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Arafat and his associates plan and carry out the majority of terrorist acts against Israel today
The Palestinian Authority, under Yasser Arafat’s
leadership, has claimed for some time that it has
had nothing to do with the terror attacks against
Israel. According to Arafat, These attacks are carried
out by opposition movements within
Palestinian society – Hamas and the Islamic
Jihad.
The Palestinian Authority itself, Arafat has consistently claimed, condemns terror and attacks on
the innocent. The Palestinian Authority, says
Arafat, continues to be committed to the “peace
of the brave” of Oslo, signed with then prime
minister, Yitzhak Rabin.
But in recent months the Palestinian Authority
has revealed its true face, and it has become
clear that Arafat and his closest associates are
directly implicated in acts of terror.
The Palestinian Authority tried for over a year to
create the impression it had nothing to do with
the terrorist actions conducted by the Tanzim, the
armed wing of the Fatah. (Fatah is the dominant
party in the PLO, headed by Yasser Arafat.)
In recent months, however, Fatah – through organizations
under its control such as the Al-Aksa
brigades and Force 17 – has begun carrying out
suicide bombings. Indeed, they have engaged in a
gory “competition” with Hamas and the Islamic
Jihad to see which group could carry out the most
attacks.
Fatah – whose leader, Yasser Arafat, openly
declares his desire for a “million shahids,” i.e.
suicide bombers, to march on Jerusalem – no
longer even goes to the trouble of hiding its part in
these terrorist actions.
Thus, for example, Fatah admitted responsibility
for the murderous attack in February 2002 in the
Beit Yisrael neighborhood of Jerusalem, in which
nine people were killed – including four children
and two infants.
Fatah also took responsibility for the shooting
attack in the coastal town of Netanya in March
which killed Avia Malka, just a few months old.
And the suicide bombing in Jerusalem’s
Machane Yehuda Market, carried out by a
woman, was also Fatah’s “handiwork.” Six people
were killed in that attack.
Before that, two other female Fatah members carried
out suicide attacks, one in a Jerusalem
supermarket and the other at the Makkabim
junction.
And this is all in addition to numerous shooting
attacks throughout the country for which Fatah has taken
responsibility attacks that have killed and
wounded scores of Israelis.
At the beginning of the current war, the
Palestinian Authority’s security organizations
arrested some of those involved in planning and
carrying out terror attacks – although the arrested
were almost always immediately released without
being punished in any way. Now, it is the members
of these PA security organizations who are
themselves planning most of the terror attacks.
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