The World's Perhaps Most Celebrated Murderous Villain Is Dead

No. Not Castro. Yet.

The loathsome man who eventually called himself Yasser Arafat is dead. Requiescat in pace.

Congratulations, furthermore, to the people of the Middle East for being freed of the Soviet bloc's chief mischief maker in their midst who spent decades tormenting an entire region of the Earth.

Watch for Jimmy Carter to mourn the loss of a master of deceit who played him for a fool.

See Arafat Needs to Go and More on Arafat's Pedigree.

P.S. Anybody looking for empirical evidence for the Christian doctrine of the fall of man, just look at how the life of this lying, greedy terrorist will be lionized.

P.P.S. See also Omitted from Arafat's AP obituary and Finally.

P.P.P.S. Jeff Jacoby writes at the Boston Globe, today:

.... How is it possible to reflect on Arafat's most enduring legacy — the rise of modern terrorism — without recalling the legions of men, women, and children whose lives he and his followers destroyed? If Osama bin Laden were on his deathbed, would we neglect to mention all those he murdered on 9/11?

It would take an encyclopedia to catalog all of the evil Arafat committed. But that is no excuse for not trying to recall at least some of it.

Perhaps his signal contribution to the practice of political terror was the introduction of warfare against children. On one black date in May 1974, three PLO terrorists slipped from Lebanon into the northern Israeli town of Ma'alot. They murdered two parents and a child whom they found at home, then seized a local school, taking more than 100 boys and girls hostage and threatening to kill them unless a number of imprisoned terrorists were released. When Israeli troops attempted a rescue, the terrorists exploded hand grenades and opened fire on the students. By the time the horror ended, 25 people were dead; 21 of them were children.

Thirty years later, no one speaks of Ma'alot anymore. The dead children have been forgotten. Everyone knows Arafat's name, but who ever recalls the names of his victims?

So let us recall them: Ilana Turgeman. Rachel Aputa. Yocheved Mazoz. Sarah Ben-Shim'on. Yona Sabag. Yafa Cohen. Shoshana Cohen. Michal Sitrok. Malka Amrosy. Aviva Saada. Yocheved Diyi. Yaakov Levi. Yaakov Kabla. Rina Cohen. Ilana Ne'eman. Sarah Madar. Tamar Dahan. Sarah Soper. Lili Morad. David Madar. Yehudit Madar. The 21 dead children of Ma'alot — 21 of the thousands of who died at Arafat's command.

See also Freedom Fighters Then, "Freedom Fighters" Now.

P.P.P.P.S. What a career.

P.P.P.P.P.S. More details.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 11/11/04 07:17:58 AM
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