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C. peace with Israel in exchange for a enial can be hilarious West Bank and Gam Strip state in — for example, for- 2000. He then launched the cur- mer minister of rent Palestinian-Israeli warfare in information which more than 2,700 people Mohammed Saed Sal-1114's decla- — AraK Israelis and a number rations of American defeat while of Americans — have died. Try Iraq's government and military Abbas but not Arafat? collapsed about him. • The Bush administration con- RIC But Sahhaf was not the only cedes the Palestinian leader must ROZE NMAN one suffering Middle East delu- go, but describes his long-time Spe cial sions. For example: Comm entary associate and appointed prime • From National Security minister, Mahmoud Abbas, as Adviser Condoleezza Rice at the someone we can work with. This American Israel Public Affairs Committee's Abbas claims an Arab "right of return" to annual conference last month to Sen. pre-1967 Israel, supports using "all possible Joseph Lieberman on "Face the Nation" means" to "resist" Israelis in the disputed ter- April 20 comes talk of democratic plural- ritories, reportedly offered the terrorist ism in post-Saddam Iraq and then else- group Hamas two cabinet positions and where in the region. wrote a book denying the Holocaust. Ignored is that free societies took cen- America does not seek new Iraqi lead- turies to grow in England and America. ership among Saddam Hussein's side- Arab-Islamic culture has had no Martin kicks. It puts them on a most-wanted list Luther, no Reformation or Counter- with their erstwhile boss. Why deny the Reformation, no separation of mosque absence of reformers among Arafat's and state, no elevation of individual rights entourage? None of its members is an over clan and tribal ties. Reference to Arab Adenauer ready to advance democratic post-war Germany and Japan Palestinian "denazification." fails to acknowledge those nations' reduc- • The United States assures Turkey that it tion to rubble in World War II, uncondi- will not permit Iraqi Kurds to establish an tional surrenders and social reconstruc- independent Kurdistan. The Kurds are a tion under long Allied occupations. non-Arab Islamic people descended from • Much was made of the U.S. capture the ancient Medes, approximately 25 mil- in Baghdad of Mohammed Abbas, leader lion strong living on contiguous — and oil- of the Palestine Liberation Front and plan- rich — territory overlapping Iraq, Turkey, ner of the 1985 Achille Lauro cruise ship Syria and Iran. hijacking during which PLF terrorists But Washington insists that Jerusalem murdered an American. Yet while acquiesce to a country for the three mil- lion Palestinian Arabs crowding the West Washington considered trying Abbas, Bank and Gam Strip, plus millions of Congressmen Nick Joe Rahall, D-W. Maurice Hinchey, D-N.Y., and Darrell Arab-induced, Arab-perpetuated refugees. A second Palestinian Arab majority state Issa, R-Calif, met with Yasser Arafat in (after Jordan) is deemed necessary for a Ramallah. people whose historical existence began in Abbas is small potatoes compared to Arafat. The latter heads not only the the 1920s only as a backlash against Zionism and whose irredentism is likely Palestinian Authority but also the Palestine Liberation Organization, parent to destabilize both Jordan, ruled by a minority Hashemite dynasty, and Israel group of the PLF. Among other stops on with its radicalized Arab minority. his way to the Nobel Peace Prize, Arafat led the PLO's 1970 Black September A British official drew Iraq's artificial borders in 1922 in denial of Shiite, rebellion in Jordan that cost 4,000 Palestinian lives; ordered the murder of Sunni, and Kurdish fault lines. Today, the Quartet" of Russia, the United States, U.S. Ambassador Cleo Noel in Khartoum in 1973; had responsibility for European Union and United Nations flogs a "non-negotiable road map" while the slaughter of Israeli school children in Maalot in 1974; helped fuel the Lebanese denying it would impose another trouble- some artificial state. civil war (more than 100,000 dead from Within the borders of what was 1975 to 1990) and his PLO provided a Mandatory Palestine lie Jordan (77.5 per- role model for Al Qaida. cent), Israel (17.5 percent) and the West Arafat also rejected American-mediated Bank and Gaza Strip (5 percent). 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