Here is one more:
What the Media Missed in Jenin
By Emanuel Winston
There has been much in the news about Israel's attack on Palestinian refugee camps (which are really military training camps surrounded by civilian human shields).
The international media have landed on this like a blue fly on rot, and are again using Israel's defensive actions as a stick to beat the Jewish state for supposed "war crimes."
The Israelis speak of the refugee as incubators of terrorists as, indeed, they are.
But, something so obvious has slipped by the pundits and deep thinkers at the U.S. State Department. It also slipped by The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, NBC, BBC, NPR and all the rest of the hostile media.
First, try to think about the headline: "Israel invades Palestinian refugee camps".
The operative words are "refugee camps". Why are there refugee camps after Oslo gave autonomy to the Palestinian Authority?
Yassir Arafat, despite hundreds of millions of dollars poured into his PA organization, has kept the camps intact - as if he still had no authority over the camps. He kept them in place, despite the fact that it was Arafat who was given total control over the camps along with the right and responsibility to change them.
These were the refugee camps that Israel had offered to renovate into decent housing - which UNRWA (United Nations refugee Welfare Association) refused to allow. These were the squalid camps the reporters delighted in describing with crying Arab women.
But, wait!
The camps which Arafat had bitterly complained about and kept as ugly show pieces had been in Arafat's hands for years.
This was Area A, gifted to Arafat by Peres and Rabin through Oslo since September 13, 1993. Yet, Arafat, who now had complete control over the refugee camps did virtually nothing for the Palestinians. The millions poured in from Europe and at the urging of the U.S. State Department, America made large contributions.
But, the money stopped at Arafat's private bank accounts and into the PA. That's right, the plight of the inhabitants is evidence that Arafat and his corrupt cronies have been stealing billions of dollars of the very aid money intended to improve the lives of Palestinians he rules.
The fetid alleys remained fetid alleys. The poor still lived in squalid apartments. Arafat and his PA lived luxuriously in newly built villas, with expensive cars, excellent food and plenty of it. The European donors, the E.U., the U.N., the U.S. State Department all knew that the refugee camps remained just as Arafat and the Arab leaders had always kept them as miserable showplaces for the accommodating media who fed on the manipulated misery of the Palestinians.
Arafat had the money, the control, the authority and the support of the European Nations.
The U.S. State Department protected him and insured that he receive his yearly $100 million American tax-payers' dollars while he broke every agreement. He could have turned the camps from the ugliness he kept them in to liveable towns.
He could have rebuilt these slum like refugee camps into a place with parks and decent housing. His (Arafat's) present fortune from years of gifts from Donor Countries and extortion is estimated at $40 Billion dollars, in cash, properties, the taxes collected in Israel on Palestinian labor.
We all knew the Palestinian refugee camps didn't need to exist but, there was the Arab Muslim countries insistence that they be kept intact. The Arab nations guaranteed that they would never become citizens of any Arab or Muslim country to which they migrated. They were far more valuable as a theatrical prop. However, once the camps were turned over to
Arafat, why didn't he take them out of the status of refugee camps?
The commanding answer is that they served as superb Military Training camps, supplied angry young men and women, with children ready as human shields to throw stones to hide the older shooter. No one wanted to go into them to see what was being done there.
Their very squalidness hid the building up of weapons 'stockpiles and bomb- making factories in the basements. The poorest families lived on the first floor or two. Arafat's Para-Military lived on the upper floor where they developed their snipers 'nests.
And the population of the camps were the material to mold into Arafat's terrorists, to compete over becoming different terror organizations, to feed their impressionable children the propaganda intended to teach them to hate and kill Jews. This is where they held their summer military camps for the children. This is where they grew their cadre of suicide bombers.
Wasn't the idea of turning over land for peace to also turn over the responsibility for the Palestinian population?
Israel didn't want to control a hostile people.
The refugee camps were placed in Arafat's hands and he kept them frozen in poverty. This was a valuable resource of new young terrorists, prodded by warped textbooks and terrorist training.
Turning the camps into normal towns and cities would deprive Arafat of his 91million 'suicide bombers and killers who, when they reach maturity, would be invaluable to penetrate the West for major acts of terror. The camps did produce an atmosphere of euphoria for killing and so, under Arafat, they remained in place.
The media never asked this simple question about the existence of the camps: Why?
Is it because they never thought about it?
I don't think so. Granted the media are often slow but many are plugged into the State Department where the Arafat action is.
But how could they miss the obvious? Did we all just get used to the refugee camps being there?
When they could be changed, elevated -- not one of Arafat's supporters noticed, or wanted to notice.
The camps belong to Arafat and what Arafat wants, Arafat gets: terrorist training and support facilities, based on the human misery of the population he rules, hidden by squalor, and all designed to destroy Israel.
the-idler.com |
