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Tony: I agree with you. There is a history about Arafat that is rarely told and his forced involment with terror (which is not to say I condone it - but I understand). This excerpt from the NATION (11 Nov 04) says much, especially the last sentence. "We in the West too often ignore what no Palestinian will ever forget: After the Palestinians' catastrophic defeat of 1948, when some 750,000 were expelled from their homeland and began living in destitution in refugee camps scattered across half a dozen countries, forgotten by the world, abused and cynically exploited by Arab despots and demagogues, it was Arafat who, along with a few comrades, gave birth to the Palestinian liberation movement. It was the PLO, under Arafat's leadership, that restored Palestinian pride and helped to forge a nation out of a population that was geographically dispersed and politically divided. And it was Arafat who led the PLO, in the face of fierce internal resistance, into adopting the two-state solution in the mid-1970s. But his conciliatory peace offering at the UN General Assembly in 1974, and numerous subsequent peace feelers, were met with persistent rebuffs from Israel and the United States." Regards, George --- Tony Correia Afonso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please understand that the so-called Israelis are in fact European > Jews who have forcibly occupied vast tracts of Palestinian Arab lands, > illegally constructed settlements therein and driven out those who have > been living there for a couple of thousand years into squalid refugee > camps where they live under sub-human conditions. Can they be expected > to meekly accept such blatant injustice?
