FIRST OF ALL COMES some disappointing news for the
Left. Russian forensic experts studying the remains of Yasser Arafat have
concluded that he died a natural death. Along with the French and, after
further reflection, the Swiss, the old boy was free of any radiation. But
Palestinians will still see a sinister role for Israel, as will Left-wing
sympathisers in this country.
Arafat,
by any meaning of the term present in any dictionary, was a terrorist. He was
also the Palestinian paymaster who collected, over decades, billions of pounds
meant for his people's welfare from the West and Arab sympathisers; but it was
used for nefarious purposes such as buying armaments and paying off his coterie
of supporters, thousands of whom were
dependent, financially upon him.
I
can remember when his death was announced a female BBC reporter breaking down
in tears at the announcement. The BBC protected Arafat's reputation; believing
him to be the Nelson Mandela of the Middle East. The usual liberal suspects
such as the Guardian also deflected
any criticism of Arafat's actions by declaiming Israel's ultimate responsibility
for them.
Arafat
was, and his memory is still today, protected by the Left. Israel is demonised
in every liberal establishment in this country. In our universities Israeli
academics are being turned away by the likes of Stephen Hawking, a man I once
admired, not only for his intellect, but for his iron will in overcoming motor
neuron disease.
Academia
and the free exchange of ideas, in the interests of whichever academic
discipline they were applied, is, after all what any scholarly environment was
supposed to be all about.
Arafat
had civilian blood on his hands; which the Left would excuse by comparing such
acts of premeditated terrorism on Israeli civilians with acts by Israel, that
never deliberately targeted Palestinian civilians. If such an occurrence took
place then it came down to either an individual or individuals in the Israeli
Defence Force (IDF). Such action was never sanctioned by the state.
ARAFAT DID
MORE harm to the Palestinian cause than did Israel. Indeed, I would
suggest that because of his actions, more Palestinians were killed by fellow
Arabs than were ever killed by Israelis; in for instance Jordan[1],
followed in turn in Lebanon. Wherever it seems, in the Arab world the
Palestinians have sought sanctuary freely given: they have abused it.
As
president of the then Palestinian Liberation Organisation (PLO), Yasser Arafat
proclaimed terrorism as a legitimate practice in attaining a Palestinian
homeland; even if it meant killing the innocent: and over time the Left in the
West concurred, and did so by seeking excuse after excuse for every act of
terrorism committed.
Of
course those who support the Palestinian cause will never be convinced that it
was not the Israelis that caused Arafat's death; just as in the Arab world and
on fringes of the Left in the West, they insist that 9/11 was caused (a) by the
Israeli's, (b) by the CIA, or (c) by a partnership between them both.
The
Left are natures great conspiracy
theorists, and will no doubt insist that there was a conspiracy between the
French, Russians, and the Swiss investigators, not to disclose the truth. After
all, they will tell themselves, the Swiss were convinced that Arafat was
poisoned, but they later retracted; and that retraction will become their main source
for the conspiracy.
[1]
Between September 1970 and July of 1971,
a civil war was fought between two parts of the Jordanian population. The
Palestinians represented the PLO, and the Trans-Jordanians under King
Hussein - let Wikipedia pick up the
story. " At its core the civil war sought to
determine if Jordan would
be ruled by the Palestine Liberation Organisation or the Hashemite Monarchy. The war resulted in the deaths of
thousands of people, the vast majority Palestinian. Armed
conflict ended with the expulsion of the PLO leadership and thousands of
Palestinian fighters to Lebanon".
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