Am I the only person in this world that noticed it?
We have had years of Palestinian lies turned into facts and excuses by a naive and
willing Western media urged on by those with an
anti-Israel agenda.
For years you bought the lie that Arafat was unable to deploy security forces in
Palestinian-held territories because
of Israeli occupation, because of Israeli checkposts,
because he didn't have the manpower, because he didn't have the weaponry, or
any
other lame excuse they could dream up.
Arafat was the powerful charismatic figure that held the Palestinian movement together
for
decades.
His people adored him. He gave them the arms. He gave them the inspiration. He gave them
the training. He publicly blessed them
and urged them to die for his cause.
Yet the world portrayed him as a charismatic impotent, unable to act because of brutal Israeli
oppression.
Well, Israel didn't do a thing. Yet, within three hours of being elected, Abu Mazen
deployed 30,000 armed men
to restore calm. And suddenly, low and behold, silence!
Hello out there! Perhaps you can now apologize for decades of falsely
demonizing
and accusing Israel of wrongdoing ?
I cannot figure out why it is you lie when it comes to Israel, yet cannot face
the truth when the
crimes are being committed by Palestinians. Why is that, do you think?
And how about the lies you spread about
Israel creating the poverty of the Palestinians?
Just today I read the IMF reckon that Arafat and the other corrupt leaders of the
poor
Palestinians siphoned off $900,000,000 from the Palestinian budget - and that was only between
1995 and 2000.
What about the
billions in aid that vanished since then?
The financial magicians that performed this disappearing trick were not Israelis.
They were the Palestinian leaders, many of whom are sitting in Abu Mazen's current cabinet.
With facts like this people like Tim
Sebastian, of BBC 'Hardtalk' fame, sound grossly one-sided when
they do not challenge Palestinian leaders on this point, but merrily
accuse Israel of causing
poverty and starvation by uprooting a few olive trees.
Give me a break!
Diplomats like Chris
Patten would eagerly investigate Israel for any wrongdoing, but when asked
to investigate his EU Commissions lousy accountability of
European tax payers money to a corrupt
and wealthy Palestinian regime he said, and I quote "I need an investigation like I need a
hole
in the head!"
And you wonder why the Palestinians are poor?
They have been granted more funding, more aid, than most of
Africa.
Now we come to the biggest lie of all. The 'cycle of violence'.
Sorry folks, but this cycle just developed a
puncture!
Am I the only person in the world that noticed that when the Palestinian terror groups decided to
stop blowing up Israelis the
Middle East went quiet and peaceful?
Of course, we all know this won't last. Just today the itchy Palestinian trigger finger
couldn't resist
lobbing almost fifty mortars and rockets into Israel.
The Western media hardly made a squeak about it. One Israeli tank
sheel gets the headlines. Fifty lethal
Palestinian rockets fired into Israeli towns doesn't make news at all.
Only if the I.D.F. goes
in pursuit of the maniacs that deal in death will you hear protests by your anti-Israel mob.
So, don't give me any more of your
lies. I know the truth.
Barry Shaw
The View from Here
