M I D - E A S T R E A L I T
I E S - LIE of the Week: Palestinian
Death Squads A Diversion
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ARAFAT'S MINISTERS CAVORT FREELY WITH ISRAELIS
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SENIOR ARAFAT "MINISTERS" WORK CLOSELY
WITH ISRAELIS TO LINE THEIR OWN POCKETS
AND EVEN BUILD ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS!
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MER - While Yasser Arafat
attempts to put his finger in the dike of dangerously depleting Palestsinian
public opinion by unleashing Palestinian "death squads" to target
alleged land dealers selling to Jews, the irony is that some of the most
prominent persons in Arafat's "Palestinian Authority" are lining
their pockets in economic scheming with the Israelis.
At least one of Arafat's
own senior "Ministers", Jamil Tarifi, is part-owner in a major
construction firm that builds Israeli settlements even while the Har Homa
protests continue! And another "Minister", Nabeel Shaath, has
been busy for years stashing away bribes and pay-offs -- and passing on
more to his friends and family -- by making exceedingly self-serving business
deals with the Israelis while the people of Gaza sink further into unprecedented
poverty and repression.
This said, this recent
quote from a Washington Post article is right on target -- the Israelis
are as duplicitous about land sales as they are about all matters relating
to the "peace process" and the Palestinians. The Palestinians
have been enslaved in their own land by legal subterfuge, political duplicity,
military might, and the imposition of the "client-regime" of
Yasser Arafat known as the "Palestinian Authority."
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"IN ISRAEL, AN INTRICATE WEB OF RULES AND POLICIES
BY THE ISRAEL LAND AUTHORITY AND THE JEWISH NATIONAL FUND MAKE IT NEARLY
IMPOSSIBLE FOR AN ARAB, EVEN AN ISRAELI CITIZEN, TO BUY LAND OWNED BY A
JEW. PALESTINIANS, WHO LACK THE SOVEREIGN POWER TO WRITE SIMILAR RULES,
HAVE MORE OFTEN RESORTED TO VIOLENCE TO DETER AND PUNISH SALES FROM ARAB
TO JEW."