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Shalom, shalom, shalom!! Well, whaddaya know: a day after I write about the proliferation in the Arab world of conspiracy theories to the effect that someone (read: Israel) poisoned Arafat, out comes crawling all the shit of the world screaming that we did precisely that. Told ya: give it a few months and this mendacity will join all the other myths that Israel-haters like to reel off at every conceivable opportunity in order to shmear Israel. Oh well.

Anyway, as promised yesterday, here is a pruned timeline delineating Arafat's many "achievements":

As this true scum is buried, Yaser Arafat's "legacy" currently occupies much media attention and hype. We now see many historical briefs and timelines that omit, whitewash or otherwise sanitize his decades-long involvement in unspeakably brutal terror. While they note that Arafat led Fatach and the PLO, the terrorist acts committed by these groups are often ignored.

Groups under Arafat's direct or indirect command--including Fatach, Black September, Tanzim and the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade--indisputably bear ultimate responsibility for hundreds of bombings, hijackings, assassinations and other monstrous attacks, including the 1972 murder of 11 of Israel's Olympic athletes in Munich, the 1973 murder of the American ambassador to Sudan, Cleo Noel, and the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruiseliner (resulting in the murder of wheelchair-bound Leon Klinghoffer (HY"D), who was savagely shot and dumped overboard in a particularly vile display of terrorist Arab brutality).

Typical timelines or synopses of Arafat's appalling life--such as this one in Newsday.com--say something along these lines: "in 2001 - Blamed for not controlling terrorist attacks on Israel by Hamas, other radicals." As is characteristic of many of the outrageously flawed timelines, it implies only that Arafat failed to control terror, not that he was actively involved in organizing, funding and supporting it.

Where is mention of his decades-long involvement in activities which can only be described as terroristic (and remember, he chose terror before ever even trying diplomacy or dialog), his repeatedly declared goal of destroying Israel, and his siphoning of hundreds of millions of dollars from money donated to help the Palestinian people that went instead into his own private accounts? Where is one reminded of Arafat's blood-soaked history and his many missed opportunities to bring peace and a better life to the Palestinian people?

If you truly seek fair, objective, balanced and honest reporting on the Mideast, you dare not refer to Arafat as a "statesman," "freedom fighter," "revolutionary," "visionary" or any number of other ridiculous and nauseating euphemisms. Such encomiums are blatant, shameless lies and about as apposite to Arafat as they would be to Osama bin Laden or Mullah Omar.

Perhaps "lies" is among the best words to describe this utterly abhorrent creature. Even the late Romanian dictator Causescu, a long-time friend and ally of Arafat, once stated to the effect that Arafat could not feel good about himself if he did not lie about something every day. He is (oops... it seems that he WAS) a consummate liar, and any media outlet praising him is consummately lying.

Below is a far more accurate and honest "timeline" for the bloodthirsty, murdering and thieving ghoul named Yaser Arafat. No freedom-loving, fair-minded person should mourn the long-overdue passing of this modern-day Amalekite who, together with his equally ghoulish thugs, spent decades striving to finish the "final solution" that Hitler started.

So, key dates in the life of Yaser "Father of Modern Terrorism" Arafat:

Aug 4, 1929: Arafat born in Cairo. Muhammad Abdel Rahman Abdel Rauf al-Qudwa al-Husseini is fifth child of prosperous merchant, Abdel Raouf al-Qudwa al-Husseini. Arafat will later try to claim he was an autochthonous Palestinian but this attempt to deceive was quickly shown up when his birth records were found in--as said--Cairo, Egypt.

1933: Arafat's mother dies. He and his infant brother are sent to live with uncle in Jerusalem.

1948: Arafat runs arms to Cisjordan.

Late 1950s: Arafat co-founds Fatach, the "Movement for the National Liberation of Palestine."

Jan. 1, 1965: Fatach's first attempted attack in Israel fails. They had attempted to bomb the National Water Carrier.

July 5, 1965: A Fatach cell planted explosives at Mitzpe Massua, near Beit Guvrin; and on the railroad tracks to Jerusalem near Kafr Battir.

1965-1967: Numerous Fatach bomb attacks target Israeli villages, water pipes, railroads. Homes are destroyed and Israelis are killed.

July 1968: Fatach joins and becomes the dominant member of the PLO, an umbrella organization of Palestinian terrorist groups.

Feb. 4, 1969: Arafat appointed Chairman of the Executive Committee of the PLO. It is widespread belief that he reached this position thru bribery and backstabbing, rather than on merit.

Feb. 21, 1970: SwissAir flight 330, bound for Tel Aviv, bombed by PLO-group PFLP in mid-flight, killing 47. Palestinian terrorists headed by Arafat literally invented airplane hijackings.

Sept. 6, 1970: TWA, Pan-Am, and BOAC airplanes hijacked by PLO terrorists. 400 passenger endured hours of untold terror, believing they were going to die.

September 1970: After PLO's creating a state within a state and the resultant months of boiling tension, Arafat and king Husain of Jordan sign a truce. The ink has not yet dried when Arafat's PLO hijacks two further airplanes, KLM and Pan-Am, and has them land in Aman. The PLO keeps agitating the Hashemite regime to the point of civil war. Syrian army crosses the border to aid the Palestinians in trying to overthrow king Husain's administration. Jordan somehow defends itself against odds, kills thousands of Palestinian civilians and terrorists in the process and drives them out of the Kingdom. Arafat and posse flee to Lebanon where they do the exact same thing as in Jordan, which ultimately leads to Israel's invasion of Lebanon.

Sept. 5, 1972: Eleven Israeli athletes brutally murdered at the Munich Olympics by PLO-affiliated terrorists.

March 1, 1973: Palestinian terrorists take over Saudi embassy in Khartoum. The next day two Americans (including the United States' ambassador to Sudan, Cleo Noel) and a Belgian are shot and killed. James J. Welsh, an analyst for the National Security Agency from 1969 through 1974, charges Arafat with direct complicity in these murders.

April 11, 1974: Terrorists sneak into an apartment building in northern Israel and immediately kill eighteen people, half of them children.

May 15, 1974: PLO terrorists infiltrate an Israeli school in Ma'alot and massacre 26 children, wound a further sixty-six.

June 9, 1974 : Palestinian National Council adopts "Phased Plan," which calls for the establishment of a Palestinian state on any territory evacuated by Israel, to be used as a base of operations for destroying the whole of Israel. The PLO reaffirms its rejection of UN Security Council Resolution 242, which calls for a "just and lasting peace" and the "right to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force."

Nov. 13, 1974: Arafat, wearing a gun, addresses UN General Assembly. Only half a year after the two said massacres in Kiryat Shmonah and Ma'alot and many others, the General Assembly greets Arafat with a standing ovation.

1982: Having created a terrorist mini-state in Lebanon, destabilizing that nation as well after Jordan, PLO is expelled after Israel responds to incessant PLO missile attacks against northern Israeli communities. Arafat relocates to Tunis.

Oct. 7, 1985: Italian cruiseliner Achille Lauro is hijacked by Palestinian terrorists. Wheelchair-bound elderly man, Leon Klinghoffer (HY"D), is shot and thrown overboard. Intelligence reports note that instructions originated from Arafat's headquarters in Tunis.

Dec. 12, 1988: Arafat claims to accept Israel's right to exist.

Sept. 1993: Handshake with Israeli Prime Minister Rabin, inaugurating the Oslo Accords. Arafat pledges to stop incitement and terror against and to foster co-existence with Israel.

Throughout the years of negotiations, aside from passing, token efforts, Arafat does nothing to stop Hamas, PFLP, and Islamic Jihad from carrying out thousands of terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians. With Arafat's encouragement and financial support, groups directly under Arafat's command, such as the Tanzim and Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, also carry out terror attacks.

Oct. 21, 1996: Speaking at a rally near Bethlehem, Arafat says: "We know only one word: jihad. Jihad, jihad, jihad. Whoever does not like it can drink from the Dead Sea or from the Sea of Gaza."

April 16, 1998: In a statement published in the official Palestinian Authority newspaper Al-Hayat al-Jadeeda, Arafat is quoted: "O, my dear ones on the occupied lands, relatives and friends throughout Palestine and the diaspora, my colleagues in struggle and in arms, my colleagues in struggle and in jihad...Intensify the revolution and the blessed intifada...We must burn the ground under the feet of the invaders." (Note the date: five years AFTER pledging to curtail terror and end incitement, and two years AFTER Tzahal's withdrawal from PA territories, in accordance with the Oslo Accords.)

July 2000: Arafat rejects peace settlement offered by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, which would have led to a Palestinian state. He does not offer a counterproposal or continue with negotiations in any way.

Sept 2000: New "intifada" is launched. Arafat continues to incite, support and fund terrorism. The pretext is the stroll of Ariel Sharon--a retired major-general and politician--on Judaism's holiest site: the Temple Mount.

Below are some of the attacks since Sept 2000 perpetrated by groups under Arafat's command:
May 29, 2001: Gilad Zar, 41, of Itamar, is shot dead in a terrorist ambush by Fatach Tanzim.
May 29, 2001: Sara Blaustein, 53, and Esther Alvan, 20, of Efrat, were killed in a drive-by shooting south of Jerusalem. Fatach Tanzim claim responsibility for the attack.
June 18, 2001: Doron Zisserman, 38, shot and killed in his car by Fatach sniper fire.
Aug 26, 2001: Dov Rosman, 58, killed in a shooting attack by Fatach terrorist.
Sept 6, 2001: Erez Merhavi, 23, killed in a Fatach Tanzim ambush shooting near Hadera while driving to a wedding.
Sept 20, 2001: Sarit Amrani, 26, killed by Fatach terrorist snipers as she was traveling in an auto with her husband and 3 children.
Oct 4, 2001: 3 killed, 13 wounded, when a Fatach terrorist, dressed as an Israeli paratrooper, opens fire on Israeli civilians waiting at the central bus station in Afula.
Nov 27, 2001: 2 killed, 50 injured when two Palestinian terrorists open fire with Kalashnikov assault rifles on a crowd of people near the central bus station in Afula. Fatach and the Islamic Jihad claim joint responsibility.
Nov 29, 2001: 3 killed and 9 wounded in a suicide bombing on an Egged 823 bus en route from Nazereth to Tel Aviv near the city of Hadera. The Islamic Jihad and Fatach claim responsibility for the attack.
Dec 12, 2001: 11 killed and 30 wounded when three terrorists attack a bus and several passenger automobiles with a roadside bomb, anti-tank grenades, and light arms fire near the entrance to Emmanuel in Shomron. Both Fatach and Chamas claim responsibility for the attack.
Jan. 3, 2002: Israelis intercept the Karine-A, a ship loaded with 50 tons of mortars, rocket launchers, anti-tank mines and other weapons intended for the Palestinian war against the Israelis. The captain admits he was under the command of the Palestinian Authority.
Jan 15, 2002: Avi Boaz, 71, an American citizen, is kidnapped at a PA security checkpoint in Beit Jala. His bullet-riddled body is found in a car near Bethlehem. The Fatach's Al-Aqsa Brigades claim responsibility for the murder.
Jan 15, 2002: Yoela Chen, 45, is shot dead by an Al-Aqsa Brigade terrorist.
Jan 17, 2002: 6 killed, 35 wounded when a Fatach terrorist bursts into a bat mitzvah reception in a banquet hall in Hadera opening fire with an M-16 assault rifle.
Jan 22, 2002: 2 killed, 40 injured when a Fatach terrorist opens fire with an M-16 assault rifle near a bus stop in downtown Jerusalem.
Jan. 27, 2002: One person is killed and more than 150 are wounded by a female Fatach suicide bomber in the center of Jerusalem.
Feb 6, 2002: A mother and her 11 year old daughter are murdered in their home by a Palestinian terrorist disguised in an IDF uniform. Both Fatach and Chamas claim responsibility.
Feb 18, 2002: Ahuva Amergi, 30, is killed and a 60-year old man injured when a Palestinian terrorist opens fire on her car. Maj. Mor Elraz, 25, and St.-Sgt. Amir Mansouri, 21--who come to their assistance-are killed while trying to intercept the terrorist. The terrorist is then killed when the explosives he was carrying are detonated. The Fatach Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claim responsibility for the attack.
Feb 22, 2002: Valery Ahmir, 59, is killed by terrorists in a Fatach drive-by shooting north of Jerusalem as he returns home from work.
Feb 25, 2002: Avraham Fish, 65, and Aharon Gorov, 46, are killed in a Fatach terrorist shooting attack south of Bethlehem. Fish's daughter, 9 months pregnant, is seriously injured but subsequently gives birth to a healthy baby girl. Barukh haShem!
Feb 25, 2002: Police officer 1st Sgt. Galit Arbiv, 21, died after being fatally shot,when a Fatach terrorist opens fire at a bus stop in the Neveh Ya'akov residential neighbhorhood in northern Jerusalem. Eight others are injured.
Feb 27, 2002: Gad Rejwan, 34, of Jerusalem, is shot and killed by one of his Palestinian employees in a factory north of Jerusalem. Two Fatach groups issue a joint statement taking responsibility for the murder.
March 2, 2002: A suicide bombing by Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Jerusalem kills 11 people and injurs more than 50. (Bear in mind that the ultra-Orthodox are also anti-Zionist and anti-Israel.)
Mar 5, 2002: 3 are killed and over 30 people wounded in Tel Aviv when a Fatach terrorist opens fire on two adjacent restaurants shortly after 0200 hours.
Mar 5, 2002: Devorah Friedman, 45, of Efrat, is killed and her husband injured in a Fatach shooting attack on the Bethlehem bypass "tunnel road", south of Jerusalem.
Mar 9, 2002: Avia Malka, 9 months, and Israel Yihye, 27, are killed and about 50 people are injured when two Fatach terrorists open fire and throw grenades at automobiles and pedestrians in the coastal city of Netanya on Saturday evening, close to the city's boardwalk and hotels.
March 21, 2002: An Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade suicide bomber explodes himself in a crowd of shoppers in Jerusalem, killing 3 and injuring 86.
March 29, 2002: Two killed and 28 injured when a female Fatach suicide bomber blows herself up in a Jerusalem supermarket.
March 30, 2002: One killed and 30 injured in an Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.
April 12, 2002: Six killed and 104 wounded when a female Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade homicide bomber blows herself up at a bus stop on Jaffa road at the entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda open-air market.
May 27, 2002: Ruth Peled, 56, of Herzliya and her infant granddaughter, aged 14 months, are killed and 37 people are injured when a Fatach homicide bomber detonates himself near an ice cream parlor outside a shopping mall in Petach Tiqva.
May 28, 2002: Albert Maloul, 50, of Jerusalem, is killed when shots are fired by Fatach terrorists at the auto in which he was traveling south on the Ramallah bypass road.
May 28, 2002: Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade terrorists kill Netanel Riachi, 17, Gilad Stiglitz, 14, and Avraham Siton, 17, three yeshiva high school students playing basketball.
June 19, 2002: Seven people are killed and 37 injured when a Fatach homicide bomber blows himself up at a crowded bus stop and hitchhiking post in the French Hill neighborhood of Jerusalem.
June 20, 2002: Rachel Shabo, 40, and three of her sons--Neria, 16, Zvika, 12, and Avishai, 5--as well as a neighbor, Yosef Twito, 31, who came to their aid, are murdered when a terrorist enters their home in Itamar, south of Nablus, and opens fire. Two other children are injured, as well as two soldiers. The PFLP and the Fatach Al-Aqsa Brigades claim responsibility for the attack.
July 25, 2002: Rabbi Elimelech Shapira, 43, is killed in a Fatach shooting attack near the West Bank community of Alei Zahav.
July 26, 2002: St.-Sgt. Elazar Lebovitch, 21, of Chevron; Rabbi Yosef Dikstein, 45, of Psagot, his wife Hannah, 42, and their 9-year-old son Shuv'el Zion are killed in a Fatach Al-Aqsa Brigade shooting attack south of Chevron. Two other of their children are injured.
July 30, 2002: Shlomo Odesser, 60, and his brother Mordechai, 52, both of Tapuach in Samaria, are shot and killed when their truck comes under Fatach fire in the West Bank village of Jama'in.
Aug 4, 2002: 2 killed and 17 wounded when a Fatach terrorist opens fire with a pistol near the Damascus Gate of Jerusalem's Old City.
Aug 5, 2002: Avi Wolanski (29) and his wife Avital (27), of Eli, are killed and one of their children, aged 3, is injured when terrorists open fire on their car as they were traveling on the Ramallah-Nablus road in Shomron. The Martyrs of the Palestinian Popular Army--a splinter group associated with Arafat's Fatach movement--claims responsibility for the attack.
Aug 10, 2002: Yafit Herenstein, 31, of Moshav Mechora in the Jordan Valley, is killed and her husband, Arno, seriously wounded when a Fatach terrorist infiltrates the moshav and opens fire outside their home.
Sept 18, 2002: Yosef Ajami, 36, is killed when Fatach terrorists open fire on his automobile near Mevo Dotan, north of Jenin in the West Bank.
Oct 29, 2002: Three people, including two 14-year-olds, are shot to death by a Fatach terrorist.
Nov 10, 2002: Revital Ohayon, 34, and her two sons, Matan, 5, and Noam, 4, as well as Yitzhak Dori, 44--all of Kibbutz Metzer--and Tirza Damari, 42, are killed when a Fatach terrorist infiltrates the kibbutz, located east of Hadera near the Green Line, and opens fire.
Nov 28, 2002: 5 killed and 40 wounded when two Fatach terrorists open fire and throw grenades at the Likud polling station in Beit She'an, near the central bus station, where party members were casting their votes in the Liqud primary.
Apr 24, 2003: 1 is killed and 13 are wounded in a homicide bombing outside the train station in Kfar Sava. Groups related to the Fatach Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the PFLP claim joint responsibility for the attack.
May 5, 2003: Gideon Lichterman, 27, is killed and two other passengers--his six-year-old daughter Moriah and a reserve soldier--are seriously wounded when Fatach terrorists fire shots at their vehicle in Shomron.
May 19, 2003: 3 are killed and 70 wounded in a homicide bombing at the entrance to the Amakim Mall in Afula. The Islamic Jihad and the Fatach al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades both claim responsibility for the attack.
Aug 29, 2003: Shalom Har-Melekh, 25, is killed in a Fatach shooting attack while driving northeast of Ramallah. His wife, Limor, who is seven months pregnant, sustains moderate injuries, and gives birth to a baby girl by Caesarean section. Mazel tov!
Jan 29, 2004: 11 people are killed and over 50 wounded in a homicide bombing of an Egged bus no. 19 at the corner of Gaza and Arlozorov streets in Jerusalem. Both the Fatach-related Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and Chamas claim responsibility for the attack.
Mar 14, 2004: 10 are killed and 16 wounded in a double homicide bombing at Ashdod Port. Chamas and Fatach claim responsibility for the attack.
May 2, 2004: Tali Hatuel, 34, and her daughters--Hila, 11, Hadar, 9, Roni, 7, and Merav, 2--of Katif in the Gaza Strip are killed when two Palestinian terrorists fire on an Israeli auto at the entrance to the Gaza Strip settlement bloc of Gush Katif. These totally innocent souls were systematically shot one-by-one at point-blank range. Fatach and Islamic Jihad claim joint responsibility for this breathtakingly brutal attack.

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IF YOU WOULD LIKE THESE ENCAPSULATED IN A NICE, COMPACT PRESENTATION, SEE:

YASER ARAFAT'S DARK LEGACY


May Arafat's name be forever obliterated from the annals of history.

Shabat shalom.

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