Jerusalem Cloakroom #148

The Palestinian Authority's
"American File"

by Yoram Ettinger
yoramtex@netvision.net.il

February 8, 2004
 

• September 11, 2001 was a day of joy in the PA. The apprehension of Saddam was a day of gloom and anti-US demonstrations in the PA. A central square in Jenin was named after Ali Jafar Al Na`amani, the Iraqi homicide-bomber, who murdered four US Marines in Najaf on March 29, 2003.
   

• Official PA education, media and clergy systems have promoted anti-US hate education, heralding bin Laden and Saddam and urging anti-US terrorism. A typical anti-US sermon was given on January 2, 2004, by PA clergies, at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, condemning “the modern-day Tatars, the Big Satan, which has destroyed Baghdad”. The sermon was broadcast live by PA TV and radio, and urged Moslems to launch a Holy War against the US.
   

• The PA/PLO have been allies of bin Laden, Saddam, Khomeini and his successors, N. Korea and other rogue regimes in the Middle East and beyond. Palestinian terrorists confronted the US in Afghanistan and Iraq. The PA/PLO’s ideological mentors were allies of the Nazis and of ruthless Communist regimes.
   

• Three US Attaché's were murdered, by PA-harbored Palestinian terrorists, on October 15, 2003, upon entering the Gaza Strip in a diplomatic convoy. More US citizens, visiting or residing in Israel, were murdered by Palestinian terrorists, as were Leon Klinghoffer (1985) and the US ambassador to Sudan and his deputy (1972).
   

• The PA/PLO, which introduced hijacking, has harbored – and has led – the largest anti-US terrorist base in the world. It is a test bed for “modern day terrorism”, such as homicide and car bombing.
   

• The PA has become a role-model of suppression of (Palestinian) human rights.
   

• The PA regime has caused an unprecedented flight of Christians from Bethlehem, Beit Jallah and Ramallah.
   

• The primary feature of anti-US Islamic terrorism is State Sponsorship. The track record of the PA clarifies that the establishment of a Palestinian State and the War on Terrorism constitutes an oxymoron.