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...most"Kafir" of all, an anti-Muslims, Zionist Jew. 6. The sheiks in Gulf nations like Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and their followers are "munafiqueen" (hypocritical Muslims, infinitely more detestable than kafirs 7. For the sake of Islam, Iraq needs a nuclear bomb. 8. So does Pakistan. 9. And Yassir Arafat...
...Yassir Arafat, chairman of the PLO, realizes he'll never get anything out of Jordan, and instead focuses all his efforts on criticism of Israel. Gone are the days when Arafat told a correspondent, "What you call Jordan is actually Palestine." (1970) Ten years later, he had become savvy enough to define "Palestine" as Israel, or the land "from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea." (1980) By stating that they hailed from "occupied Palestine," the Mother Courage speakers seem to have embraced this PLO view that all of Israel is "negotiable...
Although Levy said Israel hopes to open talks with the elected officials, he said Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yassir Arafat and his lieutenants are not legitimate representatives of the Palestine people...
Recent events in the Persian Gulf have proven that point once again. In the beginning of his presidency, George Bush courted Iraq's Saddam Hussein with aid and arms and continued U.S. negotiations with Yassir Arafat of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). But the events preceding and during the Gulf War have made it clear that United States interests lie in a unique and firm alliance with Jewish state, not with Arab dictators...
...Palestinian kids, the Isreali army was guns, everywhere you go. To the Jewish kids, it was what everyone serves in. And to the Jews, Yassir Arafat was a terrorist. To the Palestinians, he was president. When he reflects on the camp, Springer is ambivalent. "If they gained anything, it was because they were thrown together as friends. But to me it seemed more important to solve the political situation...how much could the camp do when the cousins of these kids were throwing rocks at each other across the green line...