One of Yasser Arafat’s long-time personal bodyguards told a BBC Arabic interviewer that Arafat intentionally and knowingly lied through his teeth when he publicly denounced the murder of Israeli civilians.
That would not be news if the foreign policy fools in Washington knew something about the Middle East besides what they studied in their post-doctorate studies in International Relations.
That is not to say that anyone tells the whole truth and nothing but the truth in diplomatic games. When Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said he wants a “Two-State” solution after having rejected it for so many years, he certainly knew that he didn’t have to mean it for the simply reason he saw the dark at the end of the tunnel. It was clear there won’t be such a solution considering the Palestinian Authority’s increasing appetite for the whole pie. Mahmoud Abbas has made it clear that he does not intend to leave Israel crumbs and not even the plate.
But when Arafat used to denounce the killing of Israeli civilians, he was not playing games. He was lying, as his former bodyguard Mohammed Al-Daya admits by revealing that Arafat was bowing to the pressure of then-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) translated and published the interview last week, when Al-Daya stated, “Arafat ‘would condemn the bombing in his own special way, saying, ‘I am against the killing of civilians.’ But that wasn’t true.”
He explained some basic fundamentals of Islam, something that U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry might want to take a look at before he makes any more trouble.
“Islam allows you to lie in three cases,” said Al-Daya. A good Muslim can lie “in order to reconcile two people, [and] if your wife is ugly, you are allowed to tell her she is the most beautiful woman alive.”
So Islam really does have some redeeming character.
The third exception to the prohibition of lying is a bit strange. “You are allowed to lie in politics,” he said, and that opens the trap door to lie about anything and everything so long as it is for political gain.
Enter Arafat.
“When there was a bombing in Tel Aviv,…. Mubarak would call Arafat and say to him, ‘Denounce it, or they will screw you.’ Arafat would say to Mubarak, ‘Mr. President, we have martyrs. The [Israelis] have destroyed us. They have massacred us.’ But Mubarak would say to him, ‘Denounce it, or they will screw you.’”
The former bodyguard concluded that Arafat would state, “’I am against the killing of civilians,’ but that wasn’t true.”
Ever since 1991, when President Bush the Senior dragged Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Shamir to Madrid for a debate that turned out to be the beginning of the “Peace Process,” truth went underground.
The entire diplomatic process was born a lie because the “Peace Process” is nothing more than a ”War Process,” as proven by the First Intifada and by the Oslo War – AKA Second Intifada – that followed the Oslo Accords that Arafat signed and then rejected.
The entire Palestinian Authority is a lie, but the “pro-Israel” lefties and the “pro-Israel” Obama administration, the one with an “eternal and unbreakable bond with Israel” whose security it “never will forsake,” have swallowed so many lies that their intestines are putrid. Their bellies are dark with worms, and their brains are so warped that the lie looks like the truth and the truth looks like a lie.
They either are morons or have had an operation to remove their hearing. Otherwise, they would not consider Abbas a “peace partner” when he and his cohorts torture the truth into contortions that would break the back of Plastic Man.