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Never mind that he has
killed far more Arabs than
Jews, and that he has per-
sonally executed some of his
most loyal aides ("Those who
are most close to me," he
said recently, "are most far
when they wrong me").
Never mind that his inva-
sion of Kuwait has wiped out
the life savings of thousands
of Palestinians who worked
there and abruptly halted
the flow of some $120 mill-
ion a year in remittances to
Palestinian dependents in
the West Bank and Gaza.
The myth endures. The
Iraqi leader, ruthless and
brutal, has performed a
masterful public relations
feat in reviving the dream of
pan- Arabism and per-
suading millions that he can
strike genuine fear into the
hearts of the Israelis, con-
front the "New Crusaders"
from America, cut the Gulf
leaders down to size and
redistribute their wealth
throughout the Arab nation.
Gulf wealth is not the only
item to be redistributed. So,
too, is the Saddam Hussein
personality cult, which has
already been so successfully
nurtured in Iraq.
The power of the myth is
everywhere to be seen.

The conversion of
Saddam Hussein
from tinhorn
dictator to regional
lion . . .has indeed
been one of the
most spectacular
phenomena of the
entire Gulf episode.

Garishly colored
photographs of Saddam
Hussein and the Iraqi flags
have become de rigeur at
mass rallies of support for
the Iraqi leader, not only
among Palestinians in the
occupied territories, Jordan
and Lebanon, but
throughout the Arab world,
from Yemen to Algeria,
Tunisia and Libya.
Nowhere has the Saddam
Hussein myth taken root
and flourished more vigor-
ously, however, than among
the Palestinians. It is, more-
over, an issue that has
united the nationalists and
the fundamentalists at
precisely the moment when
the Israeli authorities were
hoping that the rift between
them would snuff out their
33-month-old intifada.
The conversion of Saddam
Hussein from tinhorn dic-
tator to regional lion, even
before a single shot has been
fired, has indeed been one of

the most spectacular
phenomena of the entire
Gulf episode. Nor has it
happened purely by chance.
Whatever other shortcom-
ings he may possess, the Ira-
qi leader has demonstrated
that he has nerves of steel
and superb political instinc-
ts.
In the four, spine-chilling
weeks since Iraq's invasion
of Kuwait — "his personal
World Bank," according to
one Arab admirer — he has
coolly watched the interna-
tional community draw
itself up to its full diplomatic
height and he has witnessed
the greatest power on earth
mustering its might for a
fateful showdown in the
Arabian desert.
Through a combination of
carefully calibrated rhetoric
and deft political footwork
since the crisis erupted, the
Iraqi leader has massaged
myriad atavistic passions
within the Arab world,
pushing the buttons that
arouse deep-seated hatreds
and unfulfilled expectations
across socio-economic and
national boundaries.
In millions of minds
throughout the Middle East
and North Africa, his image
is being relentlessly
transformed from invader to
Arab standard-bearer, while
his aggression against
Kuwait is being converted
into a pan-Arab struggle
against the old bogeys of
Zionism and American
imperialism.
"In Arab eyes," noted one
Israeli observer, "he has
contrived to place the
`liberation of Palestine' and
the 'liberation of the Islamic
holy places in Saudi Arabia'
at the top of the agenda,
while the liberation of
Kuwait has practically been
forgotten."
For Professor Amatzia
Baram, a specialist in Iraqi
affairs at Haifa University,
the actions of Saddam Hus-
sein did not come as a com-
plete surprise. On a personal
level, however, the degree of
support demonstrated by the
Palestinians for the Iraqi
leader is a matter of pro-
found disappointment.
"I always hoped we could
reach an understanding, a
settlement, with the Pales-
tinians," he said, "but their
support for Saddam. Hussein
implies only one thing —
they won't rest until they
have destroyed all of Israel.
"Look, 50 percent of my
students are Arabs, highly
intelligent people, and we
talk about these things.
They know that if there is
Armageddon they will get it,
too,' but they're prepared."

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