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Cheering
For Terrorism
Bin Ladens rhetoric heartens
Palestinians, worries Israelis.
GIL SEDAN
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Jerusalem
N
owhere else on the planet
was Osama bin Laden as
popular this week as in the
West Bank and Gaza Strip.
It took Palestinians a whole night,
after the first news spread of the Anglo-
American attack on Kabul, before they
took to the streets in protest.
Like the rest of the world, most
Palestinians spent Sunday night glued
to their television screens enjoying
every second "of the best show in the
world," the speech of suspected terror-
ist mastermind bin Laden that appar-
ently was recorded before the attack
had taken place and aired just after-
ward on Qatar's al-Jazeera network.
"I swear to God that America will not
live in peace until there is peace in
Palestine and the army of the heathen
will leave the Land of Muhammad," bin
Laden said, referring to Saudi Arabia.
He then listed honored "battle sites"
where Palestinian militants have
clashed with Israeli soldiers in the past
year — Rafah, Ramallah and Beit Jalla.
At last, Palestinians noted with satis-
faction, it would be clear to the world
why it was suffering from terrorism —
because of Israel.
The most quoted source in the
Palestinian territories — after bin Laden
— was a Newsweek public opinion poll
that showed that 58 percent of
Americans, too, feel that American sup-
port for Israel is in some measure respon-
sible for the Sept. 11 terror attacks on the
World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon
Peres, however, said any attempt to
link the Sept. 11 attack to Israeli policy
toward the Palestinians was ridiculous.
"What's he blabbering about?" Peres
said of bin Laden on Israel Radio.
"You don't need any war of liberation
for the Palestinians. We offered them
liberation without war."
Palestinian protest was limited and
the intifada (uprising) continued at its
slow, bloody pace.
Palestinian Authority leader Yasser
Arafat withheld official reaction to
Sunday's air strikes on Afghanistan
and forebade P.A. officials to comment
on them. Reeling from the negative
publicity when Palestinians celebrated
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Osama bin Laden is seen in this TV image broadcast Oct. 7. He swore
America "will never dream of security" until "the infidel armies leave
the land of Muhammad," in a videotaped statement aired after the strike
launched by the U.S. and Britain in Afghanistan.