Palestine: America’s Enemy

Palestine: America’s Enemy

Arab propaganda has been successful in presenting

a picture of the Palestinian people as the helpless

and innocent victims of Israeli aggression--

potential friends of America who have been alienated by

America’s support for Israel (itself the result of a Jewish

Lobby) and its failure to support a Palestinian national

state. The fact that Palestinians are now led by two terrorist

organizations, Fatah and Hamas, is blamed on Israel and

the United States’ stubborn and irrational support for “the

Zionist entity,” rather than on the Palestinians who elected

them as leaders.

Since before World War II the Palestinian Arabs have,

in large numbers, supported the very worst of America’s

enemies, from the Nazis to the Soviets to Saddam Hussein,

and now support the Islamo-fascist terrorist jihad. Today the

majority party in the Palestinian Authority is Hamas, a self-defined

terrorist organization which has joined forces with

Hezbollah, al-Qaeda, and Iran in their terror war against the

West. On September 13, 2001, Dr. Atallah Abd as-Subh a

high-ranking Hamas official told the world just how deeply

Hamas hates the U.S.

In response to the attack of 9/11, he published an open

letter to America, in which he said: “Allah has answered our

prayers; the sword of vengeance has reached America and

will strike again and again.” 1

Even in January 2007, as the United State began to

tout Fatah as a moderate, peaceful alternative to Hamas,

a Fatah official, Abu Ali Shahin, declared on Palestinian

Authority TV: “Do to Bush whatever you want, and we wish

you success. We are fighting the Americans and hate the

Americans more than you!”

The Enemy of Their Enemy

This open hostility to America is not a recent development.

For most of the twentieth century, the Palestinian movement

aligned itself with the enemies of the United States. In the

1930s, as described at length in The Nazi Roots of Palestinian

Nationalism 2, the founder of the Palestinian “movement,”

the Hajj Amin al Husseini, working in alliance with the

Muslim Brotherhood, formed an alliance with Hitler, served

Nazi Germany by recruiting and deploying hundreds of

thousands of Bosnian Muslims into the Nazi war machine,

and planned to transplant the “final solution” to Palestine as

soon as Hitler was finished with Europe’s Jews.

By the 1960s, after America and its allies had vanquished

Nazism and faced a new enemy in Soviet Communism,

Ahmed Shuqairy, the first leader of the Palestinian Liberation

Organization, was a protégé of the KGB, as was Yassir Arafat.

Both Palestinian terrorist leaders aligned themselves with

the U.S.’s most powerful global enemy as willing puppets of

the Soviets during the Cold War. Arafat in particular became

an enthusiastic instrument of the USSR by training and

deploying Palestinian terrorists throughout the world to serve

Soviet strategy by fomenting violence against America or

its allies, and to destabilize pro-American regimes through

terrorism and intimidation.

The Soviets not only armed and trained Palestinian

terrorists but also used them to arm and train other

professional terrorists by the thousands. Palestinian terrorists

were identified in Havana as early as 1966. In fact, Cuba

became a base for Palestinian terrorist training and Marxist

indoctrination. In late April 1979, an agreement was reached

for the guerrilla group Popular Front for the Liberation of

Palestine to have several hundred of its terrorists trained

in Cuba, following a meeting between PFLP chief George

Habash and Cuban officials.

Teflon Terrorism

The USSR’s contribution to the Palestinian movement

was to transform what had been an inchoate program of

violence, terror, and Jew hatred into a “Third World liberation

front.” Endowing the Palestinians with a fictitious narrative

of nationalist aspiration and a quest for self-determination

created the facade of morality and legitimacy that Arafat’s

terrorists needed to curry favor with the EU, the UK, and

the U.S., even while attacking Western as well as Israeli

targets.

By re-branding the Palestinians as a people struggling

against a colonialist Israeli oppressor for statehood, for

inalienable human rights and freedom from occupation, the

USSR was able to use Palestinian terrorism for its own anti-

West Cold War strategies; and the Teflon terrorists could claim

an almost miraculous immunity from any accountability for

their crimes. Arafat may not have invented political skyjacking,

for instance, he made it into the guerrilla action

of choice for many Arab and other Muslim terror groups

after he staged the first (and only) successful Arab terrorist

hijacking of an El Al plane in 1968. There followed a

long series of sky-jackings, mostly by Arab terrorists. For

America, skyjacking culminated in the seizure of United and

American Airlines planes on 9/11.

Although the operations staged by Arafat in the 1960s

and 1970s involved the murder of hundreds of innocents,

the endangerment of thousands, and the destruction of

hundreds of millions of dollars of property, the Arab terrorist

perpetrators were almost never condemned by the press, the

UN, or any major government, or by world public opinion.

Palestinian leaders and much of their rank-and-file have

been consistent for decades in not only declaring their hatred

of the US and in charging that America is the great Satan, but

also in mounting attacks against American targets abroad.

Since 1993, more than 700 Americans have been killed in

Palestinian-related terror attacks. Among the Americans

attacked by the Palestinians have been Christian pilgrims

and clergy, American soldiers, American embassy personnel,

military attaches, and, perhaps most famously, the wheelchair

bound elderly American Leon Klinghoffer on the Achille

Lauro cruise ship on October 7, 1985. 3

Perhaps the most egregious example of this enmity toward

Americans came in 1973 when the PLO orchestrated the

murder of two American diplomats in Sudan. Cleo A. Noel,

Jr., U.S. ambassador to Sudan, and George C. Moore, another

U.S. diplomat there, were among a group of men seized and

held hostage by Yassir Arafat’s Black September terrorists

during a reception at the Saudi Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan,

March 2, 1973. The terrorists demanded the release of Sirhan

Sirhan, the Palestinian assassin of Robert Kennedy, as well

as of terrorists being held in Israeli and European prisons.

President Nixon refused to negotiate. Noel Jr. and Moore

were then murdered, Arafat having given the execution order

in a phone conversation recorded by the Israelis who gave

the tape to the State Department and President Nixon. The

authenticity of the tape was verified in U.S. laboratories by

both the State Department and the White House.

Investigative reporter Jack Anderson wrote a comprehensive

comprehensive

expose of Arafat’s role in these murders in the

Washington Post (July 29, 1980), demonstrating irrefutably

that he had personally ordered these murders. Arafat’s code

name for this attack was “nahar el-bard” (“cold river,” also

the name of an Arab refugee camp in Lebanon). Perhaps the

most horrifying testimony to Arafat’s teflon status is the fact

that the U.S. State Department hid the facts of these murders

for decades, to maintain the façade that Arafat was a force

for peace and stability within the Arab terrorist forces in the

Middle East. When James J. Welsh, the National Security

Agency’s Palestinian analyst, attempted to go public, he was

intimidated into silence. 4

Palestinian Terrorism After the Cold War

With the eclipse of the USSR, Arafat needed new financial

backing and found it in Saddam Hussein. Money from Iraq

allowed Arafat to maintain his terror forces even during

his exile in Tunisia. In exchange, Arafat became a loyal

supporter of Saddam, and stood by him in both Gulf wars.

Coincidental with the fall of the Iron Curtain, however,

Fatah and the PLO faced a crisis even more serious than

funding their operations. This was the rise of organizations

such as Hezbollah and Hamas. To maintain his hold over the

Palestinian movement and to prevent these new, religiously inspired

terrorist upstarts from stealing his thunder, Arafat,

previously an extreme secularist, adopted the worldview of

radical, America-hating Islam. How deeply committed to the

objectives of the jihadists the Palestinians were was clearly

demonstrated by the spontaneous popular response on

Palestinians to the al-Qaeda attacks on September 11, 2001.

For Western consumption, Arafat televised his donation of

blood to the survivors of 9/11. But while this was taking place,

there were spontaneous outbreaks of public celebration over

the attack on America in a number of Palestinian communities

on the West Bank and Gaza which he was unable entirely to

suppress. Coverage of these celebrations, especially CNNs

detailed broadcasts, were met with shock and outrage in the

United States. Although pro Palestinian commentators were

at pains to describe these Palestinian outpourings of support

for Mohammad Atta’s band of killers as scattered and

anomalous and Arafat himself tried to confiscate the footage,

a variety of British newspapers, for instance, reported that

thousands of Palestinians poured in to the streets of Nablus

and Jerusalem, giving out candy, firing celebratory shots in

the air, cheering Osama and rejoicing at the blow dealt to the

U.S.

Realizing that the Palestinians’ hatred of America, the

dirty little secret of his regime, was in danger of exposure,

Arafat ordered his security forces to open fire on street

demonstrators when they refused to stop their celebrations.

He arrested European photographers and journalists, and

threatened their lives if film footage of the Palestinian post-

9/11 celebrations were broadcast. 5

Palestinian Islamo Fascism

While Arafat and his PA leaders were busy trying to

silence the eye-witness reports of Palestinians cheering the

death of Americans, Hamas (at that time not yet in a position

of political leadership in the Palestinian Authority) had no

qualms about voicing its true feelings. In response to the

9/11 attack, Hamas leader Dr. Atallah Abb as- Subh wrote an

“open letter to America” in the Hamas publication ar-Risala

(“The Prophecy”), published in Gaza. Speaking the language

of political correctness, he asked: “Have you [America] asked

yourself about your actions against your original inhabitants,

the Indians, the Apaches? Your white feet crushed them and

then used their name for a helicopter bearing death...(and)...

Allah has answered our prayers; the sword of vengeance has

reached America and will strike again and again.” 6

Hamas’ origins in the Muslim Brotherhood, and its meteoric

rise to power and prominence both in the Palestinian terror

war against Israel and among the international Islamofascist

organizations fighting the West, are by now well known. Less

so are the specifics of Hamas’ message to its followers, who

now comprise a majority of Palestinians, including most of

those once thought to be moderate.

Hamas’ charter describes in detail the plan for an Islamic

conquest of the world, one step at a time. This dire struggle

against the entire non-Muslim world begins with Jews and

with Israel, which the organization sees as a puppet state

of America. Hamas is now the only democratically elected

political power in the world whose foundation agenda

includes the genocide of the world’s Jews (and by extension

Americans), and whose sole defining paradigm is terrorism.

It is also the only democratically elected regime in the world

which seeks total world domination, with the obliteration

of all national, political, social, and religious organizations

whose ideologies are at variance with that of Islam.

Indeed, with Hamas we now have the bald-faced and

undiluted promise of “Islam uber Alles.” This ideology of hatred

and destruction, genocide and mass murder, world conquest

and the obliteration of all non-conforming ideologies and

societies, has been at the forefront of Hamas’ appeal to the

Palestinian people since its inception in the Gaza Strip as

a subsidiary of the Muslim Brotherhood twenty years ago.

When they voted Hamas in to power, the Palestinian people

knew the destructive and genocidal intentions of the Hamas

leaders. And they supported those intentions, de facto, with

their vote.

Deadly Alliances

Just as the Palestinians were once in alliance against

the U.S. with the Nazis and Stalinists, so now they are in

alliance with groups such as Hezbollah, whose leader Hassan

Nasrallah has said, “`Death to America’ is not a slogan. Death

to America is a policy, a strategy and a vision.”

Pursuant to Iran’s goals and strategies, Hezbollah has

attacked many U.S. targets over the past 25 years. Iran’s use

of Hezbollah as its proxy gives Iran “plausible deniability”

in these actions. Of Hezbollah’s terror attacks against U.S.

targets, the most deadly were the April 18 and October 23,

1983 suicide bombings against American targets in Beirut,

killing 63 and 241 Americans respectively, and wounding

hundreds of others.

Hamas also supports al-Qaeda. After the Israeli unilateral

and unconditional retreat from the Gaza Strip in August,

2005, al-Qaeda cells, under the leadership of Abu Mus’ab

al-Zarqawi, entered the Strip and began to work alongside of

Hamas and the dozen other terror groups at large. Until his

death in Iraq at the hands of coalition forces in 2006, Zarqawi

recruited Gaza Strip Palestinians with family members in

the West Bank for his terrorist efforts because they could

more easily cross the Israeli check points under the guise of

“family reunions.”

Palestinian reporter and documentary film producer

Khaled abu- Toameh, during an interview with “The

Spotlight Group,” noted that Hamas, no matter how much it

is pressured by Israel and the U.S., cannot abandon its basic

goal of destruction of Israel. “If it did so,” abu-Toameh

said, “it would lose its constituency.” 7 In other words, some

significant plurality, or perhaps a majority, of the Palestinian

people share Hamas’ goal of Israel’s destruction, the

genocide of Israel’s Jews, and the targeting of the U.S. as an

enemy of Islam and an appropriate object of terror attacks.

The shift in support from Abbas and the PLO to Hamas,

the defection of a large part of Fatah man-power, and the

apparently strong and growing popular support for al-Qaeda

in the Gaza Strip, all bespeak the same priorities among the

Palestinian people.

Al-Qaeda, Hamas and Hezbollah in the USA

The threat to America by the Palestinians is not merely

rhetorical, nor does it emanate only from foreign soil. In

fact, operatives from the major Arab and Iranian terror groups

have infiltrated our own homeland with the intent to attack

us from within. Palestinian terror groups and individuals are

a key part of this operation. 8

Very little of this information has ever appeared in our

mainstream media. The task of informing the American

public of the dangers posed to us by Iranian and Palestinian

terrorist jihad falls, with very few exceptions, to more highly

specialized (and apparently more honest and courageous)

media outlets.

A survey of information provided by these media discloses

discomforting evidence that Palestinian and other terrorists

are thoroughly and comfortably ensconced in downtown

America, right under the noses of law-enforcement and

Homeland Security officials; that they number in the

thousands 9 and are training for war in secret camps in the

USA 10 in part by infiltrating the U.S. own military 11 and

penetrating Washington DC with political influence, staffers,

and spies. Meanwhile, evidence accumulates of jihadist

sleeper cells abound with Hezbollah, Hamas and al-Qaeda

terrorists hidden within the Islamic American community,

waiting for the call to action from Tehran or Damascus 12

Recently declassified CIA documents reveal that as

early as March, 1973, the Palestinian terrorist group, Black

September (a PLO sub-group created by Arafat), tried to

detonate three car bombs in New York City, timed to coincide

with Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir’s visit. The powerful

bombs, which might have killed or wounded hundreds, failed to

explode due to improper wiring of the timing mechanisms 13.

Later, Palestinian Arabs in Brooklyn prepared a terror

attack on a Brooklyn bus and a subway station, which was

thwarted only by an almost unbelievable stroke of good

luck. The Palestinians involved in the explosion in the World

Trade Center in February, 1993, had also planned to blow

up the Lincoln and Holland tunnels, and the United Nations

building. And many more attacks have been planned.

Especially after 9/11, al-Qaeda commanders and officials

stationed in Western countries, including the United States,

have recruited Hamas operatives and volunteers to carry

out reconnaissance or serve as couriers. In August 2004,

two suspected high-level Hamas operatives, Mohammed

Salah and Abdelhaleem Ashqar, were detained in the U.S.

and charged with providing material support to Hamas,

racketeering and money laundering. In November 2003,

Jamal Aqal, a Gazan who immigrated to Canada, was

arrested in Israel under suspicion of receiving weapons

and explosives training from Hamas for use in future terror

attacks in Canada and New York City. Aqal pleaded guilty

in 2004 to planning to kill American and Canadian Jewish

leaders and Israeli officials traveling in the U.S.

Also in 2004, Ismail Selim Elbarasse, a long-time Hamas

money man, was arrested in Maryland, reportedly after

authorities witnessed his wife videotaping Maryland’s

Chesapeake Bay Bridge from their SUV as Elbarasse drove.

The images captured by Elbarasse’s wife included closeups

of cables and other features “integral to the structural

integrity of the bridge,” according to court papers. Hamas

leaders discussed openly their plans, and threats, to carry out

terror operations against American targets in the Middle East

and in the US because of America’s support for President

Abbas and the PLO after Hamas’ election victory 14

A 75 Year War

During the week of June 13, 2007, Hamas forces soundly

defeated the much larger and better armed Fatah forces in

Gaza, killing at least 160 Arab Palestinian Fatah loyalists,

effectively destroying the Palestinian Authority, and

establishing complete control over the Gaza Strip.

This new development affords Hamas a prime strategic

asset for escalating its violent campaign against Israel 15.

The rebellion against Abbas, and Hamas’ rejection of any

form of moderation, and its opposition to U.S. goals in the

Middle East conflict, also reveal something else-- that the

Palestinian people are at war with America.

This war has been going on for three quarters of a century,

beginning in the 1930s with the alliance between the Mufti

and Hitler, developing from the 1960s through the present

with Arafat’s actions as an agent for Soviet policy and

a supporter of Saddam Hussein in the first Gulf War, and

Hamas’ overt anti- American threats and attacks and its

backing of Hezbollah’s attacks against Americans today.

It cannot any longer be argued that hatred of America

is restricted to only a small minority of Palestinians--the

leaders, the fanatics, the extremists. Hundreds of thousands

adored the Mufti in the 1930s and yearned for his final

solution. Millions followed Arafat, cheering and celebrating

when he hit both Israelis and Americans. Tens of thousands

flocked to his banner to join his terror forces (Fatah, PLO,

PFLP, PFLP-GC, DFLP, the abu-Nidal group, Tanzim, Force

17, el-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, the Black September Group,

among others) and create a full-fledged terrorist army 16.

Moreover, in 1996 the Palestinian people voted Arafat in to

office with a landslide victory. When his mandate expired in

January of 2000, there was no opposition to his continued illegal

control of the Palestinian Authority. After Arafat’s death, the

voters’ loyalties shifted not to his supposedly more moderate

successor, Mahmoud Abbas (nor to any of the other moderate

parties on the 2006 PA ballot), but to the terrorist army offering

the most extreme agenda of terrorism and mass murder and

endless war against Israel and against the USA -- Hamas.

Why Hatred?

One reason commonly offered for this animosity toward

America is that Palestinian hatred comes from U.S. support

for Israel. But while the U.S. does support Israel, it has also

done much to support the Arab world, and the Palestinians,

Yasser Arafat, and the PLO in particular. On a regular basis

from Roosevelt to Clinton, the U.S. has given almost as much

money to Egypt as to Israel, has given billions more over

the years to many other Arab states, and has given billions

more to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for

support of Arab refugees. This despite the fact that UN

representatives acknowledge that UNRWA refugee camps

have become havens for terrorists whose targets include

Americans and who have been complicit in the development

of worldwide terrorism.

In addition to being a consistent source of financial support

for the Palestinians, America has for almost 60 years has

consistently and intentionally turned a blind eye to the fact

that at least some of that money is used to recruit, train,

equip, arm and deploy terrorists against Israel, and at times

against American targets as well.

As president, Jimmy Carter played a crucial role in

Arafat’s makeover from terrorist to statesman and as ex-

President has slavishly supported the Palestinians ever since.

In this regard, Carter established a tradition. Arafat was an

honored guest at the White House more than any other head

of state during Bill Clinton’s presidency.

President Clinton hosted the signing of the Oslo Accords in

1993, which brought Arafat out of exile and set in to motion

what should have been the creation of a Palestinian state.

He presided as well over the Camp David II talks, in which

Arafat was offered the state of Palestine on a silver platter.

Presidents Clinton and Bush have authorized hundreds of

millions of dollars of aid to the PA since the Oslo Accords

(1993).

President George W. Bush was the first American

president to make a public commitment to the creation of

a Palestinian state (June, 2002); and he led the international

group formulating the “Road Map” whose main goal was

getting peace negotiations back on track so conflict could

be resolved and a Palestinian state could emerge (April,

2004). And most recently, President Bush exerted enormous

political influence to convene the first ever pan-Arab Middle

East peace conference at Annapolis in November of 2007.

Leaders from every major Arab country, including all the

Arab confrontation states and the Palestinian Authority,

gathered in Annapolis to watch President Bush and Secretary

of State Condoleeza Rice arm-twist the Israeli representatives

to agree to ignore Hamas terrorism and threats of genocide,

and to re-start negotiations with Mahmoud Abbas, even

though President Abbas himself refused to acknowledge the

existence of Israel as a Jewish state. President Bush and

Secretary Rice went so far in accommodating the Arab

representatives’ sensibilities that they obliged Israeli

representatives to enter the conference room via a back

door so that they would not be seen by Middle East press

representatives walking in to the meeting hall together with

the Arab delegates.

If getting a state were indeed what the Palestinian leadership

wanted, that leadership would see the U.S. as an ally, and

President Bush, like his predecessors Carter and Clinton, as

a strong and committed friend. But they continue to see the

U.S. as an enemy. Why? Because the Palestinians’ most

profound dreams do not involve national self-determination

or a state of their own. They instead dream of what the most

extreme of the world’s terror armies say they can deliver: the

destruction of Israel, the creation of Palestine from the River

to the Sea, and “Death to America.”

Appendix I

Some of the most prominent and lethal attacks against

America by Palestinians:

February 23, 1970, Halhoul, West Bank. Palestinian Liberation

Organization terrorists open fire on a busload of pilgrims killing

Barbara Ertle of Michigan and wounding two other Americans.

March 28-29, 1970, Beirut, Lebanon. The Popular Front for

the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) fired seven rockets at the U.S.

Embassy, the American Insurance Company, Bank of America and

the John F. Kennedy library.

September 14, 1970, En route to Amman, Jordan. The PFLP

hijacked a TWA flight from Zurich, Switzerland and forced it to land

in Amman. Four American citizens were injured.

March 2, 1973, Khartoum, Sudan. Cleo A. Noel, Jr., U.S. ambassador

to Sudan, and George C. Moore, also a U.S. diplomat, were held

hostage and then killed by terrorists at the U.S. Embassy in Khartoum.

Investigative reporter Jack Anderson wrote a comprehensive expose

of Arafat’s role in these murders in the Washington Post (July 29,

1980), demonstrating with pretty much irrefutable evidence that Yassir

Arafat personally ordered these executions. Events later proved him

correct, when declassified State Department documents revealed that

State Department personnel had known of, and hidden, Arafat’s role.

For detailed discussion, cf. Johnson, Scott, W., “Who Murdered Cleo

Noel?” Front Page Magazine, Nov. 18, 2003; Freedman, Daniel,

“Declassified State Department Document: Arafat Responsible for

Storming Embassy and Murder of Americans in 1973,” New York

Sun, Dec. 28, 2006; Moore, Art, “American diplomats murdered by

Arafat?” WorldNetDaily, March 2, 2003; and Farah, Joseph, “Is U.S.

hiding Arafat murders?” WorldNetDaily, Jan. 17, 2001.

June 29, 1975, Beirut, Lebanon. The PFLP kidnapped the U.S.

military attaché to Lebanon, Ernest Morgan, and demanded food,

clothing and building materials for indigent residents living near Beirut

harbor. The American diplomat was released after an anonymous

benefactor provided food to the neighborhood.

January 1, 1977, Beirut, Lebanon. Frances E. Meloy, U.S.

ambassador to Lebanon, and Robert O.Waring, the U.S. economic

counselor, were kidnapped by PFLP members as they crossed a militia

checkpoint separating the Christian from the Muslim parts of Beirut.

They were later shot to death.

May 4, 1979, Tiberias, Israel. Haim Mark and his wife, Haya, of

New Haven, Connecticut were injured in a PLO bombing attack in

northern Israel.

March 16, 1983, Beirut, Lebanon. Five American Marines were

wounded in a hand grenade attack while on patrol north of Beirut

International Airport. The Islamic Jihad and Al-Amal, a Shi’ite

militia, claimed responsibility for the attack.

September 20, 1984, Aukar, Lebanon. Islamic Jihad detonate a

van full of explosives 30 feet in front of the U.S. Embassy annex

severely damaging the building, killing two U.S. servicemen and

seven Lebanese employees, as well as 5 to 15 non-employees. Twenty

Americans were injured, including U.S. Ambassador Reginald

Bartholomew and visiting British Ambassador David Miers. An

estimated 40 to 50 Lebanese were hurt. The attack came in response

to the U.S. veto September 6 of a U.N. Security Council resolution.

October 7, 1985, Between Alexandria, Egypt and Haifa, Israel.

A four-member PFLP squad took over the Italian cruise ship Achille

Lauro, as it was sailing from Alexandria, Egypt, to Israel. The squad

murdered a disabled U.S. citizen, Leon Klinghoffer, by throwing

him in the ocean. The rest of the passengers were held hostage for

two days and later released after the terrorists turned themselves in

to Egyptian authorities in return for safe passage. But U.S. Navy

fighters intercepted the Egyptian aircraft flying the terrorists to Tunis

and forced it to land at the NATO airbase in Italy, where the terrorists

were arrested. Two of the terrorists were tried in Italy and sentenced

to prison. The Italian authorities however let the two others escape on

diplomatic passports. Abu Abbas, who masterminded the hijacking,

was later convicted to life imprisonment in absentia.

March 30, 1986, Athens, Greece. A bomb exploded on a TWA flight

from Rome as it approached Athens airport. The attack killed four U.S.

citizens who were sucked through a hole made by the blast, although

the plane safely landed. The bombing was attributed to the Fatah

Special Operations Group’s intelligence and security apparatus, headed

by Abdullah Abd al-Hamid Labib, alias Colonel Hawari.

September 5, 1986, Karachi, Pakistan. Abu Nidal members hijacked

a Pan Am flight leaving Karachi, Pakistan bound for Frankfurt,

Germany and New York with 379 passengers, including 89 Americans.

The terrorists forced the plane to land in Larnaca, Cyprus, where they

demanded the release of two Palestinians and a Briton jailed for the

murder of three Israelis there in 1985. The terrorists killed 22 of the

passengers, including two American citizens and wounded many

others. They were caught and indicted by a Washington grand jury

in 1991.

March 6, 1989, Cairo, Egypt. Two explosive devices were safely

removed from the grounds of the American and British Cultural

centers in Cairo. Three organizations were believed to be responsible

for the attack: The January 15 organization, which had sent a letter

bomb to the Israeli ambassador to London in January; the Egyptian

Revolutionary Organization that from out 1984-1986 carried out

attacks against U.S. and Israeli targets; and the Nasserite Organization,

which had attacked British and American targets in 1988.

November 8, 1991, Beirut, Lebanon. A 100-kg car bomb destroyed

the administration building of the American University in Beirut,

killing one person and wounding at least a dozen.

February 23, 1997, New York, United States. A Palestinian gunman

opened fire on tourists at an observation deck atop the Empire State

building in New York, killing a Danish national and wounding

visitors from the United States, Argentina, Switzerland and France

before turning the gun on himself. A handwritten note carried by the

gunman claimed this was a punishment attack against the “enemies

of Palestine.”

June 21, 1998, Beirut, Lebanon. Two hand-grenades were thrown at

the U.S. Embassy in Beirut. No casualties were reported.

June 21, 1998, Beirut, Lebanon. Three rocket-propelled grenades

attached to a crude detonator exploded near the U.S. Embassy

compound in Beirut, causing no casualties and little damage.

August 7, 1998, Nairobi, Kenya. A car bomb exploded at the rear

entrance of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi. The attack killed a total

of 292, including 12 U.S. citizens, and injured over 5,000, among

them six Americans. The perpetrators belonged to al-Qaeda, Osama

bin Ladin’s network.

October 12, 2000, Aden Harbor, Yemen. A suicide squad rammed

the warship the U.S.S. Cole with an explosives-laden boat killing 13

American sailors and injuring 33. The attack was likely by Osama bin

Ladin’s al-Qaeda organization.

October 15, 2003: Bombing of American convoy in the Gaza

Strip: John Branchizio, 37, Mark Parson, 31, and John Martin Linde,

30, were on contract to the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv through the

defense contracting company Dyncorp. U.S. citizens injured: One asyet-

unnamed U.S. citizen (reportedly a diplomat).

Appendix II

Interactions between Arafat and other PLO leaders with

Saddam Hussein:

A Palestinian Authority delegation met in Baghdad in September

1997 with Udai Hussein, son of the Iraqi dictator, “in a warm

and friendly atmosphere.” (Khaled Abu Taomeh, reporting in the

Jerusalem newspaper Yerushalayim, September 5, 1997)

In July 1997, according to the official Iraqi News Agency, in

Baghdad (July 10, 1997), Arafat sent a message which “conveyed

the greetings of the Palestinian president to President Saddam

Hussein and reiterated the Palestinian people’s pride in their

close relations with the Iraqi people and in the principled and

firm Iraqi positions in the face of the challenges and conspiracies

implemented by the enemies of the Arab nation.”

The PLO’s Palestinian Legislative Council denounced the U.S.

missile strike in western Iraq (in response to Iraqi attacks on

Kurds there last year), as “American aggression against the sister

state, Iraq.” The PA also urged Arab states to provide Iraq “any

form of financial aid and moral support...so that sister Iraq can

recapture her natural place in the taking of the national and pan-

Arab responsibility.” (An Nahar, Sept. 5, 1996)

Arafat visited Iraq in 1993, met with Saddam, and hailed “the

greatness of the Iraqi people and their leader.” (Jerusalem Post,

Feb. 3, 1993)

In 1991, the PLO representative in Washington, Hassan Abu

Rahman, circulated a fabricated transcript of a radio interview in

which U.S. General Norman Schwarzkopf supposedly “admitted”

that “the war that our men fought against Saddam Hussein was

for Israel, our men fought to destroy Israel’s main enemy in the

region.” (Jerusalem Post, June 5, 1991)

During the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf crisis, PLO chairman Yasir

Arafat was Saddam Hussein’s closest Arab ally. After the Iraqi

occupation of Kuwait, the PLO denounced America’s opposition

to the occupation, accusing Washington of “beating the drums of a

destructive war and raising tension toward a complete explosion.”

(Jerusalem Post, Aug. 14, 1990). This Palestinian support for

Hussein presents an interesting conundrum. Kuwait was one

of the earliest supporters of Arafat and Palestinian nationalism.

300,000 Palestinians had found shelter and refuge in Kuwait after

the 1948 and 1967 wars with Israel. They enjoyed a high standard

of living and professional success. Yet they rioted in the streets

in support of Saddam on the eve of his invasion and joined with

his forces when they entered the country that had hosted them

and supported them for decades. Their hatred of the West, hatred

of the USA, overrode any sense of gratitude for the hospitality

offered them by their host country. As a result, all 300,000 were

expelled by the Emir, without money or property, as soon as the

Iraqi army had retreated. They ended up as penniless refugees in

Arabia, Jordan, and the West Bank.

According to the London Independent, “much of the logistical

planning for the Iraqi invasion was based on intelligence supplied

by PLO officials and supporters based in Kuwait.” (Jerusalem

Post, Aug. 8, 1990)

According to Yossef Bodansky, The Secret History of the Iraq War,

Arafat was closely involved with Saddam in training special Iraqi

terrorist forces for attacks against Israel and the USA using chemical

and biological weapons of mass destruction. Arafat’s PLO trainers

worked in Syria and in Iraq in partnership with both Saddam and

al-Qaeda to train and deploy Iraqi and Palestinian terrorist cells to

infiltrate Israel, Europe and the USA for such attacks.

Appendix III

Hezbollah attacks against the USA, since the organization

was created by Iran in 1982 (taken from Jewish Virtual

Library):

July 19, 1982, Beirut, Lebanon. Hezbollah members kidnapped

David Dodge, acting president of the American University in Beirut.

After a year in captivity, Dodge was released. Rifat Assad, head of

Syrian Intelligence, helped in the negotiation with the terrorists.

March 16, 1983, Beirut, Lebanon. Five American Marines were

wounded in a hand grenade attack while on patrol north of Beirut

International Airport. The Islamic Jihad and Al-Amal, a Shi’ite

militia, claimed responsibility for the attack.

April 18, 1983, Beirut, Lebanon. A truck-bomb detonated by

a remote control exploded in front of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut,

killing 63 employees, including the CIA’s Middle East director, and

wounding 120. Hezbollah, with financial backing from Iran, was

responsible for the attack.

October 23, 1983, Beirut, Lebanon. A truck loaded with a bomb

crashed into the lobby of the U.S. Marines headquarters in Beirut,

killing 241 soldiers and wounding 81. The attack was carried out by

Hezbollah with the help of Syrian intelligence and financed by Iran.

January 18, 1984, Beirut, Lebanon. Malcolm Kerr, a Lebanese

born American who was president of the American University of

Beirut, was killed by two gunmen outside his office. Hezbollah said

the assassination was part of the organization’s plan to “drive all

Americans out from Lebanon.”

March 7, 1984, Beirut, Lebanon. Hezbollah members kidnapped

Jeremy Levin, Beirut bureau chief of Cable News Network (CNN).

Levin managed to escape and reach Syrian army barracks. He was

later transferred to American hands.

March 8, 1984, Beirut, Lebanon. Three Hezbollah members

kidnapped Reverend Benjamin T. Weir, while he was walking with

his wife in Beirut’s Manara neighborhood. Weir was released after 16

months of captivity with Syrian and Iranian assistance.

March 16, 1984, Beirut, Lebanon. Hezbollah kidnapped William

Buckley, a political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut. Buckley

was supposed to be exchanged for prisoners. However when the

transaction failed to take place, he was reportedly transported to Iran.

Although his body was never found, the U.S. administration declared

the American diplomat dead.

April 12, 1984, Torrejon, Spain. Hezbollah bombed a restaurant

near an U.S. Air Force base in Torrejon, Spain, wounding 83 people.

September 20, 1984, Beirut, Lebanon. A suicide bomb attack on

the U.S. Embassy in East Beirut killed 23 people and injured 21. The

American and British ambassadors were slightly injured in the attack,

attributed to the Iranian backed Hezbollah group.

September 20, 1984, Aukar, Lebanon. Islamic Jihad detonate a

van full of explosives 30 feet in front of the U.S. Embassy annex

severely damaging the building, killing two U.S. servicemen and

seven Lebanese employees, as well as 5 to 15 non-employees. Twenty

Americans were injured, including U.S. Ambassador Reginald

Bartholomew and visiting British Ambassador David Miers. An

estimated 40 to 50 Lebanese were hurt. The attack came in response

to the U.S. veto September 6 of a U.N. Security Council resolution.

December 4, 1984, Tehran, Iran. Hezbollah terrorists hijacked

a Kuwait Airlines plane en route from Dubai, United Emirates, to

Karachi, Pakistan. They demanded the release from Kuwaiti jails of

members of Da’Wa, a group of Shiite extremists serving sentences

for attacks on French and American targets on Kuwaiti territory. The

terrorists forced the pilot to fly to Tehran where the terrorists murdered

two passengers--American Agency for International Development

employees, Charles Hegna and William Stanford. Although an Iranian

special unit ended the incident by storming the plane and arresting the

terrorists, the Iranian government might also have been involved in

the hijacking.

June 14, 1985, Between Athens and Rome. Two Hezbollah members

hijacked a TWA flight en route to Rome from Athens and forced the

pilot to fly to Beirut. The terrorists, believed to belong to Hezbollah,

asked for the release of members of the group Kuwait 17 and 700

Shi’ite prisoners held in Israeli and South Lebanese prisons. The

eight crew members and 145 passengers were held for 17 days during

which one of the hostages, Robert Stethem, a U.S. Navy diver, was

murdered. After being flown twice to Algiers, the aircraft returned

to Beirut and the hostages were released. Later on, four Hezbollah

members were secretly indicted. One of them, the Hezbollah senior

officer Imad Mughniyah, was indicted in absentia.

September 9, 1986, Beirut, Lebanon. Continuing its anti-American

attacks, Hezbollah kidnapped Frank Reed, director of the American

University in Beirut, whom they accused of being “a CIA agent.” He

was released 44 months later. September 12, 1986, Beirut, Lebanon.

Hezbollah kidnapped Joseph Cicippio, the acting comptroller at the

American University in Beirut. Cicippio was released five years later

on December 1991.

October 21, 1986, Beirut, Lebanon. Hezbollah kidnapped Edward

A. Tracy, an American citizen in Beirut. He was released five years

later, on August 1991.

February 17, 1988, Ras-Al-Ein Tyre, Lebanon. Col. William

Higgins, the American chief of the United Nations Truce Supervisory

Organization, was abducted by Hezbollah while driving from Tyre

to Nakura. The hostages demanded the withdrawal of Israeli forces

from Lebanon and the release of all Palestinian and Lebanese held

prisoners in Israel. The U.S. government refused to answer the

request. Hezbollah later claimed they killed Higgins.

March 6, 1989, Cairo, Egypt. Two explosive devices were safely

removed from the grounds of the American and British Cultural

centers in Cairo. Three organizations were believed to be responsible

for the attack: the January 15 organization, which had sent a letter

bomb to the Israeli ambassador to London in January; the Egyptian

Revolutionary Organization that from out 1984-1986 carried out

attacks against U.S. and Israeli targets; and the Nasserite Organization,

which had attacked British and American targets in 1988.

November 8, 1991, Beirut, Lebanon. A 100-kg car bomb destroyed

the administration building of the American University in Beirut,

killing one person and wounding at least a dozen.

June 25, 1996, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. A fuel truck carrying a

bomb exploded outside the U.S. military’s Khobar Towers housing

facility in Dhahran, killing 19 U.S. military personnel and wounding

515 persons, including 240 U.S. personnel. Several groups claimed

responsibility for the attack. In June 2001, a U.S. District Court

in Alexandria, Virginia, identified Saudi Hezbollah as the party

responsible for the attack. The court indicated that the members of the

organization, banned from Saudi Arabia, “frequently met and were

trained in Lebanon, Syria, or Iran” with Libyan help.

Footnotes

1.] Hamas official newspaper, al-Risala [The Prophecy], Sept. 13, 2001,

quoted in MEMRI, Sept. 17, 2001, #268, http://www.memri.org/bin/

articles.cgi?Area=jihad&ID=SP26801

2.] Meir-Levi, David, The Nazi Roots of Palestinian Nationalism and

Islamic Jihad, David Horowitz Freedom Center, 2007

3.] For full documentation and list of victims in chronological order with

brief description of each incident, see Jewish Virtual Library, “American

Victims of Mideast Terrorist Attacks,”

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/usvictims.html

4.] For detailed discussion, cf. Johnson, Scott, W., “Who Murdered

Cleo Noel?” Front Page Magazine, Nov. 18, 2003; Freedman, Daniel,

“Declassified State Department Document: Arafat Responsible for

Storming Embassy and Murder of Americans in 1973,” New York Sun,

Dec. 28, 2006; Moore, Art, “American diplomats murdered by Arafat?”

WorldNetDaily, March 2, 2003; and Farah, Joseph, “Is U.S. hiding Arafat

murders?” WorldNetDaily, Jan. 17, 2001.

5.] A German investigation raised doubt as to the motives of the

celebrations, suggesting that journalists had incited pedestrians to “whoop

it up” in front of cameras. See Erdmann, Von Lisa, in SPIEGEL ONLINE

- 21. September 2001,” Die Macht der TV-Bilder: Was ist die Wahrheit?”

URL: http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,158625,00.html.

This report never gained wide credence or circulation; nor did it ever

explain what might have been the motives of European journalists to

engage in such mendacious maneuvers which would serve only to make

Palestinians look bad, and the journalists’ hosts, the Palestinian Authority,

enraged at them. The UK Times (September 11, 2001) and other British

newspapers and French news services aired full reports of Palestinian

celebration, as well as Arafat’s attempts to squelch it.

6.] cf/ Supra, note #1.

7.] Mr. Abu-Toameh was interviewed by “The Spotlight Group”

(April, 2007) and the interview was broadcast on Public Access Cable

Television, channel 27, Palo Alto, CA, USA during the month of May,

2007.

8.] In-depth exposure of this infiltration in to the USA by Palestinian

and other Arab terrorist groups can be found in Bodansky, Yossef,

Target The West: Terrorism in the World today, 1993; also Diaz, Tom,

& Newman, Barbara, Lightning out of Lebanon (terrorists in USA); and

Emerson, Steven, American Jihad.

9.] : “Northern Virginiastan,” Investors Business Daily, February 26,

2007, and cf. http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?se

cid=1501&status=article&id=257386735556435&view=1

10.] “HOMELAND INSECURITY: Probe finds terrorists in U.S.

‘training for war,’ Neighbors of Muslim encampment fear retaliation if

they report to police” World Net Daily, 2.19.06

11.] Pipes, Daniel “Pentagon Jihadis,” New York Post, September 29,

2003, and cf. www.danielpipes.org | www.danielpipes.org/article/1259

12.] : Asman, David, “Does any terrorist organization pose a greater

threat to Americans than al-Qaeda?’ aired on Fox News, January 20, 2007,

as “Smokescreen: Hezbollah Inside America”; Gaubatz, Dave, “Sleeper

Cells in the United States and Canada, American Thinker, February 5,

2007, and cf. http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/02/sleeper_cells_

in_the_united_st.html; and Lathem, Niles, “N.Y. Hezbollah Hunt,” New

York Post, May 22, 2006

15.] Kushner, Harvey, Holy War On The Home Front: The Secret

Islamic Terror Network In The United States

16.] Klein, Aaron, “Hamas threatens attacks on U.S.” World Net

Daily, Dec. 22, 2006)

17.] Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook, Palestine Media Watch, May

29, 2007; and cf. also DEBKAfile, May 29, 2007

18.] Palestinian terrorist groups number more than a dozen. The

following brief summary of the history of three of them (the PFLP, the

PFLP-GC, and the DFLP) will give the reader an idea of the complexity

of the development of these groups.

The PFLP is the more radical, more Marxist-Leninist, less Islamic

partner of Fatah in the PLO. The Popular Front for the Liberation of

Palestine (PFLP) (Arabic: نيطسلف ريرحتل ةيبعشلا ةهبجلا , al-

Jabhah al-Sha`biyyah li-Tahrīr Filastīn) is a Marxist-Leninist, secular,

nationalist Palestinian political and military organization, founded in

1967. It has consistently been the second-largest of the groups forming

the Palestine Liberation Organization (the largest being Fatah). It has

generally taken a hard line on Palestinian national aspirations, opposing

the more moderate stance of Fatah. It opposed the Oslo Accords and was

for a long time opposed to the idea of a two-state solution to the Israeli-

Palestinian conflict, but in 1999 came to an agreement with the PLO

leadership regarding negotiations with Israel.

The PFLP grew out of the Harakat al-Qawmiyyin al-Arab, or Arab

Nationalist Movement (ANM), founded in 1953 by Dr. George Habash,

a Palestinian Christian, from Lydda/Lod in Palestine. After the Six

Day War of June 1967, this group merged in August with two other

groups, Youth for Revenge and Ahmed Jibril’s Syrian-backed Palestine

Liberation Front, to form the PFLP, with Habash as leader. It had the

financial backing of Syria, and was headquartered there, and one of its

training camps was based in as-Salt, Jordan.

In 1968, Ahmed Jibril broke away from the PFLP to form the Syrianbacked

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command

(PFLP-GC).

In 1969, the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP)

formed as a separate, ostensibly Maoist, organization under Nayef

Hawatmeh and Yasser Abd Rabbo, initially as the PDFLP.

In 1972, the Popular Revolutionary Front for the Liberation of

Palestine was formed following a split in PFLP.

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