A short look at the current state of the PLO
1. Yasser Arafat
Much of the information about Yasser Arafat is contradictory and erroneous, designed to hide Arafat's past and present actions from the scrutiny that politicians have to go through in modern days. Such facts as Arafat's date and place of birth are hidden from public eye. On more than one occasion Arafat claimed that he was born in Gaza, while at the same time, he often said that he was "born in a Jerusalem house destroyed by Jews." American and Israeli intelligence files have evidence that in 1928 in Cairo a child by the name of Abed a-Rachman Abed a-Rauf Arafat al-Qudwah al-Husseini (Arafat's real name) was born.
During the war, Arafat's relative, Haj Amin Al Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem, collaborated with Adolf Hitler and the Al Husseini family was hunted by the British, which prompted them to relocate to Germany until the end of the WWII. Young Abed a-Rachman Abeda-Rauf Arafat al-Qudwah al-Husseini realized the situation and in his first media relations move he decided that for self-promotional reasons he had to distance himself from Haj Amin Al Husseini. While going to Cairo University, he changed his name to Yasser Arafat, which is how he's known to most Westerners. That, however, isn't the only name Al Husseini uses. He is also known as Abu Mohammed, the Doctor, Fauzi Arafat, Dr. Husseini and (by most Arabs) Abu Amar.
On many occasions, Arafat claimed to have fought with Al-Husseini's forces around Jerusalem in 1947-48, but neither he, nor anyone else was able to confirm it. As you will see by further reading this report, lack of proof never stopped Arafat from making claims. "It may be that he doesn't believe that anyone in the West actually reads his statements and listens to his broadcasts, but they certainly provide a different portrait of Arafat from the ameliocrative and often reasonable face he tries so hard to present to the West," wrote the authors of, "Inside the PLO."
As a young man, Arafat didn't have much luck with women (there is no evidence of him having a relationship with a woman in his youth. There is considerable evidence that suggests that Arafat is a homosexual or at least a bisexual), but he was a powerful speaker that impressed people and recruited terrorists with his oratory. As a student at Cairo college, Arafat was able to convince a large group of Palestinian students to start a military organization to "free Palestine."
2. Fatah
Early on the morning of Sunday, January 3, 1965, Ayeh Zizhik, an employee of Mekorot, Israel's national water company, discovered a suspicious object floating in a canal in the Beit Netofa Valley. The canal carried fresh water from the Jordan River more than two hundred miles to the Negev desert and was a vital element in Israel's program to "make the desert bloom."
The object turned out to be an explosive device that had not gone off because of flaws in its assembly. Two days later Fatah claimed credit for the operation. "It was the first salvo of the Palestinian revolution," declared a PLO official.
Fatah was born on October 10, 1956 in Kuwait when a small group of Palestinian activists, under the leadership of Yasser Arafat, met and hammered out their short term goals (the ultimate goal was, of course, the creation of a Palestinian state on top of Israeli ruins) and ways to achieve them. From its start, Fatah has always been a terrorist organization. In his autobiography, Abu Iyad (one of its founding fathers of Fatah and Arafat's closest ally since the death of Abu Jihad) wrote:
Fatah's young men . . . unable to wage classic guerrilla warfare across Israel's borders . . . insisted on carrying out a revolutionary violence of another kind, commonly known elsewhere as "terrorism." . . . To keep the violence from taking an individualistic and anarchic form, there was no other way than to channel the wave of anger, to structure it and give it political content.
The first 9 years, Fatah wasn't very well-known, as they took their time to built up the organization. But since 1965, a wave of horrific crimes by Fatah and the PLO swept the world. By 1980, Fatah was about 12 thousand people strong. It had an army, called Force 17, a highly developed intellegence service and a 10 billion dollar budget, including $2 billion in the Chairman's Secret Fund, money that Arafat could spent any way he wanted without being questioned.
3. Other parts of the PLO
Today, Fatah is only a small part of the PLO (Fatah joined the PLO in 1969). The Palestine Liberation Organization also includes Popular Front for Liberation of Palestine (a terrorist group that just a few of months ago launched a rocket attack on the northern part of Israel), Revolutionary Palestinian Communist Party, Arab Revolutionary Brigades, Al-Sa'iqa, Democratic Front for Liberation of Palestine, Palestine Liberation Front, Popular Struggle Front, Popular Arab Liberation Movement, Arab Liberation Front, Palestinian Liberation Army, Arab Organization of Fifteen May, etc. All PLO organizations have limited sovereignty, but Yasser Arafat is still the leader of them all. He controls Fatah more than other parts of the Palestine Liberation Organization, but to call the rest of the PLO independent of Yasser Arafat would be laughable. What else, all these organization are communist-inclined. Many of their leaders studied in Russia and practically all of them read and admired the works of Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin and other famous communist thinkers. Some of them are more violent than others, but all have committed (and in many cases continue to commit) terrorist acts against Israel. As Itzhak Rabin noted in late 1980's, "the Palestinian community has its more extreme elements and less extreme elements, and argue among themselves over almost every issue. But there is no argument over the final goal."
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