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To: Frederick Langford who wrote (1421)	4/10/2002 1:49:04 PM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6945

Mistaken assertions that Arafat has not condemned terror "in Arabic": electronicintifada.net

To: Frederick Langford who wrote (1421)	4/10/2002 2:13:59 PM
From: Thomas M.	Respond to of 6945

You're going to have to come up with someone a little more reliable than Cal Thomas. Arafat's "bookkeeping" is reminiscent of the way the Nazis kept meticulous records while they systematically murdered Jews. Middle East commentator Emanuel Winston, in an essay he emailed to me (soon to be posted at freeman.io.com), writes of the "purchase orders" for Jews issued by German factories to the Waffen SS: "The SS, in turn, issued a transfer purchase order for the Jewish commodity, sometimes specifying special skills. The German factories created miniature concentration camps adjacent to the factory. There the Jewish prisoners were worked to death, with starvation rations and extended work hours and scanty clothing in all weather. All of this was properly documented with purchase orders." Obviously, anyone with a brain can see how silly this analogy this is. Every army in the world keeps track of who pays for its bullets. Somehow, Cal is trying to compare this with the Holocaust, thus revealing how stupid he thinks his audience is (he's correct). The more relevant analogy here is Israel to Nazi Germany, as Israel tries to purify its society of non-Jews and as it tries to take land from its neighbors by military force. One of the senior activists, Ra'ed al-Karmi, was head of the terror infrastructure No, he was the head of the Al-Aqsa Brigade, who was fighting the occupation. The Brigade considered his assassination a declaration of war, and launched a series of suicide bombings. A statement issued by Al-Aqsa Martyrs Troops Vows Revenge: jmcc.org <<< Israel's own briefing document notes the milestone at which the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades began targeting Israeli civilians within Israel: "Following the death of local Tanzim [sic] leader Ra'ad Karmi on the 19th [sic: actually the 14th] of January 2002, the Fatah [sic] changed its modus operandi from shooting attacks on roads to suicide bombings in Israeli cities, and terrorist attacks against IDF checkpoints." electronicintifada.net <<< Israeli Deputy Defence Minister Dalya Rabin, daughter of the late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, admitted in an interview with the Israeli army that Al-Karmi's murder triggered the Khadera killings. "There was quiet for three weeks, and I believe the calm would have lasted longer if we hadn't assassinated Al- Karmi," she said. >>> ahram.org.eg Tom