Dead Cant Rant

The Father of Modern Terrorism is dead, and not a moment too soon.

CAMERA has a list of Key Events in Yasir Arafat’s Terrorist Career — more than eighty terrorist attacks and massacres.

Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has a list, too:
In Memory of the Victims of Palestinian Violence and Terrorism in Israel. As of today, there are more than one thousand names on this list, and it only contains victims since September of 2000. One can only wonder how long this list would be if it included every victim of Arafat’s bloody reign.

Indeed, such a list would not be limited to only Israelis. Of course it would contain Americans, such as Abigail Leitel, killed by a suicide bomber as she rode a bus in Haifa in March of 2003. It would also contain Europeans, South Americans, Africans, and Asians, people from all nations.

But most prominently, the list would also contain Arabs and Palestinians. In order to fuel his suicide terror machine, Arafat had to oppress the very people he claimed to lead, brainwashing the Palestinian population and consigning “his” children to a guaranteed death sentence at the hands of his own thugs in Fatah and his “brothers in arms” in Hamas, Hezbollah, and Islamic Jihad. Each time Israel attempted to forge a peace agreement, Arafat’s “soldiers” would attack Israeli children as they dined at roadside cafes, or rode buses home from school, provoking an Israeli response targeting the terrorists and providing Arafat with a propaganda victory as the world condemned “Israeli aggression.”

Arafat chose the path of death and destruction, and “his” people have paid the consequences. Only in our bizarre, morally-relative, anti-American, anti-Jewish world could this man be given the Nobel Peace Prize, be praised by a former President of the United States, and be lionized in the American and European media as a true Hero of the People.

I think I’m going to be sick.