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FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1990
HELEN DAVIS
Foreign Correspondent
T
he PLO's backing for
Iraq at the Cairo
summit early this
month and the subsequent
outpouring of support for
President Saddam Hussein
by Palestinians in the West
Bank and Gaza Strip has
changed, perhaps forever,
the terms of the political
debate in Israel.
In their wholehearted en-
dorsement of a despotic
leader who annexed a
neighboring Arab state and
threatened to incinerate
Israel with binary chemical
weapons, the Palestinians
have dismayed those Israelis
who had pinned their hopes
on some form of political way
out of their domestic
dilemma.
"You need a gas mask just
to deal with the poisonous
fumes generated by the Pa-
lestinians over Iraq," said
parliamentarian Yossi
Sarid, whose name is
synonymous with the Israeli
left, while Abba Eban,
former foreign minister and
leading Labor Party dove,
has suspended his contacts
with Palestinian leaders in
the territories.
At the same time, Israel
Television celebrity Yaron
LOndon declared that he was
not among those who believ-
ed that "in order to know
what an Arab is thinking,
you must split open his head.
But I needed the Iraqis to
split open the heads of the
Kuwaitis in order to learn
what the Palestinians
think."
Writing in the Hebrew-
language daily Yediot
Ahronot, he addressed
himself to the "authentic
Palestinian leaders" in the
territories:
"You proved to me that for
many many years I was a
fool in pretentiously suppor-
ting your aspirations," he
wrote. "When you again
seek my support for your
`legitimate rights,' you will
find that your shouts of en-
couragement to Saddam
Hussein have blocked my
ears."
There is no doubt that
Saddam Hussein has
banished generations of Pa-
lestinian hopelessness and
self-doubt, ignited the pan-
Arab dreams of the nation-
alists and — even before his
rapprochement with Iran —
excited the religious fervor
of the fundamentalists.
Through sheer defiance, he
is perceived to have
humiliated the detested
"American imperialists,"
checked the "Zionist ag-
gressors" and, incidentally,
handed out a collective
hiding to the aloof Gulf
leaders, widely despised for
their high living; con-
spicuous extravagance and
duplicity toward the Pales-
tinians.
"God protect Iraq,"
beseeched the Arabic-
language Jerusalem daily A-
Shaab. "The forces of evil
have mobilized their planes,
ships and troops to surround
Iraq. Arabs feel pain, bit-
terness. The heart bleeds."
A recent front-page lead in
the pro-PLO Jerusalem dai-
ly,Al Fajr, carried the florid
appeal to Saddam Hussein
from the Mufti of Jerusalem
to "cleanse the sacred
Islamic lands of the Ameri-
can presence" and to "turn
the land into a fire that will
consume the enemy forces
and burn them to a cinder."
Another graphic
manifestation of Palestinian
support for Saddam Hussein
was a general strike called
by the Islamic fundamenta-
list Hamas movement in the
occupied territories. Despite
the substantial economic
cost of the intifada to vir-
tually every Palestinian in
the West Bank and Gaza,
the strike call received
overwhelming support and
was universally observed.
"Saddam Hussein," an
Arab student at Haifa Uni-
yersity declared proudly.
"He is our new Saladdin."
Never mind that Saladdin,
the 12th century Muslim-
Kurdish warrior, was not an
Arab and that popular
perceptions of his reincar-
nated form are almost
totally illusory.
Never mind that Saddam
Hussein's call for "jihad"
(holy war) comes from an
essentially secular leader
whose military rank — field
marshal — is entirely fic-
tional (he enrolled in high
school at the age of 18 to
avoid the 'draft and has
never actually served in the
army).