Today Fatah members in Dehaisheh, outside Bethlehem
celebrated the terror group’s special day by parading around in paramilitary
uniforms, khafiiyehs and ski caps while brandishing rifles, axes, mock-up rockets
and other terror paraphernalia.
Still according to the wise men in high places, like Israel’s
President Shimon Peres, Fatah and its leader Mahmoud Abbas are peaceful
moderates. Israel is supposed to surrender its capital city and expel more than
a half a million Jews from their homes and land in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria
in order to appease these Palestinian peaceniks.
Today’s footage of the Fatah marches in places like Dehaisheh
sparked some attention from the Israeli media. So too, the Israeli media gave
some coverage to the fact that the commemorative posters Fatah released a couple weeks ago to celebrate today’s 48th “birthday”, included maps with all
of Israel labeled as Palestine, (except for the Golan Heights which they always
give to Syria).
But what so far has gone unnoticed by the media here — and
of course the media worldwide – is that today is not the anniversary of
anything. It is not Fatah’s 48th birthday. Arafat established Fatah
in either 1957 or 1959 in Kuwait.
On the night of December 31, 1964-January 1,
1965, Fatah conducted its first terrorist attack against Israel. So today’s 48th
birthday celebrations are not honoring Fatah’s birth, but Fatah’s first
terrorist attack, which took place 48 years ago, yesterday. Incidentally, and rather poetically, the attack was a failed attempt to bomb Israel’s national water carrier, (that is, to poison Israel’s wells…).
Is it really necessary still to point out that a group that
celebrates the anniversary not of its establishment but of its first terrorist
attack is not a moderate organization? That is, it isn’t moderate except for those who define “moderate” as violent,
murderous, intractable, and evil.
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