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Peace Process

'Gaza pullout is fruit of Arafat's struggle'


By Jerusalem Newswire Editorial Staff
September 01, 2005

Last month's surrender of the Gaza Strip and northern Samaria to the Palestinian Arabs is the fruit of Yasser Arafat's 40-year terrorist campaign against Israel's Jews, PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday.

?I wish Yasser Arafat were able to see the fruits of his struggle,? Abbas told Ynet, acknowledging the violent nature of that ?struggle? and adding that he ?hoped? the ?chapter [of] death, destruction, bombings, bloodshed? was ?gone forever.?

Abbas served for over three decades as Arafat's right-hand man atop the PLO power structure, supporting and participating in some of modern history's worst terrorist atrocities. He was fingered by a fellow terrorist, Abu Daoud, as the man who financed the Munich Olympics massacre of Israeli athletes.

Abbas reiterated that Gaza was not the end, and that the Palestinian Arabs' goal remained the cleansing of all Jews from Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem, and the establishment of the region's 22nd Arab state.

?Our capital will be Jerusalem, and our state will not contain settlements,? said Abbas.

Israel's ?disengagement? from Gaza is only the first step ?toward more withdrawals and an end to the damned settlements.?

Abbas went on to hint that the Gaza lands on which the Jews built their thriving communities were in fact not stolen from local Arabs, as the international community has long insisted they were.

?Anyone who will attempt to forge documents or claim the settlement lands belong to him ? we will not permit him to do so unless the claims are proven from a legal aspect,? he stated.

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