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To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (38442)	9/19/2003 5:42:04 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

<<it's not fair to let you do all the ranting.>> Yeah, someone got to do it. I don't know where MQ is since he left me with the burden of doing the ranting here.

To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (38442)	9/19/2003 7:00:30 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Respond to of 74559

;o) members.rogers.com

To: smolejv@gmx.net who wrote (38442)	9/19/2003 9:39:48 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

OT /Dolinar, in continuation of my previous post - some interesting take on certain Europeans and their leftist movement. But then, in the early 1970s, came Arafat with his headdress, stubble and gun, proclaiming that if one was a victim of Jews, then it was right to kill them. He quickly became the toast of Europe. Jew-murder was no longer a base act perpetrated by brownshirts, fascists; it was now a noble, revolutionary deed performed by the downtrodden and desperate. One could now fete and honor a Jew-murderer and at the same time feel virtuous, a friend of the oppressed. No wonder most of Western Europe hasn’t gotten over its fondness or, at best, ambivalence toward Arafat to this day, as dignitaries continue to go on pilgrimage to his Ramallah compound and still proclaim him a requirement of peace. No amount of documentary evidence of Arafat’s responsibility for the terror seems to impress such people, and why should it? The whole point in the first place was that Arafat redeemed Jew-killing and made it admirable again. For the Left in general, Arafat provided a vivid avatar of the revolutionary hero in a time when the species was getting scarce. Joe was gone and the Soviet Union had lost most of its chic; Ho, too, was gone, and it was hard to work up much enthusiasm for his successors in liberated South Vietnam; Mao died and his luster quickly dimmed. But Castro was still there — and Arafat. Here was a self-declared leader of a dark-skinned, Third World people that laid claim to being expelled, oppressed and poverty-stricken all at once — and the victims of a Jewish colonial outpost backed up by the Great Satan himself! Marx must have held wild parties in his grave. And the more Arafat sent his righteous minions to shoot, stab, bomb, and generally butcher the colonialist-capitalist usurpers of his land, the more he became the darling of the international Left, which to this day idolizes him and sends human shields to defend his forces against the ‘evil depredations’ of the Israeli army. Message 19322574