Subject: R&B INFORMATION SERVICES: "YASSER ARAFAT'S REAL NAME"
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 00:29:36 +0000
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Subject: R&B INFORMATION SERVICES: "YASSER ARAFAT'S REAL NAME"
(VERSION II, VERDEUTSCHT UND VERBESSERT) by Aryeh Gallin
R&B INFORMATION SERVICES: "YASSER ARAFAT'S REAL NAME" (VERSION II,
VERDEUTSCHT UND VERBESSERT)
by Aryeh Gallin
JERUSALEM, ISRAEL, February 15, 1998, Root & Branch: Yasser Arafat's REAL
name is not "Yasser Arafat."
His REAL name is Abdul Rauf el-Codba el-Husseini.
"Arafat" is a cousin of Haj Amin el-Husseini, the notorious Nazi
collaborator and 'Grand Mufti' of British Mandate Palestine. The Mufti
died a well-deserved death after suffering a heart attack (with as much
suffering as possible, I hope) in July, 1974. When the Mufti was buried,
"leading his funeral in Beirut was his cousin, Abdul Rauf el-Codba
el-Husseini, better known as Yasser Arafat."
[Source: "A German Romance: Antisemitic politics made strange bedfellows
of Haj Amin el-Husseini and Adolf Hitler," Jerusalem Post September 5,
1997, book review by Sraya Shapiro of "Haj Amin and Berlin" by Dr. Jennie
Lebel]
As Dr. Asher Eder, Jewish Co-Chairman of the Root & Branch Association's
Islam-Israel Fellowship points out, the REAL Arafat is a mountain near Mecca.
"When you come running from Arafat, remember Allah as you approach the
sacred monument (Ka'ba)" (Koran, Chapter 2, "The Cow," verse 198).
Husseini masquerades as Mount Arafat to send Moslems a messianic message
most Westerners miss.
Husseini sees himself as Sala-din's Second Coming who will jitterbug into
Jerusalem leading an anti-Jewish jihad.
(The REAL Sala-din was a Kurd who - in the spirit of Cyrus the Great [see 2
Chronicles 36:22-23] - welcomed Jews to resettle the city after he drove
out the Crusaders. The returning Jews built the Ramban [Nachmanides]
synagogue that still stands today in Jerusalem's Jewish Quarter. The
synagogue was defiled, but not destroyed, by the Jordanians during their
temporary occupation of Jerusalem from 1948-67).
A Palestinian "Prince of Peace" Husseini isn't, having been the only
laureate ever to wear a military uniform while receiving a Nobel Peace
Prize (at least his wife Suha got him to remove the revolver which he wore
to his 1974 U.N. address).
Bethlehem, birthplace of King David, and Hebron, where David began his
reign, have both fallen to Husseini, Fuhrer of a future Falastin (Palastine).
With the Fiftieth Jubilee Year of the State of Israel (1998) already here
and the Second Gentile Milennium (2000) just around the corner, the
Falastinian Fuhrer eagerly eyes El Kuds (Jerusalem) as his next prize.
The Prophet Zechariah foresaw what would happen to Fuhrer Husseini (and to
all the Husseinis) in the End of Days.
"Who are you, O great mountain before Zerubabbel? You shall become a
plain." (Zechariah 4:7)
Aryeh Gallin,
Jerusalem, Israel
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Aryeh Gallin is President of the Root & Branch Association.
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<rbranch@netvision.net.il> Subject: R&B INFORMATION SERVICES:
"THE EN-NOBELING OF ARAFAT" AND
"THE NOBEL AFTER ARAFAT" by Jeff Jacoby
R&B INFORMATION SERVICES: "THE EN-NOBELING OF ARAFAT" AND "THE NOBEL
AFTER ARAFAT"
"THE EN-NOBELING OF ARAFAT"
by Jeff Jacoby, Columnist, Boston Globe
[Copyright (c) 1994, Globe Newspaper Company. This column originally
appeared in the Boston Globe on October 20, 1994. Root & Branch
reprints it with permission of the author]
BOSTON, MASSACHUSSETTS, February 15, 1998, Root & Branch: "At least
he should apologize," Elie Wiesel is saying. "He should apologize for
the past. The past cannot be erased. At least let him come forward
and say: 'I apologize for having given the order to kill Jewish
children at Ma'alot, and Jewish civilians in the street, and all the
other innocent people.'"
The 1986 Nobel laureate for peace is struggling with the news that
Yasser Arafat will be one of the 1994 Nobel laureates for peace.
Wiesel, a survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, a tireless champion of
decency and human dignity, is this generation's most renowned
eyewitness to the massacre of Jews. Arafat, the head of the PLO, the
very archetype of modern terrorism, is this generation's most infamous
perpetrator of the massacre of Jews.
"It's a very painful thing," Wiesel is saying. "All of a sudden I'm
in the same group as he is. Imagine! We both have memberships, he
and I."
Arafat, along with Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Foreign
Minister Shimon Peres, is being honored for signing last year's
Israel-PLO peace accords. And for "that specific act" alone, the
chairman of the Nobel Committee, Francis Sejerstad, underscored in a
press conference last week.
But does one "specific act" wipe away the remembrance of the PLO's
innumerable victims? The 27 children killed in the schoolhouse at
Ma'alot?
The 11 Israeli athletes butchered at the 1972 Olympics? Does a White
House ceremony, does a handshake, atone for the civilians slaughtered
in the airports of Rome, Vienna, and Tel Aviv? Does it make up for
the recipients of the PLO's letter bombs? For the worshipers at the
Istanbul synagogue who were machine-gunned by Arafat's men? For Leon
Klinghoffer, the passenger on the cruise ship Achille Lauro who was
shot in his wheelchair and thrown overboard? For the slain US
ambassador to Sudan, Cleo Noel, and his deputy, George Moore?
"It is hard to swallow," Wiesel is telling a caller, his voice
perplexed with sadness. "I know the members of the Nobel Committee.
Of course they hope some good will come out of their decision. I
don't want to criticize them. I understand their logic, or at least
their rationale -- saying: True, this man has a past, but look what he
has done recently. But I believe in memory. I believe you cannot
just erase memory. And this man, at least for 25 years, has been the
leader of a terrorist organization that was created to kill Jews. The
man has done so much harm, has shed so much blood, has ordered others
to shed so much blood -- and all of a sudden he becomes a tzaddik" --
Hebrew for a saintly man -- "a Nobel laureate in peace? In peace?"
Nobel peace prizes come in two varieties. Some years the award goes
to humanitarians of exceptional standing, moral giants like Mother
Teresa -- men and women who rise above the bickering and bigotry and
banality for which our species is notorious. Other years the prize is
given to reward or encourage politicians who advance the difficult
cause of what Alfred Nobel, in his will, called "fraternity between
nations."
This year's award, clearly, is of the second type, and such awards are
easy to second-guess. So let us be fair. Let us grant the Nobel
Committee's good intentions. Let us grant that Middle East diplomacy,
like the making of laws and sausage, is not an appetizing business.
Let us grant that the peace prize will inevitably go, at times, to
public officials whose records are blemished -- Mikhail Gorbachev,
Nelson Mandela, F.W. de Klerk, Menachem Begin, Anwar Sadat.
Still: Where is the "fraternity" that Arafat is helping to build?
Articles 9 and 19 of the Palestine National Covenant, which call for
the liquidation of Israel by violence, remain in force, despite
Arafat's signed guarantee that they would be repealed. Dozens of
terrorist attacks have been attempted or carried out by PLO factions
since the signing of the accords. Far from denouncing terror, Arafat
has reaffirmed his own rejectionism.
"Jihad will continue," he told a Muslim audience earlier this year,
using the Arabic term for religious war. "Now our main battle is for
Jerusalem."
Arafat's is not the face of fraternity between nations. For a
quarter-century or more, it has been the face of random terror, of
bombings and hijackings, of innocent victims chosen *because they were
innocent.* How surreal to imagine Arafat, who fashioned a career out
of death and devastation, in the same company as Elie Wiesel. As
Martin Luther King. Albert Schweitzer. Mother Teresa. The Dalai
Lama. Could anything capture more utterly the ethical anarchy and
moral obtuseness of our time?
"But this is now new," Wiesel sighs. "Yes, moral values are going
through a crisis. But when Arafat came to the United Nations wearing
a gun holster" -- in 1974 -- "what was that? Wasn't that also moral
decadence in an international organization?"
"I am afraid that as we come closer to the end of the century, to the
millenium, there is a growing chaos. In Jewish tradition, we believe
that the worst punishment is chaos. Chaos means that good and evil
have the same potency, wear the same mask. That they are equivalent.
"What can we do? We try to speak, we try to educate -- I believe in
education more than anything in the world. But I am often moved to
despair when I see what is happening."
Jeff Jacoby
Boston, Massachussetts
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