January 15, 2005

THE TRIUMPH OF HOPE OVER EXPERIENCE

        Mahmoud Abbas or Abu Mazen (his proud 'nom de guerre'), is 69 years old. He has a long history of savagery which his Western enablers are trying desparately to ignore. It is truly extraordinary to read the NYTimes praising this well coiffed thug. (Has anyone inquired how Mr. Abbas/Mazen got the money to pay for those suits?) Anyone remember the Munich Olympics? Apparently not the investigative reporters at the NYTimes and CBS who have persuaded themselves that 30+ years as a Jew hating terrorist makes him a 'moderate'. Amazingly, Sports Illustrated did remember, and in 2002, 30 years after the murders, they tracked down Abu Douad, the admitted coordinater of the massacre. Douad, then living in Syria, asserted that "...Abu Mazen, was responsible for the financing of the Munich attack. Abu Mazen could not be reached for comment regarding Abu Daoud's allegation. After Oslo in 1993, Abu Mazen went to the White House Rose Garden for a photo op with Arafat, President Bill Clinton and Israel's Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres. "Do you think that ... would have been possible if the Israelis had known that Abu Mazen was the financier of our operation?" Abu Daoud writes. "I doubt it."
        Abbas/Mazen's relationship to Yasser Arafat has been approximately that of Heinrich Himmler to Adolph Hitler. Abbas/Mazen, Arafat's chosen successor, is in fact a holocaust denier who authored a book titled: The Other Side: The Secret Relationship Between Nazism and the Zionist Movement.
        The efforts by Israel and Western fantasists to invest Abbas/Mazen with the trappings of moderation and statesmanship call to mind the story of the Frog and the Scorpion: After convincing the frog to carry him across a pond, the scorpion bites him half way to shore. As he dies, the frog asks why he did it as they both will die. The scorpion replies, "It's in my nature." Utopians would rather die than face such truths.