by Joseph Farah September 17, 2003

There’s a debate raging in Jerusalem and in Washington about whether it is
appropriate to exile Yasser Arafat to expel him from the Palestinian
Authority.

I say don’t expel him… shoot him.

Yasser Arafat is responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent
Israeli citizens, the lynching deaths of untold Arabs and the killing of
more than 100 U.S. citizens, including two U.S. diplomats assassinated in
cold blood.

Exile is far too good for him.

Some people get squeamish about calling for violence against “foreign
leaders.” Arafat is no more a legitimate foreign leader than Adolf Hitler
or Saddam Hussein were. If we got a chance to knock off one or both of
those tyrants, can anyone honestly say we shouldn’t have done it?

Some people say we can’t eliminate Arafat because to do so would only make
him a martyr to his people. Would we hesitate for a moment to kill Osama
bin Laden for the same reason? No way. Therefore, that argument holds no water.

Some people insist there is nobody better to work with in the Palestinian
Authority than Arafat. Maybe that’s true. I doubt it. But one thing is
certain: Nobody in the Palestinian Authority has more innocent blood on his
hands than Arafat.

Arafat is the father of modern terrorism.

If we’re serious about fighting a war against terrorism particularly the

brand of Islamo-fascism he represents there’s no better place to start
than by offing Arafat.

It’s justice. It’s the right thing to do.

If you want to give him a fair trial first, that’s fine with me. But he
needs to pay for his crimes with his life. His crimes are well-documented,
but here’s a brief refresher course:

In May 2002, Israel discovered documents linking Yasser Arafat directly to
terrorist acts and sponsorship of suicide bombings. He should have been
executed right then and there. But, under pressure from the United States,
the Israelis let him off the hook to kill even more innocents.

But he should have been dead long before that.

A long-buried Central Intelligence Agency report, found last year in the
National Archives by a historian chronicling President Nixon’s career,
shows the agency, former Secretary of State William Rogers and many other
officials were aware of Yasser Arafat’s involvement in the 1973 murders of
two U.S. diplomats by Arab terrorists. The files were discovered by Russ
Braley, author of “Bad News: The Foreign Policy of The New York Times” and
a Nixon researcher who has plumbed the National Archives “Nixon Project”

created when Congress took control of the late president’s papers for
bits of information about the administration not released to the general
public and press.

Braley found several boxes of documents related to the 1973 kidnap-murders
in Khartoum, Sudan, of U.S. Ambassador Cleo Noel and Charges d’Affaires
George Curtis Moore, along with Belgian diplomat Guy Eid by Arab
terrorists. Though the files had been, according to Braley, thoroughly
purged of information regarding intercepts of Arafat giving the explicit
order for the machine-gun murders of the diplomats, one surviving CIA
report, found in NSA box 666 and enclosed in a message from Rogers to some
40 U.S. embassies, shows Arafat’s complicity in the terrorist crimes.

In 2001, WorldNetDaily broke the story of the former National Security
Agency operative, James J. Welsh, a witness to the communication intercept.
Welsh was the NSA’s Palestinian analyst at the time.

But Arafat should have been dead long before 1973. It was in the 1960s he
became the father of modern terrorism pioneering airline hijackings,
suicide attacks and other methods now employed by groups like al-Qaida.

Please don’t exile him, because he will come back. He always does. If he
lives, others die. It’s time to take out Arafat permanently.

This entry was posted on Thursday, September 18th, 2003 and is filed under opinion.