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Kramer: Arafat, Peace And The Prize
"On My Mind" April 7, 2002
NEW YORK (CBS)
Each week on Sunday Edition, CBS 2's Marcia Kramer
shares what's "On My Mind:"
The world sympathy for Yasser Arafat stuns me.
His whole life has been based on finding ways to
kill Jews, just because they are Jews. And if recent
events are any indication nothing has changed.
Ignored in the international hand wringing over the
fact that the Israeli's have him isolated in
Ramallah are a number of startling discoveries. When
the Israeli's raided Arafat's headquarters they
found papers signed by Arafat, in his own hand,
authorizing payments to people organizing suicide
bomb attacks.
They also found a cache of forged shekels, the
Israeli currency, which were being used to buy
explosives and other weapons of destruction. Pay
attention, the documents and the funny money weren't
found lying in the road or in some safe house in
Gaza, they were found in Yasser Arafat's personal
headquarters.
There is no way that Arafat can claim he didn't know
anything about them or about plots to kill Jews. He
signed the documents with his own hand. He, Yasser
Arafat, the man who shared a Nobel Peace Prize, was
and is, actively participating in plots to kill
Jews.
This is not a man who wants peace. This is not a
statesman, this is a man who would, like nothing
better than for all Jews to be erased from the face
of the earth. Think about this? Does a man who truly
wants peace send wave after wave of suicide bombers
to kill innocent civilians? The answer is no.
And what does it say about Arafat's respect for
Palestinian life that he is willing to throw away
the lives of young people by turning them into human
bombs. Personally, I think Arafat's use of suicide
bombers, with their ability to strike anywhere,
anytime, to cause maximum fear and mayhem, is a
calculated strategy to force the Israelis to defend
themselves. And when the Israeli's do defend
themselves, as they are doing now, Arafat cries to
the world community that he is being unfairly
attacked. I think it's time for people to realize
that the only word that should be used to describe
Yasser Arafat is terrorist. And I don't think
terrorists should get the Nobel Peace Prize. If you
ask me the Nobel committee ought to think about
revoking Arafat's prize. Because to use the words
Arafat and peace in the same sentence is an
oxymoron.
I'm Marcia Kramer and that's what’s on my mind.
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