Amerikai Magyar Hírlap, 2004 (16. évfolyam, 5-50. szám)

2004-11-19 / 45. szám

TM RL Rl ^R^R. RL ®®> ^R^R ®L aiy ^ mgF ?:„t-' ;"' ■ Arafat the Monster YASSER ARAFAT died at age 75, lying in bed surrounded by familiar faces. He left this world peacefully, unlike the thou­sands of victims he sent to early graves. In a better world, the PLO chief would have met his end on a gallows, hanged for mass murder much as the Nazi chiefs were hanged at Nuremberg. In a better world, the French president would not have paid a visit to the bedside of such a monster. In a better world, George Bush would not have said, on hearing the first reports that Arafat had died, “God bless his soul.” God bless his soul? What a grotesque idea! Bless the soul of the man who brought modern terrorism to the world? Who sent his agents to slaughter athletes at the Olympics, blow airliners out of the sky, bomb schools and piz­zerias, machine-gun passengers in airline terminals? Who lied, cheated, and stole without com­punction? Who inculcated the vilest culture of Jew-hatred since the Third Reich? Human beings might stoop to bless a creature so evil - as indeed Arafat was blessed, with money, deference, even a Nobel Prize — but God, I am quite sure, will damn him for eternity. Arafat always inspired flights of nonsense from Western jour­nalists, and his last two weeks were no exception. Derek Brown wrote in The Guardian that Arafat’s “undis­puted courage as a guerrilla leader” was exceeded only “by his extraordinary courage” as a peace negotiator. But it is an odd kind of courage that expresses itself in shooting unarmed victims — or in signing peace accords and then flagrantly violating their terms. Another commentator, col­umnist Gwynne Dyer, asked, “So what did Arafat do right?” The answer: He drew worldwide attention to the Palestinian cause, “for the most part by successful acts of terror.” In other words, butchering innocent human beings was “right,” since it served an ulterior political motive. No doubt that thought brings daily comfort to all those who were forced to bury a child, parent, or spouse because of Arafat’s “suc­cessful” terrorism. Some journalists couldn’t wait for Arafat’s actual death to begin weeping for him. Take the BBC’s Barbara Plett, who burst into tears on the day he was airlifted out of the West Bank. “When the heli­copter carrying the frail old man rose above his ruined compound,” Plett reported from Ramallah, “I started to cry.” Normal people don’t weep for brutal murderers, but Plett made it clear that her empathy for Arafat — whom she praised as “a symbol of Palestin­ian unity, steadfastness, and resis­tance” — was heartfelt: “I remember well when the Israelis re-conquered the West Bank more than two years ago, how they drove their tanks and bulldozers into Mr. Arafat’s headquarters, trapping him in a few rooms, and throwing a military curtain around Ramal­lah. I remember how Palestinians admired his refusal to flee under fire. They told me: 'Our leader is sharing our pain, we are all under the same siege.’ And so was I.” Such is the state of journalism at the BBC, whose reporters do not seem to have any trouble report­ing, dry-eyed, on the plight of Arafat’s victims. (That is, when they mention them - which Plett’s teary bon voyage to Arafat did not.) And what about those vic­tims? Why were they scarcely remembered in this Arafat death watch? How is it possible to reflect on Arafat’s most enduring legacy — the rise of modern terrorism — without recalling the legions of men, women, and children whose lives he and his followers destroyed? If Osama bin Laden were on his deathbed, would we neglect to mention all those he murdered on 9/11? It would take an encyclopedia to catalog all of the evil Arafat committed. But that is no excuse for not trying to recall at least some of it. Perhaps his signal contribu­tion to the practice of political terror was the introduction of warfare against children. On one black date in May 1974, three PLO terrorists slipped from Lebanon into the northern Israeli town of Ma’alot. They murdered two parents and a child whom they found at home, then seized a local school, taking more than 100 boys and girls hostage and threatening to kill them unless a number of imprisoned terror­ists were released. When Israeli troops attempted a rescue, the terrorists exploded hand grenades and opened fire on the students. By the time the horror ended, 25 people were dead; 21 of them were children. Thirty years later, no one speaks of Ma’alot anymore. The dead children have been forgot­ten. Everyone knows Arafat’s name, but who ever recalls the names of his victims? So let us recall them: liana Turgeman. Rachel Aputa. Yoch­­eved Mazoz. Sarah Ben-Shim’on. Yona Sabag. Yafa Cohen. Shoshana Cohen. Michal Sitrok. Malka Amrosy. Aviva Saada. Yocheved Diyi. Yaakov Levi. Yaakov Kabla. Rina Cohen. liana Ne’eman. Sarah Madar. Tamar Dahan. Sarah Soper. Lili Morad. David Madar. Yehudit Madar. The 21 dead children of Ma’alot — 21 of the thousands of who died at Arafat’s command. November 11, 2004 By JEFF JACOBY The Boston Globe Scott Peterson Convicted of Murder Vériét Scott kMed lad REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - A jury convicted Scott Peterson on Friday of murdering his pregnant wife, Laci, and now will decide whether the philandering husband whose lurid trial became a TV and tabloid sensation should pay with his life. Peterson, 32, was convicted of one count of first-degree murder for killing his wife and one count of second-degree murder in the death of the son she was carrying — crimes that prosecutors said were part of a cold-blooded plot to escape marriage and fatherhood for the freewheeling single life. The five-month trial proved irresistible to the tabloids, People magazine and the cable networks with its story of an attractive, radiant young couple awaiting the birth of their first child, a cheating husband, and a slaying for which prosecutors had no eye­witnesses, no weapon, not even a cause of death. Laci Peterson ‘s mother sobbed as the verdicts were read, and her son wrapped his arm tightly around her. The victim’s friends in the gallery, arms around each other, cried. Scott Peterson looked straight ahead with no show of emotion as the verdict was read, then stared down each of the jurors as November 19,2004^^ they were polled to confirm their decisions. The jurors had serious looks on their faces and did not appear to look back. Cheers broke out among the hundreds of onlookers who gath­ered outside the courthouse — some of them pumping their fists in celebration upon hearing the news on the radio. They cheered Laci Peterson’s family and booed Scott’s as they left court. In the Petersons’ hometown of Modesto, horns honked as the news reached car radios. The verdict capped a tumultu­ous seven days of deliberations in which two jurors were removed for unspecified reasons and the judge twice told the panel to start over. The final jury deliberated for about seven hours Wednesday and Friday before reaching its verdict, which the judge prohib­ited from being carried on televi­sion except by audio feed. ENGLISH PAGE GUVEN UZUN, M.D. Az American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology által igazolt Neurológus Az egyetlen agyvérzés specialista West Los Angelesben. Kiemelkedő gyakorlat fejfájás és stroke kezelésében. Hát- és nyaki ideg és izom fájdalmak gyógyítása. Migrén, fejfájás és más fájdalmak, alvási problémák, ideg és izom problémák, Alzheimer kezelése. Worker’s Compensation és személyi sérülés d In Telefon: (310) 888-2877 * Fax: (310) 205-9258 415 N. 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