Has anybody truly examined the speeches and documents of the Palestinian Authority and it's leaders? I am not talking about their wild claims for Greater Palestine made many years ago. I am talking about the repeated promises, made in Arabic, by Yasser Arafat, Nabil Shath, Abdul Rabbo, to the masses, through the Palestinian media, in studio conversation in Egypt, Beirut, and the Gulf States. In other words, an open, much discussed, topic of Palestinian aims known clearly throughout the Arab world. If anyone is in any doubt about the permanent objectives of the leadership of the Palestinian Authority, they should properly research the video-taped speeches and the signed documents, that clearly spell out what they are up to. All the leading Palestinian players, including Yasser Arafat, have recently and repeatedly confirme, to all that wish to hear, the declared and public long term strategy of the Palestinians.

The irrevocable conclusion that the only Palestinian game in town is the total eradication of Israel as the Jewish state.

Just prior to being struck down with a fatal heart attack Feisal Husseini, a leading Palestinian figure and their representative for Jerusalem, made two important speeches in Cairo and Beirut. In these speeches he recalled the story of the Trojan Horse. After fierce battles a gift was made by Troy to their enemies as a peace offering. The gift was a giant wooden horse. This gift, eagerly accepted, was wheeled into the enemies impregnable fortress. In the middle of the night, Trojan soldiers, hidden in the hollow belly of the horse, emerged and struck down the enemy forces, thus gaining a heroic victory.

Husseini, in his speeches, divulged the secret but irrevocable aim of the Palestinian Authority, by declaring that the Oslo Accord was the Palestinian 'Trojan Horse'. He gloated on how the world, and Israel, had been fooled into allowing the Palestinians into the territories from their exile in Tunis and other Arab state. He declared that it was the Palestinians holy duty to exploit Israel's weakness, and capture 'all our Palestinian land FROM THE RIVER TO THE SEA.'

This theme has been repeated many times by Yasser Arafat, Nabil Shath, Rabbo, and others. Not in English, of course, but in Arabic to a delighted Palestinian public, and to the larger Arab world.

Arafat has stated, and there is filmed evidence of his statement, that all agreements, including the Oslo Accords, made with the Jews are worthless pieces of paper. he quoted the example of Mohammed who tore up the agreement he made with the Jews of Medina as worthless. Nothing, declared Arafat, will detract the Palestinians from their ultimate goal - all Palestinian land from the river to the sea.

This Palestinian pledge, this holy covenant, to remove the Jews from their infamous state is backed up by the incitement of children in their schools and summer camps, on their childrens TV programs. It is backed up by the exhortation of the Palestinian population in the mosques, and in their newspapers. It is backed by the contents of current school books which show all of Israel as the Palestinian state - from the river to the sea. It is backed by the official emblems that fill the walls in all Palestinian Authority buildings, open to be seen but ignored by all visiting dignitaries. It is backed up by the very insignia worn today by Arafat on his uniform jacket sleeve. All of Israel is portrayed as Palestine. Any claim, made by Palestinian spokesmen to an ignorant Western media, that this is only temporary until borders are defined is a deception, designed to lull, or pressure, Israel into territorial concessions. These Israeli concessions are seen as a temporary phase prior to the full conquest of all Palestinian land - from the river to the sea. Any agreement made with a Palestinian Authority can only be seen as a staged seizure of land until they have achieved their total and unrelenting ambition - the eradication of the Jewish state.

This realisation of true Palestinian aims and aspirations come as a bitter shock to people, like myself, who once voted for Rabin, Peres, and Barak, in search of a peaceful solution for the Israel- Palestine conflict.

The message is clear. The Palestinians desire, yearn for, nothing less than a state of their own from the river to the sea. Anything less is simply a staging point along the way.

Once a 'Two State Solution' is imposed on Israel, the next stage of Palestinian take-over can begin. Just as the current situation came about through fictitious Palestinian claims and a perversion of history, so the future will be deployed to suit the ongoing and voracious demand of a radical enemy.

For Israel, these external pressures will be combined with internal dangers. Israel already has a second Trojan Horse. An indigenous, and growing, Moslem population being led by a passionate and eloquent leadership who have exploited Israel's democratic system by being elected to, and are already making aggressive noises from within, the Knesset, the Israeli parliament. Examples of this are Ahmed Tibi, more often seen at Arafat's side than on the floor of the Knesset. Asmi Bishara, recently seen in Syria exhorting Islam to continue to violence against Israel, and often seen within Israel arguing that Israel must withdraw it's claim to be the Jewish state. A whole slew of Arab Members of the Knesset seen weeping and kissing Arafat when Israel released him from his Ramallah confinement.

This phemonemon is not confined to Israel. The Trojan Horse is already installed in many Western European countries, Canada, and the States. They had no need to batter down the walls. Democratic, liberal, humanitarian, gestures have allowed the Trojan Horses to be willingly welcomed through the gates. The mosque mullahs and the educators are spreading their message and condemning the shallowness and impurities of the West.

In America, the authorities are vainly sniffing around the silent and stoic Trojan Horse. High alert is maintained to prevent a sudden and horrendous repeat of 9.11. In Europe, the ground is already stirring. France will soon have a Moslem population reaching twelve million. They have a confused government that has proved itself eager to appease the Arab world. Most of the Moslem population maintain a law abiding existence, but incitement has begun to be spread in the mosques and violence and anti-Semitism, caused by radical Islam, has hit the streets, synagogues, and graveyards of France. Islamic militants are relatively free to continue their preparations in Paris and Marseilles. Radical Islamic leaders are taking advantage of the gracious benefits of the British welfare system while spreading the message that ultimate loyalty must be to Allah and not to the Queen.

The confused cries of an angry right, a betrayed left, and a frightened center, will be lost on the radical winds of change when the trap door is flung open in the middle of a long and stormy night when democracy is overthrown by an enemy that places Allah before the Republic. Their victory will have been aided by a willing, if misguided, left sustained by an ignorant liberal media, who for years have appeased the growing appetite of a fanatical people determined to, eventually, impose their civilisation on you, whether you like it or not. The cry, recently heard in several European countries that immigrants must learn the language and the customs of the host country, is a wasted lament that goes unheard by people who have no intention of adopting norms that they wish to eliminate.

Speaking as someone whose small town in Israel has witnessed twelve terror attacks, including several horrendous homicide bombings recently, I cannot, and will not, be accused of being paranoid. I am a reasonably intelligent person. When repeatedly attacked, I begin to question why, and look for reasons and evidence, beyond the glib response that it is all due to 'accepted' Palestinian justification of occupation or policy. This may be true. According to 'ignored' Palestinian justification it is the Jewish occupation of Israel, and the avowed policy of the Palestinians that is driving the fury. If you require proof of this, ask yourself why Israelis are being attacked in Netanya, Haifa, Afula, Tel Aviv, Rishon leZion, and Jerusalem ? These are nowhere near any 'occupied' territory or settlements. It is because these are considered as settlements in Palestinian occupied land from the river to the sea.

Faced with these Palestinian facts and statements, how can Israel be persuaded to make further concessions in a vague hope of peace?

The View from Here is written by Barry Shaw
netre@matav.net.il