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Arafat?s path: Destroy Israel through ?peace?


By Jerusalem Newswire Editorial Staff
November 21, 2004

A respected Arab newspaper editor and Yasser Arafat-confidante said at the weekend the deceased PLO chief had signed the so-called “Oslo Accords” in order to drive the Jews from the Middle East.

Abdel Bari Atwan, editor of the London-based daily al-Quds al-Arabi , recalled an important meeting he had with Arafat at the PLO’s Tunis headquarters in 1994, just days before it was allowed triumphantly enter the Gaza Strip.

"The man told me, 'Listen, Abdel Bari, I know that you are opposed to the Oslo Accords, but you must always remember what I'm going to tell you. The day will come when you will see thousands of Jews fleeing Palestine. I will not live to see this, but you will definitely see it in your lifetime. The Oslo Accords will help bring this about.'"

Atwan also revealed that it was Arafat who had personally established his Fatah party’s Al Aqsa Brigades “military” wing – a group featured prominently on the US State Department’s list of known terror groups.

"President Arafat was the one who established the Aksa Martyrs Brigades in response to the attempt to marginalize him after the failure of the Camp David summit," he said.

Atwan said Arafat rejected the unprecedented offers made by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak at Camp David “because he wasn't prepared to sign a final agreement with the Jewish state.”

Atwan’s assessment of Arafat’s intentions is backed up by numerous comments made by the arch-terrorist in Arabic over the past four decades.

In response to “Palestinian” concern over the signing of Oslo, Arafat “said, and I quote, 'I am hammering the first nail in the Zionist coffin,’” political analyst Yunis Udeh told London’s ANB TV on November 11.

Just hours after shaking Yitzhak Rabin’s hand on the White House lawn in 1993, Jordanian TV broadcast a pre-recorded message from Arafat to the Arab masses assuring them the agreement he had just signed was merely the first step in his phased plan to destroy Israel.

During the speech, he reminded the Arabs of the PLO’s 1974 decision to establish sovereignty in any areas “from which the Israelis withdraw,” and use those areas as a launch pad for further “liberation.”

A year later, while most Israelis were celebrating their newfound peace, Arafat admitted to congregants at a Johannesburg, South Africa mosque, in English, that the Oslo Accords had been a ruse.

“This agreement, I am not considering it more than the agreement which had been signed between our prophet Mohammed and Quraish,” he said, referencing a deceptive “peace” treaty brokered by Islam’s founder.

In 626, Mohammed signed the Hudaibiya Treaty with the Quraish tribe of Mecca. He promptly abrogated the agreement two years later after amassing enough strength to defeat and massacre the Quraish.

The Hudaibiya Treaty is also known among Arabs as the “peace of the brave,” a term used often by Arafat to describe the Oslo peace process.

Newly appointed PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas and the rest of the “new” PA leadership have pledged to continue in Arafat’s footsteps.

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