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abbi Seth Mandell told a
rally last week outside the
Israeli Embassy here that
his 13-year-old son, who
vas stoned and
mutilated by
Palestinians barely
500 meters from
his home in the
West Bank com-
munity of Tekoa,
"was not killed
because of land,
he was killed
DOUGLAS M. because of hate."
He's right; after
BLOOMFIELD
Palestinian leader
Special
Yasser Arafat
Commentary
rejected Israel's
offer last summer
to turn over 97 percent of the occu-
pied territory — which effectively
means evacuating most settlements —
the settlements themselves ceased to
be a valid issue. The issue now is the
Palestinian Authority's sanction for
unrelenting hatred, coupled with calls
to violence.
Arafat denies any "parr in, or
responsibility for" the violence, but his
fingerprints and voice are everywhere.
When he finally feared massive Israeli
retaliation and losing all ties to
Washington, Arafat was able to turn
off most of the violence with just a
few words.
"It's easy to stop the terror," Rabbi
Mandell said. "The hard parr is stop-
ping the incitement, the hatred."
It shouldn't be.
Incitement is the one thing Arafat
has the most influence over. He domi-
nates the Palestinian media with an
iron fist. Just ask the journalists, who
his security forces have warned, inter-
rogated, beaten and jailed for offend-
ing the boss.
Last week, Arafat told a group of
Israeli reporters, "The time has come
to make peace, not to incite." But he
continues to send a different message
to his own people.
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Media Manipulation
Israeli and German media report
Arafat sent a letter praising the suicide
bomber who killed 21 young Israelis
at a Tel Aviv disco earlier this month,
and his security forces politely
Douglas M. Bloomfield, a former
executive director of the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee, is a writer an
analyst in Washington.
warned" the two men who planned
the attack not to do it again.
The Palestinian media — controlled
by Arafat's authoritarian regime —
persists in falsely accusing Israel of
genocidal" war that includes air drops
of poisoned candies, selling explosive
paints, spraying poison gas over Arab
towns and distributing drugs to
youths.
The PA school system — where
textbooks that glorify terrorists as
martyrs and after-school activities
include skits with children dressed as
suicide bombers — spreads poison
that can take generations to eradicate.
Arafat recently accused Sharon of
having plans to tear down the
mosques on the Temple Mount and
erect a new synagogue as a prelude to
a third Temple.
At last October's Arab Summit, he
claimed Israel is trying to "Judaize
holy Jerusalem." He has personally led
a campaign to deny Jewish claims to
Jerusalem, starting with insistence that
there never was a Jewish Temple and
the Western Wall is Islamic property, a
bald attempt to delegitimize the very
principle of a Jewish state in Israel.
For too many years, too many
Israelis did not take Palestinian incite-
ment seriously. Those who did were
usually dismissed as right wingers sim-
ply looking for excuses to discredit the
peace process.
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What To Do?
Today, even the doves concede they
failed to appreciate the impact of the
continuing incitement. Yossi Beilin,
an author of the Oslo accords and
leader of the peace camp, admits that
he ignored "the gravity of Palestinian
incitement. I was too liberal on that
subject."
PA Minister Nabil Shaath, in
Washington last week, insisted that
"the Israelis are worse," when it comes
to incitement, "especially in the last
month." He particularly singled out
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Shas
spiritual leader Ovadia Yosef. Shaath is
right about the hateful old rabbi
spewing venom, but he fails to appre-
ciate that Yosef is an equal opportuni-
ty bigot who hates most Jews as much
as he does Arabs. Besides, he's not
running the government (at least not
officially and not at the moment).
Shaath also says Sharon is the prob-
lem because he called Arafat a liar and
a murderer. Again, he has a point, but
HATRED
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