Who will fill Arafat's Bloody Shoes? by Ruth Matar Women in Green Jerusalem November 25, 2004 Dear Friends, The candidates waiting in the wings to succeed the late Arafat are the same kind of terrorists as he was. They may speak in a more cultured way. They may not walk around with a three day stubble. They may give smooth interviews to the non-Muslim world, designed for Western ears - but underneath they are all killers with one goal in mind - to annihilate the Jewish People and the Jewish State. On Tuesday, November 23, 2004, Yasser Arafat's three top successors - PLO Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei, and interim Palestinian Authority Chairman Rouhi Fattouh - spoke at a special session of the Palestinian Legislative Council in Ramallah to commemorate Arafat. All three of these candidates vowed to continue in Arafat's footsteps: 1. Not to compromise on the right of return for all refugees. (According to statistics, 600,000 Arabs fled Israel, urged to do so by the leaders of surrounding Arab states. They were promised that they would be able to return within a couple of days, to take over Jewish homes and possessions. The Arabs now insist that there are more than 4 million refugees!) 2. Not to compromise on the establishment of a Palestinian State on the entire West Bank and Gaza. (Biblical Judea and Samaria were dubbed the "West Bank" by the late King Hussein of Jordan.) 3. Not to compromise on Jerusalem being the capital of a Palestinian state. There are additional candidates: Jibril Rajoub, Mahmoud Dahlan and even Marwan Barghouti, who is serving multiple life sentences in an Israeli prison for murdering Jews. (Permit me a disturbing digression: lately there have been persistent media leaks that Israeli top officials have had secret meetings with Barghouti to groom this convicted killer to become the next Palestinian Authority leader. Somehow, the Sharon government feels that Barghouti is someone it can work with, someone who can control the Palestinian street. I have often thought that the Sharon government cannot reach a further nadir of immorality. But apparently they are able to do this. Israeli Interior Minister Avraham Poraz speculated last week: "We are looking for a partner for the Gaza withdrawal. It seems that this will have to include releasing prisoners... [Perhaps even] including Barghouti." To think of releasing a convicted multiple killer of Jews in order to get a "partner" for the goal to expel Jews from their homes? I believe that this is as immoral as anyone can get.) In this Letter from Jerusalem, I will concentrate on the background of Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas), since he is the current frontrunner, having been elected by the Fatah Central Council as its candidate for Palestinian Authority Chairman in the January 9 elections. If the situation warrants, I will focus on some of the other candidates in a subsequent letter. * ABU MAZEN co-founded the Fatah terror group with Arafat. * ABU MAZEN does not actually differ from Arafat on any major position. He insists on the right of four million of Palestinian refugees (this imaginary figure supplied by the Arabs) throughout the Middle East to "return" to Israel - which would swamp Israel demographically - and spell the end of Israel's existence as a Jewish State. * ABU MAZEN wrote his PhD dissertation and later a bestselling book explaining why the Holocaust is a complete hoax. He said that not only did the Holocaust never happen, but that the Jews invented this story to make the world feel sorry for them, so that they could go ahead and steal Arab Land. * ABU MAZEN was involved in the murder of the eleven Israeli athletes, including American citizen David Berger, in the 1972 Munich Olympic Games. Abu Mazen was responsible for the financing for this operation. * ABU MAZEN denies that there ever was a Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount, the holiest site of the Jewish People. He states that he might consider the right of Jews to pray after a peace settlement has been reached. * ABU MAZEN urged Arafat to reject Prime Minister Ehud Barak's offer in 2000 at Camp David saying it was "a trap by all standards... and we managed to get out of it." Even Yossi Beilin said at the time that Abu Mazen was more extreme than Arafat. * ABU MAZEN has overseen terrorist attacks for the past several decades, including the last four years of terror war against Israel. The Women in Green Movement has been aware of Abu Mazen's true nature for some time. I found a photograph in my files printed in the Jerusalem Post of June 4, 2003, of a Woman in Green holding a placard at a demonstration with the picture of Abu Mazen and Yasser Arafat. The captions read "Yasser Arafat and Abu Mazen Blood Brothers" and "Birds of a Feather Kill Jews Together." Jacob's note: both pictures can be seen at rally pictures at: http://www.jr.co.il/rally/r0223.htm and http://www.jr.co.il/rally/r0224.htm On June 24, 2002, President George W. Bush pronounced that "the first prerequisite for progress is for the Palestinian people to produce 'regime change'. I call upon the Palestinian people to elect new leaders not compromised by terror. The Palestinians must have new leaders, new institutions and new security arrangements." Surely President Bush cannot believe that Abu Mazen meets these criteria? Surely President Bush cannot believe that any of the other candidates meet these criteria? This brings me to a very serious question, which should be of interest to all Americans. Why is the United States government anxious to financially help, to the tune of 20 million dollars, this crew of terrorists to stage an election on January 9, 2005? Why grant U.S. tax payer money when Arafat and the PA have billions, not millions, stashed away in secret accounts in Switzerland, when it has been proven that the Palestinian Authority used the majority of aid funds not only for their own luxurious lifestyle, but also for terror attacks against Israel? 20 million, by the way, is peanuts for the Palestinian Authority. They have just granted Suha Arafat a generous 22 million dollars as an annual stipend. Fortunately this plan has met with serious resistance on Capitol Hill, led by majority leader Tom DeLay. Let us not continue fooling ourselves! Let us face reality! The candidates for the leadership of the Palestinian Authority waiting in the wings are the same terrorist killers as the late Arafat. After Hitler was defeated, did the Allies look for his successors amongst the rest of the Nazis? No, they did not! They worked hard to denazify Germany. They held lengthy trials for the top Nazi leaders at Nuremberg between 1945 and 1949. They punished these leaders for their horrendous crimes against humanity, most of them even received the death penalty. Does it make sense to put a new set of terrorists in charge to continue their Jihad against the Jewish State, and against the rest of the non-Muslim world? Does it make sense to reward these terrorists with a state of their own, illegally carved out of G-d's covenant Land? With Blessings and Love for Israel, Ruth Matar ============================================= Women For Israel's Tomorrow (Women in Green) POB 7352, Jerusalem 91072, Israel Tel: 972-2-624-9887 Fax: 972-2-624-5380 mailto:michael@womeningreen.org http://www.womeningreen.org =============================================