
1974, Arafat made a ceremonial entry into the UN
General Assembly and became the first and
hitherto the only speaker to address the United
Nations with a pistol strapped to his waist.
He held an olive branch in his hand as he said:
"In one hand I carry an olive branch, while the
other grasps the gun of revolt. Do not let the olive'
branch fall from my hand." His speech was
punctuated by applause and when he completed
his 90-minute address the assembly broke into
wild acclamation.
What merited such an ovation?
• The declaration that a democratic secular
state must be established on the ruins of Israel
and that the Jews who so desired would be
allowed to live in it as citizens equal before the
law.
• The claim that the "Palestinian Homeland,"
as he called it, is indivisible.
The PLO spokesman at the UN spelled this
out: the historic mistake of the 1947 UN partition
plan could now be rectified. In other words, the
state of Israel should disappear.
Some observers called this a "moderate"
speech. But the New York Times - called it a
"hypocritical and repulsive appearance." Le
Mond (Nov. 19, 1974), wrote that by placing Is-
rael's continued existence in doubt, Arafat de-
layed a solution to the problem and in the interim
the region could be plunged into its fifth war.
Indeed, Le Mond called the shot quite accu-
rately. The PLO restructured itself into a regular
army, stockpiled arms and ammunition and put
its members through a highly professional train-
ing program. The scope and the intensity of the
PLO's military training amazed the IDF in June of
1982.
Arafat's speech at the UN was meant to be his
most conciliatory gesture to the West. Yet Italian
newspapers noted that there were widely differ-
ing interpretations to the words of the PLO chief.
As opposed to those who detected some cliches
that betoked "moderation," there were others,
primarily in liberal circles and in Italy's Social

Democratic Party, who regarded the very fact
that he was invited to speak from the rostrum as a
"prize for terror and to the aspiration to annihi-
late Israel." Those who found solace in Arafat's
toned-down slogans pointed to the offer made to
all the Jews who wanted to continue living as an
equal minority in a democratic, secular Palesti-
nian state. This was seen as a great compromise
relative to the official PLO position, which limited
the offer to Jews who came to Palestine before
1917.
Western statesmen have been on the alert for
some time searching out latent or even concealed
peace goals within the PLO and particularly by its
chief, Arafat. Willy Brandt, chairman of the
Socialist International, told this writer in Bonn, in
September 1979, that Chancellor Bruno Kreisky
of Austria had pleaded with him to meet Arafat, so
as to become convinced that Arafat was ready to
coexist alongside Israel. "He is no moderate," said
Brandt, summing up his talk with Arafat.
Still there are those in the West who keep
trying to see and to show that this Palestinian
organization only represents refugees who have
been uprooted from their land, who merit under-
standing for their national aspirations and for-
givness for their deeds. It was in this spirit of
toleration for terror that these same circles chose
to overlook the massacre of Israeli schoolchildren
when their bus was ambushed near the Lebanese
border. Similarly, their reaction to the kidnap-
ping and murder of youngsters on a school outing
in Maalot was mild censure and diplomatic con-
demnation.
The fact that the population of northern Is-
rael, from Nahariya on the Mediterranean coast
to Kiryat Shmona and the adjacent settlements in
the east, were forced to live in underground bomb
shelters, was written off as a temporary discom-
fort that would be rectified when a peaceful solu-
tion was found to the Palestinian problem and the
Palestinians were granted a state.
Meanwhile, the Israel Defense Forces burst
into Lebanese territory to the source of this ter-
rorism, where the PLO ruled unrestricted and
unchallenged. For seven years the PLO lorded it
over this area of Lebanon as a mini-state of its
own, a state within a state. Finally, it was possible
to lift the veil and ascertain the full enormity of
the behavior of this Palestinian organization
which part of the Western world still refuses to
call a terrorist organization, but rather persists in
calling a "guerrilla movement."
Shortly after the outbreak of Operation Peace
for Galilee, Henry Kissinger sought to arouse the
West from its illusions about the PLO in an article,
published by the Washington Post on June 19,
1982, titled "Fresh options for Peace," he wrote:
"One of the principal casualties of the Lebanese
crisis has been the Western illusion — especially
prevalent in - Europe but rife, too, in the Middle
East, that peace is to be found in PLO-Israeli
negotiation based on various formulas to 'moder-
ate' the PLO."
Nor was it desirable. It would have given a
veto on negotiations to the most intransigent ele-
ment in the Arab world, the group most hostile to
the peace process and most closely associated
with Arab radicalism, and with least incentive for

restraint.
Nor is the PLO a suitable instrument to
stabilize the Arab world. It is now clear that Arab
support for the PLO has been largely verbal and
inspired more by fear of the PLO's capacity for
terror than by commitment to its pre-eminence.
Kissinger reminds us that "No Arab government
gave more than verbal support to the embattled
Palestinians, and even that lacked the traditional
passion. Even Syria stood by passively until its
own forces were directly attacked, and made a
separate cease-fire while the PLO was being sys-
tematically destroyed.
"When the PLO desperately needed a cease-
fire, it turned for help to moderate Egypt, whose
peace process it had villified and at the death of
whose leader Palestinians had danced in the
streets."
This publication demonstrates vividly just
how the PLO has acted in regions that were com-
pletely subject to its control and towards a popu-
lation with whom they have a common language,
culture and often a common religion as well.
The evidence of murder and rape, looting and
torture to which the civilian population of Leba-
non, both Moslem and Christian, were subjected
by the PLO raises trenchant questions as to the

type of regime they would perpetrate in the
"democratic secular state" they seek to establish
on the ruins of the state of Israel. From the vic-
tims' own stories a clear picture emerges of a
cruel medieval type 6fregime which, it is sad to
think, has captured the imagination of gullible
believers in the West in the "progressive" aspira-
tions of the PLO.
There is, of course, added credibility to the
testimony of such Lebanese who initially ex-
pressed a natural sympathy with the PLO. George
Corm, a well educated Lebanese Maronite Chris-
tian with leftist leanings, is just such a person. In
an article, "The Lebanese Civil War in Perspec-
tive," which he published in Al-Laheth, an Arab
language quarterly which appears in Paris
(July-September, 1978) he writes:
"When the Palestinians plunged headlong
into the civil war they were at the height of their
fortunes, having achieved a strong international
stance (at the 1974 UN General Assembly) and
gained credibility by presenting the 'secular and
democratic state' as the long-term solution for the
Arab-Israeli conflict. How, then, to explain their
patently mistaken involvement in Lebanese af-
fairs? To my mind this goes back to the Palesti-
nians' experience in Jordan (1970-1971) as well as
to the fact that Lebanon became their last and sole
bastion.
"The PLO, which was unable to achieve coor-
dination among its different factions, also suf-
fered, from faulty decision-making, which dis-
mally failed to take into account the extremely
complex and sensitive social and political
structure of their country . . . Some PLO leaders
came forth with rash declarations completely dis-
ruptive of the delicate Lebanese structure, which
helped provoke a strong counter-resurgence in
the traditionalist camp."

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Terrorists Fomenting
Dissension in the West
There is also another angle to PLO designs.
There is abundant material to prove that the
strategy of the PLO is to bring about dissension in
the democratic society of the Western world by
causing divisions and disputes from within and
by the leverage of pressure from without.
In 1970, Dr. Faiz Sayig, one of the founders of
the PLO's Research Center in Beirut, drew up a
secret memorandum which was to serve as a
guide for all PLO propagandists active in the
Western world. In this document titled, "A Pro-
posal for the Planning of Arab Propaganda in the
United Nations," Sayig - states:
". . It is the function of Arab activity in the
United States to create and activate inner opposi-
tion to the U.S. administration's policy in the Mid-
dle East. The aim of this opposition is to place
obstacles in the path of the administration . In
order to achieve this aim it is necessary to concen-
trate on organizations outside the establishment
and activate selected groups that are opposed to
the administration and to its policy, such as: the
New Left, revolutionary youth organizations .. .
ethnical minorities, religious groups and indi-
vidual priests militating for social changes."
. Therefore, the_battle against Zionism and Is-
rael (which is presented very briefly in this publi-
cation), goes beyond the Arab-Palestinian na-
tional objective. So much so, that the PLO might
be a factor in the global struggle to change the
political delineation in the democratic camp.
The parallel is hair-raising: Hitler said to
Herman Rauschning (who was close to him and
afterwaids became his opponent and enemy) how
he embroidered his plans to crush the regimes of
the "barren democracies." "Anti-Semitism," said
Hitler, "serves as a good revolutionary tool to give
warning to the short-sighted democracies, and
my Jews are a precious pawn given to me by the
democracies. By waging war against Judaism
alone, we shall succeed throughout the world in
completely transforming all concepts and val-
ues."
Eli Eyal comments that the material in the WZO publi-
cation "is merely a sample of some of the testimonies and
documents portraying the PLO 'state' which was imposed
for seven years in certain parts of Lebanon. It allows a
glimpse of the true nature of the "Palestinian revolution as
it was conceived and executed by the PLO."
The record is revealing. The tactics are outrageously
and provocatively demoniacal. Let this record continue to
serve as a reminder to all peace-loving people whenever the
terrorists seek a platform for Israel's annihilation.

