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Commentary :: Israel / Palestine
Yasser Arafat Current rating: 0
23 Nov 2004
Yasser Arafat will go down in history as the George Washington of Palestinian Republic. His courage and devotion to the cause of the Palestian people, in their unending battle for liberation and the establishment of their own national homeland, was widely respected and admired by millions of people the world over.
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The slanderous "Terrorist Label" which was heaped upon this great
leader by the likes of Ariel Sharon and George W. Bush, shall be
ignored for what it was, basically lies from two of the worlds
biggest war criminals.

In his speech to the United Nations in 1974, Arafat answered this
charge eloquently:

"The difference between the revolutionary and the terrorist lies in
the reason for which he fights. For whoever stands by a just cause
and fights for freedom and liberation of his land from the invaders,
the settlers and the colonialists, cannot possibly be called
terrorists... As to those who fight against just causes, those who
wage war to occupy, colonise and oppress other people, those are the
terrorists. Those are the people whose actions should be condemned,
who should be called war criminals; for the justice of the cause
determines the right to struggle."


Note:

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Re: Yasser Arafat
Current rating: 0
23 Nov 2004
So blowing up innocent civilians at buses and coffee shops is OK, as long as you are fighting for what you believe in? That is the most nonsensical argument I have ever heard. Don't mistake it, this guy was a terrorist, and he supported and encouraged young men and women to strap bombs onto themselves and walk into public places to detonate them. I say good riddance to him.
Re: Yasser Arafat
Current rating: 0
23 Nov 2004
Harrington: "Yasser Arafat will go down in history as the George Washington of Palestinian Republic."

He would, that is, if he hadn't turned it down in 2000. Now, he is most likely to go down in history as "that shmuck who wasted all those lives."

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