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Opinion

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Tobin from page 31

George Moore, along with Guy Eid,
a Belgian envoy, in cold blood.” The
supposed separate identity of the
group — which was also respon-
sible for the 1972 massacre of 11
Israeli Olympic athletes in Munich
— from that of Arafat's Fatah was
a cover story intended to separate
the Palestinian mainstream from its
more egregious crimes.
But this was nothing compared
to the self-deception of Western
governments who knew better, par-
ticularly the employers of Noel and
Moore, the U.S. State Department.
Though the Sudan murders were
invoked by critics of America's
policy of engagement of Arafat
throughout the era of the Oslo
peace process, the State Department
always denied there was any proof
of Arafat's direct involvement.
But as the document released late
last month proved, this denial was
as brazen a falsehood as any ever
uttered by the Palestinians.
Arafat not only was never charged
with these crimes, but also enjoyed
the hospitality of the White House
more than any other foreign leader
during the Clinton administration.
Yet with Arafat now as dead as
Noel and Moore, is there any point
in rehashing this sorry chapter
of history? Yes, because the State
Department cover-up of this crime
(a whitewash that ought to have
prompted at least a fraction of the
outrage that the contemporaneous
Watergate cover-up did) was an act
of policy.
In the name of this illusion, a
long list of cabinet secretaries and a
president of the United States will-
fully ignored not only the lies that
Arafat told during peace talks but
abandoned their duty to apprehend
and punish a terrorist.
Hussein's last words and the
Arafat transcript both illustrate
how lies told by Arab despots have
been abetted by the lies of their
willing dupes. Those willing to
embrace future deceptions, wheth-
er on the part of "moderates"
such as Mahmoud Abbas (Arafat's
longtime deputy) or his "extrem-
ist" Hamas rivals, would do well to
study both incidents and realize
that a peace will never be built
upon falsehoods. 1

Jonathan S. Tobin is executive editor

of the Jewish Exponent in Philadelphia.

His e-mail address is: jtobin@jewishex-

ponent.com .