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If Arafat can’t get to the Mount...


By Stan Goodenough
November 12, 2007

After he died of AIDS in a Paris hospital three years ago, PLO terror chief Yasser Arafat was denied his request - some said it was his most heartfelt desire - to be buried atop Jerusalem's Temple Mount.

The historic location of the first and second Israelite temples, and the place where the Third Temple will be built, according to biblical prophecy, marks Israel's holiest site.

For Arafat - and for the Arab and Muslim world who today continue to champion his cause - securing sovereignty over the Temple Mount would place the diamond in the crown of his "Palestine."

A small part of his wish was realized this week, when soil from the mount was brought to Ramallah and placed in an enormous new mausoleum over Arafat's grave.

The monument to the greatest Jew killer since Adolf Hitler was officially opened Sunday - the third anniversary of his death - by Arafat's veteran co-terror leader and Holocaust-denier, PA/PLO chairman Mahmoud Abbas.

Tens of thousands of Arabs - who are today universally called “Palestinians” as a direct result of the decades-long terrorism campaign directed by Arafat - gathered to pay homage to their "rais."

Addressing them, Abbas reportedly credited Arafat with uniting his "fractured people," as the Associated Press put it, and emphasized his position as "heir to Arafat's mantle."

Abbas has been invited to a US-sponsored conference later this month at which he hopes to take a few meaningful steps closer to realizing Arafat's dream - the creation of a Palestinian Arab state on land stolen from the nation of Israel.

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